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By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Oct 27 (Reuters) – The Indian government’s privacy law, which would require journalists to seek consent from people they write about, amounted to pre-censorship and could lead to newsrooms shutting down, media groups told the Supreme Court on Tuesday, starting the most high-profile challenge against the legislation. A group of 21 news publishers, including companies owned by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, has challenged Prime […]

Oct 27 (Reuters) – Nvidia and Meta said on Tuesday they would deepen their partnership on the Muse AI assistant and related AI models, with Nvidia investing $3 billion in the Facebook parent’s equity offering.     Here are some details: • Meta’s Muse models and agents, which run on Nvidia infrastructure, will work more closely with the chipmaker to improve performance and reduce costs • Muse, known internally as Hatch, […]

ZURICH/LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Novartis raised its full-year core operating income guidance on Tuesday but also booked a $1.9 billion partial impairment charge related to a pipeline setback in September. The Swiss drugmaker now expects core operating income to grow by a low single-digit percentage compared with the low single-digit decline previously expected. It maintained its forecast for low single-digit net sales growth. In the third quarter, core operating income increased […]

By Selena Li and Lawrence White HONG KONG/LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters) – HSBC reported a 32% surge in third-quarter profit on Tuesday as rate hikes supported net interest income and due to the absence of legal provisions booked in the same period a year earlier. Europe’s largest bank also unveiled a share buyback of up to $1 billion, the same amount as the previous quarter. Pretax profit came in at […]

Oct 27 (Reuters) – Leading men’s doubles players have called on the ATP Tour to reconsider plans that would reduce the size of the doubles competitions at events and move prize money to the singles format. In a letter addressed to the ATP board and management and signed by 137 active players, 33 former players and 20 federations, the group said it understood the need for reforms but was deeply […]

Oct 26 (Reuters) – Jennifer Shuford, the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) deputy director and chief medical officer, will leave the Trump administration after next week’s midterm elections, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing sources.  Reuters could not immediately verify the report.  (Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Schmollinger) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

TAIPEI, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence minister on Tuesday said China was waging “cognitive warfare” after Beijing marked the anniversary of Japan’s handover of the island to Chinese rule with satellite images of Taipei and a military propaganda poster. Japan took over Taiwan from China’s Qing Dynasty in 1895 and ruled it until 1945, when it transferred the island to the Republic of China government. Both Beijing and Taipei […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – A US judge extended on Monday a court order blocking President Donald Trump’s plans to renovate a historic Washington golf course where she had deemed a removal of trees “inexcusable”. The renovation, at the center of a lawsuit over environmental and historic preservation concerns, is one of the projects Trump is ​pursuing to reshape landmarks in the US capital. “The court still […]

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, Oct 27 (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will likely consider raising interest rates at each upcoming meeting, according to a new book by former bank chief Haruhiko Kuroda, who supported his successor’s current push to unwind a decade of extremely loose monetary policy. Kuroda’s views contrast with those of his former deputy Masazumi Wakatabe, whose book published in September warned against premature rate hikes and […]