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Boeing’s global president and chief executive Dave Calhoun says the backlog of orders for new passenger aircraft is not going to ease any time soon, with the waitlist stretched well into the 2030s.

Flipkart Plus members will enjoy a 24-hour head start on the sale. Several smartphones, such as the Realme 11x 5G, Infinix Zero 30 5G, Moto G84 5G, Moto G54 5G, Samsung Galaxy F34 5G, Realme C51, Realme 115G, Vivo V29e, and Poco M6 Pro 5G, are expected to receive discounted prices during this year's Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale.

Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels: Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! The Pakistani senator has emphasized the need to export skilled labor in order to increase the country's foreign remittances. "Only professionals going abroad would increase the country's foreign remittances," the senator said, according to Dawn.

India Today said. The video of the incident is doing rounds on social media where a mob can be seen mercilessly beating a man who was tied to a pole and asking for help. As per the police, the victim was identified as Muhammed Israr and according to the preliminary investigation, he was mentally challenged due to which he couldn't give satisfactory answers when the mob questioned him.

coffee & QSR space is set to heat up further with Third Wave Coffee—a Bengaluru-based coffee chain that’s popular with the city’s startup community—raising $35 million in new funding in a round led by private equity firm Creaegis. Existing investors, including WestBridge Capital and Udaan cofounder Sujeet Kumar, have also participated in the round and Third Wave Coffee is now valued at around $150 million, people aware of the matter said.

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Indian ocean, a top Naval officer asserted that no country's warships or vessels can sail through the region without being noticed by the Indian Navy. «There is no way any country's warships or vessels can pass through the Indian Ocean without getting detected by the Indian Navy's P-8I anti-submarine and surveillance planes,» said a top Navy Officer. While supervising the operations of the «game changer» P-8I aircraft at Nacala Air Station INS Rajali ( Arakkonam Naval Air Station), Captain Ajayendra Kant Singh told ANI, «There is no possibility that any ship or a submarine would pass through the Indian Ocean region without 312 squadrons not knowing about it.» The Commanding Officer of INS 312 squadron, also known as Albatross, said that at any point in time, there is atleast one P-8I aircraft airborne to carry out surveillance of the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal to keep an eye on all activities happening there. P-8I is known as the game changer aircraft for the Indian Navy as it has played a key role in carrying out surveillance in multiple areas of Indian interest from the high altitude areas in the Ladakh sector, revealing the level of Chinese build-up along the Sikkim-Bhutan sector during the Doklam crisis and frequent surveillance of the foreign warships and research vessels all along the Indian Ocean Region. The aircraft is also known as the Guardian of the Indian Ocean Region as it has flown more than 44,000 hours in the last 10 years to carry out surveillance over the Indo-Pacific region.

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beggars arrested in foreign countries belong to Pakistan, reported Pakistani English-language newspaper The Dawn. " The Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis was informed on Wednesday that a growing number of beggars from Pakistan were moving abroad, which has spurred ‘human trafficking’," the report said. Overseas Ministry Secretary Zulfikar Haider disclosed this during a discussion in the Senate panel on the issue of skilled and unskilled labour leaving the country. Haider told the committee that a staggering “90 per cent of beggars” arrested in foreign countries were of Pakistani origin, Dawn reported. Furthermore, it was revealed that many beggars exploit pilgrim visas to gain entry into countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq. Shockingly, a significant number of pickpockets arrested at holy sites were also identified as Pakistani nationals. Meanwhile, Haider said that Japan has now emerged as a new destination of such visitors, according to Dawn. Moreover, he emphasized Pakistan's historical role in exporting skilled labour and expressed optimism that the country's foreign remittances would increase when professionals went abroad. He further said that Saudi Arabia now preferred skilled labour over untrained individuals, according to Dawn. Hasan also noted that as many as 50,000 engineers in Pakistan were unemployed. «India has reached the moon, while we stumble every day,” the senator added. He also informed that that approximately three million people were in Saudi Arabia, 1.5 million Pakistanis were in the UAE, while 0.2 million were in Qatar.

