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NEW DELHI, MUMBAI : For Rahul Sharma, 40, an ardent Indian cricket fan living in Singapore, the eager excitement of watching Team India’s performance at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 in his home country has slowly turned into frustration. Despite having booked flights to India for himself and his family months in advance, his quest to secure tickets, especially for the coveted India matches from BookMyShow, the Indian cricket board’s official ticketing partner, has been fruitless. All he has managed to pick up so far: Tickets for two non-India matches, leaving him still in pursuit of prized India match tickets.

NEW DELHI : The government has invited Swiss consultants to help make India’s mountain roads strong and durable to withstand severe weather conditions like heavy rains. After evaluating the highway construction techniques in Switzerland, the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has sought advice from Swiss companies to design mechanisms to prevent extensive damage to roads, two people familiar with the development said.

New Delhi: Jawan is reaching the theatres only this Thursday, but the Shah Rukh Khan starrer is likely to achieve something that only Southern cinema spectacles have managed so far: Securing a blockbuster opening outside their home regions. The film has garnered substantial bookings not only in the north but across south India as well.

₹1 lakh. With Chandrayan-3 successful landing near the Moon’s south pole, India became the first country to do such elusive feat.

Nirmala Sitharaman has emphasized that the focus of the Indian G20 presidency’s finance track was to strengthen multilateral development banks (MDBs) to address the mounting debt challenges faced by developing economies. The G20 under Indian presidency is also working on solutions that can constructively contribute to the efforts that MDBs are undertaking.

New Delhi: An invitation for a G20 dinner sent out by President Droupadi Murmu in her capacity as “President of Bharat" instead of “President of India" triggered a controversy on Tuesday and set off furious speculation that such a move could be part of the legislative agenda in the upcoming special session of Parliament. The Opposition said the decision violated the Constitution and sought to link it to the decision to name the 28-party opposition grouping INDIA, but some senior government ministers said it was meant to snap ties with a colonial past. The invite for the 9 September dinner at 8pm, to be hosted by Murmu in Bharat Mandapam, will come in the middle of the G20 leaders summit in New Delhi.

China's Country Garden made interest payments on U.S. dollar bonds hours ahead of a grace period deadline, a person close to the firm said, pulling back from the brink of default for the second time in four days and bringing some relief to the country's crisis-hit property sector. China's largest private property developer failed to pay coupons on the bonds totalling $22.5 million due on Aug. 6, exacerbating fears over how much cash it has left and keeping markets on tenterhooks throughout the bonds' 30-day grace periods. Though the amount was modest, failure to pay would have undermined fragile hope in financial markets that China's steady drip feed of policy stimulus was starting to stabilise the economy and its struggling property market. It would also have raised the prospect of default on other dollar bonds as well as creditor calls to accelerate payments, bondholders and lawyers said, while heightening concern of a spillover into the banking system in the world's second-largest economy. Country Garden also offered on Tuesday to extend repayment of eight onshore bonds worth 10.8 billion yuan ($1.48 billion) by three years, according to people with knowledge of the matter and documents seen by Reuters.

NEW DELHI : India has all the potential that China had a decade ago, former Canadian foreign and defence Minister Perrin Beatty said. Beatty, who serves as President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said India is a high priority for Canadian businesses looking for an alternative to China. Critical minerals, renewable technologies and fertilizers will be a key focus.

Will BJP rename Bharat if INDIA bloc rechristens itself 'BHARAT': Kejriwal Stalin's sister, Kanimozhi, who is a Lok Sabha MP representing DMK, also weighed in on the matter. She shared an image of the controversial invite on her social media account and expressed her concerns about the unusual use of "President of Bharat" instead of India.

private investment as a result of intimidation by the ruling party; and a commitment to state capitalism that hampers total factor productivity growth. Chinese domestic consumption has weakened, owing to uncertainty and the lack of a broad social safety net. With deflation setting in, China now must worry about Japanification: a long period of lost growth.

Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday asked a "flustered" BJP whether it would change the name of Bharat if the opposition alliance INDIA rechristens itself 'Bharat'. The Congress on Tuesday alleged that an invite sent by the Narendra Modi government for a G20 dinner refers to the President as "President of Bharat" and not India.

Huawei Technologies' breakthrough in making an advanced chip underscores China's determination and capacity for fighting back against US sanctions, but the efforts are likely very costly and could prompt Washington to tighten curbs, analysts said. Huawei unexpectedly unveiled the latest Mate 60 Pro smartphone last week during US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo's visit in China, as the government readies a new $40-billion investment fund to bolster its developing chip sector.

Fresh graduates will also be hired for call centre jobs, it said. Currently, Access Healthcare has 22,272 employees at its six centres in the country — Chennai, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Pune, Noida, and Thiruvananthapuram. The new recruitments are for all centres, it added. «This expansion underscores our commitment to leading the healthcare sector into a future defined by technological excellence,» Access Healthcare Founder and Vice Chairman Vardhman Jain said. Every hire is a strategic stakeholder in the company's vision, and the professionals will get opportunities to learn, develop, and grow in their careers, he added.

Reserve Bank Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar on Tuesday said the current system cannot make cross-border payments cheaper despite the advancement in technology, and policymakers will have to show «willingness» to make it happen. Regretting that commissions of over 6 per cent are charged in retail cross-border payments, Sankar said the current banking correspondent-based system cannot yield success on this front. Countries have a robust domestic payments system like the unified payments interface in the Indian context, which makes it technologically possible to make cross-border payments seamless and cheap, Sankar said while speaking at the Global Fintech Fest here. «I think it is a question of willingness.

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judicial capabilities. The 10th meeting of the Ministers of Law and Justice of SCO countries was held on Tuesday via video conferencing. The meeting began in a «cordial atmosphere» with the reading out of a message from Chinese President Xi Jinping. In his message, President Xi appealed to the members to work with a spirit of cooperation and understanding so as to realise the objectives and visions of the SCO and optimise its contribution towards the holistic development of the region, a law ministry statement said here. Speaking on the occasion, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal emphasised India's commitment to the SCO charter and its principles of mutual trust, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, and mutual benefit. The minister said this commitment is based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision that «India has emerged as Vishwa Mitra (universal friend) and India's greatest strength is trust, our trust in each individual, trust of each individual in government, trust of each one in a bright future for the nation, and world's faith in India as well.

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Greece was struck by tragedy as relentless downpours triggered flooding, claiming at least one life, according to reports from the country's fire brigade. These inundations came just a day after Greek officials reported progress in taming the colossal wildfires, now dubbed the «largest ever» in European Union history, that had wreaked havoc across the nation.

India as 'Bharat' is not something that has come out of the blue. While there are speculations surrounding that the Narendra Modi-led government is likely to bring a resolution for changing India's official name to 'Bharat' during the special session of Parliament, scheduled from September 18-22. Back in 2020, a plea was filed by a Delhi-based man before the apex court, where he claimed that such an amendment will «ensure the citizens of this country to get over the colonial past». The Supreme Court of India had asked the centre to treat the plea, which sought a direction to amend the Constitution and replace the word India with 'Bharat' or 'Hindustan', as a representation. It contended that replacing the word India with 'Bharat' or 'Hindustan' will «instill a sense of pride in our own nationality.»

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Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has the potential to scale almost ten times and reach a couple of billion transactions a day by 2030, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) chief executive officer Dilip Asbe said on Tuesday. Asbe’s comments come as UPI transactions in the country hit the 10-billion mark in August.