Pooja Bhatt, an associate professor at OP Jindal Global University, says that mismatch is increasingly difficult to ignore. “Given its young demographics and ‘Digital India’ aspirations, it makes sense for the nation to build and maintain its own internet infrastructure for security and governance purposes,” she says. India has already …

Pooja Bhatt, an associate professor at OP Jindal Global University, says that mismatch is increasingly difficult to ignore. “Given its young demographics and ‘Digital India’ aspirations, it makes sense for the nation to build and maintain its own internet infrastructure for security and governance purposes,” she says. India has already …

Cyber-security researcher Charlie Kelly from Have I Been Squatted carried out an analysis of how the attack worked and said the new wave of recruitment scams were hard to spot. “This wasn’t a badly written email with a suspicious attachment – this person was walked through what looked like a …

The board of German car giant Volkswagen has approved a plan to cut another 50,000 jobs as part of a sweeping turnaround programme. It brings the total number of roles the company plans to shed by 2030 to 100,000. The group – which includes Audi, Porsche, Skoda as well as …

Some fast-food chains offer a free birthday meal or snack – Burger King members can claim a free Whopper or Plant-Based Whopper, while Chopstix offers a free small noodle box. However, most restaurant birthday offers are buy-one-get-one-free deals rather than completely free meals. At Harvester and Zizzi’s it’s a free …

The US Mint began selling gold-coloured $1(£0.74) coins featuring President Donald Trump’s likeness. Although US regulations permit only deceased people to appear on currency, the Trump administration has said that the president may appear on a coin under a 2020 law allowing new designs to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary. …

Molten Ventures, the London-listed investor in early-stage technology companies, has joined the race to manage a £1bn government-backed fund focused on Britain’s most promising scale-ups. Sky News understands that Molten Ventures, which has a market capitalisation of about £1.15bn, is among the applicants to manage the UK’s new Scale Up …

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (Desnz) said gas prices are determined on international markets, dismissing criticism of the UK’s own low levels of storage. The boss of British Gas owner Centrica, Chris O’Shea, has repeatedly called for support from the government to expand its Rough storage facility …

The board of directors is a not-for-profit organisation and although some staff are employed, the majority are volunteers. Its statement added that the festival “weathered the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and re-emerged after Covid, but now “stands at a cross roads”. During the pandemic, the festival transitioned …

Children and young people who live in Sheffield will get free bus and tram travel across South Yorkshire after a pilot scheme was voted through by councillors. Sheffield City Council’s strategy and resources committee approved a 29-week scheme for people aged five to 18. The trial will run from 15 …

Uber has stopped its operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect – citing “a thorough review of our business” as its reason for shutting down in the former. After 12 years in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, the company told customers on Wednesday that it was winding down its …

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A spokesperson for the airport rejected claims that expansion was incompatible with net zero goals – and said the airport was committed to a completely privately-funded noise insulation scheme for local homes. On transport infrastructure, Heathrow stated its expansion plans include widening a busy stretch of the M25, adding that …

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Aliev, who had worked in finance before doing her MBA, was wary of first impressions at the firm. “If you judge a book by its cover, it’s very easy to be like ‘oh, young girl, Wall Street background, coming in here and telling me what to do’… I was really …

Donald Trump’s portrait has made its way on to a US coin – the first time a living president has appeared on American currency in a century. The US Mint launched the commemorative $1 coin with a portrait of Trump alongside the words “In God we trust”, to celebrate America’s …

Junior workers can often face the biggest dilemma. Felicity, now mid-career, remembers one horror story from her first job as a teenager. Working at a car garage aged 17, she was suddenly thrust an envelope to give money for a mechanic who was retiring. The team was small and tight-knit, …

Almost half of people in Britain live in areas where economic growth does not translate into a better quality of life with a “stark” North-South divide in the spending power of households, a new report finds. Researchers at consultancy firm PwC said every region the north of England, midlands and …

Londoners are able to hail the UK’s first robotaxis – as Uber today becomes the first company to launch a self-driving minicab. Initially, it only has 15 autonomous vehicles with a licence to operate in the city, and each one must have a human safety driver behind the wheel ready …