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New Delhi, India — Meghna Gupta* had planned it all – a master’s degree by 23, a few years of working in India, and then a move to the United States before she turned 30 to eventually settle there.So, she clocked countless hours at the Hyderabad office of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT firm and a driver of the country’s emergence as the global outsourcing powerhouse in the sector. She waited to get to the promotion that would mean a stint on California’s West Coast.Now, Gupta is 29, and her dreams lie in tatters after US President Donald Trump’s…

Venture capitalists have convinced themselves they’ve found the next big investing edge: using AI to wring software-like margins out of traditionally labor-intensive services businesses. The strategy involves acquiring mature professional services firms, implementing AI to automate tasks, then using the improved cash flow to roll up more companies. Leading the charge is General Catalyst (GC), which has dedicated $1.5 billion of its latest fundraise to what it calls a “creation” strategy that’s focused on incubating AI-native software companies in specific verticals, then using those companies as acquisition vehicles to buy established firms — and their customers — in the same…

Anger over chronic water and electricity shortages has exploded into deadly unrest in Madagascar, prompting a night-time curfew in the capital. At least five people were killed in mass protests in Antananarivo on Thursday, hospital sources said. Despite the curfew, demonstrators built barricades of burning tyres and rubbish and ransacked shops. Cable car stations were also attacked as unrest spread through the city. RFI correspondent Guilhem Fabry reported that loud blasts were heard near the city centre until about 2am on Friday and that a strong smell of smoke hung in the air. Authorities have imposed a curfew in Antananarivo…

Forget the tree. That iconic lone tree from the stage directions in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterwork “Waiting for Godot” is offstage in Jamie Lloyd’s re-envisioned revival. The polarizing British director who has placed his conceptual stamp on “A Doll’s House,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “Evita,” again challenges the norms in his latest production, taking on the master of ambiguity, absurdity and minimalism — but with mixed results.  Though Lloyd supplants Beckett’s bleak and barren setting with something brighter, cleaner and cosmic — but minus any “Sunset Boulevard”-style video flourishes this go-round — the play’s existential angst in an irrational world remains…

Digital marketing pioneer Neil Patel will tell Index’25 attendees that the future of online visibility won’t be about clicks — it will be about credibility inside AI-driven answers. The Shift From SEO to GEO Patel, co-founder of Neil Patel Digital and a longtime authority on SEO, warned that traditional tactics no longer guarantee visibility. With AI engines shaping responses, the goal is shifting from keyword rankings to authority-based inclusion. “GEO is about ensuring your brand isn’t just found — it’s trusted enough to be pulled into the AI answer,” he explained. Patel’s Message to Marketers Patel said that SEO once…

Sep 28, 2025, 07:28 PM ETKANSAS CITY, Kan. — Chase Elliott somehow stole Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway, where he drove from eighth to the checkered flag during a two-lap overtime sprint to earn a spot in the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs.It was a wild ending to a race that probably should have been won by Denny Hamlin, who dominated and led 159 laps until a bevy of late issues denied him his chance at career win No. 60 for Joe Gibbs Racing.Editor’s PicksThe race had a slew of late cautions — Hamlin dropped from the lead to seventh…

Imagine you’re the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. You have everything you could want at your disposal: power, influence, money. But, the problem is, your time at the top is fleeting. I’m not talking about the prospect of a coup or a revolution, or even a democratic election: I’m talking about the thing even more certain in life than taxes. I’m talking about death.In early September, China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin were caught on mic talking about strategies to stay young. “With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted,…

Moldovans await the results of a closely-watched parliamentary election, amid claims of Russian interference.Published On 28 Sep 202528 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareMoldova’s governing pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has taken the lead in the parliamentary election with 46 percent of the votes, compared with 27 percent for the pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc, with 90 percent of votes counted, according to the country’s electoral commission.Sunday’s parliamentary election, which is viewed as a geopolitical choice between a path to the European Union or a drift back into Moscow’s fold, has been fraught with claims of Russian interference.Recommended…

Israel has been pounding Gaza’s largest medical complex, levelling whole blocks and sending terrified patients scrambling for safety as its army continued a ground operation to seize Gaza City.Doctors inside al-Shifa Hospital on Sunday described “horrific scenes” as many were forced to flee despite needing urgent care. Hasan al-Sha’ir, the hospital’s medical director, said that staff have continued to work “despite the harsh conditions and overwhelming fear”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAccording to al-Sha’ir, at least 100 patients are receiving treatment in “extremely difficult circumstances”, with shortages of life-saving drugs and medical equipment.Researchers at the Palestinian Centre for…

Addis Abeba — Ethiopia and Russia have formalized an action plan to advance the development of a nuclear power project in Ethiopia as part of a wider roadmap for cooperation discussed during Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s visit to Moscow. The agreement was exchanged on Thursday 25 September 2025 between Alexei Likhachev, Director General of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, and Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Gedion Timotheos. It outlines practical steps for cooperation between Rosatom and the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation in building a nuclear power plant in Ethiopia. The exchange took place at the Kremlin in the presence of Prime…