File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: Reuters) Americans are increasingly unhappy with President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy and rising prices, with a new poll showing a sharp drop in his economic approval and a majority blaming his policies for persistently high costs.Only 17% of US adults approve of Trump’s handling of…
Pete Hegseth, Defence Secretary, US. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced plans to cut the number of generals and admirals in the US military by 20 per cent, while unveiling a new four-star command focused on autonomous and robotic warfare.According to news agency AP, Hegseth made the announcements during his “State of the Force”…
Jensen Huang ‘confronts’ Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on his AI statements that have made Nvidia CEO very upset Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other technology executives privately questioned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over his public warnings about the risks of artificial intelligence. According to a Wall Street Journal (WDJ) report, the discussion took place on…
File photo: Tourists look at Mt. Fuji, covered with its first snow of the season, from Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, in Japan Japan has raised the fee for foreigners seeking permanent residency 20-fold, from 10,000 yen to 200,000 yen, as the government tightens the requirements for those seeking to settle in the country permanently.The new fee…
A Ukrainian F-16 armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles takes to the air. (Image credit: Ukrainian Air Force) Ukraine’s F-16 fleet is running into mounting sustainment troubles, with aircraft availability hit by maintenance bottlenecks and a shortage of air-to-air missiles. The Wall Street Journal reported that more than half of Ukraine’s F-16s are currently stuck in…
SC refuses TMC plea to operate four debit-frozen bank accounts NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea by the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC faction seeking permission to operate four debit-frozen bank accounts, declining to interfere with a Calcutta High Court order that had rejected the request.A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and PB…
Before the lower prices could be introduced, the companies were required to submit proposals to state excise authorities. Scotch whisky prices in India have dropped by 10-15% for the first time since the India-UK free trade agreement came into force, with Diageo and Pernod Ricard passing on lower import costs to consumers in some key…
A six-month trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations cost British Transport Police (BTP) £320,786 and scanned more than 500,000 faces, but it produced just one alert from the police watchlist. That alert turned out to be a false identification, with no arrest resulting directly from the technology during the trial period. The…
Commercial LPG gets costlier The price of a 19-kg commercial LPG cylinder has risen by Rs 62.50 from Thursday, October 1, taking the price to Rs 2,810. This follows a Rs 9.50 increase in September, when the cylinder was priced at Rs 2,747.50. ATF prices have also gone up by around Rs 16 per litre,…
‘Project Meridian’ looks to define America’s battles of tomorrow The Pentagon will launch “Project Meridian”, a new initiative aimed at shaping the future of warfare, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth announced Thursday.SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will lead the project, which will study future battlefields…