Chinese internet tech ramp up AI spend. Who could benefit

Chinese internet companies don’t have enough compute to power their artificial intelligence ambitions — and they aren’t about to buy Nvidia outright. That’s a key takeaway from the latest earnings season. Alibaba reported cloud-related revenue surged by 34% year-on-year to the equivalent of $5.6 billion. Management said demand was outstripping supply, and indicated they might…

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Railway Budget 2026: Funding for Indian Railways likely to remain unchanged — Vande Bharat, bullet trains & more in focus

The GBS for Indian Railways might remain broadly unchanged in the upcoming union budget 2026-27, as the current funds are sufficient for the infrastructure upgrade. The GBS or the gross budgetary support for FY26 stands at Rs 2.52 lakh crore, with an additional Rs 10,000 crore permitted for spending through Extra Budgetary Resources (EBR), including…

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Delhi CM disburses education aid to 15,700 workers’ children | India News

New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday distributed financial assistance to 15,700 construction workers’ children to mark the first anniversary of the BJP government in Delhi. Addressing a gathering of workers at Thyagraj Stadium, Gupta said her government will disburse a corpus of Rs 12.40 crore to help realise the education dreams of the…

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Three inmates, including two Pakistanis, escape from juvenile home in J&K’s RS Pura – watch | India News

The assault was captured on CCTV cameras (PTI) NEW DELHI: Three inmates, including two Pakistani nationals, escaped from a juvenile home in Jammu and Kashmir’s RS Pura town on Monday after allegedly assaulting two police personnel on duty, officials said. The incident occurred around 5:15 pm at the juvenile facility in RS Pura. The injured…

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Kashmiri separatist Andrabi gets life term, 2 aides 30 yrs | India News

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Tuesday sentenced Kashmiri separatist and Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi to life imprisonment for conspiring to commit a crime against the State.Additional sessions judge Chander Jit Singh also sentenced two of Andrabi’s associates, Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen, to 30 years’ imprisonment in the case. The court awarded life sentences to…

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Is another repo rate cut on the table as RBI MPC meets? What to expect from Friday’s policy outcome

The Reserve Bank’s rate-setting panel began its two-day deliberations on Wednesday, with markets closely watching whether borrowing costs could fall further amid supportive macro conditions and improving sentiment.The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra, started discussions on the next set of bi-monthly interest rates against the backdrop of a growth-focused…

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Asian stocks today (March 18, 2026): Markets trade in green amid Middle East conflict; HSI remains flat, Nikkei gains over 3%

Asian equities mostly inched higher on Wednesday, tracking a pause in the recent rally in oil prices, even as investors remained cautious amid escalating tensions in the Middle East and awaited signals from the US Federal Reserve on interest rates.As of 9:15 am, Japan’s Nikkei was up 1,245.87 points or 2.32% to 54,946. South Korean…

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