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FILE (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) Walmart recently announced shareholder voting results for its Annual Shareholders Meeting. Approximately 89.88% of all outstanding shares were represented at the meeting. John Furner, President and CEO of Walmart, provided an overview of Walmart’s business model and strong FY26 results. Some eight proposals were brought for voting. Among these was...

An ex-Meta employee is celebrating the strike down of the Trump administration’s increased H-1B visa fee. Zach Wilson, a former data engineer at the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company took to X to honour the announcement.He shared that for the past 6 months, when his Indian students asked “How do I get a data engineering job in...

Most people can name the founders of Apple, Microsoft, Meta or Tesla. Fabrice Bellard remains largely unknown outside programming circles despite creating software that helps power much of the modern internet. From the technology that processes online videos to the virtual machines underpinning cloud computing, Bellard’s creations sit deep beneath the internet’s surface, largely invisible...

. BHOPAL: Congress candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination for the June 18 Rajya Sabha polls in MP was rejected Tuesday after scrutiny, turning election arithmetic on its head as BJP closed in on winning all three seats unopposed. Returning officer A P Singh rejected the nomination after BJP objected that Natarajan failed to disclose details of...

NEW DELHI: After investigation into Air India’s AI 171 crash of June 12, 2025, processing of claims has also come under questions from families of some of the deceased.The daughter of former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani, who was among the 260 people killed in AI 171 crash last June 12, has questioned why Air India...

NEW DELHI: A Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae has blamed persistent vacancies at National Medical Commission (NMC) and the government’s failure to fill key statutory posts for recurring delays in medical admissions, approvals, inspections and appeals, saying lapses have disrupted academic calendars and left students bearing the brunt of the system’s shortcomings.In his report to SC,...

A Telangana youth, 23-year-old Koduru Anuroop Reddy, tragically lost his life in the US while heroically rescuing three friends from drowning HYDERABAD: The body of Koduru Anuroop Reddy, 23, a Telangana youth who died while rescuing three friends from drowning in the US, reached Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday morning. It was later taken...

SLUG-Payment Goof-UpT’puram: In a bizarre turn of events, Kerala University (KU) has asked Girish R Kumar, the director of its Centre for Latin American Studies, to pay around Rs 17 lakh, which the centre had lost due to an oversight by State Bank of India (SBI). The bank had deducted $20,000 from the centre’s account...

BHOPAL: In a major decision, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav, on Tuesday, ordered the withdrawal of a draft provision in the proposed civil services rules that prescribes a maximum limit of two children for eligibility for government jobs. He also ordered the immediate removal of the draft from the official portal.In 2001, the general...

How immune memory helps cancer survivors face their worst nightmare (AI Representational image) Every year the world observes National Cancer Survivors Month in June, celebrating the growing number of people who have successfully completed cancer treatment and are building lives beyond their diagnosis.For many survivors, however, the end of treatment does not always bring complete...