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The decision by the United States (U.S.) to impose a flat 25% tariff on steel imports from March 12, 2025, compared with multiple types of lower levies previously, will unlikely to have any impact on India steel companies said Sehul Bhatt, Director- Research, Crisil Intelligence. “The move will have a threefold impact. One, it will lower the exports of its trade partners as local production rises, but India is unlikely to be impacted materially because only 2% of its total finished steel exports in the first 9 months of this fiscal were to the U.S.,” Mr. Bhatt said. “Two, there will be a…
Ravees with his oil paintings displayed at Vyloppilly Samskrithi Bhavan | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Ravees’s oil paintings celebrate the beauty of being simple and lucid. The exhibition, Beauty is Truth, currently on in Thiruvananthapuram, is the first solo show of the artist, who prefers to call himself Kuzhithurai Ravees after his place of birth in Kanyakumari district. A self-taught artist, he has participated in over 25 group exhibitions.It is the attention to detail that brings out the magic in each of the 22 paintings on display. “My paintings are based on photographs, thousands of them I have come across…
Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani. File | Photo Credit: PTI Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to hit the pause button on the U.S. anti-bribery law — a move viewed as a big relief for Indian billionaire and top industrialist Gautam Adani — the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has now written to Indian authorities to serve a complaint on the Adani Group founder and his nephew Sagar Adani for their alleged involvement in securities fraud and a $265 million bribery scheme, according to a court filing.The SEC told a New York district court on Tuesday that it…
Vicky Kaushal and Alia Bhatt in a still from ‘Raazi’ Bollywood star Alia Bhatt on Wednesday took to Instagram to praise her Raazi co-star Vicky Kaushal’s performance in the blockbuster period biopic, Chhaava. It is worth mentioning that the two stars are joining hands for Love & War, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming directorial that also features actor and Alia’s husband Ranbir Kapoor.Alia shared a picture of Vicky from Chhaava on her Instagram story to praise his performance. Alia Bhatt’s Instagram story on Vicky Kaushal’s performance in ‘Chhaava’ | Photo Credit: @aliaabhatt/Instagram Directed by Laxman Utekar, the Hindi historical drama is…
Only a fraction of the envisaged allocations was actually spent on justice-related schemes The Central government has consistently reduced budget allocations to certain justice-related schemes and projects since 2019, shows the recently released India Justice Report 2025-26.Data also show that not only have allocations reduced, but also, only a fraction of the envisaged allocations was actually spent on these schemes. The Modernisation Fund for the State Police Forces was formed to assist special projects and schemes that would upgrade the infrastructure of States’ police as well as Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems. Chart 1 shows the Budget Estimates (BE),…
Pedro Pascal in a still from ‘Freaky Tales’ | Photo Credit: Lionsgate Movies The trailer of Freaky Tales, the upcoming Hollywood anthology movie starring Pedro Pascal and Ben Mendelsohn, was unveiled by the makers on Tuesday (February 18). Directed by Captain Marvel director duo Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the film is set to release in theatres on April 4.The trailer opens with a voiceover by Pascal’s character Clint that goes, “The underdog thinks he can do the impossible: to feed the bully, sell enough mixtapes to get out of the hood. I can say with certainty, that this underdog has…
Mira Murati, pictured above [File] | Photo Credit: AP Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, has tapped about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors such as OpenAI, Meta and Mistral, it said in a blog post on Tuesday.The team — roughly two-thirds of which comprises former OpenAI employees — includes Barret Zoph, a prominent researcher who left the ChatGPT maker on the same day as Murati in late September. Zoph will serve as the startup’s technology chief.OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is the startup’s chief scientist. Schulman left OpenAI for rival…
Anuradha Menon is a cool mom. While other parents have to make themselves seem cool, she sets out to prove to her son that she is indeed uncool. “My 12-year-old son told me that I come under the category of cool parent and that is very annoying for him because when all his friends complain about their parents, he has nothing to contribute. So he has to lie about how horrid I am,” she says, laughing. Growing up as a nerd with braces, boy cut, and glasses, she refuses to accept the title of ‘cool mom’ and sets out to…
Representational image. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The Economic department of State Bank of India (SBI) has pegged India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for Q3 FY25 at 6.2% to 6.3%.“Impinging upon our in-house developed ‘Nowcasting Model’ that leverages 36 high frequency indicators, we estimate the GDP growth for Q3 FY25 should come around 6.2%-6.3% (data due on 28th February),” said SBI in a Special Research Report on Wednesday.The RBI had in December projected the Q3 FY25 GDP growth rate at 6.8%.“Presuming no major revisions announced in the erstwhile Q1 and Q2 figures by National Statistical Office (NSO), we estimate the FY25…
The stunning pool at Anantara Bophut Koh Samui Resort | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Amidst the soft chirping of birds and stridulation of insects, mist lifts to reveal a tranquil pond with pink and white lotus flowers at a swish villa in Phuket. Despite the picture of calm it exudes, a sense of foreboding hangs in the air, especially for those who have watched the previous two seasons of HBO’s popular series The White Lotus. They know that the new set of guests arriving at the fictional resort in the third season of the satirical comedy-drama will be witnessing plot…