Amazon layoffs are back. Ecommerce giant has announced new job cuts. According to a report in Reuters, Amazon is cutting about 250 jobs in its devices and services unit after weeks of product rollouts including new Kindle e-readers and tablet computers. The company reportedly confirmed the job cuts after a Reuters inquiry. “We’ve made the…
File photo: HUL hits 14-quarter sales growth high as price hikes test India’s consumption recovery BENGALURU: Consumer goods major Hindustan Unilever on Wednesday reported a 3.8% increase in consolidated net profit to Rs 2,796 crore in the Sept quarter, while revenue rose 14.4% to Rs 18,386 crore, indicating strong growth despite cost pressure.Underlying sales growth…
A yellow alert has been issued for rain and thunderstorms in Delhi-NCR for Thursday and Friday. NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for rain in Delhi-NCR on Thursday, forecasting a generally cloudy sky with spells of rain, thunderstorms and gusty winds. Isolated hailstorms are also likely over Delhi, Haryana…
NEW DELHI: Industrial production grew 6.7% in Sept as against 6.1% expansion recorded a year ago, on account of strong manufacturing and electricity output.Sequentially, however, industrial production witnessed deceleration from a downward revised figure of 7.8% in Aug, official data released Wednesday showed. During April-Sept, the index of industrial production (IIP) grew 6.8%, compared with…
Bowen Wang, 2026 Junior Innovator. Source: Society for Science A 12-year-old student from California has won a top national technology prize. He designed an artificial intelligence tool that can forecast earthquake aftershocks. Bowen Wang is a seventh-grade pupil at Central Middle School in San Carlos. He built a program called Aftershock Oracle. It predicts where…
File photo: A salesman picks a bottle of Black & White blended Scotch whisky, a brand of Diageo’s United Spirits Ltd, from a shelf at a liquor store in Bengaluru, India, January 20, 2026. BENGALURU: Diageo-controlled United Spirits reported a 7.8% decline in net profit to Rs 428 crore in the Sept quarter from Rs…
File photo: 22 Indian nationals, including 14 seafarers, killed in West Asia conflict, says MEA Twenty-two Indians, including 14 seafarers, have so far lost their lives in the West Asia conflict, said govt, expressing deep concern over the situation in the region. “We are deeply concerned about the ongoing conflict in West Asia. We have…
File photo: Supporters of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami and its allies chant slogans during a protest against post-election violence in Dhaka, Bangladesh DHAKA: Days after Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman claimed attempts were being made to destablise the country, his special assistant Md Rashed Khan has alleged a senior functionary of Bangladesh’s largest opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami had a…
Aarti Soni (C) her son Nilkanth (27) and daughter Jainy VADODARA: Aarti Soni, 47, had spoken about expanding her family’s Ayurveda hospital just five days before she was found dead with her son and daughter at their residence in Ahmedabad’s old city on Wednesday afternoon. She had also booked a flat a few weeks ago,…
Australia’s Josh Inglis, left, congratulated by Australia’s Alex Carey after his fifty (AP Photo) Josh Inglis and Alex Carey stitched together an unbeaten fifth-wicket partnership of 145 runs to put Australia in command of the deciding third Test against South Africa, taking the visitors to 330/4 at stumps on Day 2.Inglis remained unbeaten on 85…
