‘Inspired by India’ | The book explores India’s imprint on global fashion

‘Inspired by India’ | The book explores India’s imprint on global fashion

The gold lame hooded dress in Yves Saint Laurent’s AW/1991 collection was suggestive of sari drapery, while gold encrusted embroidery completed the French designer’s dream of India; (centre) the draped shirt dress by Gianfranco Ferré for SS/2002 reflects his interpretation of the sari, in the spiralling construction, and the many years he spent working and travelling in India … Read more

Stocks to buy or sell today: 10 short-term trading ideas by experts for 9 September

Stocks to buy or sell today: 10 short-term trading ideas by experts for 9 September

Indian market rose on Friday tracking positive global cues. The S&P BSE Sensex rose more than 200 points while Nifty50 reclaimed 17800 levels. Sectorally, buying was seen in metals, healthcare, banks, and public sector while some selling was seen in telecom stocks. Tracking the momentum, experts see Nifty50 inching towards 18000 levels in the next … Read more

Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from disputed border area, New Delhi says

Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from disputed border area, New Delhi says

The statement comes ahead of a meeting in Uzbekistan next week which Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected to attend. India said disengagement was taking place in a coordinated and planned way and is meant to keep border peace. “The eyeball-to-eyeball contact has ended,” an Indian defence source said, … Read more

Australia reacts to death of Queen Elizabeth II: monarch’s long reign ‘unlikely to be repeated’, Paul Keating says – live

Australia reacts to death of Queen Elizabeth II: monarch’s long reign ‘unlikely to be repeated’, Paul Keating says – live

‘An exemplar of public leadership’: Paul Keating pays tribute The former prime minister has released a tribute to the Queen. Keating incensed the British press when the Queen visited Australia and he touched her back to guide her along. Keating says: In the 20th century, the self became privatised, while the public realm, the realm … Read more

Oil prices retreat on demand destruction fears, benchmarks off 4% for week

Oil prices retreat on demand destruction fears, benchmarks off 4% for week

Oil prices turned down in early trade on Friday after a slight rebound in the previous session, leaving them set to fall for a second straight week on worries that central banks’ aggressive rate hikes and China’s COVID-19 curbs will hurt demand. Brent crude futures slipped 12 cents, or 0.1%, to $89.03 a barrel at … Read more

Jabeur reaches US Open final after one-sided win

Jabeur reaches US Open final after one-sided win

Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur is aiming to win her first major title with victory in New York Venue: Flushing Meadows, New York Dates: 29 August-11 September Coverage: Daily radio commentaries across BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur … Read more

Higher FDI limit gives us an option in India: Mark FitzPatrick

Higher FDI limit gives us an option in India: Mark FitzPatrick

Prudential Plc. is a global financial conglomerate running successful Indian joint ventures in life insurance and asset management. As the storied 175-year-old institution pivots to Asia, its Group Chief Executive Officer Mark FitzPatrick tells Joel Rebello, Bodhisatva Ganguli and MC Govardhana Rangan why India – now the world’s fifth-biggest economy – could emerge as a … Read more

Neural Magic’s sparsity, Nvidia’s Hopper, and Alibaba’s network among firsts in latest MLPerf AI benchmarks

Neural Magic’s sparsity, Nvidia’s Hopper, and Alibaba’s network among firsts in latest MLPerf AI benchmarks

Nvidia’s Hopper, its latest generation of GPU design, showed up in the MLPerf benchmark tests of neural net hardware. The chip showed admirable scores, with a single-chip system besting some systems that used multiple chips of the older variety, the A100.  Nvidia Increasingly, the trend in machine learning forms of artificial intelligence is toward larger … Read more