• NPCI’s nudge to new UPI players; govt’s Nvidia deal

    Happy Wednesday! The National Payments Corporation of India is pushing smaller payments apps on UPI to drive more incentives. Find out why in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■ TCS CEO on AI-ready workforce■ ETtech Done Deals■ Apple’s search for Indian iCamera maker NPCI nudges new UPI players to incentivise users to snap duopoly 109360274New payments apps on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) are being nudged to incentivise users to get their market share up on the...

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    Taylor Swift’s new album allegedly ‘leaked’ on social media and it’s causing a frenzy

    Social media can be a divisive place, but even more so when it comes to Taylor Swift. A Google Drive link allegedly containing 17 tracks that are purportedly from Swift’s eagerly awaited “The Tortured Poets Department” album has been making the rounds on the internet in the past day and people are equal parts mad, sad and happy about it. CNN has reached out to Swift’s representative for comment. The actual album is slated to drop at midnight Friday, but the claimed leak is both being hailed and...

  • Here’s What a 21st-Century Rural New Deal Looks Like

    Katrina vanden Heuvel A strategy for building a rural-urban working-class coalition.

  • Trump’s New York Trial Has Officially Begun. Here’s What’s at Stake.

    Jury selection began Monday in the first of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases to go to trial, a case legal experts say is the Read More

  • NASCAR's new Xfinity TV deal green-lit for early start

    NASCAR will drive through The CW earlier than anticipated. News broke Thursday that the network will air NASCAR races starting this year. The CW will reportedly air the final eight races of the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series. Motorsport.com’s Jim Utter reported the news of the early start of the NASCAR-CW deal. NEWS: The @TheCW will

  • Taco Bell’s New Taco Tuesday Deal Is Actually Pretty Good

    Fast food has pretty much lost its reputation for being budget-friendly these days (good luck finding a value meal for under $10), so when we see deals, we pounce on them. Now that Taco Bell has the freedom to use the term “Taco Tuesday,” it’s taking that opportunity to run a promotional blitz, and it’s announced that it’ll be featuring a new meal deal on Tuesdays only, all for a cool $5. That’s nice on paper, but what does it actually get you? The new deal, called the Taco Discovery Box, nets...

  • Rachel Roddy’s recipe for new potatoes, eggs, asparagus and green sauce

    A light springtime meal using the freshest spears you can find (which, ideally, means picking them at midnight)In favourable conditions (warm and sunny, but sheltered), asparagus can grow several inches a day. The Canadian Food Focus website claims a fantastic 15cm in 24 hours – which must also be noisy, if you have an ear close enough. Even if the reality is half that, it’s enough for me to consider spending a day in a field of it. I would need to lie down low – on an inflatable lilo, maybe –...

  • Beijing Building New Outpost on U.S. Doorstep, Leaked Documents Reveal

    On a Caribbean island just 220 miles from the shore of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a black-clad Chinese security guard swept an arm at more than a thousand acres of woodland and a glittering, aqua-green marine reserve beyond."It's like a small country," he said in Chinese.This natural paradise on the island of Antigua, where officials will study the thoughts of Xi Jinping, is about to be razed for a Chinese-run special economic zone. According to documents reviewed by Newsweek it will have its own...

  • Part 3: Dissecting Cardinal Fernández’s new document ‘Dignitas Infinita’

    On this episode of Mother Miriam Live, Mother Miriam explains the strengths and weaknesses of Dignitas Infinita.

  • Marks and Spencer chair: Labour’s new deal for workers could hurt investment

    The chairman of Marks and Spencer has said Britain may risk being unable to attract investment if Labour's new deal for workers is rolled out upon winning the next general election.

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    Report: UK nearing deal with new men’s basketball head coach

    On the same day that Kentucky was turned down by Scott Drew and Dan Hurley, Mitch Barnhart has reportedly found his next head basketball coach: BYU’s Mark Pope is reported to be the pick.

  • Part 2: Dissecting Cardinal Fernández’s new document ‘Dignitas Infinita’

    On this episode of Mother Miriam Live, Mother Miriam continues to unpack Cardinal Fernandez’s latest publication on human dignity: Dignitas Infinita.