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Unsold housing stocks in Tier 1 cities in India dropped to 5,08,464 units in Q3 2023 from 5,26,497 units in Q3 2022, representing an 11% decrease.

In India, the festive season is the time of heightened spirits and collective celebration, marked by joyous occasions initiating from Ganesh Chaturthi and culminating with the grandeur of Diwali. It is a period traditionally considered auspicious for embarking on new ventures.

The unwavering demand for luxury housing since the pandemic has kicked off a spate of new launches in this category. Latest ANAROCK data shows that out of 1,16,220 units launched in Q3 2023 in the top 7 cities across various budget categories, approx. 27% (approx. 31,180 units) were in the luxury category. This is the highest quarterly luxury supply entering the market in the last five years.

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Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures slump after fresh violence over the weekend between Israel and Hamas. The conflict's geopolitical ramifications spark a jump in oil prices, adding to concerns over inflationary pressures as crucial U.S. consumer price data looms later in the week. Elsewhere, activist investor Nelson Peltz reportedly plans a push for board seats at Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS), while Citigroup (NYSE:C) agrees to sell its mainland Chinese consumer wealth unit to HSBC Holdings (LON:HSBA).

Titan share price today: Titan Company share price declined almost 2 per cent in morning trade on BSE on Monday, October 9, following the company's September quarter (Q2FY24) business updates. Titan Company share price opened at ₹3,308.95 against the previous close of ₹3,311.15 and slipped 1.90 per cent to the ₹3,250 mark in the morning trade on BSE. Titan Company share price has gained about 22 per cent in the last one year, outperforming the equity benchmark Sensex which has gained about 13 per cent in the same period.

A convicted South Korean crypto fraudster has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Israel by air, land and sea.Millions of Israelis in the country’s south awoke to incoming rockets and the inevitable thud of impact. Air raid sirens wailed as far north as Tel Aviv.

«The timing is definitely symbolic, and I believe it was picked that way by the initiators,» Sarit Zehavi, President and Founder of Alma Research and Education Centre and former researcher in the Israel Defence Forces Intelligence Corps, told ANI. On Saturday, which was also a major Jewish holiday, Hamas militants launched a series of rocket strikes that hit major cities across Israel, and it sent waves of fighters across the border into southern Israel, killing hundreds of people and taking captives back to Gaza. Hamas militants used explosives to breach the barriers and then used bulldozers to widen the gaps. Militants entered into Israel in motorcycles and SUVs.

By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Rich McKay READING, Pennsylvania, - A leather-skinned mummified man lying in an open coffin in Reading, Pennsylvania, known only as «Stoneman Willie» to the public got two things Saturday he went without for 128 years — a burial and his real name. Dressed in a period tuxedo, his generations-long public afterlife as the stuff of city lore and ghost stories ended when he was introduced to the world as James Murphy of New York at a funeral in Reading. A group of funeral home employees and well-wishers, said in unison, «Rest in peace, James,» as they unveiled his tombstone, with his real name in small letters below large type reading, «Stoneman Willie.» His send-off included a colorful procession with a motorcycle hearse carrying his casket. Murphy was of Irish descent, an alcoholic, and was in Reading at a firefighters' convention when he died in the local jailhouse of kidney failure on Nov. 19, 1895, said Kyle Blankenbiller, the director of the Theo C.

Australia’s biggest private hospital operator, Ramsay Health Care, has lobbed a first-round offer for Cura Day Hospitals, put up for sale by Citi in May, Street Talk can reveal.

The Chinese central bank has claimed that its program of digital yuan giveaways is helping to drive up CBDC adoption.

Fast food chain Guzman y Gomez will have two chief executives running the company as it prepares for an initial public offering which founder Steven Marks says could happen late next year.

Hamas militants to Israel wreaked havoc in the country, hundreds of United Airlines passengers booked from San Francisco to Tel Aviv endured a 13-hour “flight to nowhere". Also Read: India is an important country in world, its support comes from understanding of terrorism: Israel The flight UA954 departed from the California city on time. However, the flight had to make an emergency u-turn in mid-air after Hamas attack in Israel.

₹753 crore had been credited into his Kotak Mahindra Bank account. However, the Kotak Mahindra Bank branch in Teynampet, where the pharmacy worker has the account, froze it, saying the erroneous deposit was due to a technical glitch. Mohammad Idris (30), the pharmacy worker has been staying in the Teynampet area for the last 10 years.

Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum shattered the men's marathon world record in Chicago on Sunday, winning in two hours and 35 seconds to beat compatriot Eliud Kipchoge's previous mark by more than 30 seconds. Kiptum shattered the London Marathon course record this year and was determined to make magic again in the Windy City as he sped up through the 35-kilometre mark before thrusting his arms in the air to cheers from the crowd down the final stretch. Kiptum had not originally targeted the record but said he knew that twice Olympic champion Kipchoge's previous mark of 2:01:09 was within reach in the final kilometres, as he dug deep to make history. «I feel so happy. I wasn't prepared,» he said at the finish line.

Bose on Sunday said he will meet those deprived of MGNREGA work as the Centre has stopped funds under the scheme to the state, and take up their grievances with New Delhi. Reacting to the TMC's comments on the ongoing agitation outside Raj Bhavan, the governor also related an allegorical tale to reporters in Darjeeling about a 'Lion Prince' who was punished by an elephant in the forest for asking who was the king of the jungle. Bose, who will return to Kolkata from Darjeeling, where he has gone to visit the flood situation in north Bengal, also wrote to Chief Secretary HK Dwivedi, inquiring whether permission was granted for the TMC's ongoing sit-in demonstration outside Raj Bhavan, a source at the governor house said.

Hamas militants and Israeli forces a day after the Islamist group launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza, in a dramatic escalation of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Hundreds of people have been killed on both sides since the Iran-backed Hamas launched the multi-pronged assault at dawn on Saturday, with Israeli forces fighting holdout militants and pounding the Gaza Strip with air strikes.

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has become even more popular recently thanks to his rumored relationship with pop superstar Taylor Swift. After Swift was seen cheering Kelce on at a Chiefs game at Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium on Sept. 24, sales of Kelce's jersey jumped nearly 400% on sportswear and fan merchandise site Fanatics, according to The Associated Press.

Bengaluru to work. Notably, there will be no official inauguration of the Purple line of Bengaluru Metro, Bangalore Central MP, PC Mohan, said on Sunday.