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What happens when people stop trusting their government’s economic data? Planet Money reports on what happened in Greece. LEILA FADEL, HOST: President Trump’s pick of a political ally to head the agency in charge of unemployment reports has raised fear among economists about political interference in data collection. NPR’s Planet Money podcast has been telling stories from other countries of what happens when people stop trusting economic data. Mary Childs looks at Greece with a story that begins in 2009.MARY CHILDS, BYLINE: That was the year George Papaconstantinou became Greece’s finance minister. His party took office in the wake of…

New Delhi, India – Five years ago, United States President Donald Trump was being welcomed in India, and China condemned.In February 2020, Trump addressed a massive rally titled “Namaste Trump!” in Ahmedabad, on his first visit to India as US president, as bilateral ties and trade soared, and the American leader’s personal bonhomie with Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on public display.By June that year, relations with China, on the other hand, came crashing down: 20 Indian soldiers were killed in clashes with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley in the Ladakh region. India banned more than 200 Chinese apps, including…

Head of US Defense Intelligence Agency Jeffrey Kruse fired alongside two senior Navy officials in latest purge.United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s preliminary intelligence assessment angered President Donald Trump for reporting that the US attack on Iranian nuclear sites in June had inflicted limited damage, according to reports.The Pentagon firings on Friday, which, according to US officials who spoke to the Reuters and Associated Press (AP) news agencies, also include two other senior military commanders, are the latest moves by the Trump administration to purge officials at the Department of Defense .It was not…

The major parties’ redistricting battle escalated this week, with lawmakers in the country’s two most populous states each taking a notable step toward a new congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. At President Trump’s urging, Republican legislators in Texas were set to give final approval on Friday to lines that they hope will move five U.S. House seats to the GOP. California Democrats are acting in response, aiming to pick up five seats of their own. On Thursday they OK’d a ballot measure to ask their state’s voters to allow new congressional districts. So how exactly would the…

Passengers from China, India, the Philippines, the Middle East and the US were on board the bus when it crashed at full speed.Five people were killed and many were injured when a tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 54 people on board crashed and rolled on its side on an interstate highway, authorities said.A police spokesman said the bus left the road on a highway about 40km (25 miles) east of the northern city of Buffalo on Friday.An investigation into the cause of the crash is under way but police said they suspect the driver,…

Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada. File Photo: ANI Photo/Sansad TV The rate of rejection for Indian products by importing countries has fallen by 12.50% in June 2025 compared to June 2024, according to Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Jitin Prasada, in response to a query raised by Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi Chidambaram M.P., Thol. Thirumavalavan. Mr. Thirumavalavan asked whether the Government of India has the data about the number of items that were rejected by foreign countries for want of quality and consumption safety and whether the Government of India is aware of the…

Darshana Rajendran in Paradha  | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Actor Darshana Rajendran speaks of the things she was worried about as she prepared to work in the Telugu film, Praveen Kandregula’s Paradha. It was a “very new world” as an actor because it was her first time in a Telugu film, the metre (as an actor) was unfamiliar, and the budget much larger than Malayalam films, which percolated to other aspects of filmmaking. All of which took time settling into. Then there was “the language and the driving that was involved,” she says over the phone. “Fortunately Amishta, my character, is…

Specific traits among worms remaining from the initial lot were studied for factors including what fraction of the worms were infected and how much virus each worm shed into the air |Image used for representational purpose only | Photo Credit: Getty Images A study that looked at whether a virus can trigger a pandemic in a species not previously exposed to it has found that the fraction of the species population that gets infected and the virus’ ability to multiply and release copies of itself into the environment could be particularly significant.Among the multiple theories around how the COVID-19 pandemic…

IIT Madras Research Park-incubated startup Kochadai Technologies has launched MakeGPT, a tool that can help people build prototypes simply by using natural language prompts. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement IIT Madras Research Park-incubated startup Kochadai Technologies has launched MakeGPT, a tool that can help people build prototypes simply by using natural language prompts.MakeGPT was officially unveiled by Dr. Palanivel Thiagarajan, Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services, Government of Tamil Nadu, during the ‘ZeroToOne: GenAI Product Day’ event. The toolkit is accessible to non-technical users who can just describe the idea behind their Internet of Things (IoT) system. The platform comprises of…

Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens In Travel + Leisure’s 2025 World’s Best Awards, Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens was named among the best resorts in Greece. Along the Athenian Riviera, which is known as the Hamptons of Athens, this resort feels like a Greek island getaway but is just a 30-minute drive from the center of Athens.  The resort has several sumptuous restaurants including Pelagos, which has a Michelin star. Located close to the port of Piraeus, it’s a perfect place to stay before or after a cruise on the Adriatic Sea. Why haven’t they filmed a season…