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JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank, will get even bigger as a result of the deal for most of First Republic's assets. Here's what led up to it.

The power has been criticised on grounds of the separation of powers doctrine, which says that the judiciary should not venture into areas of lawmaking and that it would invite the possibility of judicial overreach.

Osama bin Laden and the US, whose actions upended the geopolitical order forever, once fought on the same side. Here is the story of bin Laden before the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks.

The 58-year-old officer has had a long battle with the establishment going back several years.

According to the US State Department report titled ‘Country Reports on Terrorism 2020: India’, “There were 66 known Indian-origin fighters affiliated with ISIS, as of November” (2020).

Hinton is not alone in voicing fears regarding AI. In early April, more than 1,000 technology leaders and researchers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Tesla founder Elon Musk, signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on the developing AI systems further, saying they “profound risks to society and humanity.”

The tussle signals towards a growing divide between Indian start-ups and the Big Tech, with the former increasingly framing the debate as a ‘foreign versus local’ issue, irked by policies they say are often imposed on them by the bigger companies.

The episode of Sharad Pawar's rebellion in the Congress has been much talked about and many political leaders have mentioned it in their books. Here is what happened in May-June 1999, and the events that led up to it.

Today (May 1), both Gujarat and Maharashtra celebrate their states’ creation. They were born out of the bilingual Bombay State, which failed to settle the tug-of-war between Gujaratis and Marathis over the city of Bombay.

While the inquiry for the cause of the leak is on, it is suspected that the gas may have emanated from a partially open manhole in the thickly-populated locality and spread to the shops and houses nearby.