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Global protests surge as Amazon workers stage strikes across Europe on Black Friday

Amazon workers went on strike in Europe as protests against the US e-commerce giant's working practices picked up pace on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Vodafone joins hands with Amazon’s Project Kuiper to extend 5G reach in Europe and Africa

Vodafone said Kuiper's high-bandwidth, low-latency satellites would be useful in connecting remote mobile base stations to its core networks, without fibre-based wireless links.

India plans to initiate welfare measures for ‘gig’ workers ahead of 2024 elections

According to a senior government official, the plan, part of the Social Security Code enacted in 2020, could include accident, health insurance and retirement benefits.

Ex-Microsoft global exec is giving jackfruit a makeover in Kerala. Diabetes cure is hook

Jackfruit365 is a flour made from raw jackfruit that can be added to chapatti atta, idli, dosa batter without altering the taste. One gets the benefits of diabetes-resisting qualities.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon drops 34% in first half 2023, hits its lowest level in 4 years

Brazil’s national space research agency said that 2,649 sqkm of rainforest were cleared, lowest for the period since 2019. But that’s still more than 3 times size of New York City.

People in Tier-II cities spend twice as much of income on online shopping as Tier-I, finds survey

According to CyberMedia Research, consumers in Tier-II cities spent average of 2.5 hours/a week shopping online. GenZ are marginally more likely to shop online than Millennials.

Google & Amazon pledge $25 billion in investments after White House meeting with Modi 

While Google announced a fintech company in Gujarat & reiterated his promise of investing through ‘India Digitisation Fund', Amazon has announced additional investment of $15 billion.   

Cash to online wallet: Amazon to collect expiring Rs 2,000 notes from customers

Amazon said its customers can hand over up to Rs 50,000 worth to delivery agents for orders meant for payment via cash. The amount will then be credited to their Amazon Pay wallets.

Amazon’s India, South Asia cloud division head Puneet Chandok resigns

Vaishali Kasture will replace Chandok as interim head of the cloud unit from 31 August.

Some Amazon staff to protest its climate policy, layoffs in Seattle

More than 1,900 employees had pledged to protest globally, according to the organizers, an activist group known as Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ).

On Camera

Deepening insecurity has led the world into a mindless arms race. Don’t forget past wars

Where arms races begin, wars often follow. Leaders of the US, Russia, and China could do worse than read the story of the tragic fall of Athens.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India, Oman hold 5th annual high-level meeting to boost maritime security

Both the governments expressed their commitment to strengthening their maritime cooperation to strengthen the maritime safety and security framework in the region.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.