French President Emmanuel Macron, in New York for the 80th UN General Assembly, faced an unusual and rather awkward moment on Monday night after leaving the United Nations headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. As Macron’s cavalcade headed towards the French Embassy on Fifth Avenue, New York Police Department (NYPD) officers forced it to stop due to…
The GST Council’s 56th meeting has paved the way for a simplified tax regime with just two main slabs–5 per cent and 18 per cent– and a special 40 per cent rate exclusively reserved for “sin goods” and ultra-luxury items. Effective September 22, this marks a major overhaul after the removal of the Compensation Cess,…
Laurent Freixe Nestle CEO Office Romance Scandal:Swiss food giant Nestle has abruptly dismissed CEO Laurent Freixe for failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a subordinate, the company announced on Monday. The dramatic move comes exactly a year after Freixe took charge, marking another bout of turbulence for the world’s largest food company. Freixe, 63,…
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s latest exchange on X (formerly Twitter) has sparked equal parts laughter and confusion, as netizens scrambled to decode a flurry of complex vocabulary–only for the whole thing to turn out to be a joke. It began when Tharoor took a swipe at US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s recent remark describing India…
An Indian techie, Soham Parekh, is at the centre of a moonlighting storm after US-based AI founder Suhail Doshi accused him of “scamming people” by working at multiple startups simultaneously. The controversy has triggered a heated debate online, with many calling out double standards in the startup world. In a widely shared post on X,…