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HYDERABAD: Telangana’s monthly salary and pension bill has surged four-fold in a decade to around Rs 6,000 crore, with chief engineers of power utilities drawing up to Rs 7 lakh and senior Class 4 employees like sweepers earning around Rs 2 lakh, chief secretary K Ramakrishna Rao revealed on Wednesday.Rao, addressing a conference on the…
IBM or International Business Machines Corp had its worst day on stock market in more than 25 years on Monday, February 23. The 100-year-old IT giant saw its market value plunge by billions on fears that a new tool from Anthropic could up-end its dominance of corporate IT. The carnage started after AI startup Anthropic…
At least 12 people were killed and 24 wounded in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley on Friday, Lebanese authorities and security sources said, as cited by news agency AFP.Local television footage from one of the strike sites showed what appeared to be an apartment building that had been hit.Israel said it had…
Accenture is tying senior staff promotions to AI tool usage, requiring “regular adoption” as a criterion for leadership roles. The consulting giant is also tracking individual weekly logins to its AI tools. The move follows CEO Julie Sweet’s earlier warning that non-adapters would be “exited.” Internally, some employees have pushed back, calling the tools “broken…
The Income Tax Department has flagged cases involving non-disclosure of overseas assets and foreign income. (AI image) Income Tax Notice alert! The Income Tax Department is cracking down on alleged misreporting of income by senior executives across multinational companies and startups. Several such executives earning over Rs 50 lakh have received tax notices from the…
Dell’s new financial year started with a major shake-up in how its sales teams are compensated. According to a report by Business Insider, in a town hall meeting held earlier this month by Kyle Leciejewski, senior vice president of North America sales, Dell introduced some changes that increase rewards for top performers but also reduce…
Anthropic’s Safeguards Research Team head Mrinank Sharma has resigned. Mrinank shared a long resignation note on X, formerly Twitter. In the note, Mrinank said that today (February 9) is his last day. “Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned. Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision,” wrote Mrinank…
MUMBAI: The petitions filed in HC by senior advocate Haresh Jagtiani and stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra contended that Rule 3(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Amendment Rules, 2023), as amended in Oct 2025, and the Sahyog Portal “are illegal and beyond the scope of the IT Act, and in…
A senior Russian general was shot multiple times inside an apartment building in Moscow on Friday morning in what officials described as an apparent assassination attempt.Russia’s Investigative Committee said “an unidentified individual fired several shots” at Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev before fleeing the scene. “The victim has been hospitalised,” the agency said, adding that efforts…
PUNE: Political analyst Tehseen Poonawalla on Tuesday alleged that his mother, a senior citizen, was deliberately hit by a car in an hit-and-run incident in Pune, leaving her seriously injured and requiring surgery.Sharing CCTV footage of the incident on social media platform X, Tehseen said his mother had stepped out for a drive with his…
