Why did N Chandrasekaran resign❓
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Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran on Wednesday announced his resignation from the post, nearly a decade after taking the helm of one of India’s most storied companies.

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A Bengaluru woman’s ₹1 lakh monthly budget has sparked a debate over the city’s rising cost of living. With ₹21,000 going towards rent and ₹10,000 on commuting. 💸

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The Department of Food Safety and Drug Administration has issued a notification prohibiting the sale and distribution of products containing tobacco and/or nicotine in Karnataka in the interest of public health, officials said on Wednesday.

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#WATCH | Actor and BJP MP Ravi Kishan on Wednesday reacted to the viral memes flooding social media which were created using clips from a podcast he appeared in.

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With Natarajan Chandrasekaran at the helm, the Tata Group has more than tripled its market capitalisation in less than a decade, but his tenure as Tata Sons chairman has been largely a tale of two halves, which unravelled after Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata’s death less than two years.

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Himachal Pradesh saw the highest extent of damage to National Highway (NH) and National Expressway (NE) stretches during this monsoon, while 77,234 road accidents occurred on national highways till July 27, according to data shared by Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday in Parliament.

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Personal Loans To Government & Corporate Borrowings: Global Debt Time Bomb Is About To Explode

Total global debt has crossed $353 Tn. All the big global Govts, Big corporate private companies, households are relying on debt to accelerate their growth and fund govt programmes. Will future generations pay for all this debt for centuries to come? Global debt time bomb is about to explode!

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#MintMarkets | Market expert Raja Venkatraman shares his top stock picks for 13 August.

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#MintMarkets | Gift Nifty trades flat. Vaishali Parekh recommends three intraday stocks to buy today.

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#MintMarkets | As the market is pointing towards a negative start, some stocks are likely to remain in focus on Thursday due to their own positive/negative triggers.

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Nirmala Sitharaman confirmed that the RBI's proposal to introduce ₹10 and ₹20 plastic banknotes has been approved by the government.



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Nvidia collabs with 6 wall street banks to finance its deals? While new chips power frontier model training, after a few years they are relegated to lower-margin inference work: a shift that directly impacts their resale and collateral value. SO experts are questioning Nvidia's wisdom here.

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India’s largest conglomerate is reeling from the shock resignation of its chairman, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, the first outsider in generations to run Tata Sons. His decision to step down in February jeopardises Tata Sons Pvt.’s $120 billion wager on future growth.

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Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis shared Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s announcement of 238 new AC local trains for Mumbai, with the first expected to hit the tracks in 2027, promising a major boost to commuter comfort.

Noel Tata, who has been associated with the Tata Group for over 40 years. He began his career at Tata International, the Tata Group's arm for products and services offered abroad. In June 1999, he became the managing director of the Group's retail arm Trent.

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#MintLongStory | Meta's brief takedown of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's video has snowballed into a much bigger debate over one of the internet's biggest legal protections, safe harbour.

If platforms can lose immunity for moderation lapses, where do governments draw the line and where does platform accountability begin?

As India tightens scrutiny of Big Tech, the outcome could reshape how social media companies operate in the country, and perhaps redefine the rules of online speech itself.

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On Cam: The Flight That Took 30 Passengers Above Spain For A Rare Total Solar Eclipse

Iberia flight IB1473 carried 30 scientists and researchers above Spain to witness the rare total solar eclipse from around 33,000 feet. The Airbus A321XLR operated as a flying observatory for the Shelios project, positioning passengers above the clouds along the path of totality.

The eclipse marked a historic moment for mainland Spain, where the last total solar eclipse visible from the country occurred in 1905.

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