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Government To Keep A Lid On Spends To Avoid Fiscal Slippage
Pointers at Glance Government officials closely watch the spending to complement the RBI’s measures to avoid fiscal slippage. The finance ministry will inform ministries and departments...
AI & DA Firm, Ganit Raises Funds To Double Headcount By 2023
Pointers at Glance Ganit, AI & DA firm raises funds to double its headcount by the end of the year 2023. The company works with Fortune...
Tiny Fish Robot ‘Swims’ Around Picking Up Microplastics
Pointers at Glance Chinese researchers developed a 15mm long robot that can collect microplastics as it swims. The researchers mentioned that the swimming fish robot could...
Machine-learning Models That Can Assist Doctors More Efficiently Find Information In A Patient’s Health Record
Pointers at Glance Physicians often have a query on a patient’s EHR for data that assists them in making treatment decisions. Researchers are building a machine-learning...
PepsiCo Plans its Largest US Beverage Plant
Pointers at Glance PepsiCo plans to build its largest beverage plant in the United States. It acquired almost 152 acres of land in the Denver High...
Hyundai Unveils New Loniq 6 EV – An ‘Electrified Streamliner’ With Unique Design
Pointers at Glance Hyundai unveils a new Loniq 6 electric vehicle as an “electrified steamliner” with a unique design. Hyundai expects the car to achieve a...
Research Spots Gene That Raises Alzheimer’s Risk for Women
Pointers at Glance Gene researchers spotted a new gene, MGMT, involved in Alzheimer’s disease. This MGMT increases the risk of common dementia in women. Additional study...
Recent Monkeypox Symptoms Differ From Those of Prior Outbreaks
Pointers at Glance Studies reported that the recent symptoms of monkeypox differ from prior outbreaks. The study involved 54 cases, and it was noted that each...
Inflation Reshapes Amazon Prime Day
Pointers at Glance Amazon mentioned that Prime members bought more than 300 million items surpassing previous years globally. Consumers kept much of their Amazon Prime Day...
Chinese Fast-fashion Company Shein Seeks US IPO As Soon As 2024
Pointers at Glance According to the report from Bloomberg, Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein hopes to make an initial public offering in the United States as soon...
Why One Stock Brokerage Remains Bullish On Reliance Industries & Infosys
Pointers at Glance One stock brokerage Kotak Securities remains bullish on two stocks even though India’s stocks have not had a good start in the first...
RCom Fails To Attract Buyers For Non-core Assets
Pointers at Glance RCom fails to attract buyers for its non-core assets in the insolvency proceedings. The assets included land in Pune (871.1 sq meters) &...
Education Department Approves $8 Billion in Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Points at Glance The Biden administration approved billions of dollars of loans under the expanded PSLF program. Under the temporary expansion of the PSLF program, the...
School Shootings Hit Highest Level on Record, Federal Data Shows
Points at Glance Federal Data Report says the school shootings hit the highest record compared to any other year. Forty-three out of 93 shootings resulted in...
Despite Layoffs, There’s Still a Talent Crunch in Southeast Asia
Pointers at Glance Tech layoffs have affected every region in the world, including Southeast Asia. Glints, one of the largest job platforms in southeast Asia, reports...
Biden & NASA Share First Image of Universe Taken from James Webb Space Telescope
Pointers at Glance President Biden shared the first image of the universe taken from the Webb space telescope from NASA. He praised NASA for its work...
US Jury Cons Theranos’ Sunny Balwani of Fraud
Pointers at Glance A US jury convicted Balwani of defrauding investors and patients about the blood-testing startup. The jury from San Jose, California, deliberated for a...
Biden Has Planned Anti-abortion Judicial Nominee’ Strong’ Conservative
Pointers at Glance President Joe Biden confirmed that he has planned to nominate an anti-abortion lawyer to a lifetime federal judiciary appointment. Beshear said that he...
WHO warns; Do we need to safeguard from Omicron mutations?
Key Highlights: Omicron is the latest mutation of COVID-19 but not the last to tackle, reports WHO. The UN health agency is tracking four different mutations...
Abortion Rights: A new legal battle for GenBioPro pills
At a Glance: GenBioPro Inc. from Las Vegas has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the conservative state’s restrictions on the pill that is used across half...
Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun’ raise the U.S. movie stocks
At a Glance: Top Gun: Maverick’ made its debut on the big screen and instantly was a hit with a collection of over $124 million. S....
RuStore – Russia’s answer to Western Exits
At a Glance: VK has stated that the beta version of the RuStore is under work and will be available for Android users. There has been...
G20 countries accumulate funds to prepare for the pandemics
At a Glance: The G20 countries had recently set up a multi-billion dollar fund to help the developing countries better prepare for the pandemics. World Bank...
Concerns about Monkeypox rise, what does WHO has to say
At a Glance: WHO conducted a meeting to discuss the severity of the monkeypox virus and what should be the next steps. Around the world, there...
