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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said competition between the world’s biggest economies is not a “winner-take-all” situation, and called for both sides to manage their rivalry with a fair set of rules.

Narendra Modi on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, alleging that corruption was its biggest ideology, and accused the grand old party of stalling the development of Chhattisgarh, where elections are due by the year-end. Chhattisgarh has become an ATM for the Congress, the PM alleged while addressing a rally at the Science College ground in Raipur, where he inaugurated and laid foundation stones of eight projects worth around Rs 7,600 crore. In his first visit to the Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh after being elected as the prime minister for the second term in 2019, Modi said if the Congress was a guarantee for corruption, he himself was a guarantee for action against graft.

Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh, India, took an unexpected turn when groom decided to cancel the marriage after seeing the bride and her mother engaging in an inappropriate behavior. The bride shocked onlookers by blowing kisses to the guests, while her mother brazenly smoked cigarettes and blew smoke into the faces of attendees. Disturbed by the conduct, the groom made decided to cancel the marriage, deeming their actions as «filthy» towards the wedding guests.

Medicare and Medicaid Services said Thursday that it will now expand coverage of the drug, broadening access for up to an estimated million people with early forms of the disease. “Today’s action is the first verification that a drug targeting the underlying disease process of Alzheimer’s disease has shown clinical benefit in this devastating disease," Teresa Buracchio, acting director of the Office of Neuroscience in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in the announcement.

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Reliance owned Viacom 18 bagged media rights for broadcasting the first ever edition of Major League Cricket (MLC) on Friday, the company said in a release. While the details of the deal were not mentioned, the Reliance flagship announced that the coverage will be on multiple platforms including live streaming on JioCinema and broadcast television coverage on Sports18.

Scott Morrison had misled the cabinet about the scheme in an earlier ministerial role. The report recommended unnamed people be referred for prosecution or civil action over the automated «robodebt» programme, designed to ensure welfare recipients were not underreporting income and over-receiving government payments. Computer algorithms for the scheme, in place from July 2015 to November 2019, wrongly calculated that hundreds of thousands of Australians owed money and, with little to no human oversight, the programme recovered A$1.76 billion ($1.17 billion).

Lok Sabha elections. Ajit Pawar, who recently joined the BJP government as the deputy chief minister, is believed to be considering giving the Shirur Lok Sabha ticket to his son Parth. Parth Pawar had previously made an unsuccessful electoral debut in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, where he lost from the Maval constituency.

Reddit is forcing some moderators to remove the NSFW (Not Safe for Work) label. Many subreddits have used the tactic of changing their community's label to NSFW as a form of protest against Reddit's new API pricing, which has caused many third-party applications to shut down. Reddit has now threatened to take action against the moderators of some of these communities, such as r/military and r/PICS, according to The Verge.

violent rhetoric’ against India's Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu and said free speech does not mean a license to incite violence or vandalise property. Congressmen Ro Khanna in a tweet said that act is dangerous and has no place in a democracy. He also added that free speech does not mean a license to incite violence.

Riz Ahmed will be honoured with a career achievement award at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival. The 40-year-old actor, known for his performances in "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", «Nightcrawler», «Sound of Metal» and HBO miniseries «The Night Of», will be feted with the Excellence Award Davide Campari on the opening night of the festival on August 2, the organisers said in a statement. The 76th edition of the festival, which will run till August 12 at Switzerland's resort city of Locarno, will also be premiering Ahmed's new short film "Dammi", directed by Yann Mounir Demange.

equity market is expected to open lower Friday following weakness in global peers. The Asian markets traded lower amid a sell-off on Wall Street triggered after stronger than expected jobs data increased fears of more interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve. Trends on Gift Nifty also indicated a flat-to-lower start for the Indian indices.

Elon Musk, Musk took to Twitter and responded to different threads with jabs directed at Mark Zuckerberg. In response to DogeDesigner's tweet suggesting that Meta's new app logo resembles a tapeworm, Musk humorously replied, "Metaphorically too." Meanwhile, a username Enrique, said, "no following tab on threads? uninstalled." Musk replied, by saying, “A closed source, algorithm-only system means that manipulation of what information people see is essentially undetectable." Meanwhile, Twitter responded on Thursday by threatening to sue Meta, according to the publication Semafor, citing a letter delivered to Zuckerberg by a lawyer for Twitter.

«We expect the market uptrend to continue with stock-specific action. Global cues were weak due to the release of hawkish minutes of the Federal Reserve’s June meeting,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Option data suggests a broader trading range in between 19200 to 19700 zones while an immediate trading range in between 19350 to 19600 zones. Here's breaking down the pre-market actions:STATE OF THE MARKETSGIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a negative start GIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded 61.5 points, or 0.31 per cent, lower at 19,488, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for negative start on Friday.

₹10 lakh on his head, was shot dead outside a gurdwara in Canada last month. In a joint statement issued on Thursday, Congressmen Ro Khanna and Michael Waltz, co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, said violence against diplomatic facilities will not be tolerated. "As the co-chairs of the India Caucus, we strongly condemn the attempted arson and vandalism at the Indian Consulate in San Francisco and the posters circulating on social media with violent rhetoric aimed at Indian diplomats, including Ambassador Sandhu," they said.

Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking a stay on his conviction today, July 7. Earlier in May this year, Gujarat HC reserved its order on Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking a stay on his conviction in the 2019 'Modi surname' defamation case. The court refused to grant any interim relief to Rahul Gandhi.

rupee on Thursday closed at its weakest level versus the US dollar in almost a month as the minutes of the Federal Reserve's latest meeting indicated that monetary policy would continue to be tightened in the world's largest economy, thus narrowing the rate differential with India. The domestic currency closed at 82.51 per US dollar down 22 paise from the previous day's close. Thursday's level is the weakest closing for the rupee since June 8 while the price action marks the sharpest single-day decline for the rupee since June 5, Bloomberg data showed.

Sweltering heat is blanketing much of the planet, and one unofficial analysis says the past seven days have been the hottest week on record, the latest grim milestone in a series of climate-change-driven extremes. On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration distanced itself from the designation, compiled by the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world’s condition. That metric showed that Earth’s average temperature on Wednesday remained at an unofficial record high, 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius), set the day before.

Threads, a text-based app built by Meta to rival Twitter, is live. The app, billed as the text version of Meta's photo-sharing platform Instagram, became available Wednesday night to users in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan. Despite some early glitches, 30 million people had signed up before noon on Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Threads.

In a recent tweet, Elon Musk has broken his silence on Meta's Twitter competitor Threads after the news of his lawyers sending a cease and desist letter to Mark Zuckerberg started spreading online. The new app has seen a very successful launch, as Zuckerberg has revealed that more than ten million users signed up within the first seven hours, dwarfing the launch of some other popular platforms. Earlier Thursday, news portal Semafor reported that Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta Platforms over its new, text-based app called Threads, citing a letter sent to Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro.

Blue Lock have been awaiting the release of chapter 224 for sometime, and the wait is almost over. The manga will resume its serialization with the upcoming chapter. It will be released on Tuesday (July 11) for most international fans while in Japan, the viewers will be able to read the new chapter on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, at 12:00 midnight JST. Titled «An Easy Job,» chapter 224 is expected to continue the intense action and gripping storyline. In the previous chapter, the readers witnessed Ubers' new tactical design, which pushed Noel, Isagi and Kaiser to their limits as they defended the goal. Following the intense encounter, Noel shared valuable advice with Isagi, leading him to develop a new winning formula for Bastard Munchen, which involved Raichi Jingo.