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Rupee rises 2 paise to 89.20 against US dollar in early trade

Mumbai, Nov 26 (PTI) The rupee pared initial losses and strengthened 2 paise to 89.20 against the US dollar in early trade on Wednesday tracking a weak greenback and firm domestic equity market sentiment. According to forex traders, some inflow of foreign capital into domestic stock markets also supported the Indian currency even though rising crude oil prices kept it under pressure. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 89.24, lost to 89.26 and then regained to trade at 89.20 against the greenback in initial deals, up 2 paise from its previous closing level. The rupee settled

Sensex, Nifty jump in early trade mirroring rally in global markets

Indian stocks trader watch share prices on his screen during intra-day trade in Mumbai.

Mumbai, Nov 26 (PTI) Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded in early trade on Wednesday after three-days of decline in tandem with a rally in global peers and fresh foreign fund inflows. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 307.93 points to 84,894.94 in early trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty went up by 93.5 points to 25,978.30. From the Sensex firms, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, Adani Ports, Tata Steel, Trent, Power Grid and Axis Bank were among the major gainers. Bharti Airtel emerged as the only laggard from the pack during the morning trade. In Asian markets, South Korea’s Kospi,

‘Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire

Melbourne, Nov 26 (The Conversation) In the eyes of big AI companies such as OpenAI, the troves of data on the internet are highly valuable. They scrape photos, videos, books, blog posts, albums, painting, photographs and much more to train their products such as ChatGPT – usually without any compensation to or consent from the creators. In fact, OpenAI and Google are arguing that a part of American copyright law, known as the “fair use doctrine”, legitimises this data theft. Ironically, OpenAI has also accused other AI giants of data scraping “its” intellectual property. First Nations communities around the world

Japan’s leader says Trump called her as dispute with China doesn’t go away

TOKYO, November 25, 2025 (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who recently triggered China’s fury with a comment about Taiwan, said Tuesday that she received a call from U.S. President Donald Trump right after he spoke with China’s leader. Takaichi, a hard-line conservative, said Trump expressed his friendship to her in a call he made to her Tuesday after a phone conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “President Trump told me that he and I are extremely good friends and that I should call him any time,” Takaichi said in brief remarks made to reporters at the prime minister’s

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