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air quality in the national capital was recorded in the 'very poor' category in several areas, as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The overall air quality in the national capital stood at 356 at 9 am, according to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) data. As per the CPCB data, the air quality in Anand Vihar and Ashok Vihar was recorded as ‘Very Poor’ category with AQI at 379 and 382 respectively.

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). As per the official data, the air quality in Anand Vihar and Ashok Vihar was recorded as 'Very Poor'. Anand Vihar had an AQI reading of 388, while Ashok Vihar had an AQI reading of 386 at 6 a.m.

Sandeep Reddy Vanga & Ranbir Kapoor seems to have worked wonders at the box-office! ‘Animal’ has performed spectacularly well at the box-office. As per a report by the Indian box-office tracking portal Sacnilk.com, the action drama earned a staggering Rs 61 crore on its opening day. On the second day, the movie collected Rs 2.94 crore (and counting), thereby taking the total earnings to an impressive Rs 63.94 crore. This magnificent opening day figure puts ‘Animal’ as the second -biggest opener of 2023, right behind Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Jawan’ which collected Rs 75 crore on day one. ‘Animal’ also marks the biggest first-day earnings for an A-rated (adult rated) film in India. It is also the biggest opener in Kapoor’s career, surpassing the Rajkumar Hirani directorial ‘Sanju’ which opened to Rs 34.75 crore.

Google has reached a $27 million settlement with employees who accused it of unfair labour practices, the media reported According to a report in Semafor that looked into California state court documents, this is a record for the largest agreement of its kind.

For sure, key U.S. jobs data will test the exuberance, while Australia's central bank could reinforce a view that rates have peaked. Here's your week ahead in financial markets from Ira Iosebashvili in New York, Kevin Buckland in Tokyo, Naomi Rovnick and Marc Jones in London and Yoruk Bahceli in Amsterdam. SANTA'S BEEN Christmas has come early with global stocks posting their best monthly performance in three years in November and global investment-grade bonds returning almost 4% — the best month on record going back to 1997. Now, the early Santa rally risks running into a central bank Grinch. Markets price rate cuts as early as the first half of 2024.

equity gauges Friday towered above shrinking benchmarks in export-focused Asian economies to leap to a record, with higher-than-expected economic growth, softer energy prices and subdued US bond yields drawing both overseas and local funds to domestic risk assets. Traders have factored in victories for the BJP in the latest round of state polls and their results, to be announced Sunday, may have a bearing on the short-term directional trend for stocks, although most analysts believe the indices will climb through December. The Nifty gained 134.75 points, or 0.67%, to close at 20,267.90, after an intraday high of 20,291.55. The Sensex climbed 492.75 points, or 0.74%, to close at 67481.19.

University of Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, who jointly investigated babies' ability to process phonetic information during their first year for their findings published in the 'Nature Communications' journal. They concluded that parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic information, in their first months. «Our research shows that the individual sounds of speech are not processed reliably until around seven months, even though most infants can recognise familiar words like 'bottle' by this point,» said Goswami.

prison stabbing of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd. John Turscak stabbed Chauvin 22 times in the law library at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, with an improvised knife, federal prosecutors said. Turscak, 52, told correctional officers he would've killed Chauvin had they not responded so quickly, prosecutors said. Turscak later told FBI agents that he'd been thinking about assaulting Chauvin for about a month because he is a high-profile inmate but denied wanting to kill him, prosecutors said. Turscak told the agents that he attacked Chauvin on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, as a symbolic connection to the Black Lives Matter movement and the «Black Hand» symbol associated with the Mexican Mafia gang, prosecutors said. An attorney for Turscak was not listed in court records and Turscak, who has represented himself in numerous court matters from prison, remained in custody on Friday. Chauvin, 47, was sent to FCI Tucson from a maximum-security Minnesota state prison in August 2022 to simultaneously serve a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd's civil rights and a 22½-year state sentence for second-degree murder. Chauvin's lawyer, Eric Nelson, had advocated for keeping him out of general population and away from other inmates, anticipating he'd be a target.

Roswell, N.M. — The International UFO Museum & Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico, is celebrating an out-of-this-world milestone: 5 million visitors.

Sensex ended 492.75 points, or 0.74%, higher at 67,481.19, while the Nifty 50 rose 134.75 points, or 0.67%, to settle at 20,267.90. The Nifty Midcap 100 index closed 1.10% higher at 43,382.40 and the Nifty Smallcap 100 index closed 0.48% higher at 14,239.30. Analysts believe the stock market next week will be driven by economic data releases from the US, India, and China, while the focus will be on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) monetary policy meeting.

A post shared by Rafa Nadal (@rafaelnadal) Nadal has not played since his defeat in the second round of the Australian Open last January as he struggled with a hip injury during the tournament he won in 2009 and 2022. "I think I don't deserve to end like this," said Nadal, 37, of his Melbourne exit. The Spaniard has undergone surgery twice since and having slumped to 663rd in the world declared in September that the 2024 season would probably be his last.

Eli Lilly announced that the drug Jaypirca has been given second approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on Friday, December 1. The drug is used to treat a form of blood cancer.

Also Read: US stock market ends higher as Powell raises peak rate hopes; S&P logs highest close of year Could this time be different? Perhaps. While Fed Chair Jerome Powell pushed back Friday on the prospects for interest-rate cuts, the central bank’s historic tightening campaign is seen as game over across markets. At the same time, the risk-on exuberance is working against Powell’s goal of tightening financial conditions, a back-and-forth dynamic that has contributed to the demise of past rallies.

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell bolstered the view that key policy rates have peaked. All three major US stock indexes gained, notching their fifth consecutive weekly percentage gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 294.61 points, or 0.82%, to end at 36,245.5, while the S&P 500 surged 26.83 points, or 0.59%, to 4,594.63 -- its highest level since March 2022.

As Bitcoin (BTC) surged passed $38,000 in November, the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) has tapped a new all-time high for assets under management (AUM).

LONDON (Reuters) — Festive cheer has come early to world markets (bar those dollar bulls) on growing certainty that central banks will start slashing interest rates next year.

Canadian private capital group Brookfield has raised a record-sized US$28 billion infrastructure fund as institutional investors plough cash into strategies they expect will benefit from higher interest rates and a shift away from globalization.

₹7,378 crore attracted bids worth a whopping ₹2.6 trillion. The Indian economy expanded 7.6% in the second quarter, Thursday’s data showed, beating expectations by a wide margin.

I previously discussed a slate of recessionary indicators with high correlations to recessionary onsets. However, as we head into 2024, many Wall Street economists predict a “soft landing” or “no recession” outcome for the economy.

₹10,522.36 crore of Indian equities, while they sold ₹8,932.75 crore --- resulting in an inflow of ₹1,589.61 crore on Friday. Meanwhile, DIIs invested ₹11,173.05 crore and offloaded ₹9,724.97 crore, registering an inflow of ₹1,448.08 crore. ‘’Indian equities gained for the fifth consecutive week driven by strong economic data, healthy corporate earnings and cheerful festive season.

Key Advisors Wealth Management co-founder and CEO Eddie Ghabour discusses the state of the consumer ahead of the 2023 holiday shopping season on Varney & Co.