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India has hit out at Pakistan after the country's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar predictably raised the Kashmir bogey in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. In its right to reply, the First Secretary at United Nations for the Second Committee of UNGA, Petal Gahlot said that Pakistan should vacate occupied areas of India and stop cross-border terrorism. She asked Pakistan to stop human rights violations against minorities in Pakistan. Petal Gahlot said, «In order for there to be peace in South Asia, the actions that Pakistan needs to take are threefold first stop cross-border terrorism and shut down its infrastructure of terrorism immediately.

ISRO) preps to revive Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander and rover from 'sleep mode' after almost two weeks, Nilesh M Desai, Director, Space Applications Centre (SAC) on Friday said that the 'revival' of the lander and the rover is «automatic» and cannot be nudged from the Earth. The Director of the Space Applications Centre, one of the major centres of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said that signals will come as soon as the solar-powered lander and rover are charged because of the sunrise, which happened in the lunar surface on September 22. However, Desai said that till now no signals have come and that the efforts to establish contact with the Chandrayaan-3's lander Vikram and the rover Pragyan are underway. «As it is clear in ISRO's tweet, efforts are on to establish contact with the Lander and the Rover. It will automatically revive and send signals.

Blinken on Friday (local time) said that Washington is «deeply concerned» about the allegations made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the Indian government's involvement in the killing of Khalistterrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. He said that the US wants to see accountability and called it «important» that the investigation runs its course and leads to the result. While addressing a press conference in New York, Blinken said that the US has engaged directly with the Indian government. He said that the US is consulting «very closely» with Canada and coordinating on the issue.

carpooling among employees, battery-operated cabs, preferred parking and virtual meetings wherever possible -corporate India is going the extra mile to ensure a greener future as the country looks to transition towards net zero. A clutch of companies including Infosys, Capgemini, Ericsson, and EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) are making employee travel more sustainable to reduce their carbon footprint. While increasing the usage of electric vehicles (EVs) is one part of the strategy, these companies are also focusing on measures like cutting down non-essential travel, phasing out CNG vehicles, and encouraging carpooling among employees.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a bill requiring people selling their homes to disclose whether their properties have been flooded or are at risk for future flooding

Britain is pitching itself to the world as a ready leader in shaping an international response to the rise of artificial intelligence

King Charles III has traveled to the southwestern French city of Bordeaux to focus on climate and the environment

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These shocks could have been far worse without the critical role digital public infrastructure (DPI) played during the pandemic to provide emergency fiscal transfers to hundreds of millions, support and coordinate vaccine deployment across large populations, and offer digital platforms for education and commerce to blunt the worst ravages of the lockdowns. In doing so, it supported job creation and private sector innovation. The latest IMF and World Bank forecasts project that the 'global south' will contribute nearly 70% of global growth in the next few decades.

inflation tapered off and volume growth recovered. The maker of Pampers, Vicks and Tide is also investing aggressively in the supply chain in line with the demand fluctuations. «Historically, our supply chain has been a competitive advantage for us, and we are investing significantly to strengthen this advantage and be better positioned to handle larger capacity and higher ranges of demand volatility, while reducing over-dependence on singular nodes.

national highways and 60kmph for urban roads. However, the Madras High Court quashed the order in 2021, stating these speeds were too high. The matter is now in the Supreme Court.

