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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) commenced its three-day Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on December 6, 2023. The committee’s verdict on the crucial policy rates is eagerly awaited and is scheduled to be disclosed on December 8, 2023.

interest rate has been pushed further, as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) did not cut the repo rate. This is the fifth consecutive RBI Monetary Policy Committee meeting to keep the repo rate unchanged. This pause in repo rate increase started after a significant hike of 2.5% within a short span of 10 months during May 2022 to February 2023. Home loan borrowers have been going through one of the most testing times as they have to pay almost 20% higher EMI than what they were paying just two years ago. When can home loan borrowers expect the interest rate to fall and how can they make the best of any future rate cut?

The United Nations says at least three of every four Africans can’t afford a healthy diet because of an “unprecedented food crisis.”

₹40 crore being pulled out of the PMS every day. Yet, on the fifth anniversary of his PMS, Mukherjea should be a worried man. But, is he? Through his engaging communication style and books like Coffee Can Investing, Mukherjea had already made a big name for himself in India’s stock market by the time he launched Marcellus in 2018.

Also Read: Ukrainian Sniper 'sets world record' by killing Russian soldier from 3.8 km: Report The girl had brought the gun to the school hiding it in a tube for carrying papers, a fellow student told RIA Novosti, according to AP. As soon as the shooting began, two girls, including the twin sister of the 14-year-old shooter, came running into their classroom.

KYIV, Ukraine—This summer, two seaborne drones called Sea Babies left Ukrainian territory and sped across the Black Sea before striking a Russian-built bridge and exploding. The attack was heralded not just for the damage done but because the so-called sea drones were designed and built in Ukraine. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor in 2022, the U.S.

Israel and the occupied West Bank this week to expedite humanitarian aid to Gaza, aiming to discuss direct aid delivery by sea during talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, CNN reported on Thursday. Shapps emphasised the search for the quickest and most direct routes, including options by land, sea, and air. Additionally, four Royal Air Force flights carrying over 74 metric tons of aid for Palestinians have landed in Egypt.

Russian lawmakers on Thursday set the date of the country's 2024 presidential election for March 17, moving Vladimir Putin a step closer to a fifth term in office. Members of the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, voted unanimously to approve a decree setting the date. «In essence, this decision marks the start of the election campaign,» said Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Federation Council. Russia's central election commission is to hold a meeting on the presidential campaign on Friday.

The leaders of China and the European Union are holding wide-ranging talks that include their disputes over trade and a deep divide on the war in Ukraine

Nikki Haley taking the brunt of the attacks as she gets more interest from donors and voters. What drew the attention was a combustible mix of the famously aggressive former New Jersey governor Chris Christie and the young, slick-tongued tech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy produced one of the fieriest, insult-laden exchanges of the night. It started after Ramaswamy criticized Haley's foreign policy credentials, Christie exploded, saying Ramaswamy was attacking her intelligence instead of her positions.

Ukraine. While the G-7 and its European allies have been trying to find additional ways to squeeze Russia’s economy to constrain its ability to fund its war in Ukraine, diamonds have remained a stumbling block. Earlier attempts to sanction Russian gems in Europe had met resistance from leading importer nations like Belgium, which had argued that a simple ban would just shift the lucrative gem trade elsewhere.

Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed further cooperation on oil prices on Wednesday, December 6, as members of OPEC+, a Kremlin spokesperson was quoted as saying. A Saudi account of the meeting said the crown prince praised joint coordination between the two countries "that helped remove tensions in the Middle East".

fiscal deficit target of 5.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) for 2023-24. The demands involve gross additional spending of more than ₹1.29 lakh crore in this fiscal, a significant chunk of which, ₹70,968 crore, will be met through savings or enhanced receipts of various ministries and departments, according to the papers tabled in both houses of Parliament. Late last month, officials had said overall revenue collections were expected to remain robust this fiscal, while additional outgo under some programmes or heads could be significantly offset by savings in others and reprioritisation of expenditures. The Centre's fiscal deficit in the first seven months of this fiscal hit 45% of the full-year target, a tad lower from 45.6% a year before, indicating that the deficit was under control. The government had budgeted total expenditure at ₹45 lakh crore for 2023-24, while its tax and non-tax revenue was pegged at ₹26.3 lakh crore. The net outgo under the first batch of supplementary demands for grants in 2023-24 is way below the level a year before, when the government had sought clearance for a net spending of ₹3.26 lakh crore and gross expenditure of ₹4.36 lakh crore. However, this was because the 2022-23 budget calculations went haywire after the Ukraine war broke out unexpectedly, leading to elevated global commodity prices that inflated the government's subsidy bill. The latest supplementary demands include a total of 79 grants and four appropriations.

By Sakura Murakami, John Geddie and Steve Holland

By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden will announce $175 million in additional Ukraine aid during remarks at 12 p.m. ET (1700 GMT) on Wednesday, a U.S. official said, while urging Congress to pass his national security funding request.

bedtime story. And you want that someone to be actor Jimmy Stewart. The sleep and meditation app Calm on Tuesday released a new story for premium users told by Stewart, the beloved actor who starred in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But the voice in their ear lulling them to sleep is not from Stewart, who died in 1997.

By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Vladimir Soldatkin

Slovakia’s new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico has approved an amendment to the country’s penal code to close the special prosecutor’s office that deals with the most serious crimes and corruption

When Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed “Russian oligarchs” as men who whose vast wealth, ruthlessly amassed, made them almost shadow rulers

Western officials say sanctions against Russia’s billionaires are meant to isolate President Vladimir Putin, choke off support for his war and turn powerful business allies against him