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Japan has asked to be exempted from the so-called reciprocal tariffs that Donald Trump plans to adopt this year as the nation works to minimize any potential fallout.  Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya sought the country’s exclusion from the tariffs when he met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during the Munich Security Conference, according to

JioStar will offer advertisers, leveraging its OTT platform JioHotstar for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, ad measurement tools following a collaboration with data analytics platform Nielson. The initiative comes following reports of a 25-30 per cent spike in IPL ad rates compared to last year based on first-ask prices. In a release, JioStar said

Instances of hate speech against minorities jumped 74% in India in 2024, peaking during the country’s national elections, according to a new report. The report, released on Monday by Washington-based research group India Hate Lab, documented 1,165 such instances last year, adding that politicians like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah were

Assam DEE Teacher recruitment 2025: The Assam Directorate of Elementary Education (DEE) has initiated the recruitment process for 4,500 teaching positions in lower primary and upper primary schools across the state. Interested candidates can apply through the official website dee.assam.gov.in, with the application window closing on March 31.Out of the total vacancies, 2,900 positions are

The Finance Minister knows how to package her budget speech to garner headlines in the media. The media had already hailed the budget for education in the Interim Budget 2024–25 as “the highest ever” and “historic”. Since the budget allocation for education in the July Union Budget was the same as the interim budget, it

At the Maha Kumbh Mela, his divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of ISKCON and the global Hare Krishna Movement, was awarded the highly honored title of Vishwa Guru by the Akhila Bharatiya Akhara Parishad. This is the first time in history that any person has been given this award. The title was awarded

Sophia, the protagonist of Alina Gufran’s debut novel No Place To Call My Own has always lived a dual life. With an Arya Samaji Hindu mother and a Muslim father, even the union of her parents was strenuous under the watchful eyes of both families – only her father’s parents attended the wedding while her

Chandigarh: Daljit Singh, who was among the deportees who reached Amritsar from the US on Saturday night, on Sunday claimed they were handcuffed with their legs chained during the journey. “Our legs were chained and hands were also cuffed,” Mr Singh told reporters in Hoshiarpur. Mr Singh, a native of Kurala Kalan village in Punjab’s

Valentine’s Day Sales: Revealing the sales and trends data for Valentine’s Day this year, the management of Swiggy and Swiggy Instamart shared that their platforms logged 581 chocolates, 607 cakes sales per minute, respectively on February 14, 2025. Further, in terms of restaurant booking and food orders, besides the metros of Mumbai and Delhi, tier

Washington DC: The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk has announced cancelling a USD 22 million funding intended for “voter turnout in India” on Saturday (Local Time). In a post on X, the official DOGE handle listed the number of spendings by the US taxpayer that have been cancelled, including “USD