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Ranil Wickremesinghe has said, days ahead of his first official visit to New Delhi. Wickremesinghe, also the cash-strapped country's finance minister, made this remark while addressing the Indian CEO Forum here this week. «Just as East Asia, including countries like Japan, Korea and China, witnessed significant growth 75 years ago, it is now India's turn, along with the Indian Ocean region,» Wickremesinghe said.

Elon Musk has shared the numbers regarding the increase in «Total User Active Seconds» on Twitter, noting that usage was up by 3.5 per cent week over the week globally. «Platform usage up 3.5 per cent week over week,» he tweeted late Friday, along with an attached image showing data on Twitter usage. According to the data he shared on the site, the majority of active users — nearly 87 per cent of people — were using the platform on mobile.

Jaishankar on Friday discussed «outstanding issues» along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with Wang Yi, director of the office of the CPC Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, along the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Jakarta. Jaishankar said he discussed outstanding issues related to peace and tranquillity along LAC. In June, India and China held yet another round of diplomatic talks on the impasse along LAC in the Ladakh sector. India has maintained that relations cannot be normalised till peace and tranquillity are restored along the LAC. Remaining friction points along the LAC include Depsang and Demchok. Addressing EAS meeting earlier, Jaishankar in an indirect message to China emphasised that the body must be committed to a free, open, inclusive and rules-based Indo-Pacific, with respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity. He said India firmly supported the Asean Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP) and its implementation through EAS. «There is great synergy between the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative proposed by India and AOIP. Quad will always complement Asean and Asean-led mechanisms. AOIP contributes to the vision of the Quad,» Jaishankar said. «India affirms Asean centrality in the Indo-Pacific and advocates the strengthening of EAS.» The statement can be seen as an attempt to assuage Asean misgivings over Quad, a grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States.

The Union health ministry has sounded the alarm on a vector-borne disease outbreak with record rainfall in North India creating a favourable breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes. It is putting out advisories to states and Union Territories (UTs) to collaborate with the respective civic agencies and take prompt action.

NASA's database on Moon missions.India on Friday launched its third mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-3, with an aim to soft-land on the surface of Earth's only natural satellite. A successful landing would make India the fourth country to achieve the rare feat after the United States, China and the erstwhile USSR. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the technically challenging soft landing on the lunar surface, which Chandrayaan-2 could not achieve, has been planned for 5.47 pm on August 23. Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said the success rate of lunar missions is nearly 50 per cent because of the uncertainties when the rockets leave Earth's gravitational field. «The influence of other planets, from the Sun, is quite a bit. A lot of radiation conditions exist in space and this leaves some equipment or components prone to failure. In India's both missions (Chandrayaan 1 and 2), we have precisely reached the moon's orbit,» Nair told PTI.

artificial intelligence into a tutor and research assistant. In the final installment of our how-to editions, we'll take what we've learned and use it to make the most of family time. We'll focus on a few tasks that can take up a lot of mental bandwidth at home. Weekly meal planning is a major chore, and gift-giving can be daunting, with various birthdays and holidays throughout the year. And any adult who has read books for children knows that it can become repetitive, and the books aren't always relatable to a child's situation or growing pains. Here's how AI can help.

Legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and his team at Studio Ghibli are working on another anime movie, How Do You Live? Here's everything fans need to know about the upcoming film, including its release date, streaming details, and more. After six decades and numerous acclaimed projects to his name, Hayao Miyazaki is all set for his last directorial venture How Do You Live?, releasing later this year. In production for nearly a decade, the upcoming Japanese animated film is unarguably the most anticipated project from the celebrated filmmaker and artist and is set to have its debut showing this summer.

Moon almost fifty years ago, however, to date, this remains an extremely difficult task to achieve. On 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon. He was joined by Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin 19 minutes later.

A rally in global stocks paused on Friday, though still on track for the best week since March, as earnings season in Europe and the US started to swing into gear.

The rally in global stocks suggests inflation and recession risks are in the rear-view mirror. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategists are more skeptical.

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₹10 crore in Indian box office sales earlier this year, are building on the popularity of anime on television screens. While TV shows such as Doraemon, Shin-Chan and Naruto remain favourites, industry experts recognize that Japanese anime fills a unique void in the country, appealing to not only young children and teenagers but also adults.

equity market has seen a decent rally with the benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty hovering around record levels supported by positive global as well as domestic cues. The Nifty50 index touched its all-time high level of 19,567 on Thursday, and has seen a sharp rally of over 15% since its March 2023.

Nifty50 has rallied by about 15 per cent from the March lows to set new record highs.Where are we in this bull phase?This bull phase was born on the pessimism of the Covid outbreak when Nifty crashed to 7,511 in March 2020. For the next eighteen months, we had a one-way rally born on skepticism, which took the Nifty to 18,604 in October 2021. After a consolidation phase lasting more than a year, the bull is charging again.

Investing.com-- Most Asian currencies rose on Friday, while the dollar hit a 15-month low against a basket of currencies as weak U.S. inflation readings saw investors pricing in fewer interest rate hikes this year.

Investing.com-- Most Asian stocks rose further on Friday, capping off a positive week on signs of cooling U.S. inflation, with focus now turning to upcoming data offering more cues on the Chinese economy. 

Also read: Japan Accuses Australia of Betrayal in Fight Over Natural-Gas Exports Lowe will leave office on September 17, marking the end of his 43-year career at the central bank. Lowe is due to accompany Chalmers to a Group of 20 meeting in India next week. "This is a history-making appointment, Michele Bullock will become the first woman to ever lead the Reserve Bank in this country," said Chalmers reported Reuters.

inflation data reinforced hopes that the Federal Reserve is approaching an interest-rate peak. In the US, data showed the producer price index climbed 0.1% in June, its smallest year-on-year gain since August 2020 and followed a 0.9% increase in May. A separate report showed initial claims for state jobless benefits dropped 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 237,000 for the week ended July 8, but overall the labor market remains tight.

Foxconn is in talks with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and Japan’s TMH Group for technology and joint venture partnerships to start semiconductor fabrication units in India, said people with knowledge of the development. Foxconn and TSMC are both based in Taiwan. Foxconn, which ended its joint venture to make chips with India’s Vedanta Group earlier this week, has been talking to the two companies for some time now.

jobless benefits dropped 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 237,000 for the week ended July 8, but overall the labor market remains tight. The 10-year treasury yield fell to 3.76% from 3.86% late Wednesday. The 2-year treasury yield fell to 4.63% from 4.75%.

second spotcontinued between Hyundai Motor and Tata Motors.     This was a particularly rainy week in northern India, with loss of lives and property reported in multiple states, especially the hills.Delhireceived 40% of its seasonal rainfall in just a two-day period. Till 30 June, the monsoon deficit for the entire country was 10% of the long-period average.