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AP, the charges accuse him of instructing a staff member to delete camera footage at his Florida property, with the alleged intention of obstructing the federal investigation into his possession of the records. AP further noted that the newly unsealed indictment not only adds new counts of obstruction but also includes charges of willful retention of national defence information.

Google Doodle is celebrating the 148th birthday of Belgian educator and one of the first feminists, Isabelle Gatti de Gamond. Gatti is responsible for founding the first secondary school for women in Belgium and is credited with writing the book on the country's female education system. Born in Paris on 28 July 1839, Gatti de Gamond's family moved to Brussels when she was just 5 years old.

Buy or sell stocks for today: On the last trade session of July Series Future & Option (F&O) contract, key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market ended in red territory. NSE Nifty ended 118 points lower at 19,659 levels whereas BSE Sensex shed 440 points and closed at 66,266 mark. Bank Nifty index went down 383 points and finished at 45,679 levels.

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday fielded a question about the “Barbie" movie and Taylor Swift's “Eras Tour" after the US central bank raised interest rates again, according to a report by Business Insider. Jeanna Smialek of the New York Times asked Powell whether he thought massive demand for “Barbie" and Eras tickets were signs that “the American consumer is in very good shape". The Fed chair responded by highlighting the economy's overall strength – but warned that too large of a rebound in growth could lead to prices soaring again, said the report.

Southwest Airlines is reporting a $683 million profit for the second quarter, and revenue is a quarterly record as planes are packed during the peak summer travel season

Ten years after publishing her book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead,” Sheryl Sandberg will launch a girls leadership program Thursday through her foundation to respond to what she calls stubborn gender inequities

Volkswagen has seen after-tax earnings fall by 20% in the first half of the year from the same period last year

Sweet Magnolias, a popular drama series on Netflix, made its debut in May 2020 and has since become one of the streaming platform's most cherished shows, often compared to Virgin River. The series is an adaptation of Sherryl Woods' book series and was developed by Sheryl J. Anderson. It features talented actors, such as JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott and Heather Headley. Recently, the third season, which comprises 10 episodes, was released worldwide on Netflix on July 20, 2023.

Oppenheimer’ has landed in yet another controversy. Did the scientist really want to poison the tutor he dislike, change his mind later and somehow save the man from dying? As the director and producer claim that the movie is based on the actual life and biography of the father of the atomic bomb, this question becomes important and demands an explanation. The film traces the life of Robert J Oppenheimer from his early days to becoming the father of the first atomic bomb and the time when he was accused of being anti-national and communist. The biopic ‘Oppenheimer’ shows a sequence in which Robert Oppenheimer injects poison into the apple of Patrick Blackett, a Cambridge University tutor, he hates. Later he changes his decision and prevents the tutor to eat the poisoned apple. But it is not clear if the theoretical physicist really wanted to kill the Cambridge University tutor. Christopher Nolan was inspired by ‘American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer’, written by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin and this incident was described in the book. But talking to the 'Time’ magazine, the physicist’s grandson Charles Oppenheimer called it a ‘historical revision’. But ‘American Prometheus’ claims that Oppenheimer himself described this incident, but it is not clear if the incident has been exaggerated. Another point of contention in this controversy is the nature o the poison. The book suggests that a non-lethal poison might have been injected and not cyanide. Another book, ‘A Life Inside the Center’ written by Ray Monk also describes this incident. It also says that Oppenheimer’s intention might have been to make the tutor seriously sick.

Spain recovered 86% of its pre-pandemic tourist arrivals in 2022, and arrivals this year already show a 28% increase over 2019 levels. France follows closely with year-to-date international visitors numbering just 3% less than before the Covid-19 pandemic and their spending at record levels, according to Atout France, a government tourism agency. The US, on the other hand, is falling behind. International tourist arrivals remain at 26% below pre-pandemic levels, according to a June 2023 monthly report from the US Travel Association, with spending slower, too. At the close of 2022, international visitor spending in the US was at $99 billion, just over 50% of where it stood in 2019. That’s a far cry from 2019, when the US received 79.4 million visitors, who spent $181 billion. “The lag is very significant, and we are very concerned,” says Geoff Freeman, US Travel’s chief executive officer. “We estimate that this year alone we’re going to lose about 2.6 million international visitors and $7 billion less in spending.” The US travel industry isn’t expected to recover to 2019 levels until 2025. Those two additional years will translate into “billions of dollars of lost spending, of lost jobs,” says Freeman.

₹25,900 crore. According to a research by Mint based on regulatory filings of 300 companies, in April-June, LIC sold shares in at least 87 leading Indian companies worth ₹25,900 crore—the highest ever for LIC in the first quarter of a financial year.

Dynasty Financial Partners announced Thursday that it’s tapping veteran business broadcaster Ron Insana as the firm’s new chief market strategist. Dynasty, which provides technology-enabled wealth management solutions and business services for financial advisory firms, said Insana will join the firm’s investment committee and the investment committees of Dynasty Network firms.

Air India on Thursday said it will start direct flights between Delhi and Dhaka from September 15. The airline already operates flights between Kolkata and Dhaka.

Reuters released a special report Thursday detailing an investigation into claims that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) manipulated the dashboard displays in its electric vehicles to artificially enhance driving range projections. The report further explains the existence of a «Diversion Team» within the company to cancel range-related service appointments, leading to customer dissatisfaction and range anxiety.

The climate-change movement is a powerful cultural entity. It does not affirm or negate the reality of its core narrative, which is for science to decide. Culture does, however, explain the power and prevalence of the narrative, the political and societal responses to it and the apparent willingness of many people to incur immense cost to avert a supposed existential threat, without proof of either its existence or our ability to alter its impact. In a new book available from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, The Grip of Culture: the Social Psychology of Climate Change Catastrophism, Andy A. West, who works for the Philosophy Foundation in London, provides an academic analysis of the phenomenon. Its lessons have particular relevance to Canada’s climate obsession.

HomeEquity Bank, Canada’s largest provider of reverse mortgages, is seeking to sell senior bonds denominated in local currency, according to chief financial officer Atul Chandra.

Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) on Thursday said its net profit rose 23% year-on-year at ₹530.84 crore for the first quarter ended June 30 of fiscal year 2024. Its profit after tax stood at ₹431.49 crore in the corresponding period last year.

Shivamogga, opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi early this year, will receive its first flight on August 31, Infrastructure Development Minister MB Patil said. Indigo Airlines has initiated bookings for the scheduled first journey from Bengaluru to Shivamogga on August 31.

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IIFL Finance on Thursday reported a 43 per cent growth in net income to Rs 473 crore for the June 2023 quarter on higher loan growth led by gold and home finance. While gold loans grew 29 per cent, home finance jumped 23 per cent, and microfinance loans soared 63 per cent, and loans against property grew 54 per cent, pushing the overall loan sales by 31 per cent to Rs 68,178 crore, of which off-book assets stood at Rs 26,663 crore, up 45 per cent, the company said in a statement. Its income rose 21 per cent year-on-year to Rs 1,420 crore, the company said.

Tata Group backed Indian Hotels Company reported revenue from operations of Rs 1466 crore for the quarter ended June, up 16% year on year. The company clocked a profit of Rs 236 crore, up 30.3% year on year.IHCL MD and CEO Puneet Chhatwal said it was a 'historical' quarter one with the highest ever revenue and profit after tax numbers reported by the chain.