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Citi’s new premium travel credit includes airport lounge access, statement credits, and bonus points, at a lower annual fee than other competitors in the market. Citi has been hard at work revamping its credit card portfolio—and today, the bank has officially reentered the premium credit card space with the Citi Strata Elite Card, which promises high-end travel benefits in exchange for a $595 annual fee. This launch comes just four years after Citi discontinued its former premium credit card, the Citi Prestige Card, which was once a leader in the space. The new card includes unique benefits not found in…

United States President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold crunch talks with European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland after weeks of intense trade talks between the two sides as Brussels aims to ink a deal with Washington to avoid a transatlantic trade war. Von der Leyen, the European Commission president, will meet with the US president at his Turnberry golf club in Scotland on Sunday. European ministers are hoping the meeting will result in a deal to avoid the 30 percent tariffs that Trump has threatened on EU goods. According to people involved in the talks, European negotiators…

Tech layoffs, TCS workforce reduction, TCS job cuts: India’s leading IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is planning to reduce its workforce by around 2 per cent (over 12,000 jobs) in the financial year 2025-26. The move is likely to impact primarily employees at the middle and senior management levels. Why TCS is cutting 2% of its workforce? According to Reuters, the Tata Group company is retraining and redeploying staff as it enters new markets, invests in new technology and deploys AI, but about 12,200 jobs will be cut as part of the process. “This transition is being planned…

Actor Mimoh Chakraborty, who was last seen in Khakee: The Bengal Chapter, recently appeared on SCREEN’s Dear Me Season 2. During the conversation, Mimoh opened up about his struggles and journey. He also expressed pride in his wife, Madalsa Sharma, for her success on television with Anupamaa. Talking about the time Madalsa was offered the show, Mimoh said, “She got this show offered at the peak of COVID-19. Lockdown was in March and they started shooting in July. They were shooting in extreme conditions. She took the dare, and my dad pushed her and supported her to take this up.…

A mother’s determination to bring her daughter’s killers to justice.Karen Rodríguez was kidnapped and murdered by one of Mexico’s most feared cartels in 2014. Most families would have been forced into silence, but not hers. Refusing to give up, her mum, Miriam Rodríguez, launched her own relentless quest for justice. In a country where cartels operate with impunity, kidnappings are commonplace, and speaking out can get you killed, Miriam’s fearless pursuit turned her into an unlikely hero—and a target. This is an extraordinary story of a mother’s determination to bring her daughter’s killers to justice and the high price she…

Recommended listening: “Nuevayol.” La Disquera once served as the San Juan office for Fania Records, the pioneering salsa label founded in New York City—the city Bad Bunny sings about in the namesake song (with a fabulous sample of salsa hit “Un Verano en Nueva York”). At El Choli, keep an eye open for a pop-up of Toñitas, the iconic Boricua bar in Brooklyn that he name checks in the song.La Factoría cocktail barA day tour of Old San Juan is practically mandatory for any first-time visitor; but stay a little while after dark to see it come alive. La Factoría…

Venezuelan migrants accused by the U.S. of belonging to the Tren de Aragua criminal gang are seen being transferred from the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) in El Salvador before being repatriated to Caracas on July 18, 2025 in La Paz, El Salvador. El Salvador Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption El Salvador Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images Carlos Daniel Terán, 19, still remembers the words a prison warden told him when he entered El Salvador’s mega-prison, CECOT. “He told us we were never going to leave this place,” Terán recalled. It was March of this…

On July 25, The European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s advisory committee recommended Gilead Sciences’ Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection, for preventing HIV infection in adults and adolescents. Any recommendation by EMA’s advisory committee has to be formally approved by the European Commission, which is expected later this year. The recommendation by the EMA’s advisory committee comes about a month after the U.S. FDA on June 18, 2025 approved the injectable HIV-1 capsid inhibitor as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).The World Health Organization welcomed the approval by FDA on June 19 and issued guidelines for use of Lenacapavir for HIV prevention on July 14.…

Unease among Mahayuti partners, feedback from the ground, controversies involving leaders of allies, and its own growing political assertion have prompted the BJP to seriously consider going it alone in the coming local body elections in Maharashtra.According to sources, while top leaders in the state unit have conveyed to the central leadership their keenness to contest the polls alone, the party is open to an alliance with Mahayuti partners Shiv Sena, led by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), led by Deputy CM Ajit Pawar in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls. Earlier this week, CM…

The story so far: On July 19, the crypto exchange CoinDCX updated users that one of its internal accounts had been “compromised.” The company’s executives reassured panicked investors and traders that their assets were safe and that access to their crypto would not be cut off. Despite assurances, many CoinDCX customers moved to withdraw their assets, perceiving the event could turn into something like the WazirX hack last year. What happened to CoinDCX?CoinDCX is a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) registered Indian cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2018 by Neeraj Khandelwal and Sumit Gupta, now counting over 1.6 crore registered users. On July…