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The agency also fined 21 HP resellers 35.2 million rupees (about $365,335). In a separate order, the CCI said that WhatsApp records showed that HP and 16 of its Tier-2 reseller partners operated “in a collusive arrangement” and that the messages show the companies engaging in “bid rigging, including cover bidding, price fixation, and customer allocation during 2017–2020.” HP India played a central role, the regulator said. Per the order, HP India said that high printing supply prices led some resellers to threaten to “shift to low-cost counterfeit products to compete on price.” “HP India was commercially forced into a…
Sir Keir Starmer received a standing ovation from his party and other MPs after giving his final answer at his last Prime Minister’s Questions. “To all those in the gallery, whose lives have been changed or improved by this Labour government, and all across the country who struggle to be seen or heard, you are the reason I came into politics,” Starmer said during his final statement.”To my wife and children, I love you. Goodbye,” the PM said, before several MPs stood up and clapped for Starmer as he went to shake the Speaker of the House of Commons’ hand.Andy…
Oil tankers and cargo vessels remain anchored off Port Sultan Qaboos on June 21, 2026 in Muscat, Oman. Elke Scholiers | Getty ImagesOil prices rose Friday as investors weighed escalating tensions between the United States and Iran after Tehran vowed to target regional infrastructure if President Donald Trump followed through on threats to strike the country’s key facilities. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures for August delivery rose 1.32% to $80.09 per barrel. September futures for international benchmark Brent advanced 1.33% to $85.35 per barrel.In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Trump said U.S. forces would target Iran’s infrastructure next week…
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SpaceX called off a test flight of its powerful Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster as the countdown clock reached zero Thursday at the company’s spaceport in South Texas. The launch team at Starbase, Texas, just north of the US-Mexico border, aimed to launch the more than 400-foot-tall rocket at 5:45 pm local time (6:45 pm EDT; 22:45 UTC). The countdown proceeded smoothly throughout the day, culminating in the loading of more than 11.5 million pounds of liquid methane and liquid oxygen into the two-stage rocket. But the computers controlling the countdown called an abort during the Super Heavy booster’s engine…
Yusuf announced Reform’s latest policy during a central London press conference in which he criticised the language used by rival parties about Reform.He also said Reform leader Nigel Farage “lives his life under the ever-present threat of mortal danger” and those who “question his need for security should stop”.Yusuf told reporters: “Politicians from other parties are perfectly entitled to disagree with our policies and criticise us. “They’re of course free to criticise us. But they must stop equating us to murderous regimes that butchered tens of millions of people and committed some of the greatest horrors in history.” Yusuf also…
CANADA – 2025/08/07: In this photo illustration, the SoftBank Group (Soft Bank) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesJapanese tech stocks tumbled on Friday as a fresh rout in U.S. semiconductor shares spread across Asia, underscoring growing worries about AI spending.Shares of SoftBank dropped 8.8%, while chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron lost 9% and Advantest slid 9.4%, tracking steep overnight losses on Wall Street. Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia plunged over 14% after a federal jury in Texas on Thursday ordered the firm to pay…
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Kaufman on vaccines While Cassidy was clearly disappointed and frustrated with Schwartz, he was downright angry with Kaufman. Throughout the hearing, Kaufman tried to backpedal on his comments about vaccines, but his responses were unconvincing. In questions from Sanders, Kaufman confirmed that he once wrote he would rather die than give his children a COVID-19 vaccine, but pointed out that he did once recommend the vaccine to his wife’s mom. When senators confronted him about his false claims and attacks on the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose, he noted that all three of his children had received it. Cassidy, a…
Peers who fail to turn up regularly enough to the House of Lords could be kicked out of Parliament, under new committee proposals. In its 2024 manifesto, the Labour government promised to introduce a retirement age and participation requirement for members of the upper chamber and the Lords committee was set up to recommend ways of implementing the change.In its report, published on Wednesday, external, the committee recommended phasing in a retirement age of 80 and requiring members to attend at least 20% of sitting days. Committee chair Baroness Taylor of Bolton said the move was a “practical solution” that…