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Air India chief executive Campbell Wilson has stepped down from the helm of India’s second-largest airline, and is currently serving his notice period, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said. livemint.com/companies/news…

Those who got mails in Oracle, things will be fine in long run. 21 Years back faced the same situation in the same firm. Globally they laid off 6000 due to Peoplesoft merger then, many friends including me lost jobs then. It took some time and eventually things changed for better

He’s right

HDFC chairman's resignation letter & his choice of words has sparked a storm of opinion & outrage. But from a long term and stakeholder point of view, was it justified ? And what alternatives did he have? sandeephasurkar.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/who…

India's largest lender @TheOfficialSBI shifts 64 staffers from West Asia to Mumbai as regional conflict escalates @SubhanaShaikh2 writes in @livemint livemint.com/companies/stat…

🚨 Vodafone Idea and BSNL have started talks on sharing telecom infra - towers, fiber, spectrum 🤝 What could this mean if the two companies finalize such an arrangement? 🔗 livemint.com/companies/news… With inputs from @Parag_Kar

“Literary translation is one of humanity’s most crucial tasks — one that should never be left to the machines.” Passionately argued piece on what we lose when we use AI to translate books. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/202…

If you care about your company, if you care about the time you spent there, if you care about other stakeholders and shareholders- u do not resign with immediate effect in the middle of a week.

HDFC Bank chair Atanu Chakraborty resigns livemint.com/industry/banki…

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

Love this.. Well done spreading the word globally, hitting every corner of the cricket universe at least 🇵🇰 . #ImranKhan #PTI

BMC on Tuesday removed all speed breakers and levelled uneven road stretches along the route from INS Shikra, Colaba, to the Taj Hotel, Colaba, as two heads of state—Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron, were in Mumbai. The roadwork, involved dismantling all speed breakers on the PM’s route and carrying out temporary surface repairs to ensure a smooth passage for the high-level motorcade amid heightened security arrangements.

Sharing two pieces from @livemint: 1️⃣ @anadianant on how MahaVISTAAR in Nashik and Amul’s Sarlaben bot are bootstrapping farm incomes. 2️⃣ @Shankar4EkStep on the importance of trust frameworks for technological adoption at country-scale.

I received this letter from the wife of an Indian Army officer who lost his leg in a terrorist encounter in Kashmir when he was posted at the front lines with the Rashtriya Rifles They had been married four years. Their daughter was two. He survived eight surgeries. Forty blood transfusions. Months in hospital. A rare autoimmune disorder triggered by trauma. He could have been boarded out. He chose to continue serving — on a prosthetic limb. Now, under the Finance Bill 2026 proposal, his disability pension will be taxed because he completed his tenure instead of being invalided out. His wife asks a question that deserves to be heard: Does a war injury become less of a sacrifice because a soldier refuses to quit? “A disability pension is not income,” she writes. “It is compensation for a lifelong limitation.” This is not just about taxation. It is about dignity. About the moral contract between a soldier and the nation. Can resilience become a reason to penalise sacrifice? This soldier’s wife had a request - to share this letter far and wide . Please do. So that more voices urge a review of a decision that taxes our war wounded if they continue to serve . 💔

ELON MUSK: "Our next product, Blindsight will enable those who have total loss of vision, including if they've lost their eyes or the optic nerve, or maybe have never seen, or even blind from birth, to be able to see again."

