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Sunny Deol calls Hanuman role in Ramayana a difficult blessing

Sunny Deol calls Hanuman role in Ramayana a difficult blessing

19 Jul 2026 · Entertainment · Hindustan Times

Speaking in New Delhi on Saturday, Sunny Deol said he has barely started shooting Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana and finds Hanuman demanding to play, citing the mix of innocence, playfulness and power. Budgeted at a reported Rs 4,000 crore, the two-part epic stars Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash, pairs Hans Zimmer with AR Rahman, and opens Diwali 2026.

Roubini sees 10% growth by 2050 but warns AI will displace jobs

Roubini sees 10% growth by 2050 but warns AI will displace jobs

19 Jul 2026 · Business · Livemint

Economist Nouriel Roubini, who earned the nickname 'Dr Doom' for warning about the 2008 crisis, struck an unusually optimistic tone on artificial intelligence. Speaking to Bloomberg TV, he predicted economic growth could reach 10 percent by 2050, while cautioning that AI and robotics will replace many jobs — meaning simply raising the retirement age will not fix Social Security.

iD Fresh targets IPO readiness by late 2027 on overseas growth

iD Fresh targets IPO readiness by late 2027 on overseas growth

19 Jul 2026 · Business · Livemint

Packaged foods maker iD Fresh Food expects its international business to outpace domestic operations over the next two years as competition sharpens in India's ready-to-cook category. Domestically the company is prioritising margin improvement while accelerating launches into newer segments such as snacking, helped by rapid quick-commerce growth, as it works towards being IPO-ready by October 2027.

States line up Dearness Allowance hikes for staff and pensioners

States line up Dearness Allowance hikes for staff and pensioners

19 Jul 2026 · Business · Livemint

A number of state governments are preparing Dearness Allowance increases for employees and pensioners, following the Centre's revision announced in April and effective from January 1. The Centre typically updates DA twice a year using All-India Consumer Price Index data, with announcements in March and October, to offset rising living costs.

Car buyers can reclaim the 1% TCS through their tax return

Car buyers can reclaim the 1% TCS through their tax return

19 Jul 2026 · Business · Livemint

Buyers of higher-value cars often overlook a refund they are owed. Dealers collect 1 percent tax at source when a vehicle exceeds the prescribed value, but this is advance tax rather than an extra charge. When filing an income tax return, the TCS recorded against a buyer's PAN can be set against total liability, with any excess refunded.

Q1 TDS returns due July 31 under new forms and section codes

Q1 TDS returns due July 31 under new forms and section codes

19 Jul 2026 · Business · Livemint

Businesses and other deductors filing first-quarter TDS and TCS returns for tax year 2026-27 face a new reporting framework under the Income-tax Act, 2025. The due date is July 31, 2026, and this cycle brings new return forms and revised section codes. The department has enabled the forms on the e-filing portal.

San Francisco presses Google and Apple to pull AI 'nudification' apps

San Francisco presses Google and Apple to pull AI 'nudification' apps

19 Jul 2026 · Science · The Hindu

San Francisco has pushed Google and Apple to remove AI 'nudification' apps from their stores. Both companies restated their policies on apps that breach their rules and confirmed they had acted against the offending listings, amid growing legal pressure over tools used to generate non-consensual explicit imagery.

US judge declines to halt Meta layoffs of AI discrimination plaintiffs

US judge declines to halt Meta layoffs of AI discrimination plaintiffs

19 Jul 2026 · Science · The Hindu

A US judge has refused to block Meta from laying off workers who filed an AI discrimination lawsuit against the company. The judge ruled the employees had not demonstrated that losing their jobs constituted the 'irreparable harm' required to justify an emergency order halting the terminations while litigation proceeds.

Apple overtakes Nvidia as the world's most valuable company

Apple overtakes Nvidia as the world's most valuable company

19 Jul 2026 · Business · The Hindu

Apple has reclaimed the position of world's most valuable company from Nvidia as investors reassess AI bets. Apple was last valued at $4.88 trillion with its shares holding steady, while Nvidia stood at roughly $4.86 trillion following a 3.5 percent decline.

Army officers are losing crores to futures and options trading

Army officers are losing crores to futures and options trading

19 Jul 2026 · Business · Livemint

One Army officer began trading futures and options in 2022 after a college friend's suggestion, opening an account with Rs 10,000 and making about Rs 80,000 on his first trades. Three years later he was sitting on Rs 48 lakh in losses. A monthly salary above Rs 1 lakh supplied the liquidity that kept him trading.

