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BENGALURU :Software services firm Cognizant Technology Solutions will invest 15.82 billion rupees ($182.76 million) to build a new campus in south Indian city of Vishakapatanam that will create about 8,000 jobs, the state government announced on Friday.Commercial operations will begin in March 2029, an Andhra Pradesh government press release said.Cognizant did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The announcement comes just months after India’s top IT firm, Tata Consultancy Services, unveiled plans for 13.70 billion rupee campus in the same city, and is expected generate 12,000 jobs. The move aligns with Cognizant’s strategy to optimise real estate costs. In…
Members of the California National Guard stand guard outside the Federal Building before a curfew takes effect in Los Angeles on June 10, 2025, following days of protests in response to federal immigration operations that saw clashes spread across downtown. Benjamin Hanson | Afp | Getty ImagesAn appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids.The decision halts a ruling from a lower court judge who found Trump acted illegally when he activated the soldiers over opposition from California Gov. Gavin Newsom.The deployment was…
[BANGKOK] Thailand’s economy is already on the ropes. Consumption has remained tepid despite a government stimulus programme, few of its economic engines are firing, and uncertainty wrought by US President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs means that the Thai economy could grow just over 1 per cent this year. Now, South-east Asia’s second-largest economy faces a fresh challenge: a new round of political chaos that can bring down Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra or her ruling Pheu Thai party.“We are currently in a period of economic downturn, with many issues affecting us,” Visit Limlurcha, vice chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce,…
COPENHAGEN :Norway aims to impose a temporary ban on the establishment of new data centres that mine cryptocurrency with the most power-intensive technology, in order to conserve electricity for other industries, the Nordic country’s government said on Friday.”The Labour Party government has a clear intention to limit the mining of cryptocurrency in Norway as much as possible,” Minister for Digitalization and Public Administration Karianne Tung said in a statement.”Cryptocurrency mining is very power-intensive and generates little in the way of jobs and income for the local community,” she added.A temporary ban could be introduced during the autumn of 2025, the…
[BANGKOK] Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was facing the prospect of losing her government’s majority on Friday (Jun 20) as a vital coalition partner looked set to demand her resignation after just 10 months in power.Paetongtarn, the politically inexperienced daughter of divisive tycoon and former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, is fighting fires on multiple fronts, struggling to breathe life into a stagnant economy facing steep US tariffs and under pressure to take a tougher stand on a territorial row with Cambodia that has seen their troops mobilise at the border.The United Thai Nation (UTN) party, the second-largest partner in her…
LONDON — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge related to the serious beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.Brown, 36, pleaded not guilty in Southwark Crown Court to one count of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.Brown’s friend and fellow musician Omololu Akinlolu, 38, who performs under the name “Hoody Baby,” pleaded not guilty to the same charge.Prosecutors said Brown and Akinlolu assaulted producer Abe Diaw at a bar in the Tape nightclub in the swanky Mayfair neighborhood in February 2023. Brown allegedly launched an unprovoked…
IN 1929, two French historians founded a journal called Annales d’Histoire economique et sociale and began writing a new kind of history. Their predecessors had chronicled the doings of kings and presidents: wars, treaties and personality clashes. Annales historians dismissed most of that as trivial “events”, mere “headlines of the past”. The Annales’ star Fernand Braudel wrote: “Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness.”The Annales school focused on the long term: lasting forces such as a region’s climate, geography, its mentalite, or social and economic trends.…
Doug McIntyre Soccer Journalist The U.S. men’s national team is into the Gold Cup quarterfinals. In its second group stage match of the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup, the USMNT beat Saudi Arabia with a 1-0 result on Thursday at Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas.After a cagey first half, U.S. defender Chris Richards broke a scoreless deadlock with just under a half hour remaining to give the Americans their second consecutive victory at the tournament. Chris Richards scores off a set piece, giving United States a 1-0 lead over Saudi Arabia “We needed it tonight,” Richards told FOX Sports’ Jenny Taft following the…
Published Thu, Jun 19, 2025 · 10:09 AMAUSTRALIAN shares hit a two-week low in early trade on Thursday, weighed down by miners and gold stocks as the US Federal Reserve’s cautious tone on rate cuts and softer commodity prices dampened investor sentiment.The S&P/ASX 200 index was down 0.2 per cent at 8516.2 by 0039 GMT, hitting its lowest level since June 4. The benchmark ended 0.1 per cent lower on Wednesday.Globally, investors assessed the Fed standing pat on its rates as the US central bank kept the doors open for two cuts this year.However, the Fed Chair Jerome Powell struck…
LONDON :Britain’s grocery regulator on Friday launched an investigation into Amazon, probing whether the retail giant breached rules on timely supplier payments over a three-year period.The Groceries Code Adjudicator said it suspects Amazon violated paragraph 5 of the Groceries Supply Code of Practice, which mandates prompt payment to suppliers.