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Passenger vehicle sales in India could be weighed down by increase in interest rates for auto loans, if there is no reduction in repo rates going forward as the industry gears up for a single-digit growth this year, according to Maruti Suzuki India Senior Executive Officer (Marketing and Sales) Shashank Srivastava. With a high base of record 41.08 lakh units in 2023, passenger vehicle (PV) sales this year could grow in single digit with the overall economic growth of the country being a positive factor, he said. «The auto industry growth is largely dependent on the growth in the overall economy, the GDP per capita growth that's projected 6-6.5 per cent.

shortly after its issuance. The Department of Education clarified that the earlier order, which extended the winter break, was issued by mistake. A decision on the matter was supposed to be reached on January 8.

Ayodhya has begun, Nagpur's chef, Vishnu Manohar, is set to prepare 7000 kg of 'Ram Halwa' in Ayodhya. Vishnu Manohar has made a special kadhai (cauldron) with a capacity of 12 thousand litres in which he will prepare Ram Halwa for this event to be held in the Ram Mandir premises. Chef Vishnu Manohar said, «The weight of this kadhai is 1300 to 1400 kg. This is made of steel and the central part is made of iron so that when halwa is made, it does not burn. The size is 10 feet by 10 feet.

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Salaar box office collection Day 16: After less than optimal collection on Friday, Prabhas' Salaar: Part One- Ceasefire' saw an improvement in its box office collections, minting ₹5.3 crore on Day 16 in the second week since its release. This is the third Saturday run for the movie. The film, available in Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Hindi has performed well in the first 16 days at the box office, earning a net of ₹387.05 crore in India, according to data by Sacnilk.

Weekend Wrap: From Vodafone Idea to Yes Bank, top news and market movers this week The broader market continued to demonstrate strong performance for the second consecutive week, with the Nifty Midcap 100 recording a gain of 2.5 percent and the Nifty Smallcap 100 showing a 1.9 percent increase. Nevertheless, analysts caution investors to exercise prudence in light of the upcoming results season and ongoing uncertainties in the Red Sea region.

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NCT) citing 'extreme cold waves and IMD's yellow alert'. On January 6, Delhi experienced another day under overcast and foggy conditions, with the daytime peak temperature reaching only 15.2 degrees Celsius and the early morning low settling at 8.9 degrees.

Delhi government has revoked a recently issued order that extended the winter vacation period for schools across the national capital. The Department of Education clarified that the earlier decision to prolong the winter break was a mistake. Consequently, the order has been promptly withdrawn, with an expectation for a resolution on the matter by tomorrow morning. Delhi's Directorate of Education hinted at the possibility of issuing new directives regarding the winter break in the near future. The revised order, dated January 6, 2024, stated, «Order No.DE.23(3)/Sch.Br./2024/18 regarding extension of Winter Vacation stands withdrawn with immediate effect.

reduction in prices and what companies see as a sign of recovery in consumption. Companies like Adani Wilmar, Marico, Dabur and Godrej Consumer Products on Thursday and Friday said in investor notes that there has been volume-led growth in their sales in the October-December period. But value growth came under pressure as companies cut prices from early 2023 to pass on the benefit of lower raw-material costs. India's largest edible oil company, Adani Wilmar that sells the Fortune brand of products, on Friday said it recorded the best-ever volumes in branded oil and foods during the last quarter.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by half last year, according to figures released Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government bolstered environmental policing to crack down on surging destruction. However, the news was far less bright from the crucial Cerrado savanna below the rainforest, where clear-cutting hit a new annual record last year, rising by 43 percent from 2022, according to the national space research agency's DETER surveillance program. Satellite monitoring detected 5,152 square kilometers (nearly 2,000 square miles) of forest cover destroyed in the Brazilian Amazon last year, down 50 percent from 2022. That still represented a loss 29 times the size of Washington DC in Brazil's share of the world's biggest rainforest, whose carbon-absorbing trees play a vital role in curbing climate change. Meanwhile, the Cerrado, a biodiversity hotspot whose ecosystems are intricately linked with the Amazon's, lost over 7,800 square kilometers of native vegetation last year, the highest since monitoring began in 2018. «We saw some important victories on the environment in 2023. The significant reduction in deforestation in the Amazon was a highlight,» said Mariana Napolitano of environmental group WWF-Brasil. «But unfortunately we aren't seeing the same trend in the Cerrado… That is harming the biome and the extremely important ecosystem services it provides.

Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal, an accused in the alleged fraud of Rs 538 crore at Canara Bank, on Saturday told a special court here with "folded hands" that he had «lost every hope of life» and it will be «better if he dies in jail» than living in his present condition. The septuagenarian, who turned teary-eyed, submitted that he misses his wife Anita very badly and said she is in the advanced stage of cancer, according to court records. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Goyal on September 1 last year in connection with the alleged bank fraud.

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Delhi traffic police has informed that the traffic is affected on Mathura road in the carriageway from Ashram Chowk towards Apollo Hospital. They further said that a major fire that has broken out under Modi Mill Flyover alongside Mathura road has caused the traffic snarl. “Traffic is affected on Mathura road in the carriageway from Ashram Chowk towards Apollo Hospital as a major fire has broken out under Modi Mill Flyover alongside Mathura road.

Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday alleged the Enforcement Directorate has mentioned his name in its supplementary charge sheet in the Mahadev betting app case as part of a "political conspiracy" at the behest of its «political masters». The Congress leader also alleged the federal agency has been fraudulently arresting people and pressuring them to give statements against him and his associates. The ED in its second prosecution complaint (charge sheet) filed before a special court in Raipur on January 1 stated that alleged courier Asim Das, arrested in the Mahadev betting app case, who claimed he had been sent to «deliver» cash to Bhupesh Baghel, has retracted his denial of having made the charges.

Ranji Trophy, India's premier red-ball domestic competition, at a number of different locations. There are up to 19 games going on, with 38 teams participating. The Ranji Trophy is currently underway, and Vaibhav Suryavanshi, a great young player from Bihar, has made waves in the cricket world by making his first-class debut.

unlisted companies to go public, Motilal Oswal Financial Services' Chairman Raamdeo Agrawal said on Saturday in the backdrop of a record 42 lakh demat accounts opening in December, which he termed as the biggest economic event that has happened in India after 1992. Agrawal said that well-managed large unlisted companies would want to make their company live beyond themselves and it is only possible by listing the company and separating the management from the ownership and management of the company. Agrawal was speaking at BCAS’ ReImagine 2024 event organised by Bombay Chartered Accountants Society (BCAS) which is celebrating its Platinum Jubilee.

artificial intelligence in June. The dangers that voice-cloning technology pose are only now starting to be uttered aloud. In recent months, most of the attention paid to artificial intelligence (AI) has gone to so-called “large-language models" like ChatGPT, which churn out text.

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Delhi court has granted two-week interim bail to liquor businessman Sameer Mahendru in a money laundering case related to alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy. Special Judge M K Nagpal granted the relief to Mahendru, managing director of liquor distributor Indospirit on an application moved by him seeking relief due to his wife's health issues. The judge noted that during his earlier interim bail granted in the case, the accused did not try to influence any witness or tamper with the evidence in the case. «He cannot be considered to be a flight risk and there is also nothing on record to show or infer that he had ever tried to influence any witness or tamper with or destroy any evidence of this case,» the judge said in an order passed on January 5. According to the prosecution, Mahendru was one of the major beneficiaries of the violations of the excise policy as he was not only running an alcoholic beverage manufacturing unit but also given a wholesale licence along with some retail licences in the name of his relatives. Because of the alleged irregularities and violations, Mahendru earned around Rs 50 crore profit, the prosecution claimed. The ED had registered an enforcement case information report against Mahendru under the relevant provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

«In compliance with the instructions given by District Magistrate Maneesh Kumar Verma in view of the dense fog and extreme cold, all the board (CBSE/ICSE IB, UP Board and others) affiliated schools (from Class nursery to 8) running in the district Gautam Buddh Nagar, will observe holiday till January 14,» it stated. «The order should be strictly followed,» Panwar added. Earlier on Friday, the Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Council (UPBEC) announced a winter vacation for all schools in the state.