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No More Free Hajj: Egypt Changes the Rules for Pilgrims Ahead of 2026 Pilgrimage Ahead of the 1447 AH/2026 Hajj season, the Egyptian government has announced that it will stop providing state-funded free pilgrimage slots. Instead, it will use electronic lottery systems and licensed paid pilgrimage packages. This is a significant change for millions of…
This New Year eve, hotels are pulling out a range of attractions — morning yoga, DIY cocktail stalls, recovery brunches and much more, to lure in guests. However, these celebrations come with a hefty price tag, pushing room tariffs higher for the year ending period. Hotel operators told ET that New Year rates for 2026…
As the Silicon Valley ‘AI talent war’ escalates into a multi-billion dollar bidding power struggle, Google has successfully deployed a ‘boomerang’ strategy to bring its top minds back to the company. While rivals like Meta and OpenAI are offering astronomical signing bonuses as mush as $100 million, Google is winning back its former staffers with…
Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft carrying disaster response supplies lands in cyclone-hit Sri Lanka as part of ‘Operation Sagar Bandhu’ (PTI) NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Tuesday renewed its allegations that its relief operations for cyclone-hit Sri Lanka were being “hampered by lack of cooperation” from India, claiming that permission to use Indian airspace was being…
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett doesn’t seem to be pleased with the ballooning CEO salaries — running into billions and even trillions (in one case only for now). In his last and final annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffet called out this trend that he called driven by greed and selfishness. This is…
Just weeks ago Mark Zuckerberg‘s Superintelligence Labs unit was in news for hiring AI researchers at $100 million pay packages. So much so that, Meta’s AI division started talent war in Silicon Valley, poaching AI engineers from rivals including Google, Apple and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI at multi-million-dollar salary packages. Nobody in the talent race for AI…
