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Nifty extended losses for the fourth straight session on Friday, September 22. The domestic institutional investors (DIIs) turned net buyers and invested ₹80 crore in Indian stocks today. As per the NSE data, FIIs cumulatively bought ₹10,840.20 crore of Indian equities, while they sold ₹12,166.94 crore --- resulting in an outflow of ₹12,166.94 crore on Friday.

Long waits to receive new passports haven't yet eased from earlier this year, as the U.S. State Department works through a backlog of applications amid high demand for international travel.

Harry Potter" books in the US, the Empire State Building in New York will illuminate its facade in the distinct colors of Hogwarts houses at sunset on Wednesday, September 27. For those outside of New York, an exciting spectacle awaits as the Empire State Building's Tower Lights will transform into shades of red for Gryffindor, yellow for Hufflepuff, blue for Ravenclaw, and green for Slytherin. This enchanting display can be viewed via the Empire State's live cam. If you happen to be in New York, there's even more magic in store.

FTC) will file a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon in federal court as soon as Tuesday, news site Politico reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter. The FTC has been preparing the complaint since at least the start of this year, targeting an array of Amazon's business practices, according to the report, which said the exact details of the lawsuit were not known.

The head of the Anti-Defamation League said in a post on X on Thursday that he was in touch with Adidas CEO Bjorn Gulden who apologized for his remarks about Kanye West and reiterated the sportswear company’s fight to end antisemitism

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as the leader of both Fox News’ parent company and his News Corp media holdings, with his son, Lachlan, set to take his place

Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden administration is beginning the process to remove medical bills from people’s credit scores

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has accused China of using “economic coercion” against Japan by banning imports of Japanese seafood in response to the release of treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, while Ch...

The U.S. Treasury Department and China’s Ministry of Finance have launched a pair of economic working groups in an effort to ease tensions and deepen ties between the nations

A new poll shows that Americans are much more sympathetic to Hollywood's striking writers and actors then they are to the studios on the other side of the table

A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to expand next week’s scheduled sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres

The Energy Department announced Friday a $325 million investment in new battery types that can help turn solar and wind energy into 24-hour power

The Federal Reserve did not hike interest rates in its meeting on Sep. 20 but hinted that rates could remain higher for longer. At the post-meeting press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell cautioned that “the process of getting inflation sustainably down to 2% has a long way to go.”

Leading the field of Republican presidential candidates is former President Donald Trump, who faces a battery of federal and state criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. If Trump captures the Republican nomination and wins the general election, he will become the first president in 130 years to win the White House after sitting out a term, after Grover Cleveland. Biden, the incumbent president, is the presumptive Democratic nominee. He will be 81 when the election is held in November 2024, making him the oldest American ever to win a presidential election should he secure a second term.THE REPUBLICANS Trump, 77, is dominating a field of 10 major candidates who have largely avoided criticizing him directly for fear of alienating his base of diehard supporters. His Republican rivals, such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former U.S.

U.S. dollar pared gains against a basket of currencies on Friday after data showed U.S. business activity nearing a standstill in September, while the yen slumped after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept interest rates in negative territory. S&P Global said its flash U.S.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whose killing led to a major diplomatic row between India and Canada, reached the North American country using a counterfeit passport and Canada did not take any action against him despite being informed that he faced over a dozen criminal cases of murder and other terrorist activities, sources said on Friday. Nijjar was killed by unidentified assailants on June 18 at a parking lot of a gurdwara in British Columbia.

National Bank of Canada is better positioned than many of its larger rivals to navigate a downturn that’s poised to hit banks’ balance sheets and customers, according to chief executive Laurent Ferreira.

In December 2005, five groups of Wall Street investors flew in private jets to Portland, Maine, where they took waiting limousines to a warren of metal buildings that resembled a midsize lumberyard. They had come to Bushmaster Firearms in pursuit of a highly profitable product whose market was growing faster than any other in America’s stagnant gun industry. The product was the AR-15, and red-hot Bushmaster, the nation’s leading manufacturer of the rifle, had decided to auction itself to the highest bidder.

Indian government bonds in its Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets (GBI-EM) with effect from June 2024 says it all. Predictably, markets are elated, policy makers, circumspect. This is not surprising.

Some investors are dialing up their bets on large European telecommunications companies, but shares struggle to recover previous highs amid a challenging near-term industry outlook due to muted top-line growth, stiff competition and heavy investments, analysts say. The sector is in the middle of a costly transition to upgrade its infrastructure to 5G technology and to replace copper with more modern fiber-optic cables that transmit data faster. This, together with a combination of challenges that include weak revenue trends due to competition and high debts as a result of past mergers and acquisitions, have weighed on European telecom stocks.

sovereignty and territorial integrity underpin the development of the Indo-Pacific region and expressed serious concern on the militarisation of disputed features, the dangerous use of coast guard and maritime militia vessels, and efforts to disrupt other countries' offshore exploitation activities. The Quad or the Quadrilateral coalition is a plurilateral framework comprising India, Australia, Japan and the US formed in 2017 to counter China's aggressive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific region. Foreign ministers of the four-nation bloc — External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko — met on the margins of the high-level 78th session of the UN General Assembly for the Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting and reaffirmed their commitment to uphold the principles of the UN Charter. «We reaffirm our conviction that international law, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the maintenance of peace and security in the maritime domain underpin the development and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific,» a joint readout of the Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting said. The ministers emphasised that disputes should be resolved peacefully and in accordance with international law, without threat or use of force. «We emphasise the importance of adherence to international law, particularly as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), to address challenges to the global maritime rules-based order, including with respect to maritime claims, and in the South and East China Seas,» they said in the joint statement. The ministers emphasised the importance of maintaining freedom of navigation and