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quarter of FY 25. The revenues of the company went down by 10 per cent to Rs 627 crore in Q2FY25 as compared to Rs 696 crore in Q2FY24. The net profit of the company, however, went up by 16 per cent to 61 crore in Q2 FY25 from 53 crore in FY24. Rajesh Aggarwal, managing director of the company said «During the quarter, we observed firming up of raw material prices although excessive and continued rainfall resulted in lower pest infestation. The farmers delayed their spraying schedule, which adversely impacted revenue growth for the Company. The monsoon has been marking India's Wettest monsoon in four years, with rainfall exceeding 100% of the long-term average, increasing sowing for Kharif crop and a promising outlook for Rabi season.»

USAA CEO Wayne Peacock discusses the transition from military to civilian life and the skills veterans bring to the workforce.

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Pakistan’s railways has suspended all train services to and from a restive southwestern province where a suicide bombing at a train station over the weekend killed 26 people, including soldiers and railway staff

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For months, workers battled to keep the decades-old power station in the front-line city of Kurakhove functioning as advancing Russian forces hammered it with artillery. In the spring, the mission changed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With Donald Trump’s election victory, the U.S. is headed again for the exits of the Paris accord, the international climate agreement signed nearly a decade ago, and toward an energy policy inspired by Trump’s campaign mantra “drill, baby, drill." China, on the other hand, appears more committed to the agreement than ever.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 1971 John Connally, then the American treasury secretary, told his European counterparts that the dollar was “our currency, but your problem". Over the following half-century the global economy has transformed, but Connally’s adage still rings true: even though the value of the dollar remains largely set by domestic developments in America, its swings almost always send ripples across the world.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On our last trip from Mexico, we brought back chillies instead of clothes," laughs Ricardo Vargas. A steady supply of dry chillies is a must, among other Mexican spices and seasonings, for the Dehradun-based Vargas who is co-founder of México Lindo – a Mexican restaurant that opened in the Uttarakhand capital three months earlier.

Trump's decisive election victory last week and his impending return to the White House next month has raised significant uncertainty for investors.

White House will find itself already on the losing side in a trade battle with China, part of a bigger power realignment around the resource-rich region in Washington's backyard. Peru, the world's no. 2 copper exporter, is set to host Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders this week, with China's President Xi Jinping expected to attend and inaugurate a major new Chinese-built port in the country. Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden is also on the guest list. Peru reflects a wider challenge for the White House around South America, where China's presence has grown rapidly given its huge appetite for the region's main exports: corn, copper, soy, beef and battery-metal lithium.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that he would retire from politics if Prime Minister Narendra Modi proves that the Congress government has mobilised Rs 700 crore for poll-bound states. Siddaramaiah also challenged Modi that he should resign if he fails to prove his allegations made at Akola in Maharashtra. «I am surprised to see the prime minister of this country lies so much. While campaigning somewhere in Maharashtra, the prime minister said that the Congress in Karnataka has collected Rs 700 crore through the excise department to send to Maharashtra, Jharkhand, and to spend on the bypolls,» Siddaramaiah said at an election rally in Shiggaon in Haveri district on Sunday night. «Today I challenge Narendra Modi that if he can prove these allegations, I will retire from politics. If you cannot, then you should retire,» the chief minister said.

In August, the disease which continues to spread in Africa was classified by the U.N. health body as a public health emergency of international concern, which represents the highest form of alert. This followed the spread of a new variant of the virus, called clade Ib, in parts of the continent. There have been 46,794 confirmed and suspected cases in Africa this year through Nov. 3, including 1,081 deaths, the WHO said in a report issues on Monday. The most affected country is the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed by Burundi and Uganda, it said.

Maratha-OBC quota issue and trends in onion prices are among the campaign themes likely to impact the poll outcome in Maharashtra's Yevla assembly constituency from where NCP minister Chhagan Bhujbal is seeking a re-election. Located in Nashik district, Yevla is home to one of the biggest onion wholesale markets in the country. NCP heavyweight Bhujbal's aggressive stance against Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange has endeared him to the OBC communities, but may put off a section of Marathas in his first electoral battle since the split in the party. His one time aide and now rival NCP (SP) candidate Manikrao Shinde, who belongs to the Maratha community, claimed voters in the constituency support his party head Sharad Pawar and this would go in his favour.

Prajwal Revanna in rape and sexual harassment case. The former MP has been remanded to Special Investigation Team (SIT) custody until June 24 by a Karnataka court on Wednesday, a day after he had been sent to judicial custody under separate charges. The special investigation team (SIT) is investigating four cases of sexual assault against Revanna and filed a chargesheet before the Bengaluru court that hears cases against elected representatives.

Gurjeev Kapoor, Head of Distribution and International Markets at Disney Star, has likely decided to leave the company to pursue entrepreneurial ambitions in the entertainment sector. Kapoor's departure comes as the $8.5 billion merger between Reliance and Disney’s Indian assets nears finalization, sources close to the development informed ET Online. «Gurjeev Kapoor has chosen not to accept a role in the Viacom18/Disney Star joint venture, opting instead to pursue an entrepreneurial career in the entertainment space,» sources told ET Online. Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance had in February this year signed a binding agreement with Disney to merge the media operations in India, the world's most populous country with diverse demography that consumes high volume of media content.

Mexico is facing a second Donald Trump presidency, and few countries can match its experience as a target of Trump’s rhetoric: There have been threats to close the border, impose tariffs and even send U.S. forces to fight Mexican drug cartels if the co...

Experts calculate that curbing and coping with global warming is going to cost trillions of dollars and poor nations just don’t have it

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Index options trading on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the country's largest stock exchange, hit a record high based on the number of contracts traded in October, which saw a 6% pullback in the bellwether Nifty amid tepid earnings growth, rising tensions in the Middle East, and uncertainty over the US presidential elections.

Prashant Kishor targeted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and BJP at the Centre over the condition of the state as he called for a change. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Prashant Kishor claimed that statistics show Bihar as the most poorest, backward and uneducated state in the country and dared CM Nitish to issue the reports or statistics of NITI Aayog. «Nitish Kumar, BJP are in power in Bihar and Centre. Today Bihar is the poorest, most backward, most uneducated, most unemployed state in the country. If whatever we are saying is wrong, then Nitish Kumar should issue the statistics and reports of NITI Aayog. Prashant Kishor is not saying this, the statistics of the central and Bihar government is saying this,» he said.

Sheikh Hasina on Sunday thwarted a plan by her Awami League party to hold a rally in Bangladesh's capital, seen as a potential first effort to make a comeback on the streets since she fled the country in August amid a mass uprising. The rally in Dhaka by Hasina's party was to commemorate the death of a party activist on Nov. 10, 1987, which had sparked a mass protest against former military dictator H.M. Ershad. He was eventually ousted from office, ending his nine-year rule in 1990. The day is commemorated as «democracy day.» In 1991, Bangladesh switched to a parliamentary democracy from a presidential form of government, and since then Hasina and her rival, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, became the most powerful political figures in the country.