look-out circulars (LOCs) against defaulters only in exceptional circumstances when questions affecting the country's economy are involved and the authority concerned must satisfy itself before such circulars are issued, the Delhi High Court ruled on Friday. Expressing displeasure over banks insisting on LOCs for recovery of dues without initiating any criminal proceedings, Justice Subramonium Prasad said there has to be some application of mind as these circulars result in restraining a person's right to travel abroad. He further noted that the opening of an LOC also casts aspersions on the person against whom it is opened. The judgment came on a petition by the two former directors of a company whose loan accounts were declared as NPA by Bank of Baroda in 2019.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked for industry opinion on ways to encourage and better the research and development ecosystem for telecom, broadcasting and information and communication technology (ICT) in the country in a new discussion paper released Friday. Issues like the role of telecom operators in facilitating R&D in the country, steps to improve government-industry-academia dynamics, simplifying patent application and encouraging private sector R&D through incentives are among those raised in the paper titled 'Encouraging R&D in Telecom, Broadcasting and IT (ICT) Sectors'. «The consultation paper is aimed at understanding the present ecosystem of R&D in India, identify and learn from practices adopted by R&D leaders across the globe and account for issues to be consulted with the stakeholders for enhancing the R&D scenario in India,» Trai said in the paper. Trai also asked for industry opinion on why multinational companies focus on software rather than hardware in India, and the measures that could be taken to promote basic/applied research by MNCs strengthening the current R&D efforts in software and improving R&D efforts in hardware. «How can awareness about IPR be increased among the researchers and industry in ICT sector? Is there a need to reduce the cost of filing patents in India? If yes, how can it be done?» the sector regulator asked.

military service in the country. But Suga is not the first singer of the band to join the military duty. Jin and J-Hope are already serving at army bases. Jin was the oldest and the first BTS member to serve in the military.

euro area's two biggest economies has continued to shrink in September with weak demand for goods and services. While the downturn eased in Germany, it deepened in France, according to business surveys released by S&P Global on Friday. Economists had expected momentum in both countries to remain broadly stable. The performance of Germany's services sector was a «pleasant surprise» as it only contracted marginally this month, S&P Global said.

₹2 lakh remains much lower than that for standard iPhones. “Demand for the iPhone 15 Pro series is much less than the standard iPhone 15 models—for every 10 Pro iPhones sold, we’re seeing orders for at least 80 standard models," the Kolkata-based retailer said. This is in line with historical demand for the iPhone Pro models in India.

Opposition parties which tore copies of the women's reservation bill earlier were forced to support it in Parliament due to BJP's strength in both Houses and 'growing empowerment of women' in the last few years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. He described Parliament's passage of the bill as historic and one that would be registered in the minds of the people for years. Women ministers, BJP office-bearers, MPs and party supporters felicitated Modi at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Friday for passage of the bill. Modi touched the feet of some women MPs to mark the celebration of the legislation. Speaking on the occasion, Modi claimed the bill had been moved in Parliament a few times earlier for the 'sake of doing so' and 'lacked any seriousness' in passing it.

Amazon will start featuring advertisements on content streamed on Prime Video, the company said on Friday, making it the latest streaming service to turn to commercials to raise revenue. The changes, which will go into effect early next year, will apply in the United States, Canada, Britain and Germany, unless subscribers pay more to opt out. Amazon said that U.S. subscribers will have to pay an additional $2.99 per month for an ad-free service, and that it would disclose pricing for users in other countries at a later date.

superfood — itself a marketing term for food claimed to confer health benefits resulting from an exceptional nutrient density — an amalgam of science and ideology. It is science because nutritional research establishes cause and effect, and continues to do so in greater detail. It is an ideology when fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds have to be carted halfway across the world to deliver a specific health benefit.

BSP MP Danish Ali has said that he may resign from the Lok Sabha if appropriate action is not taken against BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri for his abusive remarks against him in the House on Thursday. Ali wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday, seeking an immediate inquiry into the incident and requested the Speaker to refer the matter to the privileges committee. Bidhuri's slurs on Ali were expunged by the Speaker. Taking strong note of them during a late-night discussion in the Lok Sabha on the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, Birla said that such behaviour was unacceptable and warned him of severe action, according to LS secretariat insiders. Nevertheless, Ali submitted a letter to the Speaker on Friday, seeking action against Bidhuri.

Punjab's Kapurthala district a few days ago. The incident came to limelight after the athlete's chopped up body parts were thrown in front of the slain Kabaddi's player's house, according to media reports. The incident has drawn sharp condemnation from Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal.