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India-UK bilateral trade pact such as the one about minimum import price (MIP) for Scotch whisky and those related to finalisation of a bilateral investment treaty will be discussed after the general elections in Britain, a top official said. The issues that need to be ironed out include duties in sectors like electric vehicles, alcoholic beverages and services. General elections in the UK will be held on July 4. «The outstanding issues to seal the deal will be resolved once the general elections in the UK are over,» said L Satya Srinivas, additional secretary, department of commerce.

European Championship title begins against Croatia in Berlin's Olympiastadion — where the final will be played next month. The other teams in the group are defending champion Italy and Albania. Kickoff is at 6 p.m. local (1600 GMT) on Saturday. Here's what to know about the match: Match facts — Spain and Croatia are meeting for the fourth successive time at the European Championship. Spain knocked out Croatia after a 5-3 extra-time win in the round of 16 at Euro 2020. Spain also defeated Croatia on penalties to win the UEFA Nations League last year.

Automobile retailers' apex body FADA on Friday voiced its concern on the high inventory level and said it is planning to take up the matter with the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM). At the third edition of the Finance and Insurance Summit 2024 here, Federation of Automobile Dealers' Association (FADA) President Manish Singhania also demanded continuity in the FAME-3 policy and in infra push. Singhania said in 2018-19 was a very bad year for the automobile dealers in the country when 280-odd dealerships had gone out of business, and FADA does not want that to happen again. «We are cautious about the inventory levels because anything above 30 days starts hitting the dealerships. We follow a cycle where the dealer takes funds from banks, which are paid back with interest in 60 days.

Swedish accident investigators say the country’s oldest amusement park did not properly test new parts for a roller coaster that derailed last year

Vermont’s governor has vetoed a broad data privacy bill that would have been one of the strongest in the country to crack down on companies’ use of online personal data

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is tweaking his Cabinet with a focus on cost-of-living and labor policies after his center-right party’s victory in last week’s European parliamentary elections

California has become a leader in curbing methane emissions from dairy farms, a major source of the greenhouse gas

Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair says his country looks on track to meet NATO’s military spending guideline by 2030

The World Bank has approved a $2.25 billion loan for Nigeria to shore up revenue and back economic reforms that have contributed to the worst cost-of-living crisis in many years for Africa’s most populous country

Also Read: Airfares have soared, but summer travellers don't careHow did the traffic not grow? The growth has been on the edge for a while until countries enticed Indians with visa-free travel or visa on arrival, which has been the case with Thailand and Malaysia. While travel to South East Asia has been on the rise, largely led by increased connectivity, travel to Europe and North America is yet to see its heydays.Europe has seen an ongoing war since 2022, along with the delay in issuing Schengen visas.

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow and renounced plans to join NATO.

U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declared unlawful a federal ban on «bump stock» devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, rejecting yet another firearms restriction — this time one enacted under Republican former President Donald Trump. The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, upheld a lower court's decision siding with Michael Cargill, a gun shop owner and gun rights advocate from Austin, Texas, who challenged the ban by claiming that a U.S. agency improperly interpreted a federal law banning machine guns as extending to bump stocks. The conservative justices were in the majority, with the liberal justices dissenting.

Putin has approved a plan to jointly build the International Lunar Research Station with China, an ambitious space project which was announced previously by the two close neighbours. The document connected with the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) was published on a Russian official legal information portal on Wednesday, Russia's state-run Sputnik news agency reported. The ILRS will consist of sections on the lunar surface, sections in lunar orbit and sections on Earth, and it will be built in two phases, Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration programme said in April this year. According to Wu, the first phase of the ILRS construction project will see a basic station built by 2035 in the lunar south pole region. The second phase will see the expansion of the station, set for completion by 2045, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Wu as saying.

Pope Francis became the first pontiff to address the Group of Seven nations on Friday, raising the promise and perils of artificial intelligence to the leaders of the world's leading industrialized nations. Francis addressed the G7 and other invited countries at their annual summit in southern Italy. When he arrived, the room, which had been boisterous with delegations, went quiet as he greeted each of the G7 members and the expanded guest list.

Elon Musk’s historic $56 billion pay package. If the tech billionaire was an Indian company, he would have been ranked the fifth largest on the list of major corporations in India by revenue. On Thursday, the electric vehicle manufacturer’s board approved Musk’s $56 billion pay package, supporting his leadership and incentivising his focus on the auto giant.

Tata Communications, a Tata Group stock, have delivered substantial returns to their shareholders over the years, demonstrating resilience in the face of market volatility. The stock, which was trading at ₹914 apiece two years ago, has jumped 104% to trade at the current level of ₹1,868.

Solar Industries, based in Nagpur, has delivered the first batch of indigenously developed Nagastra-1 Loitering Munitions to the Indian Army, marking a significant milestone in India's defense preparedness and self-reliance in military technology.

₹50,000 crore over the next five years, reaffirming an earlier milestone set by the government.Also Read: Indian stock market ready for a dream run, target Nifty 50 at 25,816: PLFollowing this development, shares of PTC Industries jumped 20% to touch a new record high of ₹14,930 apiece, while Paras Defence and Space Technologies also jumped 18% to hit a new peak of ₹1,141, while BEML shares gained 13% to reach ₹4,516.95 apiece. Other defence stocks such as Bharat Electronics, MTAR Technologies, Bharat Dynamics, ideaForge Technology, Zen Technologies, and Astra Microwave Products all gained between 3% and 8%.Shipbuilding stocks also saw an uptick, with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders rising 6% in intraday trade, while Cochin Shipyard and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers jumped 4% and 7%, respectively.Also Read: HAL shares surge 7%, gain 167% in one year; what's driving the rally?"PM Modi has given me the responsibility of the Defence Ministry again.

Switzerland will host scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out first steps toward peace in Ukraine

Leaders of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations are turning their attention to migration on the second day of their summit

Keir Starmer's Labour Party, which leads in the opinion polls and which published its manifesto on Thursday, is targeting Britain's wealthiest people to support a public spending programme focused on schools, welfare, energy reform and the National Health Service.