File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has suspended the diversity green card lottery programme, saying it allowed the suspect in the deadly Brown University and MIT shootings to enter the United States, as his administration moved to tighten legal immigration channels following the attacks.Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem…
Asian equities inched higher on Friday after as investors relieved after softer reading of US inflation, expecting another interest rate cut as early as next month. Optimism was further supported by strong earnings from US chipmaker Micron Technology, which eased fears that the rally in technology stocks may be overstretched.Hong Kong’s HSI is trading at…
File photo (Picture credit: AP) TOKYO: The Bank of Japan hiked interest rates to a 30-year high of 0.75 per cent on Friday, the first increase since January, as it said the economy had shown signs of improvement.The unanimous vote to lift the main borrowing rate from 0.5 per cent came hours after official data…
NEW DELHI: Govt has managed to get significant concessions for Indian workers and professionals looking to work in Oman, with the Gulf nation allowing companies to employ up to 50% Indians in their workforce, instead of 20% at present.The move is aimed at ensuring that Indian companies that set up shop do not end up…
Japan’s inflation rate held steady in November, official data showed Friday ahead of the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy decision which could see central bankers raise interest rates to their highest level in 30 years.The hike would be the first since January and could potentially exacerbate turmoil in debt markets.Yields on Japanese government bonds have…
Top stocks to buy (AI image) Stock market recommendations: According to Bajaj Broking Research, the top stock picks for December 19, 2025 are Max Healthcare, and Sagility. Here’s its view on Nifty and Bank Nifty:Index View: NIFTYBenchmark indices continue to trade in a range with corrective bias and are currently placed around 25,800 levels as…
NEW DELHI: The board of Bharti Airtel on Thursday approved the appointment of Shashwat Sharma as MD & CEO from Jan 1 as Gopal Vittal will take charge as executive vice chairman for a period of five years. The board also green-lighted access of the remaining around Rs 15,740 crore proceeds from the Rs 21,000…
BENGALURU: Cognizant AI CTO Babak Hodjat said at the Nasdaq-listed company’s AI Lab here that as enterprises race to embed large language models (LLMs) deeper into business operations, a key question remains unresolved: how much can these systems be trusted to reason correctly at scale? While today’s LLMs are powerful, he said, they tend to…
TOI correspondent from London: Fugitive economic offender Vijay Mally still knows how to party, despite being declared bankrupt in Britain and being swamped in dozens of legal battles in the UK and in India.His bromance with IPL founder Lalit Modi (63), who also lives in the UK, has reached new heights. Lalit hosted a big…
NEW DELHI: A day after photos of Vijay Mallya‘s pre-birthday celebration in London surfaced, ED Thursday announced it had restituted Rs 312 crore of Kingfisher Airlines to its former employees towards long-pending dues.The amount was transf-erred to the official liquidator for disbursement to former employees of Kingfisher Airlines after the restitution was approved by Debt…