mkllcmedia San Francisco / Brussels / Beijing — The worldwide artificial intelligence landscape is entering a phase of rapid consolidation and legal reckoning as the biggest model releases, corporate product shifts and fresh government initiatives collide. Over the past two months, technology companies have raced to commercialize more capable generative models while regulators from the European … Read more
New Delhi — Private equity, venture capital and other private-market investments have frequently posted higher headline returns than public equities over recent decades, but experts warn that those figures mask significant trade-offs in fees, liquidity and risk that can erode real investor outcomes. Proponents point to several drivers of private-market outperformance: an illiquidity premium for … Read more
Mumbai — Tata Motors on Wednesday updated its Nexon.ev 45 with a Level-2 Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and a handful of comfort and cosmetic upgrades, rolling out a new top-spec Empowered Plus A trim alongside two #Dark special editions. The ADAS-equipped variant has been priced from ₹17.29 lakh (ex-showroom), with the #Dark editions carrying … Read more
Payyavoor, Kannur — The Payyavoor Grama Panchayat’s ambitious mass-wedding drive, “Payyavoor Mangalyam”, has drawn an overwhelming response from men but scant interest from women, prompting the local administration to stop accepting further male registrations. Officials said more than 3,000 men have applied so far while only about 200 women have come forward, leading to a … Read more
New Delhi — The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a petition by actor-turned-MP Kangana Ranaut seeking to quash a criminal defamation complaint, telling her counsel that the social media post in question was not a mere retweet because “you had added something, you added spice”. Faced with the court’s observations, Ranaut’s counsel withdrew … Read more
Governments and industry are racing to build homegrown production of rare-earth magnets — vital components for electric-vehicle motors, wind turbines and defence systems — unveiling a string of incentive plans and public-private deals intended to break long-standing reliance on China. India said it is preparing fiscal incentives and other targeted support to kick-start domestic magnet … Read more
New Delhi — India’s consumer price index (CPI) inflation rose to 2.07% year-on-year in August, up from a revised 1.61% in July, government data showed on Friday, nudging inflation back up though it remained well inside the Reserve Bank of India’s 2–6% target band. The uptick was driven largely by a slower pace of deflation … Read more
Seoul/Beijing — South Korea’s spy agency has told lawmakers that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to be positioning his daughter, widely identified as Kim Ju-ae, as his likely successor — a move underlined, the agency said, by what it described as carefully orchestrated efforts by North Korean staff to remove traces of the … Read more
Canberra — The Australian government confirmed on Tuesday that the permanent Migration Program will remain set at 185,000 places for the 2025–26 program year, maintaining the same planning level and settings as the 2024–25 program, the Home Affairs minister said. The decision follows consultations with state and territory governments, which recommended keeping both the size … Read more
San Francisco — Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt, the 40-year-old Indian-American co-founder of the commission-free trading app Robinhood, has been named among the 10 youngest members of the Forbes 400 list after the publication estimated his net worth at about $6 billion. Bhatt’s rise is rooted in a classic immigrant-American story: the son of Gujarati immigrants who … Read more