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US financial and technology companies are stepping up security and limiting office activity in parts of the Middle East, a day after Iran warned it could target economic centres linked to the United States during the ongoing regional conflict.Citi Bank asked employees to immediately leave its regional headquarters in the Dubai International Financial Centre, according…
Stranded UAE Workers: What Happens to Your Job and Salary Amidst Regional Instability? Thousands of residents across the United Arab Emirates have recently found themselves unexpectedly stranded outside the country due to flight disruptions, airspace closures and regional instability amid Iran vs US-Israel war. For many employees working in the UAE, the sudden inability to…
Security researchers claim to have uncovered three security vulnerabilities in Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line AI tool. These flaws could have allowed attackers to execute code remotely on a developer’s machine or steal sensitive API keys. According to a Check Point report, company’s researchers found and reported all three flaws to Anthropic, which issued fixes for…
UAE Partners with Starlink to Expand Global Digital Education Access The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced a strategic global partnership with Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by SpaceX, aimed at transforming digital education access worldwide, especially for students in remote and underserved communities with limited or no reliable connectivity. The initiative, launched alongside…
NEW DELHI: A patient thousands of kilometres away in Antarctica was examined by doctors sitting in Delhi — not through a video call, but via a live ultrasound scan. The demonstration by doctors at AIIMS shows how specialist medical care can be delivered across continents.At AIIMS Research Day 2026, doctors remotely controlled an ultrasound probe…
Amazon has introduced a temporary remote work policy for employees stranded in India due to H-1B visa delays, but the company’s latest memo makes clear that these workers cannot actually perform most of their job functions.US investor and Ed-Tech chairman Hany Girgis weighed in on the situation on X, saying Amazon “found a workaround for…
The world romanticized remote work as liberation, the promise of yoga pants over power suits and coffee breaks in sunlit kitchens. But beneath that comfort, a quieter crisis has been brewing. New findings from Gallup’s May 2025 workplace report reveal that the emotional toll of working remotely is far greater than many realize.Only 36 percent…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon renewed his opposition to remote work, dismissing employee concerns about the bank’s strict five-day return-to-office mandate that sparked a 2,000-signature internal petition earlier this year. Speaking at the Future Investment Initiative alongside Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon and BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Dimon argued that junior bankers suffer when working from home….
China successfully launched a Pakistani remote sensing satellite into orbit on Sunday, accompanied by two of its own satellites, underscoring the deepening space collaboration between the two long-time allies.A Lijian-1 Y8 carrier rocket carrying three satellites—the Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (PRSS-2) and China’s AIRSAT 03 and 04—was launched from a commercial aerospace innovation pilot zone…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday upped the ante against Rahul and Sonia Gandhi, accusing them of letting the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government become a “puppet in the hands of foreign powers.” While addressing a press conference, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia latched on to former Union minister P Chidambaram and Manish Tewari “revelations” and…
