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BEIJING (Reuters) — China on Wednesday said a situation in which national security restrictions severely impede global growth due to «the politicisation of economic and trade issues» would be «immoral and unsustainable». after a International Monetary Fund warning.

Investing.com-- Shares of Apple Inc's (NASDAQ:AAPL) biggest Asian suppliers sank on Wednesday, tracking an overnight decline in the iPhone maker after Barclays downgraded the stock citing cooling demand for its flagship product.

Investing.com-- Most Asian stocks fell on Wednesday, tracking steep overnight losses on Wall Street as markets second-guessed expectations for early interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, especially before more key economic cues this week.

U.S. officials are seizing more shipments of unauthorized electronic cigarettes

BARC), India's sole TV viewership measurement body, has increased its meter count used for measuring viewership of Indian TV audiences to 59,000 and is on course to touch 65,000 in the near term, say sources privy to the development. BARC has set a target of installing 65,000 bar-o-meters which are used to collect TV viewership data, and is adding new meters every month to achieve its target, one of the sources said. The council had installed 55,000 bar-o-meters as of December 2022, in accordance with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting's (MIB) policy guidelines for TV rating agencies in India. The increase in meter count comes amid calls from various sections of the industry to increase the BARC panel size to capture precise TV viewership data from India's urban and rural areas. Meterology Data, in which BARC owns 51% and TAM Media owns the remaining 49%, deploys and maintains the bar-o-meters. It also has 2500 OOH meters to collect representative data from India's urban and rural areas. The bar-o-meters are used to collect real-time data beamed through GSM networks, which are supported by a network of field personnel, electronic equipment, and a strong IT backbone. BARC is promoted by the Indian Broadcasting and Digital Foundation (IBDF), the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA), and the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI). The IBDF holds a 60% stake in BARC, with the ISA and AAAI owning 20% each.

security forces personnel are in a critical stage and are receiving treatment in Imphal. Manipur CM visited the injured soldiers in the hospital and said that the state government is “committed to tackling those bent on destabilizing Manipur, ensuring justice for the victims with decisive actions against the responsible parties." While speaking on the recent attack on security forces, N Biren Singh said, "Search and combing operations are widely going on.

curfew was reimposed in the five valley districts of the state - Thoubal, Imphal East, Imphal West, Kakching and Bishnupur. 2. "The Curfew Relaxation order is hereby cancelled with immediate effect and curfew Is Imposed in the whole revenue jurisdiction of Thoubal District Immediately prohibiting the movement of persons outside their respective residences in the District," said the order issued by A Subhash, District Magistrate of the district.

Supreme Court, claiming they suffered from many «defects and discrepancies». The Lok Sabha had on December 21 passed three key legislations — the Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita, and the Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Bills. President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the bills on December 25.

The Nifty50 continues to trade at 19.8 times its 1-year forward P/E based on the consensus earnings. On a 10-year basis, the index is still trading 10% above its 10-year mean valuation, says HSBC Mutual Fund. Valuations in the midcap and smallcap space are much more elevated.

₹3,518 crore to ₹8,411 crore," read a statement from the ministry. However, the statement added, production of other important minerals such as lignite, copper concentrate, bauxite, chromite and phosphorite declined in October.

Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Tata group company Tata Electronics, will recruit 1000 science graduates for its semiconductor facility in Narasapur near Bengaluru, adding that by 2026 Assam’s GDP will be 10 lakh crore. Asserting that 2024 will be a year of industrial investment in Assam, Sarma while talking to media persons on Monday said, “Tata Electronics will recruit 1000 science graduates for its semiconductor facility in Karnataka.” Tata Electronics Pvt. Limited is in the process of setting up a plant involving a financial outlay of Rs. 40 thousand crores for assembling and packaging of semiconductors at Jagiroad in Assam. He said that in 2023-24 Assam’s GSDP had touched 5.65 lakh crore.

inflation remains a worry. ET asked a galaxy of experts to make one prediction each for 2024, the early part of which will be dominated by the general elections. But it’s also a year when the Indian economy is set to cross the $4 trillion mark. Not too surprisingly, in our 24 Predictions For 2024, the most dominant theme was the impact of Artificial Intelligence on businesses and lives, but India’s economic potential figured as strongly.

₹10,000 crore—more than $1 billion (about ₹8,300 crore) —and I don’t think we’ll need to take that figure up further. Will local electronics manufacturing in India need concerted efforts to create a component supply chain now, given that we’re assembling a sizeable amount? Even China, which controls 70-72% of the global value chains (GVCs), makes a value addition that is in the low two-digits. Even they, for exports exceeding $1 trillion, import $650-700 billion in components.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. They replaced the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, and Indian Evidence Act, 1872, respectively.

digital infrastructure and technology sector. This prediction is supported by several key factors, including government initiatives, increased foreign investment, a burgeoning startup ecosystem, and a growing talent pool in the technology sector. Firstly, the Indian government has been actively promoting digitalization across various sectors.

