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Air India has introduced an integrated self-baggage drop and self-kiosk check-in service at Terminal 3 Delhi airport for domestic and international flights, becoming the first Indian carrier to do so. The service is currently available for all Australia-bound flights as well as all for all flights within India. Rajesh Dogra, Chief Customer Experience & Ground Handling Officer, Air India, said, “This facility eliminates the queue waiting time for check-in over the counters and helps travellers to nearly breeze through the airport.

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Chinese farmer Wei Fuyou clearly remembers the moment four years ago when he first watched a video clip showing that durian, a pungent fruit with a smell reminiscent of gym socks, could be grown on the tropical island of Hainan, where he lives. “That means I can grow them, too!" he recalls yelping. Wei promptly cut down some of his betel nut palms and planted 400 durian trees in their place.

Develop Global boss Bill Beament has lashed out at an independent expert finding that its takeover offer for lithium hopeful Essential Metals is “not fair but reasonable”.

Interim Newcrest Mining chief executive Sherry Duhe has taken to social media to assure former Fortescue chief financial officer Christine Morris that she made a “very wise” decision to quit the iron ore miner last month.

Maratha leader Manoj Jarange Patil finally ended on Thursday after CM Eknath Shinde personally met the Maratha leader and gave him an assurance that the Maratha community in the state would soon get reservation benefits. «We want the Maratha community to get reservations; we are committed to giving it to the community, without it impacting any other community's reservation benefits.»said Shinde at Antarwali village in Jalna where he had gone to meet Jarange Patil. The Maratha leader had wanted a personal assurance from the Shinde and the two Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar as a pre condition for ending his indefinite fast.

New Delhi: In view of Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, the Union minister of state (health) Bharati Pravin Pawar reviewed the steps taken by the Centre and the state governments to contain the spread of the virus. She visited the ICMR’s National Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune to discuss the matter with the scientists who are closely monitoring the situation. The Central government has deputed a high-level team from NIV with mobile units equipped with BSL-3 laboratories to Kerala’s Kozhikode to conduct on-ground testing.

G20 presidency has been a resounding success. With 112 outcomes and documents, India's presidency more than doubled the substantive work done under other presidencies.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Thursday said that the Government has chart out a plan to promote fruit wine industry in the State. He said that a robust policy has been put in place to promote a thriving ecosystem that links tourism, agriculture, entrepreneurship, and job creation through the promotion of local fruit winemakers. Speaking at the launch of North East Wine Incubation Centre at Mawdiangdiang in Shillong, the Chief Minister recalled moment when he encountered a homemade pineapple wine with a simple, handcrafted label on a beer bottle, which stemmed the idea to devise strategy to promote professional wine making and packaging. “Despite the unimpressive packaging, the wine inside was exceptional.

An industrial park being built in Indonesia on the tropical island of Borneo that has attracted billions of dollars in foreign and domestic investment is damaging the environment in an area where endangered species live and migrate

Hyderabad, ten senior students have been suspended following allegations of ragging. As per a TOI report, the unfortunate episode unfolded when 30 first-year students were summoned to the seniors' rooms around 2 am, subjected to various forms of harassment, and forced into acts that have left them traumatized. During the harrowing ordeal, the freshers were coerced into consuming alcohol, smoking cigarettes, and even forced to strip down, sources with knowledge of the matter told TOI. To make matters worse, the seniors used derogatory language to taunt the juniors who had joined the institution only a mere two to three days earlier.

Many bosses this fall are asking employees to spend more time in the office, talking up the joys of face-to-face collaboration and workplace camaraderie. Some workers are bringing headphones to tune out all the chatter. “It helps me feel like I’m in my own universe," said headphone-wearer Braydon Bippley, a 24-year-old social-media manager in Austin, Texas.

₹5,923 per gram. The government, in consultation with the RBI, has decided to offer a discount of ₹50 per gram less than the nominal value to investors applying online and making the payment against the application through digital mode. For such investors, the issue price of gold bond will be ₹5,873 per gram.

Badrinath temple, known as 'Singh Dwar'. As per an exclusive TOI report, the cracks were initially noticed several weeks ago but were not disclosed to the public.

Biden administration has assured the Indian government of a quick investigation into the death of Indian student Jaahnavi Kandula in Seattle after being struck by a speeding police patrol car and bringing to justice the police officers who were responsible for it. The US government swung into action after India's Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, strongly raised the issue at the highest level in Washington and sought prompt action on the killing of Kandula, and the highly insensitive behaviour of the police officer in Seattle in Washington state. Kandula was killed in January after she was struck by a police vehicle driven by Officer Kevin Dave.

Narendra Modi. The mission envisages the sustainable extraction of ocean resources to bolster India’s economic growth, and job creation. It will also ensure the health of marine ecosystems.

An operator at Rich Lister Tim Gurner’s wellness and anti-ageing network has sought to calm the nerves of staff, assuring them the founder’s viral comments about entitled workers were not directed at them.

Digantara and Bunpai India — took an early lead as the 11-member ET Startup Awards jury deliberated on the Best on Campus category. Finally, after two rounds of discussions and a secret voting, Digantara, a spacetech startup, emerged as the unanimous winner. With Chandrayaan-3’s historic Moon landing fresh in everyone’s mind, several factors helped clinch the win for Digantara Research & Technologies. The jury praised not just its technology prowess, but also highlighted how it was able to start up in a complex segment from campus and build traction in a crowded space that has recently seen a lot of entrepreneur and investor interest.

Karl Greenwood, the co-founder of infamous crypto scam OneCoin, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York judge.

By Ron Bousso and Shadia Nasralla

Stable Money, an online marketplace providing fixed-income investment opportunities to investors was launched and is now ready for customers to download, said the company through its press release on Wednesday. The digital platform compares FD interest rates from over 200 banks, enabling customers to manage and track their FDs using digital tools. Stable Money, which recently secured funding from Matrix and Lightspeed, has on-boarded quite a few partner banks and NBFCs, such as Utkarsh Small Finance Bank, Shivalik Small Finance Bank, Shriram Finance Limited, among others, to offer their fixed-income products, said the press release. The company, while launching the platform, introduced a set of new features such as Break FD, FD Laddering and Switch FD. 'Break FD' offers investors to access funds before maturity without returns. Next is 'FD Laddering' which will guide investors to maintain a balanced portfolio by considering both liquidity and returns.