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File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has directed the justice department to investigate major meatpacking companies for alleged collusion and price manipulation amid record-high beef prices. In a post on Truth Social, Trump accused meat firms of “driving up the price of beef through illicit collusion, price fixing,…

Mobile users will soon start seeing the names of unknown callers displayed on their phone screens, as telecom operators have begun testing the Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) service in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. The feature aims to help users identify callers more easily and curb the rising number of spam and scam calls across the…

Representative image (Picture credit: AP) The Nasdaq Composite ended slightly lower on Friday but posted its sharpest weekly loss since early April, as investors questioned how long the artificial intelligence boom could sustain recent market highs. The index slipped 0.21% to 23,004.54, bringing its total weekly fall to around 3%, while chipmakers and technology shares…

Indian Railways launches four new Vande Bharat Express trains Four new Vande Bharat Express trains! Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday flag off four new Vande Bharat Express trains on important Indian Railways’ routes. Vande Bharat Express trains have become the face of new age railway travel in India, with an aim to offer…

MUMBAI: The Rs 6,632-crore IPO for online financial services platform Groww was subscribed 17.6 times at close on Friday, with institutional investors leading the bidding. However, with the stock market witnessing sharp volatility, the grey market premium (GMP), the mark-up over the upper band of the offer price in the unofficial market for stocks, fell…

NEW DELHI: Weight-loss therapy drug Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro has become the top selling brand in the domestic pharma retail market with sales of nearly Rs 100 crore in Oct, indicating the huge popularity of such treatments across India.Mounjaro has overtaken GSK’s widely prescribed antibiotic and long-established market leader, Augmentin, which totalled sales of Rs 80…

Mumbai: The board of Swiggy on Friday cleared the company’s plan to raise up to Rs 10,000 crore through a qualified institutional placement (QIP), the firm said in an exchange filing. The move follows rival Zepto’s $450 million (close to Rs 4,000 crore) funding which has stoked competition in the growing 10-minute delivery space as…

MUMBAI: RBI deputy governor T Rabi Sankar said the fight against digital fraud is far from over, noting that the decline seen earlier this year reversed in July, with cases rising again.He said fraud levels had been falling since the start of the year before showing an uptick mid-year, suggesting that such trends may be…

US Government shutdown affects air travellers. John Denver once sang, “I’m leaving on a jet plane.” In 2025, it’s more like, “I’m staying home because the FAA said no planes.” As the longest government shutdown in US history stretches into its second month, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered airlines to cut 10% of…

The Trump administration has recently hiked the application fee for the much sought after H-1B visa to a mind numbing $100,000! Indian students in the US who were looking at bagging lucrative jobs are facing a big shock – Donald Trump’s H-1B visa fee hike has left them in a lurch as companies automatically reject…