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Google Doodle is celebrating the ongoing FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023. The doodle was first unveiled on the opening day and has now been displayed again during the quarter-finals on Wednesday. Hosted by Australia and New Zealand, this marks the ninth edition of the Women’s World Cup. The inaugural women’s football championship by FIFA took place in 1991. Before that, in 1988, FIFA organized an Invitation Tournament in China as a test. Encouraged by its success, FIFA moved forward with plans for an official women’s world championship, though it hesitated to label it as the World Cup back then. The US claimed victory in the first Women’s World Cup, triumphing over Norway 2-1 in Guangzhou. England entered the scene in the 1995 Women’s World Cup, facing Nigeria in a knockout match. They secured a 3-2 win. However, their journey was halted by Germany in the quarter-finals, resulting in a 0-3 loss. Germany advanced to the final but was defeated by Norway, marking the first European nation to clinch the Women’s World Cup. In its celebration, Google recognized the significance of the ninth edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023. It sent best wishes to all participating national teams, saying, “The world is watching with flags in their hands and hope in their hearts!” Commencing on July 20, the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 reached the quarter-final stage on August 11. The final is scheduled for August 20. The Lionesses advanced to the semi-finals by overcoming Colombia in the quarter-finals, putting them two matches away from winning the championship. The team has already secured victories against Haiti, Denmark, China, and Nigeria – but the true challenge lies ahead.

PM-eBus Sewa scheme to deploy 10,000 electric buses across India will take electric mobility to the grassroots level and boost localisation, automobile industry players said on Wednesday. The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved 'PM-eBus Sewa' for augmenting city bus operations, under which priority will be given to cities having no organised bus service.

Intel Corp scrapped its $5.4 billion deal to buy Israeli contract chipmaker Tower Semiconductor Ltd after their merger agreement expired without regulatory approval from China. US-listed shares of the Israeli company fell about 11% in premarket trading. Intel, which had decided to buy Tower last year, will pay a termination fee of $353 million to the latter, the company said in a statement.

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Alliance (NDA) at the Centre. Clarifying on the meeting, Sharad Pawar has said, “It was a family meeting with Ajit Pawar. I did not go to the media talking about the meeting." The meeting between NCP founder Sharad Pawar and his nephew and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on August 12 at businessman Atul Chordiya’s residence in the Koregaon Park area had sent political circles abuzz.

kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal. The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one — and it's not over.

Tulsi Bhai by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that he liked the name because tulsi is a medicinal plant and has many benefits, reported PTI. Countries of all income groups should invest in primary health care (PHC), which can provide more than 80 per cent of services and also help detect outbreaks of pandemics at an early stage, Ghebreyesus said. On the EG.5 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus being recently classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a variant of interest, Ghebreyesus said it is important to continue to remain vigilant.

PTI citing officials. The Y20 summit is being organised by the Union ministry of youth affairs and sports.

Indian Air Force (IAF) will host a mega multilateral military exercise next year that was originally planned for October. The exercise, 'Tarang Shakti', is likely to be held in the middle of 2024 as a number of participating air forces conveyed to the IAF that they will not be able to join the wargame if it is held this year, sources in the defence and military establishment said on Wednesday. The exercise is expected to witness participation of around 12 air forces and the focus of the wargame will be to improve military cooperation and enhance interoperability, they said. It will be the biggest air exercise being organised in India. It is learnt that air forces of France, the UK, Australia, the US and Japan would participate in the exercise.

Chandrayaan-3 and Russia's Luna-25 gearing up for lunar landings next week, each mission holding significant implications beyond the thrilling competition in the skies. While Chandrayaan-3 plans to be the first to land on the Moon's south pole, Luna-25's swift trajectory has cast new light, say experts as anticipation builds up. The proximity, possible overlap, of their landing dates — August 21-23 for Luna-25 and August 23-24 for Chandrayaan-3 — has intensified global attention.

IndiGo, owned by InterGloble Aviation, stated on August 16 that they will start flight services between Almaty and Delhi from September 23, 2023, onwards. This will be IndiGo’s 32nd international destination and the 111th overall station within the extensive 6E network.

₹15.34 Lakh Crore were processed through UPI in July 2023. Taking the popularity of UPI a step ahead, UPI Lite has taken over the country’s imagination for small-value transactions up to ₹200 in a single-click. Since its launch earlier this year, UPI Lite has seen massive adoption in the country with more than 10 million transactions being processed through it in a month.

It was Atal Bihari Vajpayee who first dreamed of connecting the four corners of the country through highways when he was the prime minister nearly two decades ago. Vajpayee carried on the spirit of economic reforms introduced by the PV Narsimha Rao government in 1991. Regarded by some as the father of India's second-generation economic reforms, Vajpayee, whose death anniversary falls today, is remembered for several firsts.

international trade and finance. – Some experts have speculated that a BRICS currency may grow to challenge the dollar’s eminence in the global economy.

reported a growth of 102 per cent in net profit in the June quarter, but Reliance Industries witnessed a decline on net profit on weaker oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business, despite steady growth in retail and telecom arms. The diversified conglomerate's O2C's revenue declined 17.7 per cent at ₹1,33,031 crore in the quarter-under-review, compared to ₹1,61,715 crore in the year-ago period.

The U.K. has created an investment vehicle to back growth-stage financial technology companies until they can go public, in a bid to bolster Britain's global image as a fintech investment hub.

Congress and the BJP crossed swords on Wednesday over the renaming of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library with the opposition party accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of «distorting and destroying» the Nehruvian legacy and the ruling party dismissing the criticism as a «lament of courtiers». The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has officially been renamed as the Prime Ministers' Museum and Library Society with effect from August 14. The Congress said despite the «relentless assault», India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's legacy will live on for the world to see and he will continue to inspire the generations to come. History is created, it is never changed or converted, the opposition party asserted. In a post on X, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said, «From today, an iconic institution gets a new name. The world-renowned Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) becomes PMML — Prime Ministers' Memorial Museum and Library.» «Mr Modi possesses a huge bundle of fears, complexes and insecurities, especially when it comes to our first and longest-serving Prime Minister. He has had a single-point agenda of denying, distorting, defaming and destroying Nehru and the Nehruvian legacy,» Ramesh said.

PHC), which can provide more than 80 per cent of services and also help detect outbreaks of pandemics at an early stage, WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. On the EG.5 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus being recently classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a «variant of interest», Ghebreyesus said it is important to «continue to remain vigilant». Ghebreyesus was talking to media persons during his visit to a health and wellness centre (HWC) at Adraj Moti village in Gandhinagar district after his arrival here to attend a global summit on traditional medicine.

New Delhi: The MCA21 portal, on which about 1.5 million active companies file their statutory documents, has been rebuilt from scratch and is now making the transition to a high-security filing regime. After professionals like accountants complained about difficulties in filing documents, the ministry of corporate affairs held extensive public consultation across multiple cities in June and is closely monitoring the functioning of the portal revamped by a private service provider. So, has the new corporate reporting regime taken off? Mint takes a look.

Investing.com — Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has announced its second price cut in China in three days, further fueling worries of a potential price war in the country's lucrative electric vehicle (EV) market.

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