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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The annual festival season that typically sees a scramble for gold may see a fall in demand this time, the first in four years, as runaway prices put the yellow metal out of reach for many Indians. Gold price nearing ₹80,000 per 10 gm has curbed new purchases and turned customers to exchanging old ornaments in the December quarter, jewellers said, a time when festivals and weddings spark gold purchases.

Harris and Donald Trump invited star power to the campaign trail Saturday, as they took shots at each other's endurance and urged early voting in battleground states key to the ever-tightening US presidential race. At rallies in Detroit and Atlanta Harris brought out pop stars Lizzo and Usher respectively to warm up her crowds, while painting her rival Trump as exhausted and unhinged. The Republican running for a second go in the White House countered those accusations with a marathon speech in Pennsylvania, as billionaire Elon Musk campaigned for him elsewhere in the state.

US indictment linking a former Indian agent to a foiled bid to assassinate Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun paints a «compelling and detailed portrait» of «a single plot» emanating from Delhi to kill multiple targets across North America, especially in Canada and the US, Canada's most recent envoy to India Cameron MacKay has alleged. In an interview to CBC News, MacKay, who left India in August, said both Canada and the US are probing the matter, adding it was «a fiasco on the part of the Indian government» to think that it could carry out crimes in Canada and the US and get away with it. New Delhi expelled Canadian Charge d'Affaires Stewart Wheeler and five other diplomats following Ottawa's fresh allegations of the Indian government's involvement in the killing of Sikh extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil last year. The Canadian diplomats left New Delhi on Friday evening. India also recalled its High Commissioner and five more diplomats and they are also on their way back to India. The Canadian government had said the Indian diplomats were expelled from the country.

Russia's top diplomat has said that his country believes that India, Brazil and African countries should be represented in the UN Security Council on a permanent basis to ensure the representativeness of the global majority, state-owned TASS news agency reported on Sunday. «Countries such as India, Brazil, as well as representatives of Africa should have been on a permanent basis in the Security Council for a long time. This is necessary to ensure representativeness, representation of the global majority,» Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told aif.ru. in an interview, TASS reported. India has been at the forefront of years-long efforts calling for reform of the Security Council, including expansion in both its permanent and non-permanent categories, saying the 15-nation Council, founded in 1945, is not fit for purpose in the 21st Century and does not reflect contemporary geo-political realities. Delhi has underscored that it deserves a permanent seat at the horse-shoe table. Last month, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron in backing India's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The remote Pacific airfield used to launch the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II is being revived with a different foe in mind: China. Runways emerging from the encroaching jungles on the tiny island of Tinian, a U.S.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India could play a vital role in setting a precedent that works both for OTT (over-the-top) players and telecom service providers insofar as imposing a fair-share levy on streaming platforms is concerned, Julian Gorman, head of Asia-Pacific at GSMA, a London-based lobby that represents mobile network operators globally. Telecom service providers want big OTT players such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video that generate large data traffic to pay a mutually-decided fair charge to create and maintain digital telecom infrastructure.

Elon Musk has recently launched a provocative initiative, offering voters the chance to win up to $1 million for signing a petition that supports constitutional rights. As the Tesla CEO intensifies his support for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, this effort has raised questions among election law experts about its legality. Musk’s super PAC, Elon's America PAC, is promoting this campaign primarily in battleground states, including Pennsylvania, leading to discussions about whether these financial incentives may violate federal election laws.

Netflix has been facing tough competition in the UK from BBC iPlayer which has also outpaced its rivals such as ITVX and Channel 4 in terms of growth, as per a report. BBC Content Boss Charlotte Moore in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter claimed that the viewing growth of BBC iPlayer has been more than that of Netflix, ITVX and Channel 4 in the UK. BBC iPlayer has also become the VOD platform with the fastest growth in the UK, as per the report in The Hollywood Reporter.

