Category: Business

The Primary School, a tuition-free private school with 543 students co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan, will shutter its doors after roughly a decade in operation. The school, which has two locations in the San Francisco area, said in a note on its website that it will close after the...

Despite a push for “Make in India” and the promise of a global manufacturing shift away from China, many Indian entrepreneurs are finding that their biggest challenge isn’t foreign competition—it’s navigating India’s bureaucratic maze. A post on X on Sunday has struck a chord across India’s startup and MSME...

Ukraine said Russian attacks were continuing after Vladimir Putin ordered his army to suspend combat operations in Ukraine over the Easter holiday this weekend. Putin declared a unilateral 30-hour “Easter ceasefire” for “humanitarian reasons” on Saturday in a meeting with Valery Gerasimov, his top military officer, according to footage...

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management has amassed a nearly 20% stake in Hertz Global Holdings Inc. in a bet on the rental car company’s turnaround plan and that tariffs will boost the value of its vehicles. The firm began buying shares late last year and now has “a...

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Kyiv and Washington have signed a memorandum of intent pledging to advance an agreement on an investment fund for Ukraine’s natural resources and energy assets, officials familiar...

A major mystery of the Trump tariff crusade: The “Liberation Day” “reciprocal” duties he’s threatening are completely disconnected from what other nations are charging the U.S. on our exports. In virtually all cases, Trump’s tariffs are multiple times larger. How does he justify this giant gulf? The president claims...

IndusInd Bank on Tuesday disclosed that an external audit has identified a Rs 1,979 crore negative impact to its net worth stemming from discrepancies in its derivatives portfolio. The bank stated that this represents an adverse impact of 2.27% on its net worth as of 2024. In a regulatory...

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp helped give it “monopoly power”, the US Federal Trade Commission told a court on Monday at the start of a blockbuster trial that...

President Donald Trump pledged he will still apply tariffs to phones, computers and popular consumer electronics, downplaying a weekend exemption as a procedural step in his overall push to remake US trade. The late Friday reprieve — exempting a range of popular electronics from 125% tariffs on China and...

Taking out an education loan to chase the American dream might seem like a calculated risk — but for many Indian students, it’s becoming a gamble with high personal and financial stakes. Rising tuition costs, unforgiving interest rates, and a harsh job market can turn that dream into a...