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20.09 / 19:41
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Manufacturing
Death
Healthcare
medicines
Pharma companies must adopt revised quality norms: Government
pharmaceutical companies to implement revised Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) to improve quality in the face of children said to have died from toxic cough syrup and eye drops that allegedly caused infections. The notification is likely this month, people in the know told ET.
20.09 / 19:41
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film
Actor
stars
Busan Film Festival 2023: Stories of Korean American successes under SAG-AFTRA and AWG strikes
SAG Actors. The film festival will hold a 'Special Program in Focus: Korean Diasporic Cinema'. It will screen six films, and organize public talk sessions that include Oscar-winning actor Youn Yuh-jung, Lee Isaac Chung, director of the Oscar-winning film 'Minari', and John Cho, the Seoul-born Star Trek' and 'Searching' stars. Chon, Yeun and Yoo Teo, director of Sundance sensation 'Past Lives', Han Yeri and Christina Oh will join them.
20.09 / 19:39
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Digital
Interface
gossips
patient
Someone in my head
Brain implants are a favourite fictional trope for dystopic tales of computers taking over the lives of people and the world at large. But they could serve a useful enough medical purpose in the real world, which explains why Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink has received US regulatory approval to begin its first human trials. These are to be carried out on patients with paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
20.09 / 19:39
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information
reports
travelers
India issues caution for travel to Canada
NEW DELHI : Diplomatic tensions between India and Canada mounted after New Delhi released a scathing travel advisory counselling its citizens to exercise caution while travelling to Canada. “In view of growing anti-India activities and politically condoned hate crimes and criminal violence in Canada, all Indian nationals there and those contemplating travel are urged to exercise utmost caution. Recently, threats have particularly targeted Indian diplomats and sections of the Indian community who oppose the anti-India agenda.
20.09 / 19:39
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MET
Continental
President
Latin
reports
Power
Naveen Jindal eyes Africa with steel mill, power plant
NEW DELHI : Billionaire Naveen Jindal, via a privately held unit, plans to set up a steel mill in Nigeria and a power plant in Botswana to serve the African market, two people familiar with the development said. As part of the plan, Vulcan Steel, a privately held company by the Jindal family, has decided to build a 3 million tonne per annum (mtpa) capacity steel plant, while Jindal Power Ltd, another privately held unit, will set up the thermal power unit, which will produce as much as 600 megawatts (MW) at peak capacity. The entities controlled by Jindal have secured minerals and power purchase agreements in both nations.
20.09 / 19:39
UPS
Aware
CEO
Patrick
2020
reports
Power
Total may lead Adani plan to raise $1.5 bn for green power
MUMBAI : Adani Green Energy Ltd, which is planning to raise $1.5 billion, may secure a big chunk of it from French energy giant TotalEnergies SE, two people aware of the matter said. The Gautam Adani-led group’s renewables firm will use $750 million of this amount to repay bonds. “Adani Green has got an approval to raise $1.5 billion this fiscal for capex and debt repayment.
20.09 / 19:39
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Lowe's
Booking
NIFTY
SENSEX
Stocks plummet as crude nears $100
NEW DELHI, MUMBAI : Indian benchmark indices saw their steepest single-day drop in two months, declining over 1% on Wednesday, dragged down by selling in HDFC Bank and other index heavyweights. Weakness in global markets, with crude oil prices nearing $100 a barrel, also made investors cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve’s policy meeting. The Sensex closed 1.2% down at 66,800.84 and the Nifty by a similar margin to 19,901.4.
20.09 / 19:39
Target
Reserve
US Fed Reserve Policy: FOMC doubles US GDP growth projection to 2.1% from 1% for 2023
US Federal Reserve announced its interest rate decision on September 20, after a two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting and left the benchmark interest rates unchanged at 5.25 per cent - 5.50 per cent. Fed policymakers have raised the US gross domestic product (GDP) projection to 2.1 per cent this year, a notable upgrade from the 1 per cent growth projected in June, and expanding by 1.5 per cent next year.
20.09 / 19:29
20.09 / 19:29
UPS
Strategy
show
rock
reports
Whitehaven rebukes activist investor pushing back on $5b mine buy
Whitehaven Coal says its interest in buying coking coal mines “should come as no surprise to any of our investors” in a rebuke to the activist hedge fund pushing for it not to proceed with a multi-billion dollar acquisition.
20.09 / 19:23
Adoption
Binance
Binance CEO Denies Receiving $250M Loan from BAM Management, Says it is "the Other Way Around"
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has refuted claims that he received a $250 million loan from BAM Management, the holding company of Binance.US, saying that it was the other way around.