Asian Paints co-founder Ashwin Suryakant Dani on Thursday passed away at the age of 81. He was an Indian billionaire businessman, and the non-executive chairman of Asian Paints Ltd, India's largest paint company with operations in 16 countries. He was the vice chairman and managing director of the company from December 1998 to March 2009.

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ANI. She also added that once the results of the parliamentary elections are announced, the circumstances could undergo further changes.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The hardest, shiniest allotrope of carbon has retained this cachet ever since De Beers created a huge demand for diamonds by marketing them as a token of a person’s lasting commitment to another. It did this through an assiduous marketing campaign from the 1930s, in which product placement in Hollywood movies played a significant role.

MRF Ltd. The case relates to the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal's (NCLAT's) December order asking the CCI, India's anti-monopoly watchdog, to reconsider and recalculate the fine it imposed on tyre companies over alleged cartelisation and price manipulation. A bench led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna issued notice on Monday to the CCI, and also tagged the MRF's appeal with that of the one that the CCI had made, ET has reported.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has initiated a series of crucial amendments to the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994, aimed at streamlining the Multi-System Operator (MSO) registration process and promoting infrastructure sharing with broadband service providers to expand internet access across the nation. According to the press release by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, MSOs are now required to apply for registration or the renewal of registration online, utilizing the Broadcast Seva Portal of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. This move towards digital processes aligns with the government's commitment to facilitating business operations and reducing bureaucratic hurdles. MSO registrations will now be granted or renewed for a more extended period, specifically for ten years.

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Chandrayaan-3 on the moon last month, India has become the first country to put a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and broke China's record for the southernmost lunar landing. However, a top Chinese scientist has now claimed that the landing site of Chandrayaan-3 is not at the lunar south pole, not in the lunar south pole region, nor is it near the lunar south pole region. Speaking to the Chinese-language Science Times newspaper, Ouyang Ziyuan who is lauded as the father of China’s lunar exploration program said the Chandrayaan-3 landing site, at 69 degrees south latitude, was nowhere close to the pole, defined as between 88.5 and 90 degrees.

Canada have termed as «extremely irresponsible» the allegations against India made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the killing of Khalistterrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar stating that the former could have reworded or rephrased his statement to ensure that the Hindu and Sikh communities are not impacted. «The announcement made by Prime Minister Trudeau in the parliament was something that could have been easily avoided and he could have easily followed diplomatic channels,» Indo-Canadian businessman from Brampton Ravi Sharma said. He was responding to Trudeau's allegations on the Indian government's involvement in the fatal shooting of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil. «The moment the announcement was made, the Hindu community in Canada was on alert and it did create an immediate impact that people felt they were in distress and they were fearful because the pitch that was made in the parliament sounded as if a Hindu government had killed a Sikh leader. Which is not the fact.

After India’s landing of its Chandrayaan-3 rover on the moon last month — becoming the first country to put a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and breaking China’s record for the southernmost lunar landing – a top Chinese scientist has said claims about the accomplishment are overstated. Ouyang Ziyuan, lauded as the father of China’s lunar exploration program, told the Chinese-language Science Times newspaper that the Chandrayaan-3 landing site, at 69 degrees south latitude, was nowhere close to the pole, defined as between 88.5 and 90 degrees. On Earth, 69 degrees south would be within the Antarctic Circle, but the lunar version of the circle is much closer to the pole. “It’s wrong!” he said of claims for an Indian polar landing.

air pollution may be linked to an increased risk of stroke, according to a study. The meta analysis, published recently in the the journal Neurology, defined short-term exposure as occurring within five days of the stroke. A stroke can cause lasting brain damage, long-term disability, or even death.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Singapore state investment firm Temasek's wholly owned unit True Light Capital said on Thursday it raised $3.3 billion in its flagship fund that invests in Greater China and has now closed it to new capital.