Samsung cuts more than 800 US jobs in move to Texas

Samsung cuts more than 800 US jobs in move to Texas

19 Jul 2026 · Business · Livemint

Samsung Electronics has cut jobs across its US consumer electronics business, including display and smartphone operations, with most affected staff in New Jersey and Texas. The company told Reuters that 739 positions at Samsung Electronics America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, were hit as part of a plan to relocate its US consumer electronics headquarters to Texas.

Centre weighs a new incentive scheme for food processing

Centre weighs a new incentive scheme for food processing

19 Jul 2026 · Business · Livemint

The government is considering a fresh incentive framework for the food processing sector that may depart from the existing production-linked incentive scheme, which rewards companies for incremental sales. The food processing ministry is reviewing lessons from the current programme and consulting industry, including on segments such as plant-based proteins and nutrition products.

Explained: what India's Semicon 2.0 is designed to deliver

Explained: what India's Semicon 2.0 is designed to deliver

19 Jul 2026 · Technology · The Hindu

India's second-phase semiconductor programme sets out to broaden the domestic chip ecosystem beyond the initial round of fabrication projects. The plan differs from phase one in scope and incentive structure, and is paired with a Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme, as New Delhi pushes to build deeper electronics manufacturing capacity at home.

Builder's seized papers alone cannot trigger tax addition, rules ITAT

Builder's seized papers alone cannot trigger tax addition, rules ITAT

19 Jul 2026 · Business · Livemint

The Mumbai bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal held that the tax department cannot treat an alleged cash property payment as undisclosed income merely because a taxpayer's name appears in documents seized from a builder. Ruling in Sanjeet Kumar Kedarnath Gupta v. ITO, it deleted a Rs 90 lakh addition made under Section 69A.

Delhi ranked world's cheapest city for a date, Geneva the priciest

Delhi ranked world's cheapest city for a date, Geneva the priciest

19 Jul 2026 · Health · Hindustan Times

Deutsche Bank's 'Mapping the World's Prices 2026' report ranks Delhi as the cheapest city in the world for a night out on a date, while Geneva and Zurich top the list as the most expensive. A comparable evening in Geneva costs roughly five times what it does in the Indian capital, the study found.

When salaried taxpayers must file ITR-2 instead of ITR-1

When salaried taxpayers must file ITR-2 instead of ITR-1

19 Jul 2026 · Business · Livemint

Many salaried taxpayers assume ITR-1 applies because salary is their main income, which is not always correct. Income from multiple sources, ownership of certain assets or specific financial transactions during the year can require a different form. With the filing deadline under two weeks away, choosing correctly is the first compliance step.

Instagram and Facebook hit by outage across India and abroad

Instagram and Facebook hit by outage across India and abroad

19 Jul 2026 · Technology · News18

Users in India, the United States and other markets reported disruptions across Instagram and Facebook, with problems loading feeds, logging in and sending messages. Parent company Meta had not explained the cause of the failure, leaving the scale and duration of the outage unclear as complaints mounted on tracking services.

Hidden ocean feedback kept Earth's climate stable for 60 million years

Hidden ocean feedback kept Earth's climate stable for 60 million years

19 Jul 2026 · Science · Times of India

A new study identifies a natural process that may have stabilised Earth's climate over the past 60 million years. Researchers found sea level changes regulated how much phosphate reached the oceans, in turn shaping marine life, carbon burial beneath the seafloor and atmospheric carbon dioxide — offering a fresh explanation for long-term climate regulation.

Zepto users report app and website outage

Zepto users report app and website outage

19 Jul 2026 · Technology · Livemint

Quick-commerce platform Zepto appeared to suffer an outage on Sunday, with users reporting problems on both its app and website. Complaints logged on tracking service Downdetector pointed to disruptions in placing orders and loading the service, though the company had not issued an explanation for the failure.

Meta outage hits users across Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Pune

Meta outage hits users across Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Pune

19 Jul 2026 · Technology · Livemint

Thousands of users reported being unable to load Instagram and Facebook, with many saying no posts appeared after refreshing their feeds. Others hit error messages logging into Facebook's desktop site. Outage tracker Downdetector recorded concentrated complaints from New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and other Indian cities.