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India’s GCCs redraw global leadership map

A growing number of leaders from India-based global capability centres (GCCs) are making their way into the Fortune 500 C-suite, underscoring the rising strategic importance of these centres and the influence of their leadership.Recent examples include Kalyani Sekar, senior vice-president and chief data and AI officer at Verizon; Hari Vasudev, executive vice-president and CTO of…

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Seller body drags Flipkart to CCI for unfair practices

MUMBAI: The Forum for Internet Retailers, Sellers & Traders (FIRST) has dragged Walmart-owned Flipkart Group to the Competition Commission of India (CCI), seeking a fresh investigation into the conduct of the company over practices designed to distort competition, benefit few preferred sellers and exclude scores of small retailers from the marketplace system.In its 157-page complaint…

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India emerges as global hub for Philips’ AI healthcare solutions

AMSTERDAM: India has emerged as the global development hub for more than 85% of Philips’ artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for healthcare, underscoring the country’s growing role in shaping next-generation medical technologies even as the company bets on AI-enabled diagnostics to help address India’s shortage of advanced imaging services and trained specialists.The company said its Bengaluru…

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Markets pare gains over late profit booking

MUMBAI: Equity benchmark indices pared more than half of their intraday gains on Thursday after profit booking in the final hours, even as sensex and Nifty had staged a sharp recovery earlier in the session on bottom fishing and positive cues from foreign institutional investors.After a 1,677-point fall on Wednesday, sensex opened higher at 76,576…

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Gold, Silver Rate Today Live Updates: Yellow metal steadies but remains on track for weekly loss; silver tumbles

Welcome to our Gold Rate Today live blog, where we bring you the latest updates on gold and silver prices from India and global markets throughout the day. Gold is trading cautiously after renewed military exchanges between the United States and Iran reignited inflation concerns and increased expectations that the US Federal Reserve could keep…

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Oil Prices: Oil stocks today: Crude slips but heads for weekly gains as US-Iran conflict keeps supply fears alive

Oil markets remained focused on developments in the Middle East after Iran launched attacks on US military infrastructure in Gulf states Oil prices edged lower in early trade on Friday but remained on course for strong weekly gains as renewed military exchanges between the United States and Iran kept concerns over global crude supplies elevated.Brent…

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