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North Western Railway (NWR) official on Thursday. The project is intended to improve the country's railway system testing facilities. Indian Railways is soon going to realize the dream of the country's first fast railway test track, work is in progress 24/7. Construction of the country's first railway test track, being built on the lines of America, Australia and Germany, is underway near Navan City Railway Station in Didwana district of Rajasthan.

But Noshirwan Mistry, who has a large mango orchard in Dapoli in Ratnagiri district, tells me of a less happy reason to make fruit wine. Ratnagiri is ground zero for Alphonsos, the mangoes most prized in Maharashtra and Gujarat. Because of their good travelling properties and early proximity to shipping networks from Mumbai, Alphonsos have also become the Indian mango variety best known abroad.

During the holidays, the airways and roads are going to be busy to a great extent. This is because over 115 million people are predicted to be travelling 50 miles or greater than that from their homes starting from Christmas to New Year’s Day as reported by AAA.

Summer holidays throughout childhood were always spent at the Kolkata home of another aunt, my mother's closest friend and soul sister. What used to be a constant source of curiosity for me back then was the near-identical flavours of their cooking, till I found out that both honed their culinary skills under my maternal grandmother's supervision, thus becoming exponents of her signature style.

The Gilded Age" will be returning for a third season on HBO, the American cable network has announced. The series comes from the creative mind of Julian Fellowes, best known for creating the popular show «Downton Abbey».

Investing.com-- Shares of Chinese gaming giant Tencent and smaller peer Netease fell sharply on Friday after authorities unveiled more regulations aimed at curbing player spending on online gaming.

Flexible office operator Awfis Space Solutions Limited has filed Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), aiming to raise Rs 160 crores through its Initial Public Offering (IPO). The company intends to allocate the net proceeds from the offering towards capital expenditure for establishing new centers, funding working capital requirements, and addressing general corporate needs, as outlined in the DRHP. “Notably, this IPO marks a milestone as the first by any indigenous flexible office operator in India. Despite its small size, Awfis stands out due to its asset-light managed space model and a distinctive managed aggregation supply approach for landlords, resulting in the largest number of centers across the country,” mentioned DRHP. The proposed IPO entails an offer for the sale of up to 10,023,172 equity shares, with Peak XV Partners Investments V, Bisque Limited, and Link Investment Trust planning to offload stakes.

Mint, Zomato Live CEO Zeenah Vilcassim outlined the company's growth trajectory and its aim to make a substantial double-digit contribution to Zomato's topline within three years. Currently, Zomato Live contributes a single-digit percentage to Zomato's overall revenue. "If you look at the scale and the size of the business that we have with online ordering right now and BlinkIt, even a low double-digit is still huge as a business.

On the tarmac of a Moscow airport in late August, Yevgeny Prigozhin waited on his Embraer Legacy 600 for a safety check to finish before it could take off. The mercenary army chief was headed home to St. Petersburg with nine others onboard.

air pollution worsened in 2023, the first time it has done so in a decade, a study released on Friday said. «2023 is the first year that China's national average PM2.5 level has increased year-on-year since the beginning of China's 'war on pollution' in 2013,» a study by independent research organisation the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said.

Flipkart on December 21 confirmed that parent company Walmart will infuse around $600 million in the Indian e-commerce firm, Reuters reported. This $600 million is a part of the total $1 billion fresh capital that Flipkart is aiming for, sources told the agency. Walmart is the largest shareholder in the Bengaluru-based start-up.

Hong Kong WinterFest: From the 20-meter-tall Christmas tree, standing at the centre of Christmas Town to the exciting new 10-minute “Winter Harbourfront Pyrotechnics" displays on the Victoria Harbour seaside, visitors from around the world will be delighted by these seasonal displays. Tsim Sha Tsui Christmas lights: Kowloon’s bustling shopping and nightlife districts Tsim Sha Tsui and East Tsim Sha Tsui are well-known for their dazzling Christmas light displays.

Delhi High Court on Friday agreed to list for hearing during the day a plea by the city police challenging a trial court order directing it to supply a copy of the FIR to an accused in the Parliament security breach case. The matter was mentioned for hearing before a bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Mini Pushkarna by the counsel for the police. «We arrested four accused persons.

Motilal Oswal Small Cap Fund", Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company (MOAMC) achieved a collection of over ₹1,350 crores. This marks the highest-ever amount gathered for any small-cap active fund NFO in India. The investment firm unveiled the introduction of an open-ended equity scheme focused primarily on small-cap stocks.

Hong Kong court on Friday rejected a bid by the legal team for pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai to have sedition charge against him dropped, in a closely watched national security trial. Lai, 76, the founder of now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, was charged with conspiracy to publish seditious publications under a colonial-era sedition law.

Taking cues from the price of yellow metal in the international market, MCX February gold futures were trading at Rs 62,748 per 10 grams in the opening trade, up Rs 245 or 0.39%. Meanwhile, the March Silver futures were trading at Rs 75,683 per kg, higher by Rs 257 or 34%.

Audio streaming platform Pocket FM's listener community is said to have surpassed 130 million globally, with over 75 billion minutes of content being streamed in 2023. As per Pocket FM's 'Rewind2023: How India Got Entertained This Year' report, the platform had more than 100,000 hours of content, with users spending over 115 minutes daily.

first-day earnings of ‘Dunki’, the much-awaited Shah Rukh Khan-starrer have been unexpectedly modest. According to a report by the Indian box-office tracking portalSacnilk.com, the Rajkumar Hirani directorial collected about Rs 30 crore on its opening day. Although many cities in North India showed a lukewarm response to the movie, ‘Dunki’ performed well in the city of Hyderabad. Additionally, the film was met with an enthusiastic response in regions such as Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and West Bengal. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Box Office Worldwide shared the first-day collections of the movie (Rs 31-33 crore) and called it a “fantastic” figure for a social comedy-drama genre. “#Dunki is taking a solid opening of 31.5-33 cr on day 1, which is FANTASTIC for this social drama genre and given a mid-week release! There are reports of phenomenal audience response from cinemas, like all Hirani films this one is also going to trend strongly from here,” reads the post. ‘Dunki’s lukewarm first-day collections (in comparison to SRK’s previous releases ‘Pathaan’ and ‘Jawan’, led detractors to troll the superstar and Hirani on X. The words “SRK’s Disaster Donkey’ trended on the microblogging platform. “#Dunki is Raju Hirani's Weakest film, It's a Borefest of Epic Proportions, Shahrukh's acting and accent is Cartoonish, You will be scrolling your mobiles in the 2nd Half!” wrote one X user.

The scale of the attack aside, when Hamas terrorists flew into Israel on 7 October using paragliders, it took everybody by surprise. After 9/11, air attacks weren’t unexpected, but little had anybody imagined terrorists could use such small flying machines to execute an attack that big, even as Israeli defences were perhaps focused more on land routes.

drones bore down on the city of Kyiv early on Friday, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko and other officials reporting strikes on widely separated residential districts. It was the sixth drone attack on the capital this month. Two people were injured. Klitschko, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said a drone had hit a block of flats in the Solomyanskyi district, south of the city centre, triggering a fire on the upper floors that was quickly brought under control. Emergency services, also writing on Telegram, said several apartments were damaged on the 24th, 25th and 26th storeys of the building.

New York City Mayor Rudy Giulion Thursday filed for bankruptcy in New York's southern district court, CNN reported. This comes just days after a jury ordered him to pay nearly USD 150 million to two former Georgia election workers for defamation.