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economic review for August published on Friday, the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) said that the prices of selected food items that drove the inflation rate above 7 per cent in July are on the retreat. «The calibrated measures taken by the Government, including adjustments in the duties of many critical inputs and monetary policy tightening, helped to reduce core inflation,» the DEA said in its report. In its report, the department specified that the government's targeted measures for specific crops, including build-up of buffer, procurement from producing centres and subsidized distribution enabled easing of inflation in the country. Amid growing food inflation in major economies inter alia France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, and UK, India on the other hand saw a dip in its retail inflation. As of August, consumer food price inflation eased to 9.9 per cent from 11.5 per cent in July. Vegetable inflation, however, surged in both July and August due to various factors including a sudden price rise in tomatoes and other food items, due to crop specific and weather-related factors like rain deficiency in the country. Nonetheless, the average inflation during April-August 2023, was 5.6 per cent, which is within the RBI tolerance limit of 2-6 per cent. Meanwhile, the economy's outlook report highlighted that the monsoon deficit in August could impact both Kharif and Rabi crops which requires assessment.

-Britain's antitrust regulator on Friday said Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s restructured acquisition of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) «opens the door» to the deal being cleared.

LONDON (Reuters) — British retail sales were 0.4% higher in August than in rain-hit July, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed on Friday.

Canada — which is slowly turning into another Pakistan for India by giving a free space to Khalistanis. These organisations carry out propaganda, terror strikes and murders. Many of these are deeply linked to drug and human-trafficking cartels and various criminal gangs. Sitting in Canada, they can dictate crime in India through Indian operatives with total impunity, since the Canadian government does not act against them on the pretext of allowing «freedom of expression» Below are some of the Khalistani organisations active in Canada:Babar Khalsa International (BKI) Babar Khalsa International (BKI) is the most dreaded, most organised and the oldest Khalistani terror organisation. It survived the wiping out of the Khalistani terror in Punjab in the early nineties. The BKI styled itself after the Babbar Akali Movement of 1920 which was against the British colonial rule. It originated from the 1978 clashes between the militant Sikhs led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwala and the Nirankaris, a sect considered heretical by radical Sikhs. Its founders were Sukhdev Singh Babbar and Talwinder Singh Parmar. In 1981, BKI spun off an oversear faction led by Parmar in Canada.

Garena Free Fire Max is a revamped version of Garena Free Fire. It debuted in 2021 and became popular after the ban of the former by the Indian government. Developers of the game keep updating these codes daily.

Booker Prize. Kenya-born Maroo's novel set within the context of the British Gujarati milieu has been praised by the Booker judges for its use of the sport of squash as a metaphor for complex human emotions.

G20 meeting earlier this month. A Financial Times report said, people close to the development during the G20 meeting cited, “Several members of the Five Eyes — an intelligence-sharing network that includes the U.S., the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — raised the June killing in British Columbia of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist leader, with Modi." The leaders intervened at the G20 summit after Canada urged its allies to raise the case directly with Modi, the newspaper reported. However, White House did not immediately respond to the report.

CBC News. As per a report by CBC News, the intelligence gathered encompasses communications that involve Indian officials, including diplomats from India who were present in Canada, according to sources within the Canadian government. Also Read: India-Canada News LIVE Updates: ‘We will be in contact with India at high levels,’ says on Canada charge The report noted that the intelligence was not exclusively sourced from Canada; some of it was supplied by an undisclosed ally within the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.

Justin Trudeau reiterated his concerns over India's involvement in the death of Khalistani leader Hardeep Nijjar. However, these claims remain unsubstantiated, with no concrete evidence presented by the Canadian government despite claiming to have 'credible reasons' for making the allegations. According to reports from CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) released overnight, Canada's government allegedly claimed to have collected a trove of intelligence over several months concerning Nijjar's demise.

(Reuters) — Warner Bros Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) on Thursday said it planned to expand production capacity at its Leavesden studios near London by more than 50%, adding 10 new sound stages to the facility where much of the «Barbie» blockbuster and HBO's «House of the Dragon» were filmed.

Booker Prize 2023 judging panel Thursday announced the final list of six novels from 13 longlisted titles – the so-called “Booker dozen" – which were selected from 163 books published between October last year and September this year. All the six shortlisted books "showcase the breadth of what world literature can do", BBC reported Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan, who chairs the judging panel, as saying. London-based Indian-origin author Chetna Maroo’s debut novel ‘Western Lane’ was among the shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize in London.

Canada's efforts to investigate allegations of India's involvement in the killing of a Khalistani separatist leader in Surrey, observing that no country can get any «special exemption» for such kind of activities. Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, the chief of the banned Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) and one of India's most-wanted terrorists who carried a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen outside a gurdwara in Surrey in the western Canadian province of British Columbia on June 18.Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau on Monday alleged the involvement of «agents of the Indian government» in the killing.

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the United Kingdom’s financial markets regulator, has again expressed its concern over the lack of engagement on the part of crypto firms that will soon be subject to new marketing rules. The consequences of noncompliance could be severe, it warned.

Pirola variant. This variant, also referred to as BA.2.86 and has been linked to at least 37 new cases in England, as reported by The Independent on September 17. Fortunately, these cases have led to a total of seven hospitalizations but, fortunately, no fatalities, according to the news outlet. The UKHSA has noted that 28 of these cases were identified as part of an investigation into an outbreak within a care home in the eastern part of the country. As Pirola, the new mutation of Omicron strain of Covid-19, worries health experts, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) has asked senior citizens above age 65 to immediately get their top-up booster jabs. People aged 65 and over in England are being urged to get a top-up booster vaccine against Covid at a time when more people are coming into hospitals with the highly-mutated BA.2.86 virus, reports the BBC. The vaccines will soon be provided for free to more vulnerable groups. «Hundreds of thousands of adults who are eligible for winter vaccines — including all aged 65 and over, pregnant women and those with an underlying health condition — will also begin receiving invitations from the NHS to encourage them to get their Covid and flu jabs from this week,» NHS said in a statement late on Monday. According to the report, Covid hospital admissions are now at the highest rate since the end of April, at 4.6 per 100,000 people. That is still below the level reached last winter. The hospital admission rates remain highest among people aged 85 and over, followed by 75 to 84-year-olds.

National Investigation Agency on Thursday released pictures of 10 accused and sought information about them from the public. Once the perpetrators are identified, look out notices will be issued against them, said officials. According to the NIA, the case was registered after an attack on the Indian consulate in the US city during the intervening night of March 18-19 when some pro-Khalistan entities allegedly trespassed into the consulate and tried to burn it down. The same day, Khalistani supporters, raising slogans, had broken through the makeshift security barriers raised by the San Francisco Police and put up two so-called Khalistani flags on the consulate premises, damaged the building and assaulted and injured the officials, said an NIA in a statement. On the July 1-2 night, some accused persons trespassed into the consulate and attempted to set it on fire while officials were inside the building, it said. The NIA initiated a probe into the matter after registering a case on June 16 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.

Andy Murray returned to China for the first time in four years and won his first-round match at the Zhuhai Championships on Thursday. He thrashed local wild card Mo Ye Cong 7-5, 6-3. It was Andy Murray's fifth tour title in China and the first since the Beijing Open in 2016. The seventh-seeded British player overpowered his 23-year-old opponent in the second set to take the match in 1 hour and 42 minutes.

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King Charles III has made an emotional stop in front of Paris' fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral on the second day of his state visit to France

The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai says he doesn't want to see his father die in detention, as his lawyers raised the prospect that his long-delayed trial may be pushed back indefinitely