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India All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has been launched for the newly elected UK Parliament with a remit to promote the bilateral relationship across all sectors, from trade and investment, science and technology to healthcare and education. The India APPG was formally launched earlier this week and celebrated during an «Indian Summer» event marking the ongoing South Asian Heritage Month at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Room in the Houses of Parliament complex, where several newly elected British Indian members of Parliament backed the initiative.

PARIS : France spent $1.5 billion to turn the Seine, the famously filthy river that flows through the heart of Paris, into a body of water that human beings could enter without contracting illness. Olympic organizers envisioned a postcard scene, with athletes swimming in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and the golden dome of Les Invalides. Now, after years of debate, countless E.

A dramatic jump in energy inflation was one of the key instigators of this inflation, rising from 0.2% to 1.3%, according to data from Eurostat.  Non-energy industrial goods also climbed marginally from 0.7% to 0.8%, while services inflation, which has remained sticky across the Eurozone, US and the UK, nudged down from 4.1% to 4%, back to its February and March levels. Food, alcohol and tobacco prices for consumers also fell slightly to 2.3%, compared to 2.4% a month before.  European Central Bank stands firm as it holds interest rates at 3.75% Prior to the inflation reading, t...

Last month (12 June), it was revealed that Invesco it was discontinuing its UK equity branch as a standalone team, and was merging it with the firm's European equity cohort. Current head of UK equities Martin Walker will act as co-head of the new Invesco UK & European Equity team unit, effective from 1 January 2025, along with Oliver Collin. Collin told Investment Week that, over the past decade, the two teams have worked more and more closely, while interactions and collaboration between the UK and the European teams «have gotten ever stronger». «Therefore, there has been an inevi...

June saw UK inflation dip to BoE's 2% target for the first time in three years, but high levels of services inflation at 5.7% and core inflation hitting the 3.5% mark dashed any hope of the bank rate being trimmed in June.  This data from the Office for National Statistics showed that headline inflation in the UK currently sits below the levels across the Atlantic and in the Eurozone. James McManus, CIO at Nutmeg, said the fall to target represented a «milestone moment», high wage growth and stickiness in domestic price pressures could mean «an August rate cut could well be off the ta...

Last month (12 June), it was revealed that Invesco it was discontinuing its UK equity branch as a standalone team, and was merging it with the firm's European equity cohort. Current head of UK equities Martin Walker will act as co-head of the new Invesco UK & European Equity team unit, effective from 1 January 2025, along with Oliver Collin. Collin told Investment Week that, over the past decade, the two teams have worked more and more closely, while interactions and collaboration between the UK and the European teams «have gotten ever stronger». «Therefore, there has been an inevi...

The asset management partnership will have an initial commitment of £1bn and aim to deploy a total of £10-20bn of investor funds into UK and global private markets over the next decade. Phoenix Group said it had initially identified around £50bn of defined contribution products where illiquid assets have the potential to deliver better long-term outcomes for policyholders. Schroders tables FCA application to launch private markets LTAF for wealth clients The firm said it intends to invest 5% of these assets, around £2.5bn, in the partnership over the coming three to five years in l...

Investment Week understands that he is departing to pursue a career outside of fund management. Marshall joined as a senior analyst in 2014, before being promoted to running money in 2016, when he took over the Invesco Sustainable UK Companies (UK) fund. He has also run the Invesco Pan European Equity Income and Invesco Pan European Equity funds since 2020. Following his departure, the Sustainable portfolio will be renamed the Invesco UK Companies fund (UK) and drop its ESG requirements. Invesco bolsters UK distribution team with four promotions John Surplice, head of EMEA eq...

Munshi Premchand, a towering figure in Indian literature. Known for his Hindustani literature, Premchand's work vividly portrays colonial India through a realistic lens. His contributions to Hindi and Urdu fiction have left an indelible mark on the literary world.

Tata Steel is likely to see robust growth in profitability in the first quarter ended June 2024, but the bottomline may decline. Net profit for the June quarter may increase anywhere between 57-209% year-on-year, according to estimates from five brokerages.

Britain’s competition watchdog said Tuesday it’s looking into Google’s partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, adding fresh regulatory scrutiny to investment money flooding into the AI industry

COVID-19 pandemic, the virus has forced athletes to withdraw from events and has others donning masks once again at the Paris Games.Several athletes have tested positive, including Australian swimmer Lani Pallister who was a medal hope in the women’s 1,500 metres freestyle but had to withdraw from the event. Pallister has been instructed to isolate in her room.A team spokeswoman said the decision had been made to save Pallister’s energy for the 4x200m freestyle relay which starts on Thursday.British swimmer Adam Peaty tested positive a day after he narrowly missed out on 100 metres breaststroke gold, sharing silver with American Nic Fink.“I’ll now be focusing on a fast, full recovery to give my best in the team relays later in the week,” the 29-year-old Peaty posted on Instagram.“Adam’s okay, he’s not dying.

Despite an outlier report released by the International Monetary Fund earlier this month that suggested Canada will be a leader in economic growth next year — which had many Liberal MPs crowing that their “economic plans are working” — the overwhelming view of most suggests otherwise, especially when it comes to productivity.

DMRC's collaboration with Airtel Payments Bank to provide digital payment solutions for commuters.WhatsApp stated that this new smart card recharge facility is available for all routes in the Delhi and NCR region, including the Rapid Metro in Gurugram. This feature extends the QR-based Delhi Metro ticketing system that Meta launched in 2024.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) enforcement action against the UK-based arm of crypto exchange Coinbase was cited to be a “one-off,” according to legal expert Charlotte Tregunna.

Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday. He said these agreements were signed and implemented during the UPA regime.

World shares are mixed ahead of key central bank meetings around the world

U.K.-based oil giant BP PLC said it will reward shareholders to the tune of $7 billion this year through the purchase of its own stock, even as it reported a near 30% decline in profits in the first half of 2024

₹6,168 on Amazon, includes the latest Echo Dot and a Wipro 9W LED Smart Bulb. The Echo Dot’s in-built motion detection and temperature sensors allow for automatic lighting and AC control, which can be customized using the Alexa app's routines feature.

Towards the end of 1901, Guglielmo Marconi set out to conduct an ambitious experiment. At the time, it was believed that since electromagnetic waves (like light) travelled in straight lines, radio waves could not be used to transmit messages across large distances—much like how even the most powerful telescope could not catch visual signals from places located beyond the earth’s horizon.