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Apple iPhone lovers are eagerly waiting to grab the latest iPhone 15 series phones. Preorders for these new-generation iPhones are scheduled to commence on September 15, with the official sale date slated for September 22. What's intriguing about this launch is that the pricing strategy for the new iPhone models, iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, in India, remains unchanged from their predecessors, iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. However, a noteworthy price adjustment comes in the form of the Pro models.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stopped in a far eastern Russian city Friday to see a factory that builds the country's most advanced fighter jets on his extended trip that hints at his interest in sophisticated weaponry, as the U.S. and others warned Moscow and Pyongyang against making banned weapons transfer deals. Kim's visits to Russian weapons and technology sites and meetings with President Vladimir Putin have raised speculation he will supply ammunition to Russia for its war efforts in Ukraine in exchange for receiving advanced weapons or technology from Russia as the two nations deepen their ties while both are increasingly isolated and sanctioned in separate confrontations with the West. Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti published video showing Kim's armored train pulling into a station in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Kim's convoy sweeping out of the station shortly afterward.

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startups in India, its senior official told Bloomberg. The bank plans to work with companies that are pioneers in their sectors, developing new products or services, and is targeting companies with a large consumer orientation in India, as well as abroad, Kaustubh Kulkarni, the senior country officer for India said. “We want to be there first with those companies," Kulkarni said in an interview to Bloomberg.

Anantnag district. The incident has since sparked widespread protests in the Valley, with many raising slogans against Pakistan and burning posters of the country's flag. Furthermore, Sibal slammed Modi on remarks on ‘Sanatana’ and said that Sanātanī’s virtues include, honesty and not injuring living beings.

New Delhi: Nearly 112,000 farmers are expected to receive licences for poppy cultivation in the 2023-24 crop year as part of the new licensing policy, the finance ministry said on Thursday. Poppy cultivation is strictly regulated and licences are granted by the government every year for producing the key raw material for pharmaceuticals. Poppy is grown in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

Indian troops are defending every inch of the border with China and not even a single inch of land has been taken over by the neighbouring country in recent years, Ladakh Lt Governor Brig (Retd) B D Mishra said on Thursday. He said infrastructure development is taking place at a rapid pace across Ladakh with roads, helipads, airfields, tunnels and bridges being built, and India will catch up with China in that regard within next four-five years. Brig Mishra (Retd) was in Jammu in connection with a three-day north-tech symposium which concluded at IIT Jammu on Wednesday. The event provided a platform for engagement between the academia and industry to devise unique solutions to meet the army's operational requirements in northern command, while promoting self-reliance in defence production and technology proliferation. «If there is any match to them (China) in Asia, it is India. China is a nefarious country.

Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com, says “the way the entire midcap index has moved, speculative stocks have moved more than the sort of established companies, etc so there is definitely froth. We need to be careful what we are buying. There are still opportunities in the midcap, smallcap segment where these companies might do well over the next two, three years.”Let us talk about sugar, the sweetest pocket in the market right now. Since you monitor the sector very closely, is it time to add positions further or would you say wait for a dip perhaps?Sugar has been one sector which has not performed despite a lot of things going well for them, both in terms of the weather disruptions in India and globally, which is going to cut this year's production growth. In some countries, we might actually see declines. We see global sugar prices at multi-year highs.

Regional health officials in France say a 32-year-old woman is dead and a dozen people have been hospitalized after an apparent botulism outbreak

Chandrayaan-3's soft landing on the moon, ISRO's live stream of the event which took place on August 23rd has set a new record on YouTube, with over eight million concurrent viewers. This event marks the highest viewership in YouTube history. YouTube's Chief, Neal Mohan, congratulated ISRO on this remarkable feat.

Rain updates: The Indian Meteorological Department has issue a yellow alert for heavy rains in several Maharashtra districts today i.e. on 15 September. As per IMD, yellow alert has been issued in Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Pune, Dhule, Nandurbar, Jalgaon, Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Satara, Aurangabad, Jalna, Parbani, Akola, Amravati, Nagpur among other districts.

The world is tracking towards 2.5 degrees warming by 2100 and a massive 50 per cent increase in global capital investment is needed to put it on course for net zero emissions by 2050, and to cap warming at the most ambitious goal of 1.5 degrees in the Paris Agreement.

Libya's coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent said Thursday. Marie el-Drese, the aid group's secretary-general, told The Associated Press by phone that a further 10,100 people are reported missing in the Mediterranean city. Health authorities previously put the death toll in Derna at 5,500.

