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Japan’s economy grew at an annual rate of 2.9%, slower than the earlier report for 3.1% growth, in the April-June period, boosted by better wages and spending

stock market rally is wobbling as it confronts a horde of challenges to the momentum that's taken it from record high to record high. A rout early last month was a glimpse of how quickly things can turn bad, a sharp selloff driven by US recession fears that rocked investors used to going in only one direction. While the S&P 500 subsequently rebounded, crucially it didn't made back all the ground lost.

student who was barred from boarding a Toronto-bound flight due to a visa-related issue. The incident, which involved stoppages in Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, highlighted the airline's failure to inform the passenger about the requirement of a transit Schengen visa. The case centered on Maharshi Yadav, a resident of Gandhinagar, who was traveling to Canada for further studies. Yadav, who held a valid student visa for Canada, had booked a flight from Mumbai to Toronto for April 13, 2022. The flight included layovers in Munich and Frankfurt, both in Germany. However, during check-in at Mumbai airport, the airline staff informed Yadav that he required a transit Schengen visa for the layovers, which he did not possess. Consequently, he was denied boarding. Pressed for time, Yadav cancelled the original ticket and booked an alternative flight with Emirates Airlines, costing him Rs 1.70 lakh, to reach Canada the next day. Subsequently, Yadav, through his mother and legal counsel Sunil Chhabaria, filed a complaint with the Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission in Gandhinagar, alleging a deficiency in service on the part of the airline. The complaint argued that the airline had failed to notify Yadav in advance about the necessity of a transit Schengen visa for his journey.

Volkswagen is considering closing some factories in its home country for the first time in the German automaker’s 87-year history

Jaishankar will on Sunday embark on a six-day visit to Saudi Arabia, Germany and Switzerland with a larger aim to boost overall bilateral ties and deliberate on pressing regional and global challenges. He will first travel to the Saudi capital Riyadh on a two-day trip primarily to attend the first India-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) foreign ministers' meeting, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The GCC is an influential grouping comprising the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait. The total volume of India's trade with GCC countries stood at USD 184.46 billion in the financial year 2022-23. In Riyadh, Jaishankar is also expected to hold bilateral meetings with foreign ministers of several GCC member countries.

The Burning Shore. Like most of his novels, it is set in the backdrop of the brutal yet beautiful continent of Africa. This one takes the reader into the desolate and dramatic wilderness of Namibia in 1917.

Saxony, has received the best electoral results for the far-right in Germany since the Nazis' rise. Weidel criticized other parties for refusing coalition agreements with the AfD and emphasized that Germany’s exit from the EU would be a last resort aimed at reforming, not destroying, the bloc.

technical textile exports will cross the target of $10 billion set for 2030, textiles minister Giriraj Singh said Friday, adding that the country will soon produce niche carbon fibre which is used in aerospace, civil engineering and defence. At present, India does not produce any carbon fibre and relies on imports from the US, France, Japan and Germany. “The coming days belong to technical textiles in every sector… I am confident that in 2025-26 the niche carbon fibre product will also be with India,” Singh said at a technical textiles event organised by Ficci.

Giriraj Singh on Friday expressed confidence that the niche carbon fibre — which is used in aerospace, civil engineering and defence as an alternative to metal — will be produced by India in 2025-26. Currently, India does not produce any carbon fibre and relies completely on imports from countries such as the US, France, Japan and Germany. The European Union's proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, a tax on embedded carbon imports, is expected to kick in from 2026. «The coming days belong to Technical textiles in every sector… I am fully confident that in 2025-26 the niche carbon fibre product will also be with India,» Singh told reporters here.

shares slipped for a fifth straight session on Friday as caution prevailed ahead of the crucial U.S. jobs data, the last such labour market report before the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decision on Sept. 18. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.4% by 0711 GMT. The index has dropped 3% so far this week, set to snap its four-week winning streak.

