 | In the wake of a massive central government push to bridge a growing shortage for the chips that run electronic devices, states are jostling in their bid to bag investments into semiconductor and display fab plants which can go up to $5 billion each. |  |  | A major area of focus should be on rapid advancements in strategic and emerging technologies with ownership of intellectual property. | |  | Executives at recruitment and executive search firms like ABC Consultants, EMA Partners, Transearch, TeamLease, CIEL and Kelly said hiring was showing traction not only in new-age technology sectors, but also across others where it had slowed down during the pandemic. | |  | The trade pact, likely to be effective from May 1, has clubbed Indian gold with other items that will attract zero import duty, down from the current level of 5%. But gold producers and retailers that ET spoke to on the condition of anonymity are concerned that the agreement does not have any provisions to address smuggling of the yellow metal from Dubai. | |  | Five years ago, the IPL media rights were sold for Rs 16,347 crore. This time, it may go up to Rs 50,000 crore. | |  | There is a view that India, under previous governments, gave away too many foreign-flying rights to foreign carriers, which have made a business model around flying passengers from India to a third country while stopping at the airlines' home country, known in aviation parlance as the sixth freedom traffic. | | |  | Father, forgive them/us when they/we view movies in inappropriate conditions. | |  | Foreign exchange reserves plummeted by almost 70% in two years. As of February, the country was left with only $2.31 billion in its reserves but faces debt repayments of $7 billion in 2022. The Rajapaksa government's decision to ban all chemical fertilisers in 2021, a move that was later reversed, also hit the country's farm sector, and triggered a drop in the critical rice crop. | |  | History tells us that there are indeed athletes who have hung their boots at an astonishingly early age, when they were still at the pinnacle of their careers. In tennis, Justine Henin was also world No. 1 and 25 when she announced her first retirement in 2008 - making a comeback in 2010, before really retiring the next year. More convincingly, Bjorn Borg shocked the world when he retired at 26 in 1983. | |  | Exchanges said several young investors who made money through high volumes of trading, including many from smaller cities and towns, have liquidated their positions, especially in the riskier assets. | |  | I feel perhaps Gandhi Vadra was low on manobal (morale) and that is why she made such statements. Women are born with so many qualities. But we never say that since I am a woman my work is to fight. I have been a mayor, governor and a member of the National Commission for Women. | |  | As an Indian growing up in the early-'70s, there was absolutely no doubt which of the Cold War combatants were on our side. We'd read American authors, watch Hollywood films and listen to Dylan and Elvis. But when it came to geopolitics, it was the Russians we trusted. | |  | He tried, as best he could, to hide his delight. He knew, after all, that the dice had fallen for him, and for his team, just as he had predicted — in graphic and not entirely serious terms — it would. Everyone wanted to draw Qatar, the host and by a gulf the gentlest prospect of the top seeds. Only his team had been chosen. | | |
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