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Law to finance: Companies in a fix as applicants game job market with AI

More than 80 per cent of companies use AI somewhere in hiring, and one in four use it for the entire recruitment process

Turkey's jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu criticises West for 'silence'

Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, said the lack of international condemnation of Erdogan is helping ensure Turkey's shift toward authoritarianism

Putin smells blood in the water on US backed Black Sea ceasefire deal

Putin knows Ukraine will find it extraordinarily difficult to agree to its conditions, and that a refusal makes it likely the US will again suspend arms shipments and intelligence sharing in punishmen

Centre 'bars' oil tanker carrying Russian crude over documentation lapse

The Honduran-flagged Andaman Skies, built in 2004, loaded 767,000 barrels at Murmansk on Feb. 24, and was due to discharge at Vadinar on March 30

India's heat waves drive air conditioner sales, defying consumer slowdown

Blue Star Ltd. expects as much as 30 per cent growth over the summer, with a significant increase in sales in smaller cities, Managing Director B Thiagarajan said

Decades of AIDS vax research imperiled by Trump's withdrawal of US funding

The US cut HIV vaccine funding, forcing IAVI to halt work and lay off staff, while the South African Medical Research Council will receive only $9 mn of its planned $45 mn for multi-country trials

Donald Trump directs Smithsonian sites to scrub content on race, gender

Trump in his second term has targeted diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the government and private sector, as well as at cultural institutions

Alibaba unveils new AI model in Qwen series for multimodal processing

Alibaba said in a statement that its new Qwen2.5-Omni-7B system demonstrated particularly high performance in speech understanding and generation

OpenAI close to finalising $40 bn SoftBank-led funding at $300 bn valuation

The deal is set to value the company at $300 billion including dollars raised - almost double the ChatGPT maker's previous valuation of $157 billion from when it raised money in October

Venezuela increases oil exports to China as US secondary tariff tightens

Venezuela's oil industry is facing its biggest threat since the first Trump administration essentially banned US imports of oil from the country in 2019

US seeks control over Ukraine investments, sidelining European allies

If accepted, the partnership agreement would bestow enormous power on the US to control investments into Ukraine in projects including roads and railways, ports, mines, oil and gas

Porsche, Mercedes face $3.7 bn hit from Trump tariffs on imported cars

Trump's additional 25 per cent duties, to be collected from April 3, could wipe out around a quarter of Porsche and Mercedes' projected 2026 operating earnings

RBI to meet bankers next week to discuss changes in liquidity framework

Reserve Bank of India is scheduled to meet bank economists on April 3 to take feedback on proposed revisions

Thousands of Palestinians protest in Gaza in rare call to end Hamas's rule

The demonstrations against Hamas have been largely peaceful, with the militant group's police and security forces rarely appearing in public

Elon Musk one of the few winners from Donald Trump's auto tariffs

The electric vehicle maker has large factories in California and Texas that churn out all the cars it sells in the US

RBI Guv Sanjay Malhotra raises rate cut hopes with growth-focused policy

Since taking office in December, Sanjay Malhotra has reduced interest rates for the first time in five years, injected nearly $60 billion into the banking system

Donald Trump blocks 10% of funds for key agency in US-China tech race

Trump administration on Monday effectively canceled $20 million in funding for the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security

Reciprocal tariff plan on all nations 'lenient', says Donald Trump

We have not been treated nicely by other countries, but we're going to be nice. So I think people will be pleasantly surprised, he said

Nissan's New CEO says it needs partners and is open to Honda tie-up

The top items on Espinosa's to-do list will be to seek collaborations with companies that would help Nissan develop electric vehicles

Chinese tech industry floods market with AI models after DeepSeek success

Since DeepSeek upstaged OpenAI with a model that purportedly cost just several million dollars to build, China's tech leaders have flooded the market with a number of low-cost AI-services