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Paris, while France will get a major host-nation bump from eighth to third, according to a forecast 100 days out from the opening ceremony. The Gracenote virtual medals table, which is compiled using results data from key global and continental competitions since the Tokyo Olympics, has the U.S. on top both on gold medal count (39) and total medal count (123). The U.S. will host the next Olympics after Paris in Los Angeles in 2028.

Reliance Industries' fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company clocked ₹3,000 crore sales in FY24, its first full year of operations, with beverage brand Campa Cola alone contributing ₹400 crore, said a senior industry executive aware of the plans. To put in perspective Reliance Consumer Products' (RCPL) performance, Emami with five decades of operations reported ₹3,400 crore sales in FY23, while oral care market leader Colgate-Palmolive (India) posted revenue of ₹5,226 crore the same year which marked its eighth decade of operations. Listed FMCG companies are still to declare financial results for FY24. RCPL formally began operations on November 30, 2022. RCPL, housing brands such as Campa Cola and Independence, aims to continue the sales growth momentum propelled by staples and beverages.

Since the great financial crisis of 2007-08, regulators have engaged in the biggest push since the 1930s to de-risk the global financial system. Yet instability and flawed risk management have proved extraordinarily resistant to this regulatory onslaught.

Punjab Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sibin C said that tight security arrangements have been made to conduct the elections in a free and fair manner in Punjab. According to data, various law enforcement agencies, including the Punjab Police and BSF, seized drugs worth Rs 213.07 crore, liquor worth Rs 13.83 crore, cash worth Rs 6 crore and valuable and other items worth Rs 10.3 crore.

USCIS) proudly posted on X that a 99-yr-old woman from India had been awarded citizenship. 'They say age is just a number. That seems true for this lively 99-year-old who became a new US citizen in our Orlando office. Daibai is from India and was excited to take the Oath of Allegiance....' Indians tired of waiting for an employment-based green card (GC) for decades did not take too kindly to this post. One person responded to USCIS with, 'LOL. Soon you will give green cards posthumously!' A GC is the first step on the path towards US citizenship. In general, only after five years of holding a GC (reduced to three years, if you are married to a US citizen) can you apply for citizenship. The catch — it's a decades-long queue if you are from India.

NEW DELHI : The World Bank plans to provide a $1 billion line of credit to the State Bank of India (SBI) to support the expansion of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and electric mobility in the country, two people aware of the development said, a move that helps India quicken its green energy transition. The proposal aims to help attract early investments and mobilize private capital and commercial financing. The amount will be disbursed in tranches.

parliament on Wednesday approved a motion to ban the Nazis' swastika emblem as part of a crackdown on extremist symbols in the neutral country. The lower house of parliament voted to prohibit one of the most infamous symbols of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist regime following concerns about rising antisemitism.

Sultanpur MP Maneka Gandhi on Wednesday said the country has moved away from casteism and embarked on the path of development. She called upon everyone to rise above casteism and vote on the issue of development. «The way Modiji has changed the condition and direction of the country. The country has moved away from casteism and embarked on the path of development,» Gandhi told reporters here. «I have also worked in Sultanpur by giving priority to development and people's problems. I never did caste and religion based politics,» she added.

Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging that the PM’s hands shook while trying to explain the electoral bonds fiasco in a recent media interview. “The electoral bonds are the biggest scam the nation has ever seen…the BJP government used the bonds to extort money off businesses that suddenly found themselves the target of central agencies like the CBI, ED and Income Tax Department,” he said, speaking in a rally in Mandya nine days before the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in the state. Gandhi was on his first visit to the state after the poll schedule was announced a month ago. Praising the Congress regime in the state, he said the party had fulfilled all the guarantees it had promised before the assembly polls last year. If the Congress won in the Centre, it would also fulfill its national guarantees, he added.

The Guardian reported that the Swiss foods company adds sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in “poorer countries". It cited data from Public Eye, a Swiss investigative organization, and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) that examined Nestlé baby food brands sold in these markets. Public Eye examined 115 products sold in Nestlé’s main markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America across two key brands—Cerelac and Nodi.

India an economic and strategic superpower. Vote for a government which does not only work for development, but also cares for the country's cultural legacy," Ramdev told reporters in Haridwar.

Since GPUs are scarce and very expensive, the Indian government has two options: let businesses and industry solve its own GPU problem or spend public money to make GPUs more accessible to startups, research bodies and key industries, just as it has done with the Production-linked Incentives (PLI) scheme to promote key industries for its Make in India mission. In the first case, India will remain a laggard in AI and other emerging technologies; in the second, it can emerge as a new-age tech hub. Large domestic computing capacity also ensures a country's data sovereignty. The government has realised the importance of GPUs for India and is working to find a solution. It may strike a deal with Nvidia, the world's biggest GPU producer, to source graphics processing units (GPUs) from it, and offer them to local startups, researchers, academic institutions and other users at a subsidised rate under its Rs 10,000 crore Artificial Intelligence Mission, ET has reported based on information form sources.