The year 2024 promises to be a breakout one for India’s hearables and wearables industry, a rapidly growing segment within Indian electronics. Driven by domestic adoption, this sector witnessed modest growth in 2023 and anticipates robust growth.

electronics manufacturing sector is set to grow 15 per cent to be worth USD 115 billion in 2024, with players continuing to focus more on higher levels of value addition in terms of components and development of products. The production of mobile phones, the poster boy of the country's electronics manufacturing, is expected to surpass USD 50 billion by March 2024 from around USD 42 billion in the previous financial year.

FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) companies have a lot going for them: rising disposable incomes, rapid pace of urbanisation, growing aspirations and lower penetration of branded products. However, despite a vast growth opportunity, the FMCG companies struggled with various challenges in 2023 and hope to have a better 2024. Weaker-than-expected festive demand, rainfall deficit that hampered rural growth, unseasonal rains that dampened sale of beverages and higher commodity prices constituted a daunting landscape for India's FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) companies in 2023. When inflation was at a record high, the FMCG industry had a high price-led growth in the last five-six quarters, though the volume was under stress. However, the trend has started reversing with the cooling of commodity prices. While volume growth for the FMCG industry in urban India has been on a positive trajectory since April-June last year, rural markets have grown marginally this calendar year, according to market researcher NielsenIQ. In the September quarter, urban markets grew 10.2% year-on-year while rural grew 6.4%, it said. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, rural markets were driving overall growth, growing twice as fast as urban markets. But the demand has slowed down in the current quarter. Overall sales of apparel and electronic products have been languishing for over a year now, while those of mass-segment electronic products have been low since the pandemic outbreak. According to researcher GfK, there was a slight pick-up in mass segment during Diwali. Below are some of the challenges faced by the FMCG companies that attracted attention in 2023:

Kim Jong Un wrapped the year with fresh threats of a nuclear attack on Seoul and orders for a military arsenal build-up to prepare for a war that can «break out at any time» on the peninsula, state media reported Sunday. Kim lambasted the United States during a lengthy speech at the end of five days of year-end party meetings that set his country's military, political, and economic policy decisions for 2024. The meeting announced plans for further military development in the coming year, including launching three more spy satellites, building unmanned drones and developing electronic warfare capabilities, as well as strengthening nuclear and missile forces, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Pyongyang this year successfully launched a reconnaissance satellite, enshrined its status as a nuclear power in its constitution, and test-fired the most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in its arsenal. At the meeting that ended Saturday, Kim accused the United States of posing «various types of military threat» and ordered his armed forces to maintain «overwhelming war response capability», according to KCNA. It is a «fait accompli that a war can break out at any time on the Korean peninsula due to reckless moves by the enemies to invade us», Kim said. In an effort to deter Pyongyang, Washington earlier this month deployed a nuclear-powered submarine in the South Korean port city of Busan, and flew its long-range bombers in drills with Seoul and Tokyo. The North has previously described the deployment of Washington's strategic weapons — such as B-52 bombers — in joint drills on the Korean peninsula as the «intentional nuclear war provocative moves». «We must respond quickly to a

CD Projekt, the publisher of Cyberpunk 2077, is offering a total of five video games for free download. For those unfamiliar with GOG, it serves as the digital storefront owned and managed by CD Projekt. Notably, GOG boasts an extensive collection of free games, including some highly acclaimed titles. In recent days, GOG's winter sale has seen the addition of several remarkable games available for free download. These include Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Master, Lost Ruins, Caveblazers, and Lacuna. It's worth noting that these giveaways are available for a limited time only, adding to their exclusivity.

Samsung for the first year — FY21 — of the smartphone production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, officials told ET. The approval, granted after over two years, came after the smartphone major revised its claims as the government had found some discrepancies in the original paperwork. «The claims for the first year have been approved and the amount is likely to be disbursed in a couple of weeks,» an official said. The approved amount though is nearly half of the ₹900 crore that Samsung had initially filed for in August 2021, claiming to have achieved the target of ₹15,000 crore worth of incremental sales for FY21. To claim the subsidy, Samsung had to produce handsets with a factory cost of more than $200 (roughly ₹15,000). However, the ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) found some discrepancies in the company's invoices and held back the incentives. While Samsung was the only company to have achieved the production targets in the first year of the PLI scheme, it is the last one to get the incentives due to the discrepancies and subsequent checks.