Setty said the next phase of AI-led banking should move beyond retail banking and customers with established financial histories MUMBAI: Artificial intelligence could help banks expand credit to rural India, small businesses and farmers while improving risk assessment and productivity, SBI chairman CS Setty said at FIBAC 2026, but banks will have to strengthen cyber…
16 Bangladeshi nationals killed in Riyadh sofa factory fire At least 16 Bangladeshi nationals were killed in a fire at a sofa factory in the Musa Sanaiya area of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh’s ministry of foreign affairs said on Monday. The ministry expressed deep grief over the deaths and offered condolences to the victims’ families.In…
Dipa Karmakar and Pranati Nayak KOLKATA: As Glasgow prepares itself to host Commonwealth Games later this week, one person who couldn’t help but feel a little nostalgic is artistic gymnast Dipa Karmakar. She won the bronze in the women’s vault when the event was held in the Scottish city in 2014 – her maiden international…
A total of 57 Trump officials are estimated to have fortunes of at least $100 million. US President Donald Trump has surpassed his predecessors in the number of ultra-rich people he has appointed. According to a report released on Monday by consumer advocacy organisation Public Citizen, Trump has appointed more than four times as many…
NEW DELHI: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has ruled that a family court cannot refuse to formally declare a couple’s marital status as “divorced” merely because the talaq was pronounced privately under Muslim Personal Law and neither party disputes it.A division bench of Justice Alok Mathur and Justice Syed Qamar Hasan Rizvi…
Egypt boss Hossam Hassan reportedly collapsed while trying to intervene as his two wives allegedly clashed in a hotel, with reports claiming he later divorced his first wife. Egypt manager Hossam Hassan has been caught up in an extraordinary off-field incident after his two wives were reportedly involved in a physical altercation at a hotel…
India’s Tejaswin Shankar competes in the men’s decathlon 110m hurdles at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo) Tejaswin Shankar became the first Indian to win a Commonwealth Games medal in the men’s decathlon after battling a long-standing knee injury to claim bronze in Glasgow on Friday.The national record holder…
India’s Jadumani Singh Mandengbam (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary) Indian boxer Jadumani Singh Mandengbam moved into the men’s 55kg quarterfinals at the Commonwealth Games 2026 after defeating Pakistan’s Sumama Rehman by a unanimous 5-0 decision on Sunday. The convincing victory came on Kargil Vijay Diwas, making the win even more special for the 22-year-old, who dedicated it…
Ryan Garcia overwhelms JasonTheWeen during their highly anticipated sparring session after weeks of online trash talk. (Image via: Twitch/@jasontheween) WATCH: JasonTheWeen gets brutally beaten by Ryan Garcia after claiming he could “beat the f*ck out of” him JasonTheWeen finally got the matchup he had been talking about. After publicly claiming he could “beat the f*ck…
The razorback sucker was first listed as an endangered species in 1991. US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that the species will no longer be listed as endangered. Instead, it has been reclassified as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.Government agencies, tribal groups, conservation programmes, researchers and private organisations worked together for years to…
