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Unemployment rate dips to 8.2% in Jan-Mar: NSO

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New Delhi: The unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and above in urban areas dipped to 8.2 per cent in January-March 2022 from 9.3 per cent in the year-ago quarter, showed a periodic labour Read more...

May retail businesses top pre-pandemic levels by 24%: Report

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New Delhi: The retail businesses across India witnessed a growth of 24% in May this year against the pre-pandemic level of the same month in 2019, according to industry body RAI.


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Facial recognition for biz loss prevention

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Dennis B Desmond
Melbourne

Once the purview of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, facial recognition is now being used to identify consumers in Australian stores. If you&rs Read more...

EU leaders visit Kyiv in high-profile show of support

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Kyiv: Four European leaders visited Ukraine on Thursday, denouncing the brutality of the Russian invasion in a high-profile show of support amid Kyiv’s fears that Western resolve to help the Read more...

N. Korea reports another disease outbreak amid Covid-19 wave

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Seoul: North Korea reported a new “epidemic” of an intestinal disease on Thursday, an unusual announcement from the secretive country that is already contending with a Covid-19 outbreak Read more...

Kerala ex-minister denies charge of arranging DLitt for Sharjah ruler

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  • 2022-06-17 --

Thiruvananthapuram: LDF MLA and former Kerala minister K T Jaleel on Thursday rubbished gold smuggling case key accused Swapna Suresh’s charges that he had intervened to arrange an honorary D Read more...

Lockdowns in China adversely impact Tata Motors’ supply chains

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New Delhi: The recent lockdowns in China have adversely impacted Tata Motors’ supply chains as its suppliers are unable to deliver products and it could be forced to stop production in some o Read more...

ATF prices hiked by 16%; touches new record

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New Delhi: Jet fuel prices on Thursday were hiked by the steepest ever 16 per cent to catapult rates to an all-time high in step with hardening international oil rates.


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Pak politicians’ wives richer than their husbands

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Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and former premier Imran Khan’s wives have financial assets worth more than their husbands, the media reported on Thursday. According to a st Read more...

Ethics adviser to UK leader Johnson quits

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London: The ethics adviser to Britain’s scandal-hit Prime Minister Boris Johnson has quit and accused the Conservative government of planning to flout conduct rules, weeks after a separate in Read more...

Petrol queue in Lanka kills auto driver

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Colombo: A 53-year-old auto-rickshaw driver in Sri Lanka died of a heart attack on Thursday in Colombo’s suburb while waiting in a serpentine queue for fuel for the entire night near a petrol Read more...

TN cops get custody of ovum broker

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  • 2022-06-17 --

Erode(TN): The Judicial Magistrate here on Thursday allowed police one-day custody of the ovum (egg) broker who is one among those who forced a 16-year old girl to sell her eggs to various infertil Read more...