Florida’s social media law rejected by the U.S. appeals court
At a Glance: The 3-judge panel of the 11thS. Circuit Court of Appeals revived the part of the law requiring social media companies. The ruling outlined...
Microsoft Filed New Patent for Unique Foldable Display
Key Highlights: Microsoft’s new patent application indicates towards unique foldable display without creating an angled gap. Also, the application includes reverse-fold 360-degrees for a single-display mode....
Women leadership bill challenged under California law
At a Glance: A state court judge reported the California law that abides companies to include women on their boards as unconstitutional. Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis from...
150 employees laid off by Netflix
At a Glance: Netflix laid off nearly 150 employees—primarily from the U.S.—given the slow growth of the company. These layoffs represent almost 2% of Netflix’s workforce...
Health Connect: Google and Samsung Partnered to Offer a New Health App
At a Glance: TaeJong Jay Yang, Samsung’s executive vice president said, “We’re working alongside Google and other partners to realize the full benefits and potential of...
Google Pixel 6a: The Most Anticipated Phone of The Year
At a Glance: With the price tag of $450, Pixel 6a is one of the promising smartphones. Pixel 6a will be released in countries like Australia,...
Disney+ is expecting to rise after the Netflix’s losses
At a glance: From January to March, Disney+ is expecting 5.3 million new customers. Launched in November 2019, Disney+’s total subscriptions reached 137.7 million with the...
Apple Ipod: The End of An Era
At a Glance: Apple’s the first generation iPod Officially launched on Oct 23, 2001. On 10 May 2022, Apple announced that Apple iPod Touch is no...
Sony PlayStation: The road ahead for the PS5
At a Glance: Sony sold 2 million PlayStation 5 units in the last quarter, the total to 19.3 million. The company saw a rise in the...
The Decline of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin
At a Glance: According to data from Coin Metrics, Bitcoin, the world’s largest digital currency by market value, was lower by about 3% at $33,438.03 on...
Google, Apple, And Microsoft Alliance To Provide More Protection To The Online Users
At a glance: Google, Apple, and Microsoft came in support of a new sign-in standard by the FIDO Alliance and World Wide Web Consortium. The technology...
Allianz plans to underwrite policies to meet the world’s climate goal
At a Glance: Allianz has planned to take a harder line in insuring the oil and gas industry. Allianz made it official that with the start...
Will buying Twitter jeopardize Elon Musk’s Tesla foothold in the market?
At a Glance: The deal between Twitter might distract Musk from Tesla which will be important for the coming trial in October. Since Musk announced he...
Megan Markle’s ‘Pearl’ dropped from Netflix
At a Glance: Netflix has dropped several projects and it was part of strategic decisions on the production of animated series. Megan was the executive producer...
A multi-year deal was signed between Samsung and Dish
At a Glance: Samsung has signed a multi-year deal for selling the equipment to Dish an upcoming 5G network in the U.S. Samsung is now ranked...
HBO Max 33% off lifetime! Launches streaming service in 15 European Countries
At a Glance: HBO Max will be launching its streaming services in 15 European countries. Customers signing up during the launch will get 33% off from...
Warner Bros Discovery shut down CNN+
At a Glance: Warner Bros Discovery has announced that it will be shutting down CNN+ streaming news services. CNN+ will no longer operate after April 30...
Price hike saves McDonald’s Corp
At a Glance: McDonald Corp has been saved with the help of price hikes and a new loyalty program. The sales have increased by 11.8% with...
The deal is official, Elon Musk bought out Twitter
At a Glance: Elon Musk offered $44 billion to Twitter as it did not live up to its potential as a platform for ‘free speech’. Twitter...
Britain unveils a task force targeting to mitigate climate risk
At a Glance: Britain has unveiled a new task force to write rules forcing financial firms and listed companies to publish plans for mitigating climate risk....
Beijing residents stocking up on groceries amid COVID scares
At a Glance: Beijing has just ordered a mass COVID-19 testing order, which has prompted residents in the Chinese capital to stock up on groceries. When...
Did you hear about the Frankenstein COVID variant?
At a Glance: The Omicron XE variant is spreading across the U.S. as the government. The XE variant was termed the Frankenstein variant because it was...
$12.8 billion deal between Blackstone and American Campus Communities
At a Glance: Blackstone Inc. is buying the American Campus Communities Inc. for $12.8 billion including the debt. ACC has 166 properties across 71 university markets...
Lawyer pass rate falls sharply in Multistate Bar Exam
At a Glance: The aspiring lawyers from the states of New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania have reported a sharp fall in the pass rate for the...
Fantastic Beasts 3 fails to meet the hype of ‘Harry Potter’ series
At a Glance: The ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ has collected $43 million in its domestic box office debut. ‘The Secrets of Dumbledore’ was made on a budget...
