Recently news outlets reported that layoff announcements have reached pandemic levels, which is highly concerning, but certainly not unforeseen. At the beginning of 2025, the World Economic Forum reported that 41% of organizations were planning to trim their workforces in the face of rapidly advancing AI. In the second half of the year, six in…
Australia’s race discrimination commissioner says social media companies have allowed racist and antisemitic hate to flow “unchecked” – and warned of an imminent outbreak of racially motivated violence after the Bondi beach terror attack. “There are some that say you can turn the tap of online hate off,” Giridharan Sivaraman said on Thursday afternoon. “It’s…
How do I talk to grown grandsons who have different political beliefs and dismiss mine as fuzzy thinking, since I am old? They are conservative and believe they “pulled themselves up by their bootstraps”. They didn’t. They had parents and family and help with university. They are lovely men and kind to me, but I…
It may not be in keeping with the festive spirit, but if you find yourself dropping the F-word while wrestling a Christmas tree up a flight of stairs, scientists say you could be on to something. A study has found that swearing can boost physical performance by lowering inhibitions and pushing the brain into a…
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), which oversees the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), is implementing safety-focused designs that also safeguard ecosystems as the country’s highway network continues to grow. The latest highway stretch in question is the one in Madhya Pradesh that has been able to do just that, and balance…
West Ham are poised to part company with their women’s team manager, Rehanne Skinner, the Guardian understands. The 46-year-old has been in charge of the Women’s Super League side since the summer of 2023 and they are second-bottom with one win from 11 matches this season. The news comes three days before West Ham host…
Following COP29 in Azerbaijan and the Bonn climate meeting earlier this year helped me understand the fault lines that exist in the climate process, most prominently the divide between the developed and the developing world. One could sense the disappointment over the outcome in Baku, referred to as the new collective quantified goal, reflected across…
Three persons were arrested by the Excise officials and 1.220 kgs of ganja was seized from them. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Five persons were arrested in two separate raids conducted by the State Task Force of the Telangana Prohibition and Excise Department in Hyderabad. The officials seized 2.34 kgs of ganja, 4.2 grams of…
Farmers are “bewildered and frightened” with many questioning the future of their businesses because of the government’s proposed changes to inheritance tax, an independent review of farm profitability has found. The long-awaited government-commissioned report was published on Thursday with 57 recommendations designed to improve productivity, investment and resilience in agriculture. But author Baroness Minette Batters,…
Located about 100 kilometres north of Mumbai, Tarapur is one of Maharashtra’s largest industrial hubs—and among its most polluted. Built along the coast, the industrial estate sits next to fishing villages where generations have depended on the sea for their livelihoods. This film journeys into those villages to document what residents say is a…