As a student, he wanted to make $10,000 a month by working just 5 minutes a day, his experiment made $3.2 million in 18 months; today Masayoshi Son is Japan’s richest person

In 1981, Son founded the company that would become SoftBank. (Photo credit: The Economist) Long before Masayoshi Son became the billionaire founder of SoftBank, he was a student at the University of California, Berkeley. At that time, Son had an unusual financial target. It was to make $10,000 a month while spending only five minutes…

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Indian woman’s Thiruvathirakali dance inside Costco sparks fury online, netizens debate over ‘civic sense’

Screenshots from the viral video. A video of an Indian woman performing Thiruvathirakali inside a Costco store has kicked off a debate online, with people split over whether the moment was harmless fun or simply inappropriate behaviour in a public place.The clip, which was first shared on Instagram and later circulated on X, shows the…

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In 2001, scientists released 880 tiny weevils against a weed choking Texas waterways; by 2003, giant salvinia had almost disappeared | World News

A thick green carpet can make a pond or reservoir appear almost solid, but giant salvinia is a floating fern, spreading across the water rather than growing from the bottom. In Texas and Louisiana, the plant had become difficult to manage, forming dense mats that blocked sunlight, reduced oxygen and interfered with waterways. According to…

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Sun Pharma offers US cheaper drug supply

Sun Pharma has offered Most Favoured Nation (MFN) pricing to US Medicaid programme New Delhi: Facing the threat of potential tariffs, India’s largest drug firm, Sun Pharma has offered Most Favoured Nation (MFN) pricing to US Medicaid programme under an agreement with the Trump administration. MFN pricing typically ensures that a buyer procures at the…

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Safai Karmachari Andolan counters govt reply in Parliament, claims manual scavenging still exists in atleast 46 districts | India News

Muzaffar Ahmed Sheikh (35) from Ganderbal district in Jammu & Kashmir. NEW DELHI: Challenging the Centre’s claim made in Parliament in the monsoon session that a survey conducted in all districts of the country during the year 2024-25 found no person engaged as a manual scavenger, Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA) on Tuesday brought together women…

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