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Men in Blue were heartbroken in the World Cup final in Ahmedabad when the Aussies beat them by 6 wickets. However, it seems that the cricketing fraternity has found a new fascination with the death-over batting of left-handed batsman Rinku Singh. The 26-year-old has shown his ability to bat in the death overs during his stint with Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, but his innings in the T20 format for India have impressed everyone.

₹2.59 lakh crore in the five recently concluded mainboard initial public offerings (IPOs). The week-long bidding frenzy gripped investors as the five companies -Tata Technologies Ltd., Gandhar Oil Refineries Ltd., Fedbank Financial Services Ltd., Flair Writing Industries Ltd, and Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) Ltd sustained the IPO pulse in India's primary markets. Read more The Indian civil aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation has issued an advisory to Indian airlines on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) interference in airspace.

Narendra Modi has questioned the practice of some families to organise weddings abroad. He has urged such celebrations to be held within India. “I know some people want it.

Statistics reveal that the world’s top 1 per cent of emitters produce over 1,000 times more CO2 than the bottom 1 per cent. That number gets starker, as studies reveal, with the richest 0.1 per cent of the world’s population emitting 10 times more than the entire top 10 per cent combined. These figures make one thing explicitly clear: if these top emitters globally continue to maintain such carbon levels, there is no way we can decarbonize fast enough.

Natural gas prices remain under pressure weighed down by record production, high inventory levels, and worries over industrial and heating demand. Prices at the key NYMEX futures platform currently traded at a one-month low. However, it has been broadly choppy inside the $3.6 — 2 MMBtu levels throughout this year.

S Jaishankar on Sunday paid homage to the victims on the 15th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Taking to his official handle on X, the External Affairs Minister said India remains committed to bringing the perpetrators of «these horrific acts» to justice. «It is 15 years today since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Our quest to bring those responsible for planning and executing these horrific acts to justice continues,» Jaishankar posted from his official handle on X, formerly Twitter. On November 26, 2008, a group of 10 heavily-armed terrorists, belonging to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, unleashed a macabre dance of death in the country's commercial capital. Holding the city under siege over four days, the terrorists killed 166 civilians, including foreigners.

Skilled Worker route, the Graduate Visa allows flexible job switches, voluntary work, and self-employment. The Graduate Visa also allows the holder to travel abroad and later return to the UK.

Quran more important than the law of the land to leave the country. The leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) in the Netherlands, likely to be the next prime minister of the Netherlands, was heard saying so in an unverified video. “I have a message for all the Muslims in the Netherlands who do not respect our freedom, our democracy and our core values, who find the rules of the Quran more important than our secular laws," he purportedly said.

Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman & MD, Godrej & Boyce, says: “Our vision is to grow 10-12% a year. That is our long term average growth. That has been that way and will stay that way, we hope. We see that all businesses should be profitable from the point of view of not just financial returns, but also from their impact on society. And I think that as we go along, we have to keep on being innovative. You cannot have a thriving company without having innovative products and innovative people. That is at the core of it. But at the same time, you have to be sustainable also. So this confluence of innovation and sustainability is really what is crucial.” First off, you are most passionate on the topic of the environment. There are certain initiatives that Godrej & Boyce has started. I would like you to talk to us a little bit about your environmental initiatives. You said that ESG as a word is clubbed together and misused in a lot of ways. A little bit on that front as well. Environmental issues have been very close to the family for generations now.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is set to travel to India and the UAE beginning Monday for a series of meetings with key government officials. Nelson will also meet with space officials in both countries to deepen bilateral cooperation across a broad range of innovation and research-related areas, especially in human exploration and Earth science, the American space agency NASA said in a release. Nelson's visit to India will fulfil a commitment as part of the US and India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology initiated by President Joe Biden. In the India leg, Nelson will visit several locations, including the Bengaluru-based facilities where the NISAR spacecraft, a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and its Indian counterpart ISRO, is undergoing testing and integration for launch in 2024.

Spain is ready to supply more C295 defence transport aircraft to India if New Delhi requires them, Jose Maria Ridao Dominguez, Spain's Ambassador to India, told ET. Madrid is seeking to boost its often-understated partnership with India in the fields of defence, technology and infrastructure. “We do not have any political differences with India. Spain stands ready to supply more military transport aircraft to India if the country desires so,” Dominguez said.

As many as 110 managing directors or chief executives who were also on the boards of NSE-listed companies quit in the first 10 months of 2023, according to data compiled for ET by primeinfobase.com.

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George Cohon, the man who brought McDonald’s to Canada, and later Russia, has died according to a post on social media from his son, Mark Cohon.

A string of fruit-related recalls have been issued in Canada over the past couple of months amid an outbreak of salmonella infections across the country.

LCA) on Saturday, describing the experience as enriching. Modi, who is the first serving PM to fly on an indigenous fighter jet, undertook the sortie in a two seater trainer version of the aircraft, flying from Bengaluru where the LCA is manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). «Successfully completed a sortie on the Tejas. The experience was incredibly enriching, significantly bolstering my confidence in our country's indigenous capabilities, and leaving me with a renewed sense of pride and optimism about our national potential,» the PM posted on social media after the sortie. The PM was flown by Group Captain Debanjan Mondal and videos released after the sortie showed him climbing into the cockpit and flying at high altitude with a chase aircraft in tow.

Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces' missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers' fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space. Now, the Pentagon is intent on fielding multiple thousands of relatively inexpensive, expendable AI-enabled autonomous vehicles by 2026 to keep pace with China. The ambitious initiative — dubbed Replicator — seeks to «galvanize progress in the too-slow shift of U.S. military innovation to leverage platforms that are small, smart, cheap, and many,» Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said in August.

India, South Africa and Egypt have told the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that the informal discussions on dispute settlement reforms — initiated and led by the US last year — are not a substitute for multilateral talks and favour the participation of the resource-rich delegations. In a submission to WTO on Friday, they said such a process has resulted in «differential access of delegations to the evolving text and discussions». Informal discussions do not allow for virtual participation of capital-based officials, which hinders the involvement of the developing and the least developed countries (LDCs), they said. «The drafting process deviates substantially from the accepted practice at the WTO,» the three countries said, adding that the «format and pace of the discussions have made it challenging» for most developing countries to effectively participate, consult with capitals, present their views, submit comprehensive proposals and review the progress. WTO's informal talks on dispute settlement reforms began in April 2022. «More developing countries should join hands and raise their voice against this informal process as well as other issues, otherwise the outcome may not be in their interest,» said Abhijit Das, an expert on WTO issues. The three nations pointed out that the informal meetings often overlap with formal WTO meetings and negotiations, the composition of the drafting groups has not been made public, members cannot submit their own textual submissions on any aspect that is of importance to them, and the allocation of topics and responsibilities in the drafting groups is done by the volunteer convenor. This lack of record-keeping creates information asymmetry and has resulted in differential access

ICC) event ever, there is a sense of confidence in cricket’s health. But, look a little deeper and you start to doubt your hypothesis. While the games involving India were watched by millions, what about the games that didn’t involve India? How many fans watched the brilliant Australia-South Africa semi-final? India — or more specifically, it’s fans and market— is cricket’s biggest strength.

tribal MLAs, including ministers, have met Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga in Aizawl and sought his intervention to solve the ethnic crisis in Manipur. These MLAs including ministers are demanding separate administration.