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The headlines today are terrifying. They scream: “AI will replace 300 million jobs.” “The robots are coming for the white-collar worker.” If you feel a knot in your stomach every time you read about the new versions of AI, like Google’s Gemini or OpenAI’s GPT models, you are not alone. It feels like a massive,…
Florida governor Ron DeSantis weighed in on the ongoing debate over the H-1B visa program, calling it “labor arbitrage” that benefits big companies and hurts domestic American workers. His comments came in response to a social media post that said many companies hire H-1B workers to save labor costs and not exceptional talent. The post…
The US Deputy Ambassador for Trade, Rick Switzer, will visit India on December 10 and 11 as New Delhi and Washington continue discussions aimed at concluding a fair and mutually beneficial bilateral trade agreement, ANI reported.Confirming the visit at a media briefing on Monday, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the trip would…
NEW DELHI: A trainer aircraft crashed on Monday in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district after coming into contact with a high-voltage power line, police said. The pilot and another person travelling in the aircraft sustained injuries in the incident.More details awaited. Source link
Representative Image (AI-generated) At least 32 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in Pakistan in a week of storms that followed a heatwave, with officials reporting on Friday five more deaths.Five people including a child were killed on Thursday in different districts of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during heavy rains and strong winds,…
Millions of Gen Z users are screaming “Faaaaahhh” online It’s getting hard to keep up. If you’ve heard your mates randomly shouting “faaah!” into the void, don’t judge them just yet, he might be onto something, and you might be the one who needs context. There’s an online competition of sorts happening right now, a…
NEW DELHI: A special discussion may have been held on 150 years of Vande Mataram on Monday, but the Bengal assembly elections – scheduled next year – took centre stage as slogans like “Bihar ki jeet hamari hai, ab Bengal ki baari hai” were raised by NDA MPs in the Parliament as Prime Minister Narendra…
Aurangabad: For nearly 50 years, the North Koel Canal Project lay suspended between hope and hesitation – an idea born in 1970, a construction site since 1975 and a promise that never quite reached the fields it was meant to irrigate. Now, in a major shift, weekly reviews from the Prime Minister’s Office and a…
More than 50.14 lakh Central government employees and around 69 lakh pensioners are set to be covered under the 8th Central Pay Commission (CPC), with the government saying the timing of implementation and funding will be decided later.The update was shared in the Lok Sabha on Monday in a written reply by Minister of State…
Lance Lowry (Agency photo) NEW YORK: At a Georgia state House of Representatives hearing on prison conditions in September, a corrections officer called in to testify, interrupting his shift to tell lawmakers how dire conditions had become. On a “good day,” he told lawmakers, he had maybe six or seven officers to supervise roughly 1,200…
