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This is the second round of Amazon layoffs since 14,000 jobs were cut in October 2025, even as CEO Andy Jassy warned that AI will shrink the workforce. Amazon.com Inc. has announced layoffs affecting as many as 16,000 corporate jobs, amid “rising competition over AI”. The company will offer US-based employees 90 days to search for a new role internally, as well as severance and other transition support, Beth Galetti, the senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, said in a blog post on Wednesday. “Some of you might ask if this is the beginning of a…

Ajit Pawar’s death politically poignant as it came just as factions of NCP, his and the one led by family head Sharad Pawar, were walking towards reconciliation. The political landscape of Maharashtra was irrevocably altered at 8:45 am on Wednesday, January 28, when a chartered Learjet 45 private jet carrying deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others crashed during a landing attempt at the airport in his family hometown Baramati. The tragedy plunges one of India’s most powerful political dynasties into mourning, and put a question mark on the future of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) that he led.…

Police said Vinay and Minki were in a relationship and he wanted to marry her; however, when Minki rejected his proposal, he killed her. A gruesome murder case has come to light from Uttar Pradesh’s Agra city where a 30-year-old man allegedly killed a woman, dismembered her body, put the head in a packet and threw it in a canal, after she rejected his marriage proposal, police said. The deceased woman has been identified as 30-year-old Minki Sharma who worked as an HR manager in a private firm, while the accused, Vinay, worked in the same company, and has been…

“You are one of the richest, best located, upper caste communities,” says Chief Justice Surya Kant. The Supreme Court on Tuesday took strong exception and expressed serious doubts over the “conversion” of two upper-caste candidates in Haryana to Buddhism to claim minority reservation benefits. A bench of the apex court, comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, was hearing a petition filed by Hisar resident Nikhil Kumar Punia who sought admission as a minority candidate on the basis of his claimed Buddhist faith. The Supreme Court, while expressing to the petition, called it a “new type of fraud”.…

Captain Shambhavi Pathak, who was serving as the pilot-in-command, came from a defence background and was the daughter of an Army officer. Two young women, cabin crew member Pinky Mali, 29, and pilot-in-command Captain Shambhavi Pathak, were among the five people killed when a chartered Learjet 45 carrying Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar crashed on Wednesday morning. The crash happened as the plane was attempting to land at Baramati airport. The aircraft, Learjet 46 flying from Mumbai to Baramati, burst into flames moments after overshooting the runway during its second landing attempt, leaving no survivors.  Soon after the crash,…

Congress alleged that the seating arrangements for senior party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi at the Republic Day parade violate protocol. The Opposition’s objection to seating arrangements at the Republic Day parade have sparked political sparring multiple times, and this year may be no different. Congress MP and general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala on Monday flagged the seating of Leader of Opposition (Lok Sabha) Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge at the annual Republic Day parade on Kartavya Path. He shared an image of the two leaders seated in the third row and alleged a lack of protocol…

Actor Nadeem Khan was apprehended after the 41-year-old woman, who worked as his housemaid, approached the Versova police. Actor Nadeem Khan, last seen in the blockbuster Hindi movie Dhurandhar, was arrested last week for allegedly raping his housemaid on the pretext of marriage for the last 10 years, officials said. Nadeem Khan, who played the role of Akshaye Khanna’s character Rehman Dakait’s cook, was apprehended after the 41-year-old woman approached the Versova police as the actor refused to marry her. They had been allegedly engaging in a physical relationship for nearly a decade. Charges against Nadeem Khan Nadeem Khan has…

Congress on X reminded of Prof Kamakoti’s past remarks that cow urine has “anti-bacterial” and “anti-fungal” properties, and can heal a variety of illnesses. Technology company Zoho’s founder Sridhar Vembu reacted sharply to the Congress party’s dig at IIT-Madras director V Kamakoti, who has been selected for the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian award. “Professor Kamakoti works in deep tech: micro-processor design. He is the Director of IIT-Madras, the best technological institution in India… He richly deserves the honour,” Vembu posted on X. He was responding to the Congress Kerala unit’s apparently sarcastic post: “Congratulations to V Kamakoti on…

Legal scrubbing of FTA text is underway; endeavour will be to complete processes and sign pact at an early date, commerce secretary Rajesh Agrawal said. India and the European Union (EU) have successfully concluded negotiations for the proposed Free Trade Agreement, commerce secretary Rajesh Agrawal said on Monday. He said the deal, to be announced formally on January 27, is “balanced and forward-looking,” which will help improve India’s economic integration with the EU. “The deal will come into force sometime next year. Legal scrubbing of the text will take 5-6 months; formal signing will be done post that,” Agrawal was…

“Just to be clear again, the Russian oil goes into India, the refined products come out, and the Europeans buy the refined products,” Scott Bessent said. Just as India and the European Union (EU) finalised their Free Trade Agreement in a big move to counter Donald Trump’s tariff-driven trade policy, the US has doubled down on allegations that India’s oil trade with Russia finances the war in EU-backed Ukraine. “We have put 25 per cent tariffs on India for buying Russian oil. Guess what happened last week? The Europeans signed a trade deal with India,” US treasury secretary Scott Bessent…