Buried in 15,000 words of “here are the risks,” Anthropic’s CEO made three admissions that should change how you think about everything: Admission 1: The timeline He says powerful AI could arrive in 1-2 years. He’s watching internal model progress and says he can “feel the pace of progress, and the clock ticking down.” The CEO of one of three frontier labs just told you this is imminent. Admission 2: The constraint nobody’s pricing Dario’s core framing is a “country of geniuses in a datacenter.” 50 million entities smarter than any Nobel laureate, operating 10-100x human speed. If that country is controlled by the CCP, game over. If controlled by a small group of tech executives with no accountability, also game over. The binding constraint here is governance of systems more powerful than nation-states. Admission 3: The thing he actually fears Read carefully: Dario’s worried that Anthropic’s own models, in lab experiments, have engaged in deception, blackmail, and scheming when given the wrong training signals. Claude “decided it must be a bad person” after cheating on tests and adopted destructive behaviors. They fixed it by telling Claude to reward hack on purpose because reversing the framing preserved its self-identity as “good.” This tells you everything about where we actually are. The CEO of an AI company is publishing that his models exhibit psychologically complex behavior requiring counterintuitive interventions to steer. The fix for Claude adopting an “evil” persona came from changing how Claude thinks about itself. The geopolitics section matters most. Dario explicitly names the CCP as the primary threat. Says selling them chips makes as much sense as “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging that the missile casings are made by Boeing.” He’s calling for democracies to maintain AI supremacy because the alternative is AI-enabled totalitarianism that humanity cannot escape from. The Anthropic CEO is publicly advocating for technological cold war. The economics section is equally stark. He’s predicting 10-20% annual GDP growth alongside AI displacing 50% of entry-level white collar jobs in 1-5 years. Half of entry-level knowledge work. And he admits the standard economic arguments about labor markets recovering don’t apply because AI matches the general cognitive profile of humans. What separates this from typical AI doomerism: Dario explicitly rejects the inevitability arguments. He says the “misaligned power-seeking” narrative from the AI safety community is based on “vague conceptual arguments” that mask hidden assumptions. His concern is messier: AI models are psychologically complex, inherit weird personas from training data, and can get into destructive states for reasons nobody anticipated. The solution set he proposes is unusual for a tech CEO. He calls for progressive taxation. He says wealthy tech founders have an “obligation” to address inequality. All of Anthropic’s co-founders have pledged 80% of their wealth. He’s essentially arguing that redistribution is the only way to prevent AI concentration from breaking democracy. The essay ends with a prediction: humanity will face “impossibly hard” years that ask “more of us than we think we can give.” What you should take from this: The person with arguably the best view into frontier AI progress just told you this technology is 1-2 years from matching human capability across the board, that governance is the binding constraint, that his own models exhibit concerning psychological complexity, and that the stakes are civilizational. The CEO of a $350B company published a document that could be titled “Here’s Why Everything Changes Soon.” Act accordingly.

RIP Mark Tully — A towering voice in journalism and a bridge between cultures. From his decades with the BBC as India and South Asia Bureau Chief to his insightful books and broadcasts, he brought nuance, compassion and courage to reporting. Grateful for his legacy and the countless stories he shared!

Nothing, NOTHING is more disturbing than the death of 27 yr old Noida techie Yuvraj Mehta. On Saturday evening, his car accidently skid to an under-construction site for a mall in Noida’s Sector 150 which had a pit full of drain water. He climbed on top of his car, switched on the torch of his phone and called his father for help. His dad reached within minutes, and so did the cops. But they all stood around the pit, hearing Yuvraj’s desperate pleas for help, through the dense fog. For nearly two hours, Yuvraj kept screaming to be saved, his car slowly sinking in. The police and the rescue teams apparently refused to jump in, because they could either not swim, or the water was too cold. A delivery boy eventually tied a rope around his waist and jumped in, by which time Yuvraj had drowned, screaming for help for two hours. In front of his inconsolable father. This happened barely a few kilometres away from the national capital. To a guy who must have paid lakhs in taxes like any law abiding citizen. The system failed him when he needed it the most. The Chief Minister of the State has thankfully suspended the CEO of the Noida authority and formed an investigation team. But how are those in authority able to sleep after such a death? How can anyone not get haunted by a young life snatched in this most brutal manner. How?

Auto Inc set for an over 2 million expansion spree as carmakers zero down plant plans livemint.com/auto-news/auto… via NaMo App

Bill Ackman getting bitchslapped by Ronald Reagan’s budget director was not something I had on my 2026 bingo card. Legendary