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vaccine doses manufactured and distributed across the world in the last one year alone, half of them were manufactured in India, said Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava. She said this while addressing the annual India Leadership Summit 2024, organised by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum here today. Punya said India has emerged as a global leader in pharmaceuticals, being the third-largest producer and a key supplier of generic medicines. This sector's success has resulted in substantial savings for healthcare systems worldwide, including a notable contribution to the US healthcare system.

TQM practices also played an important role in reducing aggregate technical and commercial losses (AT&C) of Tata Power Delhi Distribution (Tata Power DDL) by 30 per cent in the past five years to 5.9 per cent as of March 2024, a company statement said.

steel prices may give some relief to Indian steel makers. A report by Axis Securities highlights that Chinese hot-rolled coil (HRC) steel prices have gone up in September 2024, giving an edge to Indian steel companies.

magicpin on Tuesday said it has crossed the 1.5 lakh-mark for daily order of food and logistics services on the government-backed ONDC platform, registering a 15-times growth over 15 months. magicpin joined the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) network in March last year with 22,000 restaurant partners, which the company has scaled to 70,000, the company said in a statement.

Bitcoin has been distinctly listless in the past three months after starting the year with a bang.

LeBron James grew up without a father, and the top scorer in NBA history has often said he savors every moment and milestone he can experience with his own three children. When he stepped onto a court Sunday night to play alongside his son, Bronny, for the Los Angeles Lakers, this moment was more than basketball history to him. It was the realization of a family dream.

passenger vehicles, two-wheelers and commercial vehicles in September, pulling the overall sales to customers down 9.26% year on year to 1,723,330 units, Federation of Automobile Dealership Associations (Fada) said on Monday. While the passenger vehicle retails have been on a decline for some months now, this is the first monthly sales drop at an aggregate level (across the segments) since the start of this fiscal, indicating a broad-based slowdown in the world’s largest two and three-wheeler market and third-largest car market. Despite steep discounts and attractive consumer offers, car retail sales fell nearly 19% year on year last month. Passenger vehicle (PV) dealers are facing all-time high inventory levels of 80-85 days, equivalent to 790,000 vehicles worth about ₹79,000 crore, due to aggressive dispatches by automakers, Fada said in a statement.

coal exports to India to tap into growing demand for the fuel in the Asian country, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said. China remains the biggest buyer of Russian coal but Moscow has said India may overtake it by the start of the next decade as Beijing plans cutbacks on coal usage for power generation. India has increasingly relied on coal to address record power demand, with the rise in coal-fired power output earlier this year outpacing renewable energy growth for the first time since at least 2019.

GTRI has suggested. It also said that to reduce industrial strikes, India must prioritize protecting workers' rights while maintaining industrial stability and there is an urgent need to take steps to help address labour disputes before they escalate into strikes. «Industrial strikes have led to factory closures and job losses in India for decades,» GTRI founder Ajay Srivastava said, adding that the strike by over 1,000 workers at Samsung's Sriperumbudur factory in Tamil Nadu since September 9 is not an isolated event. He suggested seven steps that includes enforcement of labour laws, setting up mediation systems, union-management dialogue, legal framework for labour compliance, collaboration between centre and states on the subject, and intelligence to detect disruptions.

Corbynista rapper is fuelled. After the two of them attended her movie's premiere together, Angelina Jolie has sparked rumours that she is dating a Corbynista rapper. The British musician and political activist Akala went with the Oscar-winning actress to the Maria screening at the 62nd New York Film Festival on Sunday night at the Lincoln Center. After that, she shared pictures of Akala at an event for her business Ateller Jolie on Instagram. Akala has been Jeremy Corbyn's staunch supporter, praising the former Labour leader as a fundamentally decent human being. Corbyn, for his part, complimented Akala and shared an interview in which she discussed knife crime.

2024 US presidential election draws closer, a new poll sheds light on the political landscape in key «Blue Wall» states. These states, traditionally Democratic strongholds, have become critical battlegrounds after former President Donald Trump's surprise victories in 2016. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—once considered solidly Democratic—are now up for grabs, as per a Fox News report. The latest poll from The New York Times and Siena College reveals a neck-and-neck race between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, highlighting the unpredictable nature of the upcoming election.

Jennifer Aniston has confirmed her secret presidential romance is true. On Wednesday, October 2, the Friends alum appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where she went through a list of tabloid allegations about herself throughout the years, revealing which were true. She said she found the notion entertaining and mentioned that she knows Michelle Obama better. One of the many strange allegations was that she was in a relationship with former US President Barack Obama. During the episode, Kimmel pulled out an August 2024 copy of In Touch magazine, which featured a cover story titled ‘The Truth About Jen and Barack!’ One line beneath the headline read, ‘Michelle betrayed as Aniston steals her husband's attention,’ and another said that Aniston and Obama are obsessed with each other. Also Read:Assassination attempts, threats are reshaping Donald Trump's US election 2024 campaigns. Here's how

The world's biggest economy added 254,000 jobs last month, the Department of Labor said. This was markedly higher than August's 159,000 number, which was also revised higher. The unemployment rate dipped from 4.2 percent to 4.1 percent, added the report.

HDFC bank, Yes bank, CSB Bank and Karur Vysya Bank reported higher deposit growth print than credit growth, in a reversal of the sectoral trend of credit growth outpacing deposit growth over the past two years. India’s largest private sector lender HDFC Bank grew deposits by 15.1% year-on-year at the end of the September quarter taking its total deposit base to Rs 25 lakh crore. Sequentially deposits grew by 5% as it added Rs 1.2 lakh crore worth of deposits in one quarter alone. «Deposit growth is the metric that matters the most for HDFC Bank and it looks healthy, and going by the other banks’ headline metrics that have come in, there is a clear improvement in the liquidity environment,» said Pranav Gundlapalle, head, India financials at Bernstein.

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