Bengaluru, relocated to Luxembourg in 2020. The decision came after considering various factors, including bigger salaries in India or other countries like the US and Dubai. Their move was driven by the desire for a higher quality of life, even though it meant leaving behind potential financial gains. Prateek, a senior analyst at Amazon, and Neha, a finance manager for a German real estate company, admitted that staying in India or moving to other countries could have resulted in higher earnings. «Continuing in India or moving to the US would have given us more career and earning opportunities. But we wanted to taste the superior quality of life, which Europe offers,» Prateek explained to Live Mint.

International Solar Festival 2024 features a futuristic solar city in which the sun powers everything. It also has virtual-reality devices depicting solar parks and agriculture solar, and a solar smash game that gives visitors on an experiential journey of transition from fossil fuel-based power to clean and renewable solar energy, reported TOI. The first edition of the two-day event is being hosted by New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam. The festival displays innovation in the solar sector that can drive a greener future. Among the displays is a virtual flipbook, which educates people about successful case studies from around the world. It also includes Modhera village, which is India's first solar-powered village. Further, it depicts how solar water purifiers installed in water kiosks, hospitals, schools and residences enabled safe drinking water in Tanzania.

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exports by MSMEs, said Bhupen Wakankar, Director Global Trade, Amazon India, on Wednesday at the launch of Exports Digest 2024 — the company’s annual coffee table book on e-commerce exports which provides insights into the scale of e-commerce exports from India through the Amazon Global Selling programme. Wakankar said MSME-penetration by Amazon is still less than 5% and largely untapped, which in itself shows the scope of export business from India. He also said that Amazon is on track to enable thousands of Indian businesses to surpass $13 billion in cumulative e-commerce exports from India by 2024-end. Amazon’s latest report showed that 1.50 lakh exporters have been part of the programme, cumulatively selling over 40 crore made-in-India products globally. Amazon said the programme has seen a growth of over 20% in the past year and Amazon Global Selling has over 200 sellers across India.

Karnataka wants to create 4-5 more regions like Bengaluru, India's Silicon Valley, in the state, minister for electronics and information technology and biotechnology Priyank Kharge said. Speaking at an event organised by IT industry body Nasscom, Kharge said he wants to position Karnataka not just as an investment destination, but also a space for knowledge and skills. In a fireside chat with Nasscom president Debjani Ghosh at its Design and Engineering Summit 2024 on Wednesday, Kharge said this will bring in more innovation in the country and in the next 4-5 years, Karnataka will not just be innovating for India but for the world. In a recent post on microblogging portal X, Kharge said Karnataka is the fourth largest technology cluster in the world and the leader in the country in many verticals. The southern state has over one-third of India’s tech talent and close to 25,000 startups, 52 unicorns (startups with valuation of $1 billion or more) and 47 soon to be unicorns.

Global stocks are tumbling after Wall Street had its worst day since early August, as a week full of economic updates got off to a weak start

Serbia's deputy prime minister has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and vowed that his country will remain an ally of Moscow despite its proclaimed bid to join the European Union

Carmaker Volvo has backed away from its pledge to stop selling cars with internal combustion motors by 2030, saying slow rollout of places to charge up and withdrawal of purchase incentives will leave room for a few cars that still need fossil fuels

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Volkswagen is currently weighing all its options around Germany as there is a constant pressure from Chinese EV makers who have forced plants in Germany to close down, due to the increasing competition from the South Asian country. The economic environment has ended up in major crisis and as new competitors are entering the European market, things are getting much tougher for Volkswagen in order to maintain its logistics and manufacturing hub in the country, and still manage to upkeep its profits and other relevant costs.

Foreign direct investment in India jumped 47.8 per cent to USD 16.17 billion in April-June this fiscal on healthy inflows in services, computer, telecom and pharma sectors, according to government data. FDI inflows were at USD 10.94 billion in April-June 2023-24. The data showed that overseas inflows in May rose to USD 5.85 billion and in June to USD 5.41 billion from USD 2.67 billion and USD 3.16 billion, respectively, in the year-ago period. In April, FDI inflows were down marginally at USD 4.91 billion against USD 5.1 billion in April 2023.