increase in 'heat stress' due to high temperatures along with humidity over India, TOI has reported. Describing this as 'moist heat stress', researchers have stated that its magnitude has risen by almost 30% in India over the past 40 years (1980-2020). The analysis has also shown a significant upward trend in the spatial range of areas facing heat stress in India. The term 'Heat stress' denotes the physiological pressure on the body due to exposure to high temperatures, frequently coupled with high levels of humidity.

senior living projects in India are concentrated in the southern cities of Chennai, Bengaluru, and Coimbatore, contributing to approximately 40% of the country's total inventory, according to CBRE data. This dominance is linked to the region's favourable climate, improved connectivity,presence of prominent healthcare players and a higher percentage of parents of NRIs. The southern region distinctly leads by contributing about 74% to the overall supply, particularly in organised assisted living segments. This promising trend is driven by several factors, including higher affordability levels and a growing acceptance of nuclear family structures, as evidenced by a higher proportion of elderly living alone compared to the northern states.

India unit of Korean electronics maker Samsung wants to notch up Rs 10,000 crore in sales from the television business in calendar 2024, while expanding the production and local value addition of the product in the country, said Mohandeep Singh, senior vice president (visual display business) at Samsung India. At present, Samsung locally produces 90% of televisions it sells in India. Talking to ET on the sidelines of the company’s launch of new AI televisions on Wednesday, Singh said the company has embarked on an ambitious plan to become the first television manufacturer to clock Rs 10,000 crore revenue milestone in India.

IFFCO in the country in the next three years. Nano Urea Plus is a new version of nano urea meant for meeting crop nitrogen requirements at critical growth phases. According to a gazette notification, the government has approved Nano Urea Plus in liquid form with 16 per cent nitrogen content in weight by weight, and pH value of 4-8.5 and viscosity of 5-30. This product will be manufactured by the cooperative major IFFCO for a period of three years, it said.

Fumio Kishida’s visit to the United States in April 2024 was a historical visit because the agreement indicated that Japan will take charge of a more wider security role in the East China Sea, Taiwan and the South China Sea as a trustworthy ally of the United States. Firstly, Japan and the United States are planning to make Tokyo to be main headquarters of military operation in this region. Currently, Japan has been planning to establish the integrated headquarters of its ground, maritime, and air Self-Defence-Forces in Tokyo by next March 2025. Along with it, during this Kishida’s US visit, the US decided to strengthen its headquarters in Tokyo to make seamless collaboration with the Japanese side. The rank of commander of the headquarter will rise from three star general to be four star general. The four-star general is at the same level with the current Indo-Pacific Commander in Hawaii. The strengthening of the seamless command chain of armed forces in Tokyo is very important step. Currently, China is provoking countries in the East China Sea, Taiwan and the South China Sea at the same time. For China’s strategy, these areas are one set. For example, if China wants to invade Taiwan, China should dominate the East China Sea and the South China Sea to isolate Taiwan. And government in Beijing can control all these areas under one integrated strategy.

Rajnath Singh on Wednesday questioned the intention behind the CPI(M)'s poll manifesto promise to dismantle nuclear weapons in the country and demanded to know the stand of the Congress on this issue. Singh alleged talk of dismantling India's nuclear weapons amounted to playing with national security and that there was a «deep-rooted conspiracy to weaken the country». He accused the Left and the Congress, both allies in the anti-BJP INDIA bloc, of apparently trying to weaken the country. Speaking at a public meeting in Kasaragod Lok Sabha seat seeking votes for BJP candidate M L Ashwini, Singh demanded that the Congress should clarify its stand on the CPI(M)'s promise in the manifesto to dismantle nuclear weapons as it was the Indira Gandhi government which kicked off the country's nuclear programme in 1974.

Our markets are volatile with recent events of Iran-Israel tensions and the potential for a war-like scenario taking a toll. While we do not purport to be experts on geo-political event outcomes, recent history suggests that these events take some time to de-escalate as global leaders work towards limiting both direct and collateral political implications to countries involved in such attacks. History shows that such conflicts have nearly always created near-term volatility which in hindsight, also show up as long-term opportunities.

Samsung India wants to notch up Rs 10,000 crore sales from the television business in India in calendar 2024 while expanding the production and local value addition in the country, senior vice president (visual display business) Mohandeep Singh said. At present, Samsung locally produces 90% of televisions it sells in India. Talking to ET on the sidelines of the company’s launch of new AI televisions on Wednesday, Singh said the company has embarked on an ambitious plan to become the first television manufacturer to clock Rs 10,000 crore revenue milestone in India.

Indian Offshoring market has evolved itself as a significant occupier in India’s office space with leasing over 46% of office space in 2023, with global capability centers (GCCs) being the biggest offshore occupier, showed a Knight Frank report that has cited India amongst the leading offshoring locations in the world. India’s offshoring market witnessed a 26% rise in overall leasing volume of 27.3 million sq ft in calendar year 2023 including GCC’s absorption of 20.8 million sq ft and third-party IT services’ 6.5 million sq ft. In recent years, India's office real estate market has seen a positive trend from GCCs, seeking growth opportunities in the global offshoring industry. The GCC landscape in India has grown significantly by fostering more than 1,580 centres across the nation in 2023. The GCC’s proposition in the Indian leasing transactions has increased to 35% in 2023 from 25% in 2022.