And a large part of that has been driven by growth in the manufacturing and the construction space. Some of the numbers do offer a lot of question marks because if you look at agriculture, if you look at industries, you know, our core sector data is from steel, cement, all of them have actually shrunk. Consumption, in fact, has also been weak too, almost for the nine months it grew by only 5 . And thats why there was there has been a lot of question mark, but a large bit of this has been pushed by the Government Spending in the construction space. You know, Building Infrastructure around the country and some bit of private capital and private investments also seem to be flowing in to the economy right now. And that has pushed the growth to this level right before the national elections, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third term in power. Narendra modi. And this is the premise, the high growth rate where india has become somewhere an alternative to china for most compan
The team working on the project were told the iphone giant was shifting its focus to ai. In fact, some of the people who worked on the car will be moved to apples Artificial Intelligence division thats according to bloomberg while those who cant find jobs elsewhere in the company, they face lay offs. Apple shares rose nearly 1 on the news. As one tech analyst put it, by abandoning its dream to transform the auto industry, it will increase pressure on apple to do something profound in the area of Generative Ai. Staying with tech, and people tend to associate Us Company Nvidia with chips and Artificial Intelligence but not necessarily with retail. Azita martin leads nvidias ai initiatives for the retail industry, including Generative Ai that can produce content like text, images or other data when prompted. Our north America Business correspondent erin delmore asked her about how ai is changing the Shopping Experience for customers, both in store and online. Ai enables you to really have
The tribal area of bujaur is near pakistans border with afghanistan. Its not immediately clear what caused the explosion, though Police Suspect it was a Suicide Bomber. No organisation has admitted carrying out the attack. With more on this lets cross to the newsroom and our south asia editor, anbarasan ethirajan. Hundreds of people had gathered for a gathering of a hardline islamist Political Party in pakistan which is part of the governing coalition. There was suddenly an explosion. Some people have been killed, and more than 200 injured. A local hospital was struggling to cope with the incoming casualties. Many people are being taken to other parts of the district and do the provincial capital peshawar. This could be a Suicide Attack but no group has admitted carrying out the attack or responsibility for this incident. At the moment the priority for the authorities is to provide care and treatment for those who have been injured in this blast. And again, as we know, we had been disc