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Shashank Srivastava, Senior Executive Officer (Marketing and Sales), Maruti Suzuki India, says: “Yesterday, we filed with the stock exchange. We have said clearly that we will affect the price increase in January and that is because of the general inflationary pressure and also some of the commodity prices pressure. The combination of these two has resulted in our decision to increase the prices in January.” How are things? Things are okay.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to take place at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base in the United States. The South Korean Defence Ministry said in a brief statement on Tuesday the launch was delayed due to weather conditions. Ministry officials said the launch was tentatively rescheduled for this Saturday but it wasn't a fixed date.

AMD's largest global design centre in India, that plans to host approximately 3,000 engineers in coming years, is a testament to the confidence global companies have in India, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday. The 500,000-square-foot campus in Bengaluru is focused on the design and development of semiconductor technology including 3D stacking, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and more.

Germany is struggling to find a way out of a budget crisis after a court decision struck down billions in funding for clean energy projects and help for people facing high energy bills because of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish state via Sweden’s Transport Agency after striking postal workers in the Scandinavian country stopped delivering license plates for new vehicles manufactured by the Texas-based automaker

Labor unions have staged a day of protests and strikes across the Czech Republic to voice their opposition to the government’s package of cuts and austerity measures meant to keep the ballooning deficit under control

Dubai has a long history of finding economic success amid the war-ravaged woes of the wider Middle East

A record number of passengers traveled through U.S. airports over Thanksgiving weekend, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday

The seizure off Yemen is the third such assault in the Israel-Hamas war.

Russia's interior ministry has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta to a wanted list according to its online database

Mayors, governors and others have been forceful advocates for newly arrived migrants seeking shelter and work permits

What motivates people to donate to charities or causes they care about is often deeply personal

Christopher Luxon has been sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister and says his priority is to improve the economy

Increasing numbers of ships are streaming toward Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and heading out loaded with grain, metals and other cargo despite the threat of attack and explosive mines

Japan and Vietnam have agreed to boost their security and economic ties in the face of China’s growing influence in the region

Earth's climate is in trouble, and the signs could be seen around the world this summer

BharatPe on Tuesday announced that it has turned Ebitda positive in October with annualised revenue crossing Rs 1,500 crore. Without giving out the actual number, BharatPe in a statement said the financial milestone was attributed to consistent growth across all business lines. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (Ebitda) is a measure of core corporate profitability.

Sanjay Kumar Verma, India's High Commissioner to Canada, stated that the Indian government is collaborating with an American inquiry related to an alleged foiled assassination attempt, rather than Canada's investigation into the June killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia due disparities in the information shared between the two nations during their respective investigations. Speaking to CTV's Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, Sanjay Kumar Verma said that his understanding is that US authorities have shared more specific information regarding the investigation with India than Canada has and that he stressed is likely the differentiating factor in the level of India's cooperation in both cases.

Rishi Sunak recently showed strong support towards skilled migrant workers stating that ‘half of the UK's innovative companies have an immigrant founder’ and ‘it is the best country in the world to invest and do business ’ Amid growing calls to reduce immigration, he lauded the UK's "most competitive visa regime," positioning it as the world's best for investment and business. While speaking at Global Investment Summit, the UK PM said, “We don’t have a monopoly on talent in this country, and we recognise that nearly half of our most innovative companies have an immigrant founder." He further praised the country’s ‘most competitive visa regime’ and said “So, if you’re an innovator, an entrepreneur, a researcher, you should know that the most competitive visa regime for highly skilled international talent is right here in the United Kingdom." His intervention comes against the backdrop of discontent within his own Conservative Party ranks after last week’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) data revealed record-high annual migration to the country and former home secretary Suella Braverman’s allies laid the blame squarely at Downing Street’s door.

AFP looks at 10 standout numbers: The number of people around the world displaced by conflict or humanitarian crises was already at a record high before the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, adding to the misery. By the end of September, 114 million people had been driven from their homes by wars in Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of Congo and a humanitarian crisis in Taliban-run Afghanistan, among other factors, according to UN refugee agency the UNHCR. They have since been joined by at least 1.7 million Gazans. One heat record after another tumbled in 2023, which is on course to be the hottest year on record, according to the European Union's climate monitor Copernicus. The northern hemisphere had its hottest summer ever and temperature records were also smashed in the southern winter, with the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires experiencing its warmest August 1 on record at 30 degrees Celsius. Defending champions South Africa won a nail-biting final 12-11 against New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup, to claim a record fourth title and seal the growing role of rugby — once the sport of the white minority under apartheid — as a unifying force in multiracial South Africa. «People who are not from South Africa don't understand what it means for our country. It is not just about the game.