20.09 / 19:07
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inflation
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Price
Support
Bitcoin price tests $27K support as Fed holds interest rates at FOMC
Bitcoin (BTC) saw snap volatility on Sep. 20 as the United States Federal Reserve maintained interest rates at twenty-year highs.
20.09 / 19:07
20.09 / 19:07
NFT
Metaverse
Meta
Bitcoin
Meta launches metaverse game, Bitcoin Ordinals creator proposes numbering change: Nifty Newsletter
In this week’s newsletter, read about how marketplace Magic Eden integrated compressed nonfungible tokens (NFTs) into its platform and how Meta launched its metaverse game on mobile and web. Check out why the Bitcoin Ordinals creator proposes changing the protocol’s numbering system and learn about Atari founder Nolan Bushnell’s perspectives on play-to-earn gaming. In other news, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged NFT collection Stoner Cats with offering unregistered securities.
20.09 / 18:47
business
Stablecoin
Payments
PayPal
Dollar
PayPal rolls out PYUSD stablecoin to Venmo users
Major United States-based payment processor PayPal has announced its PYUSD stablecoin is now available on Venmo.
20.09 / 18:35
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gatherings
NOT
India-Canada row will not impact Canada's presence in Army Chief's Meet
Canada's participation at the Indo-Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference (IPACC) in the capital next week, said a senior Indian Army officer. The deputy chief of the Canadian Army will participate in the conference of top military leaders from 30 nations in the region, Major General Abhinaya Rai, additional director general, strategic planning, said on Wednesday, describing China as an «important partner» of the IPACC initiative. «It (the diplomatic row) doesn't impact us. The Canadian chief is coming here.
20.09 / 18:35
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US Fed holds rate unchanged: Read full text from policy statement
US Federal Reserve today announced that it has left its key interest rate unchanged as inflation pressure is easing a bit. The Federal Open Market Committee have though signaled one more rate hike this year. Here is the full text of the policy statement issued by the US Federal Reserve -- Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a solid pace.
20.09 / 18:21
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Action
Strategy
country
information
prevention
Five-pronged strategy adopted to counter Khalistanis
India to using diplomatic strategy on taking up roles of foreign-based Khalistan sympathisers, the Centre has adopted a five-pronged strategy to counter radical Khalistan propaganda within and outside the country. The strategy includes identification and seizure of cross-border smuggling of narcotics, weapons from Pakistan, preventing jailed gangsters from operating in prisons and action against radical and Khalistan activities in Punjab, said official sources. The Union home ministry has been sharing details of anti-India activities on foreign soil with the missions of the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and Canada.
20.09 / 18:21
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US President Joe Biden invited for India's Republic Day parade: US Ambassador Eric Garcetti
Joe Biden for Republic Day celebrations in January next year, US Ambassador Eric Garcetti disclosed on Wednesday, adding that the invite was extended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the sidelines of the G 20 summit in the capital earlier this month. There has been speculation that India will invite leaders of the Quad nations — US, Japan and Australia — for the annual parade but there has been no official confirmation of the same. Garcetti did not comment on the possibility of other leaders being invited for the celebrations. Biden could be the second US President to take part in Indian Republic Day celebrations after Barak Obama who was the Chief Guest in 2015.
20.09 / 18:21
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Reserve
Federal Reserve keeps interest rate steady, says inflation remains elevated
Federal Open Market Committee kept its interest rates steady in a range of 5.25% to 5.5%, a 22-year high, after the end of its two-day meeting. Majority of economists polled by Bloomberg had expected the Federal Reserve to pause its interest-rate hikes, though a recent spike in oil prices has raised concerns another hike may lie ahead. From March 2022 through May 2023 the Fed raised rates at 10 successive meetings — by anywhere from a quarter to three quarters of a point — as it fought the worst rise of inflation since the early 1980s.
20.09 / 18:19
COST
reports
travelers
'If I look at my bank balance, it is 900 euros': India's number 1 tennis player Sumit Nagal
₹1 crore that keeps him going on the ATP Tour, is now left with less than ₹1 lakh in his bank account, reported NDTV. Nagal, who has been training at the Nansel Tennis Academy in Germany for a few years, is in such a condition that he may not be able to train at his favorite place in the first three months of season 2023. Before he finally managed to fund his stay in Germany, his friends Somdev Devvarman and Christopher Marquis helped him stay in shape in January and February.
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