Americans who think of petrified hot dogs, frozen burritos and salty snacks when they imagine getting food at a gas station or truck stop may be pleasantly surprised during their next road trip: U.S. convenience stores are offering them more and better...

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Ukraine struck a manufacturer of military explosives deep inside Russian territory overnight, as well as storage infrastructure at a military airfield in the Lipetsk region, Kyiv's General Staff said in a statement on Sunday. Russian air defence units downed 110 Ukrainian drones over the country, Russia's defence ministry said, including one over the Moscow region, 43 over the border region of Kursk, and 27 over southwestern Lipetsk region. The Russian SHOT Telegram channel reported that drones attempted to strike the Ya. M. Sverdlov State Owned Enterprise in Dzerzhinsk city, Nizhny Novgorod region, about 400 km (250 miles) east of Moscow.

Kamala Harris who is running for the post of President in the upcoming US elections has recieved resounding support from America's leading music industry pop stars during her presidential campaign rallies. In the final weeks before November's presidential election, two of the Democratic nominee's events were headlined by prominent musicians from the American music industry. Al Jazeera noted that at Harris's first stop, in Detroit, Michigan, the singer and rapper Lizzo warmed up the crowd with a passionate on-stage endorsement.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even if he does oversee a soft landing for the US economy, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell will not deserve a place in the annals of history as the greatest central banker of all time. Not because bringing down inflation without causing a recession is as much a matter of luck as of skill—and economists will spend years debating how much of each Powell had—but because the mistakes the Fed made in 2021 will haunt the US economy for years to come.

Hezbollah on the defensive after a series of heavy Israeli blows, the United States and Iran are locked in a showdown over Lebanon's future, analysts said. Hezbollah, the most powerful regional force backed by Iran, which arms and finances it, has long held sway in Lebanon. But the group's influence is now in question after Israel's assassination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in a significant setback.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If you feel the urge to put tape over your webcam, change your passwords and make your social media accounts private, you’re not alone.

Gold, of late, has stopped showing much reaction to traditional drivers like the US yields, the US Dollar Index, key macroeconomic data, etc as bulls are now focused primarily on uncertainties over the US presidential election outcome. In addition, the metal is extending its gains on synchronised global rate cuts, ETF inflows and geopolitical factors also. Spot gold closed with a gain of over 1% at $2721 on Friday, and was up nearly 2.2% on the week.

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Around 20 companies from Asia Pacific are listing shares next week in deals that may raise as much as $8.3 billion, the biggest weekly volume since April 2022, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The heavy supply includes deals from China, India and Japan, underscoring the broad revival in share sales across the region.

The two documents were prepared in recent days by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which is responsible for analyzing images and information collected by American spy satellites. They began circulating Friday on the Telegram app and were being discussed by largely pro-Iran accounts. The documents, which offer interpretations of satellite imagery, provide insight into a potential strike by Israel on Iran in the coming days. Such a strike has been anticipated in retaliation for an Iranian assault earlier this month, which was itself a response to an Israeli attack.

IT companies—Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro, Tech Mahindra and LTIMindtree hired more than 17,500 employees in total in the September quarter. This marked a reversal of declining headcount trend in the over $250-billion Indian IT industry after nearly seven quarters. HCLTech was the only company from the top tier to see its workforce reduce by 780 people last quarter largely due to its divestment of a joint venture with US-based State Street. India’s IT industry had shed a record more than 70,000 employees in FY24. The first quarter of this fiscal year saw a cumulative decline of 1,750 employees.

Facebook and WhatsApp parent Meta has invited comments from the public on the posting of immigration-related content that may be harmful to immigrants and shared two cases that Facebook moderators decided to keep on the platform. The board plans to assess whether Meta’s decision to only protect refugees, migrants, immigrants, and asylum seekers from the most severe attacks on its social media platforms under its hate speech policy is adequate. The board is funded by the social media giant but operates independently. After gathering public comments, it can issue non-binding policy recommendations to Meta.