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Investing.com — Tuesday’s U.S. inflation figures will be in focus as markets look for clues on the timing of interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. Earnings season continues, oil prices look set to remain choppy, while the UK and Japan are to release what will be closely watched economic data. Here’s what you need to know to start your week.

PTI. Citing sources, the report said the Sri Lankan government is in touch with IIT Madras for the ambitious project. “A high-level delegation had recently visited the Chennai campus to discuss the future roadmap.

Rishi Sunak has published his tax document summary, showing that he paid more than £508,308 as his total income rose to £2.23 million last year, 13% up from the previous year. The British prime minister also realized £1.8 million profit from his investment in a US fund. Sunak’s effective tax rate was 23%, lower than the top rate of 45%, due to some income being taxed at source in the US and the capital gains tax rate being 20%.

ALSO READ: What comes under India's Free Movement Regime with Myanmar and why was it scrapped? Top points Myanmar has been gripped by chaos since the military seized power from an elected government in a 2021 coup. Since October, the Tatmadaw, as the military is known, has suffered personnel losses while battling a coordinated offensive by an alliance of three ethnic minority insurgent groups, as well as allied pro-democracy fighters who have taken up arms against the junta.

British government tried to humiliate us by using our social evils as a pawn. The British rule was then justified by some people by citing social changes," PM Modi said. He further said, “Swami Dayanand Saraswati at that time showed us how our orthodoxy and social evils had harmed us.

King Charles said, “I would like to express my most heartfelt thanks for the many messages of support and good wishes I have received in recent days". On Monday, Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles, 75, had been diagnosed with a form of cancer, less than 18 months into his reign, adding that he would postpone some engagements to undergo treatment.

Bangladesh close on the heels of a similar campaign in Maldives has its origin in anti-liberation and radical sections in the neighbouring country that enjoys patronage of Pakistan and pro-Pak parties including BNP and outlawed Jamaat-e-Islami. The campaign has the potential to rock Bangladesh economy as citizens are being encouraged to boycott Indian products that dominate daily lives, Dhaka-based sources told ET. The campaign, sources claimed, is aimed at weakening Bangladesh economy and subsequently the Hasina government akin to the artificial crisis that was created in early 1970s to weaken the then Sheikh Mujib government.

₹5 crore to the RTDC for operating the Palace of Wheels, along with a share of 18% of the total turnover, the report mentioned. The officials of Palace of Wheels told the English daily that the train has traditionally been serving non-vegetarian food and alcoholic beverages to cater to both foreign and domestic tourists.

British empire — while the audience wonders whether some free snacks and free books could be finagled at the end of it. Quite often, they fail. Having attended three literature festivals this year back-to-back, I've concluded that it is possible to have a wonderful time once you've avoided crowds chasing unlikely heartthrob Sudha Murty and English thesaurus on the cheap Shashi Tharoor, the former actually requiring a bodyguard to protect her from demanding schoolchildren and college students (and one Narayana Murthy fan). This is the first time I've seen a children's book author requiring a bodyguard. The first festival I went to this season was in Bangalore. And it was around a swimming pool. (Whyever not?). Apart from literature, there was a lot of startup wisdom, as expected in Nilekani City. What's very zeitgeist in India now is someone whose startup has made a few hundred crores, has a podcast, and is a mid-30s philosopher, holding forth on everything from the number of steps a day necessary to how FDs will ruin you, to the toxicity in tonic.

The army chief of Pakistan congratulated the country on Saturday for successful conduct of its national polls. He said that Pakistan needed stable hands to move on from the politics of anarchy and polarisation.

Tipra Indigenous Students Federation (TISF) is planning a blockade of National Highway-8 and rail routes for an indefinite period from Monday. TISF is the student wing of the Opposition Tipra Motha Party (TMP). The blockade is part of the students’ protest against the Tripura Board of Secondary Education’s (TBSE) decision not to allow tribal students appearing for ‘Kokborak’ language to write answers in the Roman script. Kokborak is the language of Borok people who are geographically known as Tripuris.

₹3 crore after the English pacer was ruled out of the T20 league for undisclosed reasons. “Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) named Shamar Joseph as a replacement for pacer Mark Wood for the upcoming edition of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. Joseph will join LSG for ₹3 Crore.

Imran Khan's party plan to form a government, a senior aide to the jailed politician said on Saturday, calling on supporters to peacefully protest if final election results were not released. The nuclear-armed South Asian nation voted on Thursday in a general election, as the country struggles to recover from an economic crisis and battles militant violence in a deeply polarised political environment. Both Khan and three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared victory on Friday.

It would be hard to cite a dance song with more depressing lyrics than Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers," which captured Record of the Year honors at the Grammys and ranked No. 2 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 Singles chart. Set against an irresistibly peppy beat, its lyrics make a case for finding empowerment through solitude.

Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan on Friday both declared victory in elections marred by delayed results and militant attacks, throwing the country into further political turmoil. Here are top 20 updates on Pakistan election results, 1) The United States, Britain, and the European Union on Friday separately expressed concerns about Pakistan's electoral process in the wake of a vote on Thursday and urged a probe into reported irregularities. 2) The U.S.

As elevated valuations cap the upside in the broader market, smallcap rally was subdued but steady with 52 stocks gaining in double digits during the week. Mid and smallcaps had witnessed strong rallies over the past few months thus making valuations a little stretched.

ITC shares are likely to underperform in the near term amid the overhang of excess supply stemming from a likely stake sale by British American Tobacco (BAT), possible risk from two budgets in one year, and a slowdown in tobacco volume growth, analysts said. The stock price has come down 13% in the past one month but is still double compared with a year earlier. On Friday, the shares ended flat at ₹415.50 on the BSE.

Check all the Pakistan Election Results 2024 Live Updates here on LiveMint.Former Pakistani prime ministers and bitter rivals Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan on Friday both declared victory in elections marred by delayed results and militant attacks, throwing the country into further political turmoil.Sharif's party won the most seats by a single party in Thursday's election, but supporters of imprisoned Khan, who ran as independents instead of as a single bloc after his party was barred from the polls, won the most seats overall.The United States, Britain and the European Union on Friday separately expressed concerns about Pakistan's electoral process in the wake of a vote on Thursday and urged a probe into reported irregularities.

Pakistan's electoral process in the wake of a vote on Thursday and urged a probe into reported irregularities. The main battle was between former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's party and candidates backed by ex-prime minister Imran Khan. Both declared victory separately.

Lisa Frankenstein, a modern take on Mary Shelley’s classic, debuts in the US. Directed by Zelda Williams and penned by Diablo Cody, the film explores a twisted romance set in the 1980s.

Yesterday, a former SEC official targeted the NBA’s decision to greenlight a partnership between the cryptocurrency exchange Voyager Digital and the Dallas Mavericks.