Kim Jong Un visited an aeronautics factory Friday on his tour of Russia's far east following his summit with President Vladimir Putin. Two days after meeting Putin at a spaceport, amid speculation they would agree an arms deal, Kim's bullet-proof train arrived in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russian news agencies reported. Kim is in the city, an important Russian industrial centre, to visit an aviation firm producing military and civil equipment. The RIA Novosti news agency published footage of Kim's train arriving in the city, with the red carpet rolled out to greet him. He was met with flowers, music, a dance group and ceremonial loaves of bread, the Interfax agency said. Kim, who seldom leaves his country, held talks with Putin at the Vostochny cosmodrome on Wednesday. Putin said on television Wednesday that Kim «will visit factories where civilian and combat aviation equipment is produced» in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. His visit to Russia's far east comes as US officials and experts have said Moscow is interested in buying North Korean ammunition to use in the conflict in Ukraine — an arms deal that would defy global sanctions. Kim's visit will last a few more days, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on Thursday, without giving further details.

Beijing is getting bullish about the cross-border use of the digital yuan – with Chinese experts now talking about BRI/“new Silk Road” CBDC integration.

Libya flood updates: The Libyan Red Crescent said that the death toll in Libya's coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as the search efforts continue. However, local officials suggested that the death toll could be much higher than announced, The Associated Press has reported. Daniel, an unusually strong Mediterranean storm, caused deadly flooding in communities across eastern Libya, the worst-hit was Derna.

monsoon in September for key agricultural regions has raised hopes that food inflation may ease, with higher precipitation helping the two major kharif crops, rice and soya bean, that have seen an increase in the area sown. A sharply deficient August created moisture stress, raising concerns of a decline in output. The paddy sowing area increased 2.7% on-year to 40.3 million hectares as of September 8, according to government data, while soya bean acreage has risen 1.3% to 12.54 million hectares. «The rice-producing northern states of Punjab and Haryana have met their water requirement through irrigation. But the eastern states, which produce the bulk of the rice, have received good rainfall in September, helping in rice transplantation, which was a major worry for farmers,» said Amaresh Kumar Nayek, director of ICAR National Rice Research Institute. Slowing food inflation could give the central bank more room to ease its monetary policy for bolstering economic expansion, according to experts. Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh have reported higher paddy sowing. «If this momentum in rainfall continues for another few days, we do not see much difference in crop size compared with last year,» said Nayek. Similarly, September rains have helped the growth of soyabean pods, from which oil is extracted, said DN Pathak, executive director of the Soybean Processors Association.

Capgemini and a solid base for it to service clients globally, Capgemini global CEO Aiman Ezzat told ET. The company has more than half of its 360,000 employee base in India. In an interview with Romita Majumdar, the chief of the $23-billion IT company, during his ongoing India visit, said that he is hopeful of the demand situation improving over the next two-to-four quarters but is waiting for an inflection point. Ezzat added that generative AI's impact on productivity gains will be much higher than pricing gains in the long run. Edited excerpts:How do you see technology spending in the current macroeconomic situation? It is pretty mixed at present. There is softness in some places but not everything is doomed. The reality is that our pipelines are huge and that shows the appetite for technology and transformation.

Shares of sugar companies soared on Thursday on news reports that output in Maharashtra, India's highest-producing state, could fall in the 2023-24 crop year to its lowest in four years. This could lead to higher sugar prices and boost the profitability of top companies in the sector, said analysts.Sakthi Sugars jumped 11.3%, Dhampur Sugar gained 10.4%, Dwarikesh Sugar rose 9.8%, Bajaj Hindusthan advanced 7.2% and Balrampur Chini moved up 4.8%. A Reuters report said Maharashtra's sugar output could fall 14% in the 2023-24 crop year due to lower cane yields following the driest August in more than a century. Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka are among the top sugarcane-producing states in the country, and a dry spell because of the El Nino effect will likely affect supply. Sugar companies are expected to witness strong earnings growth till FY26, according to brokerage DAM Capital. «We believe fast developing El Nino conditions would further hamper sugar production in these states and keep domestic sugar prices above ₹37/kg,» said DAM's analyst Sanjay Manyal in a note to clients.

SAP Labs India, the local R&D arm of the world’s biggest enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company, will look to double by next year its artificial intelligence talent base, stretching its repertoire of services beyond bespoke ERP solutions.SAP Labs India, which has more than 12,000 employees across the country, did not give an absolute number for its AI talent but said India is the only location globally where each of its products and services is worked and developed upon.

Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un gifted each other rifles when they met in Far Eastern Russia, the Kremlin said on Thursday, confirming the isolated Russian leader will visit North Korea as Moscow woos another pariah state. The Russian president, who has sought to strengthen alliances with other hardline leaders ostracised by the West, met with Kim on Wednesday amid speculation they would agree on an arms deal. Russia is eager for ammunition to continue fighting in Ukraine, while North Korea wants Moscow's help to develop its missile programme. Putin «gave (Kim) a rifle from our production of the highest quality. In return, he also received a North Korean-made rifle,» Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Putin also gifted the North Korean leader a «glove from a space suit that has been to space several times.» Kim, who seldom leaves his country, held talks with Putin at the Vostochny cosmodrome.