APRIL 13, 2023
Finding a remote job is getting more and more difficult.
Openings are tapering off, and companies are outsourcing some remote positions overseas.
10% to 20% of US service support jobs could move overseas over the next decade.
Landing a remote job could become more and more challenging.
That's because competition for remote work in the US remains fierce,...
APRIL 12, 2023
A group of Indian startups, represented by the Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF), has petitioned the Delhi High Court to suspend Google's new in-app billing fee system, known as the User Choice Billing system (UCB) until the Competition Commission of India (CCI) investigates the tech giant for alleged non-compliance with its directives. The startups argue that...
APRIL 12, 2023
India's retail inflation moderated further to 5.66 percent in March from 6.44 percent in the previous month, data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) showed on Wednesday.
In January 2023, India’s headline inflation based on consumer price index (CPI) had jumped to a three-month-high of 6.52 percent from 5.7 percent in December 2022.
The Reserve...
APRIL 12, 2023
Kolkata Underwater Metro Rail Station.
Metro Railway General Manager P Uday Kumar Reddy travelled from Mahakaran station in Kolkata to Howrah Maidan station of the East-West Metro corridor in the rake.
Later, another rake also reached Howrah Maidan station by the same route.
Terming it a 'historic event', the Metro general manager said, "Trial runs between Howrah Maidan and Esplanade...
APRIL 12, 2023
FILE - A Twitter logo hangs outside the company's offices in San Francisco, on Dec. 19, 2022. Twitter has labeled National Public Radio (NPR) as “state-affiliated media” on the social media site Wednesday, April 5, 2023, a move some worried could undermine public confidence in the news organization. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
National Public Radio is quitting Twitter...
APRIL 12, 2023
An electric vehicle charges at a charging station in Detroit. The Biden administration is proposing strict new auto pollution limits that would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032. ((Nam Y. Huh / AP))
The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require as...
APRIL 11, 2023
The Colorado River near Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border, March 13, 2023. - Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images
Federal officials are proposing a plan to cut water allotments to states dependent on the Colorado River system to combat dwindling water levels on one of the country's most important bodies of water.
The U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau...
APRIL 11, 2023
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference after the arraignment of former president Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
NEW YORK — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday, an extraordinary move as he seeks to halt a House Judiciary Committee inquiry that the...
APRIL 11, 2023
FILE - An NYSE sign is seen on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Wall Street is drifting Tuesday, April 11, with stocks and bonds making only modest moves ahead of reports later in the week with the potential to move markets.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
NEW YORK — Wall...
APRIL 11, 2023
Eeconomist Sanjeev Sanyal
Noted economist Sanjeev Sanyal on Monday backed the artificial intelligence, calling it "a great social leveller". "Those who merely invested in learning the right jargon and accent, rather than ideas, will get weeded out," said Sanyal, who is also the Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. "Why is this a bad...
