New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Global technology firms accelerated job cuts in the first quarter of 2026, with over 73,200 layoffs by 95 companies, according to industry data.The data from Layoffs.fyi showed that the past two weeks saw a fresh surge in headcount reductions. Snap Inc., The Walt Disney Company, Meta Platforms and Oracle Corporation, announced layoffs recently as firms streamline operations to cut costs and shift resources toward artificial intelligence.Social media platform Snap Inc. …
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Abu Dhabi, April 17 (IANS) The Indian diaspora in the Gulf emerged as a quiet but powerful force during the recent turbulence in West Asia amid uncertainties across energy markets, logistics networks, and expatriate communities. Often measured in economic terms through remittances and labour statistics, the Indian community demonstrated a far deeper reality defined by resilience, solidarity, and an ability to stabilise both host societies and fellow migrants in crisis situations, a report detail…
Islamabad, April 17 (IANS) A new investigation about the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Taunsa city of Pakistan’s Punjab province has exposed many flaws in the healthcare system and the state’s utter disregard for the locals. An investigative documentary by BBC has exposed nurses injecting patients through their clothes, giving dirty syringes for re-use and unqualified workers injecting child after child from a blood-contaminated vial of liquid medicine in the hospital. “The scale of neglect le…
Islamabad, April 17 (IANS) Free treatment of cancer patients at three major medical teaching institutions of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has been hampered due to lack of funds, local media reported on Friday, citing officials. Pakistan’s Health Secretary Shahidullah Khan said he was in contact with the Planning and Development Department for reappropriation of funds to resume treatment of cancer patients, the daily Dawn reported. However, over 1,000 poor patients already registered fo…
Washington, April 15 (IANS) India faces rising risks from global conflict and energy price volatility, but enters the new financial year with a strong macroeconomic position, Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran said on Wednesday. Speaking at the US-India Economic Forum 2026, Nageswaran said the government’s 6.5 per cent GDP growth forecast may be conservative, but cautioned that “we shouldn’t underestimate or understate the wide range of uncertainty that prevails.”He said …
Mandya (Karnataka), April 15 (IANS) Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H.D. Kumaraswamy on Wednesday said the legacy of Yugayogi Sri Sri Sri Dr late Balagangadharanatha Mahaswamiji continues to inspire generations through service, spirituality and social upliftment.Speaking in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, and seers led by Jagadguru Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji, Kumaraswamy said the inauguration of the Bhairavaikya Mandir dedicated t…
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Vice President CP Radhakrishnan on Wednesday said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is empowering governments to serve citizens better and had become an enabler for building a Viksit Bharat that is inclusive, efficient and future‑ready.Radhakrishna described AI as giving governments “a new superpower” at the 5th Dr. Rajendra Prasad Annual Memorial Lecture on the theme “AI for Good Governance” at the 72nd Founders’ Day of the Indian Institute of Public Adminis…
Nagpur, April 15 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday said that the present era marks a phase of rapid transformation in the healthcare sector, and stressed that technological advances must be used to reduce the gap between rural and urban healthcare access, ensuring quality care for all.Addressing the convocation ceremony at AIIMS Nagpur, the President noted that unprecedented global progress in medicine is being driven by technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital health ser…
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Microsoft-owned platform LinkedIn is testing an “AI labour marketplace” that could pay employees up to Rs 14,000 or $150 an hour to help train AI chatbots, according to a report.A report from Business Insider said that LinkedIn is in early‑stage trials and has listed over a dozen roles for AI trainers who will rate responses from AI models, flag errors and perform “red teaming” to expose weaknesses.Job openings span across sectors including coding, finance, h…
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Over 80 per cent of Balochistan’s population lack access to primary healthcare, according to its provincial health secretary, and budget shortfalls are central to this problem, a new report has said.The province’s most basic public services being “fundamentally broken,” with human resource shortages and the province’s low education profile, an editorial in Business Recorder said.Shortfall in budget allocation to this province is central but not the sole cause…