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Equity benchmarks dropped in Japan and Australia, while futures pointed to modest gains in Hong Kong. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 rose on Tuesday — following a Japan-led rebound in Asia — with both climbing 1% after a global meltdown. Wall Street’s “fear gauge” — the VIX — saw its biggest plunge since 2010.

Olympic controversy has somehow hit the news, this time around Ethan Katzberg, a hammer-thrower from Canada, who recently grabbed a gold medal for the nation, beating formidable athletes from Germany and Australia. With this win, Canada's most awaited gold medal came after waiting for more than half a century, with the last one coming back in 1956.

₹25 lakh segment, which has the highest sales volumes India. The brand, part of the multinational automotive giant Stellantis, has struggled in its eight-plus years in India – Its models like the Compass and Meridian have made little headway, largely owing to their relatively high prices, and the lack of a 'mass-market' product. Now, it may be set to change that.

shares up 5% on Tuesday. With more people returning to offices and stepping out of their homes, ride-sharing demand has got a boost in the past several months, benefiting companies such as Uber and rival Lyft.

prison capacity to help tackle violent, week-long anti-immigrant riots that have prompted a growing number of countries to warn their citizens about the dangers of travelling in Britain. Riots across a number of towns and cities have erupted following the murder of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed event in Southport, a seaside town in northern England, after false messaging on social media wrongly identified the suspected killer as an Islamist migrant. The Justice department, which is being forced to release some prisoners early as it battles a jail overcrowding crisis, said nearly 600 prison places had been secured to accommodate those engaged in violence.

Iran that escalation in the Middle East is not in their interest, a State Department spokesperson said on Monday, at what Secretary of State Antony Blinken called a «critical moment» for the region. Blinken said Washington was «engaged in intense diplomacy, pretty much around the clock» to help calm tensions amid fears Iran is preparing a retaliatory strike against Israel. «All parties must refrain from escalation,» Blinken said during a signing ceremony with his Australian counterpart in Washington.

Paris Olympics medals tally. Moreover, all eyes will be on the 'power of women', starting off with the women's 200m final on the day, that is sadly going to see Jamaica's ace sprinter Shericka Jackson pulling out of the race. However Team USA and Team Great Britain will still be top contenders for a medal finish here in Paris' Stade de France.

Olympic medal podium is no longer a given for U.S. swimmers. Nine days of thrilling competition at La Defense Arena wrapped up Sunday night with the Americans barely pulling out the lead in the gold medal standings thanks to a victory in the final race. The U.S. finished with just eight golds, its fewest since the 1988 Seoul Games and one ahead of its biggest rival, Australia.

Police in Australia, in collaboration with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, have uncovered a massive crypto scam targeting Australian citizens. Over 2,000 compromised digital wallets were identified as part of their worldwide operation to combat cryptocurrency fraud.

Paris Olympics 2024 entered their ninth day, the excitement continued to build with a series of thrilling events lined up for the day. Highlights include Novak Djokovic's maiden Olympic tennis title, Team India's historic win in men's hockey, and record-breaking performances in swimming. Here's a detailed look at what happened on Day 9.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for the creation of an “investment-friendly charter’ during the ninth Governing Council Meeting of the Niti Aayog on 27 July. This charter will outline policies, programmes and processes to attract more investments. Despite India’s potential, foreign direct investment (FDI) data shows that the country has not fully capitalized on its opportunities.

government wants India to be selfsufficient in pulses by 2027-28. As the world’s largest producer of pulses by far, this may not seem hard, but we are also the largest consumer. A large part of pulses’ production in countries like Myanmar, Canada and Australia is meant for India. Ending imports won’t be easy. This is particularly so for a reason that doesn’t get captured by aggregated figures. Policy makers tend to refer to agricultural products as if they were one thing. Just as barrels of oil (within certain specifications) are considered identical, rice, wheat and pulses are also spoken of as one thing for production and trade statistics. But at the consumption end, we know that the differences between varieties are huge.

South China Sea and aiming to counter Beijing's continuing violations of international treaty obligations, countries in the region are galvanising their defences. Two warships from the Philippines and Japan each, for the first time ever, conducted a joint exercise in the contested waters. This exercise followed a bilateral defence treaty, termed the Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA), signed between Manila and Tokyo to facilitate joint exercises for closer security cooperation, amid China's growing assertion in the regional resource-rich waters.

real estate investments in the Asia-Pacific region, attracting 9% of the total volume of investment within the region in the first half of 2024, showed a Knight Frank India study. The total cross-border investments in the Asia Pacific region during this period reached $11.5 billion, with India receiving $3 billion from global private equity investors. In terms of investment in Indian real estate, the office sector accounted for 36% of the total global capital allocation, reflecting the strong appeal of commercial real estate assets. The industrial sector followed closely with 30% of the investment share, while the residential sector received 15%, and retail accounted for 10%.

Indian Men's Hockey Team will lock horns with Great Britain in the quarterfinals of the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024 on Sunday. The Indian men's hockey team bounced back in the men's competition with a 3-2 win over Australia in their last Pool B match on Friday. It is their first victory against Australia in the Olympics since 1972 Munich games. India bounced back from a 1-2 loss to the defending champions, Belgium, in their previous game. With this victory, India finished second and will now face Great Britain in the quarterfinals of the ongoing marquee event.

Evil Season 4 continues its thrilling run. Episode 12 is set to release on Thursday, August 8, 2024, on Paramount+. Fans are eager to see the story unfold further.

pandi (pork) curry to showcase the region’s diverse flavours and ingredients. Coorg’s cuisine is built around staples such as rice—in forms like kadambuttu (rice dumplings) and akki otti (rice flatbread)—meat (pork, mutton, chicken and fish), and foraged wild vegetables with subtle influences from Mangaluru and Kerala. The popularity of Kodava cuisine has been fuelled by the passion of chefs such as Anjali Ganapathy, founder of Pig Out, a Kodava pop-up kitchen in Bengaluru.

Paris Olympics 2024 schedule for August 2, which is the seventh day of the sporting action, will be one of the most intense few hours. This is because as many as 23 gold medals lie in wait for the countries gunning for the top prize at the respective medal events. Be it the BMX racing finals or judo, there are some major surprises, shocks, and dominance lying in wait for all Olympic viewers on Day 7.

The ride sharing giant Uber and Chinese automaker BYD say they have agreed on a partnership to introduce 100,000 BYD model EVs on the Uber platform in Europe and Latin America

Paris Olympics judging panel after a photo circulated online of him embracing a competitor along the shore's edge in Tahiti this week. During one of the competition's off days, a commentator shared a photo on his social media showing Australian judge Benjamin Lowe posing alongside Australian surfing team member Ethan Ewing. Bede Durbidge, coach of the Australian team, was also in the photo, as per an AP report. The International Surfing Association released a statement Thursday saying it removed Lowe from the judging panel for the remainder of the competition to «protect the integrity and fairness of the ongoing competition.» «The ISA is aware of a photo circulating on social media in which one of the Olympic surfing judges from Australia is seen socially interacting with an Australian athlete and the team manager,» the ISA said.

The state of Uttar Pradesh is deceptively large. Working-age women (20-59 years) in the state—about 57 million in 2021—outnumber the entire population of countries like Canada, Australia, Malaysia, and South Korea. The state has more women aged 20-29 than the combined population of Norway, Finland and Denmark.