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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said INDIA bloc has to take a «collective decision» on the inclusion of new members, and added that parties, like the Congress and Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, need to be consulted over this. The former Union minister was responding to a question on the possibility of outfits, such as the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), being brought into the alliance fold. Addressing a joint press conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel here, the venue of a two-day INDIA alliance meeting that begins on Thursday, Pawar also did not seem enthusiastic about the prospect of the Akali Dal joining the grouping. Asked about the possibility of the Punjab-based party making an entry into the alliance, he said there was no such proposal but it could be thought about in case the Akalis were inclined.

Typhoon Saola, having pounded Taiwan with torrential rain and powerful winds, is now bearing down on China's southern coast and Hong Kong as it gains strength. The typhoon, recently upgraded to the status of a formidable typhoon, is projected to make landfall along China’s southern Guangdong province before approaching Hong Kong over the upcoming Friday and Saturday.

Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, more than 170 global leaders, including former US president Barack Obama, have urged Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to suspend all legal actions against the pioneer of microfinancing. Yunus, 83, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his anti-poverty campaign, earning Bangladesh the repute of being the home of microcredit through his Grameen Bank, which he founded in 1983. More than 170 global leaders and Nobel laureates wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Hasina, urging her to suspend legal proceedings against Yunus. The signatories included Obama, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and more than 100 Nobel laureates. «One of the threats to human rights that concern us in the present context is the case of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers have eaten Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuc...

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white rice to Bhutan, Mauritius and Singapore, and allocated export quotas for the kitchen staple. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade, in a notification, said that exports of 79,000 metric tons of non-basmati white rice would be allowed to Bhutan, 50,000 tons to Singapore and 14,000 tons to Mauritius. “Export of non-Basmati white rice…to Bhutan, Mauritius and Singapore is notified,” the DGFT said in a notification. Last month, India prohibited the export of non-basmati white rice but said that exports will be allowed on the basis of permission granted by the government to other countries to meet their food security needs and based on the request of their governments. The exports have been permitted through National Cooperative Exports Limited. India exported $2.2 billion of non-Basmati white rice in FY23 of which $87 million worth of the staple was shipped to Nepal and $38 million to Singapore.

HYBE, the makers of the current most popular boy band BTS, is looking for a new girl band. The company held worldwide auditions in association with the USA's Geffen Records to create a new global girl group. This is being done on a big scale for Netflix as a docuseries and also on YouTube. The two record companies recently announced the 2024 series and also a companion-piece online show that will begin on Thursday, August 30, as part of their The Debut: Dream Academy. The selection process for the girl group started in November 2021, when 120,000 applications of girl group potentials were screened. The worldwide hunt resulted in 20 candidates being selected. The females come from countries as diverse as Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Sweden, Japan, Belarus, Switzerland, Slovakia, the Philippines, South Korea, and the USA. Now, in the docuseries, fans will be able to follow the selected contestants through the final stages of the auditions.

Ali Bongo's third-term victory in a disputed election. The military intervention, marking the eighth such instance in West and Central Africa since 2020, has raised concerns about the erosion of democratic progress in the region. With echoes of recent military takeovers in nearby countries like Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso, the situation highlights the fragility of political stability and the complex challenges facing the African continent.

PTI. Speaking on the sidelines of an event of Meet and Greet with the Team Of Miss World 2023, Poonawalla said that Pawar had two opportunities to become Prime Minister, however, he lost it and now it is time for him to take retirement and rest. ALSO READ: 'Ajit Pawar not our leader,' Sharad Pawar takes U-turn after 'no conflict, no split in party' remark Answering a question regarding Pawar's political party in a press conference, Poonawala said, "My advice to Sharad Pawar...He had two opportunities to become Prime Minister but he lost it.

The foreign minister of Quad group -- which includes India, Australia, Japan and the United States – are likely to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York in September. The meeting of the foreign ministers is being held to expand the cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, people familiar with the development said on Wednesday. The meeting has however not been confirmed yet.

(Reuters) — Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and Indian drugmaker Lupin will supply their versions of the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline at a significantly cheaper price in low- and middle-income countries, a global anti-tuberculosis group said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) -United States Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has said U.S. companies have raised concerns that China has become «uninvestible», pointing to fines, raids and other actions that have made it too risky to do business in the world's second-largest economy.

(Reuters) -Jack Daniel's maker Brown-Forman missed quarterly profit expectations on Wednesday, hurt by higher input costs and sluggish demand for its pricier whiskeys like Woodford Reserve and Gentleman Jack in the U.S.

(Reuters) — Canada's merger court asked the competition bureau to pay about C$13 million ($9.58 million) to Rogers (NYSE:ROG) Communications and Shaw Communications (NYSE:SJR) for the lengthy court battle after its failed attempt to block the telecom firms' C$20-billion merger.

Biocon Biologics is on track to integrate a major part of the acquired biosimilars business of long-term partner Viatris in the current fiscal, the company's Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has said. Biocon Biologics, a unit of the Bengaluru-based biotechnology major, had announced earlier this year that it has completed the integration of the acquired biosimilars business from Viatris in over 70 countries in emerging markets effective July 1, 2023. Now, it is looking to integrate the acquired biosimilars business in the remaining markets like North America and Europe. «We are on track to integrate a major part of the acquired business in a phased manner during FY24,» Mazumdar-Shaw said in her address to the company's shareholders in the Annual Report for 2022-23, which was released on Wednesday. Direct commercial presence in many global markets will allow Biocon Biologics to devise more sustainable and targeted strategies to make biosimilars accessible to the maximum number of patients and healthcare providers, she added.

Software services firm Hexaware Technologies Wednesday announced up to 120% variable pay to its more than 28,500 employees.

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GST refund in this case, the public exchequer will face loss but the Principal Secretary (Finance) didn't take any action." Providing further details, Atishi stated, "As we are witnessing in present times in Delhi that democracy, the Constitution and the Federal Structure is being disregarded repeatedly. The Central government has introduced the GNCTD (Amendment) Act 2023, also known as the Services Act, which significantly curtails the authority of the elected government of Delhi." Reacting to the alleged refusal of the officers to follow the orders, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the Delhi Services Act has given open license to officers to “outrightly rebel against the written orders of elected government" and “officers have started refusing to obey the orders of elected ministers." “Can any state or country or institution run like this? This Act will ruin Delhi and this is what BJP wants.

reality, it added. Led by the US DOE Deputy Secretary David Turk and MNRE Secretary Bhupinder Singh Bhalla, the RETAP has been established as a result-oriented, time-bound platform with a keen focus on technology.

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