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Thousands of US businesses scored a major victory after the US Supreme Court struck down emergency tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. However, while companies welcomed the decision, the process of getting refunds worth billions of dollars is expected to be slow and complex.In a landmark ruling with global economic implications, the court said Trump could not use the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping tariffs on imports. The decision could open the door for more than $175 billion in tariffs already collected by the US government to be refunded, according to economists at the Penn-Wharton…

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition on Friday unpacked his fiery “jiu-jitsu” analogy from the Budget Session speech, detailing the “political grips and chokes” squeezing Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a video post on X, Gandhi highlighted the Gautam Adani indictment, plus the Epstein files that mention Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Anil Ambani. He also slammed the India-US trade deal as lopsided, heavily favoring American interests over India’s.”On one side, there is China sitting on our border, and on the other side, there’s the USA. And our Prime Minister is torn between these grips. He’s trapped,” Rahul…

The Supreme Court passed an “extraordinary order” directing the Calcutta high court to appoint serving and retired judicial officers as Electoral Registration Officers to adjudicate claims and objections in West Bengal’s SIR process, with administrative and security support from state authorities.The Centre criticised Congress and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi after around 10 Indian Youth Congress workers were detained for staging a shirtless protest and raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the AI Summit.US envoy Sergio Gor said India is diversifying its oil sourcing, reaffirmed that commitments on Russian oil are part of the new India-US trade deal,…

NEW DELHI: The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) on Friday defended its shirtless protest at the AI Summit saying the demonstration was the “voice of millions of angry unemployed youth” aimed at the “compromised” Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The youth wing said that they are “not against the AI Summit, and they “will no longer sit quietly.””Today, during the AI Summit, Youth Congress comrades raised slogans of ‘PM is Compromised’, clearly conveying the message that the youth of the country will no longer sit quietly,” IYC President Uday Bhanu told ANI. Congress Paradox: Tharoor Lauds AI Summit While Youth Stages Shirtless…

MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Friday said the United Nations joint statement India signed was not a “negotiated document” that condemned Israel’s West Bank expansion.The foreign ministry said New Delhi’s stand on the expansion issue was already expressed in the India-Arab League Ministerial meeting that laid out a broader vision for deeper two-way ties, pitched for a sovereign and viable Palestine state living side-by-side with Israel. The meeting had also stressed the need for conducting international relations based on the UN charter.”The statement referred to was not a negotiated document. Our…

BJP youth wing protesting outside Rahul Gandhi’s house. (Screengrab) NEW DELHI: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) youth wing on Friday staged a protest outside Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Delhi house, hours after the members from the rival camp tricked their way into Bharat Mandapam and tried to disrupt the government’s ambitious ongoing AI summit.The incident opened a new front of contention between the political nemeses, with the BJP accusing the Congress of tarnishing the nation’s reputation. BJP Targets Rahul Gandhi Over AI Summit Protest Row Calling Rahul Gandhi a “traitor,” a protesting BJP Yuva Morcha leader, who was being…

Apple’s Find My app has cost the city of Denver, US $3.76 million in compensation and damages. In 2022, the city’s police wrongly raided and ransacked an elderly woman’s home looking for a stolen truck and guns. According to a report by CNN, Denver police were seeking to recover a stolen truck loaded with guns, ammo and cash. For this, the police used Apple’s Find My technology on another iPhone to locate the vehicle.However, the police picked the wrong house out of a fairly wide area to storm in and catch the thieves. Due to this misplaced raid, 78-year-old Ruby…

If you have been planing to purchase a budget smartphone, then you can consider buying the Moto G54. Launched last year, the Moto G54 comes in two variants and both of them have receives a price cut. The Moto G54 features an FHD+ display and is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity chipset. New priceMotorola launched the Moto G54 smartphone in September last year.The company launched the two variants of the smartphone — 8GB+128GB and 12GB+256GB priced at Rs 15,999 and Rs 18,999 respectively. The 8GB version of the smartphone has got a price cut of Rs 2,000 and it can…

Elon Musk has been extremely critical of ChatGPT maker OpenAI for deviating from its mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity and taking a profit-making path. He has advocated that artificial intelligence (AI) should be accessible for all, and he has now announced that his AI startup xAI will open source Grok chatbot this week.“This week, @xAI will open source Grok,” Musk said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).In simpler words, open-sourcing a software, like a chatbot, means that the software projects are redistributable as all source code is accessible by everyone. One of the advantages of…

Sharan Hegde, an entrepreneur and founder of The 1% Club who also runs a YouTube channel named — ‘financewithsharan’ has claimed that his YouTube account got hacked via his personal Instagram account. In his Instagram post, he mentioned that his account got compromised and hackers started live streaming Bitcoin prices on his YouTube channel. Hegde claimed that the live stream on his YouTube channel showcased Bitcoin prices reaching $100K which translates to approximately Rs 69,448,00Hegde mentioned that as a part of the negotiation, all the contents from the YouTube channel were washed away, however, it was recovered later on.His post…