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SpaceX Rocket Launch of Italian Satellite Scrubbed Again | Local News
A Falcon 9 rocket launch and landing at Vandenberg Space Force Base has been delayed a second day in a row.
“To allow more time to perform ground system checkouts, standing down from today’s launch of the COSMO-SkyMed Second…
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Mishkin’s Extra Shift: Lightning 5, Canadiens 4 – SO
As Jon Cooper stated afterwards, there have been a number of games this year in which the Lightning have outplayed the opponent but didn’t gain two points. There have been far fewer of the opposite scenario, when the Lightning were outplayed…
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Monarchs Get Off to Slow Start, Fall 73-58 at Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Old Dominion men’s basketball put together a late 11-0 run, but it wasn’t enough to catch Maryland as the Monarchs fell 73-58 on Sunday night at the XFINITY Center.
KC Shaw led ODU with 19 points on 7-for-17 shooting…
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Workshop on “Digital-Age Presentation Mastery” organized by FBA
On Wednesday, 3 December 2025, the Faculty of Business Administration organized a high-impact workshop titled “Digital-Age Presentation Mastery” at the Multipurpose Hall – Annex 7, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. The session was designed to strengthen students’ strategic communication capabilities and equip them with future-ready presentation competencies powered by AI-driven tools. Participation was open exclusively to students from the Faculty of Business Administration, with seating limited to 200 attendees, creating a focused, high-engagement learning environment.
The workshop featured an impressive lineup of speakers who delivered practical, innovation-focused insights on modern presentation excellence. Dr. Arif Khan, Assistant Professor, Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Farzan Mitu, Lecturer, Department of Marketing, and Nusrat Nowreen, Lecturer, Department of Management, led the core knowledge sessions, offering actionable frameworks on content structuring, storytelling, slide design, and the psychology of audience engagement. Their discussions emphasized AI-integrated tools such as Mentimeter, Canva AI, PowerPoint Copilot, and ClassPoint positioning these platforms as essential assets for building dynamic, interactive, and data-driven presentations.
The event also included special remarks from Prof. Dr. Anwar Hossain, Advisor and Dean-In-Charge, Faculty of Business Administration, whose presence added strategic weight to the initiative. Special acknowledgments were extended to Dr. Tahsin Farzana Jisun, Assistant Professor, Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Md. Mehzabul Hoque Nahid, Senior Assistant Professor and Department Head, MIS, and Fatema Tuz Zahra, Lecturer, MIS, for their valuable support in shaping the program. The session concluded with closing remarks and a formal vote of thanks delivered by Dr. Mohammad Faridul Alam, Professor and Director of the MBA & EMBA Program.
The workshop, branded as dynamic and innovative, effectively aligned academic ambition with industry expectations by demonstrating how AI-powered presentation tools can significantly elevate professional communication standards. FBA extends sincere appreciation to all students, volunteers, and faculty members whose participation and collaboration ensured the session’s strong operational execution and strategic impact.
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This Is Our Last Chance
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, 20-17, and despite it being the team’s seventh defeat in the last eight weeks, the prospect of a fifth straight NFC South title still exists. And it’s not a particularly…
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Mayor opens new recreation facilities at Karachi Zoo – Business Recorder
- Mayor opens new recreation facilities at Karachi Zoo Business Recorder
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- Mayor Wahab opens multiple recreation facilities at…
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‘I’ve never seen a year as worrying as 2025’
John SimpsonBBC world affairs editor
BBCSensitive content: This article contains a graphic description of death that some readers may find upsetting
I’ve reported on more than 40 wars around the world during my career, which goes back to the…
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John Simpson on wars: ‘Why I’ve never seen a year like 2025′
The story of 4 June 1989 wasn’t as simple as we thought at the time: armed soldiers shooting down unarmed students. That certainly happened, but there was another battle going on in Beijing and many other Chinese cities. Thousands of ordinary…
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Europe’s largest defence groups set to return $5bn to shareholders in 2025
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Europe’s largest defence groups are set to return close to $5bn to shareholders this year as the sector rewards investors and increases investment after a surge in global military spending following the war in Ukraine.
The bulk of the bumper returns this year at eight of Europe’s largest defence companies is in the form of higher dividends, according to analysis of the past decade by Vertical Research Partners for the Financial Times.
The research, which is focused on the largest defence players and excludes Airbus given its large commercial operations, shows that payouts are on course to reach a 10-year high.
Despite the payouts, the research also shows that European defence sector investment has risen significantly since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago as companies have expanded production.
By contrast, shareholder returns by the six largest defence companies in the US — Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, RTX Corporation, L3Harris Technologies and Huntington Ingalls — have fallen after hitting a 10-year peak in 2023.
At the same time investment — capital expenditure and self-funded research and development calculated as a percentage of sales — has dropped slightly. Boeing is excluded given its large civil aerospace operations.
The industry has drawn criticism, notably in the US, over doubts that it is investing the proceeds of the boom to boost production of new weapons and not simply spending those gains on share buybacks.
Donald Trump has urged defence contractors to invest money in production, boosting returns to shareholders. He is due to discuss such issues with companies in Florida this week.
His comments follow those of US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, who said in October that the country’s defence companies were “woefully behind in terms of deliveries, so we may have to, as their biggest customer . . . prod them to do a little more research, a little fewer stock buybacks”.
Rob Stallard, analyst at Vertical Research, said the accusation that the US defence industry had underinvested or was “profiteering” was “not supported by the facts”.
“Buybacks and dividends as a percentage of market cap [of US companies] have almost halved over the past two years.”
Vertical’s research shows that the average investment of the basket of European companies analysed — measured as capex plus R&D spend as a percentage of revenues — is expected to rise to 7.9 per cent in 2025. In 2021, the year before the start of the conflict in Ukraine, this figure was 6.4 per cent.
Public debate about the issue in Europe has so far been limited but some industry experts believe that given the significant spending pledges announced by governments, they could become more involved.
“If defence spending rises to a certain level, significantly higher than it is now, then defence becomes so important to the governments that they will become very interested in how much money you are making,” said Nick Cunningham, analyst at Agency Partners.
At the same time, he added, the industry in Europe was “not ramping up”.
“If you are operating in a capacity-constrained environment, coining it and buying back stock, that will not be going down very well. So you should make a big song and dance around how much you are investing,” he added.
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