
Trade unions have urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to take measures in the forthcoming Union budget so that the economy can be revitalised. In a letter to her, 10 major unions have sought an increased budget allocation for MGNREGA and giving workers under the scheme's ambit, the status of government employees...

Concerned over rising inflation, the government, aiming to tame price rise, had hiked interest rate for senior citizen savings scheme by 20 basis points from 7.4 per cent to 7.6 per cent on September 30 through a notification. ...

A senior Twitter employee has secured a temporary injunction from the Irish court to prevent her from getting fired by Elon Musk....

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will inspect the construction works of Yadadri thermal power station on Monday. The project is likely to commission in September next year. ...

Israel's rail service has halted due to a nationwide train signaling failure, state-owned Israel Railways said in a statement....

With the new Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) guidelines coming into force to guard customers from fake online reviews of products, tech giants like Meta and Google, along with homegrown platforms like Zomato and Flipkart, will now face closer scrutiny of product reviews on their respective platforms....

The US has banned the sale and import of new communications equipment from five Chinese companies, including Huawei and ZTE, amid concerns over national security, local media reported. ...

World's largest crypto exchange Binance has launched a new website to explain its proof-of-reserves system, and is starting with Bitcoin (BTC) reserves....

People spent $5.3 billion in online shopping on Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., up 2.8 per cent from last year. ...

Elon Musk is still in the firing mode at Twitter amid the Thanksgiving festivities, as several coders who were brought back after a massive lay off as part of "knowledge transition", are being shown the door again in the name of "code review". ...