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NEW DELHI : The Centre plans to tighten the stockholding limit on tur (pigeon pea) and urad (black gram) pulses and extend it by two months in a bid to check prices and boost domestic supplies until the arrival of fresh stocks. The government also plans to purchase farmers’ produce as well as imported masur (lentil) from the domestic market under the price stabilization fund (PSF) scheme, two senior officials said. The government slapped limits on the stocks of tur and urad dal in June to curb hoarding and speculation amid soaring prices.

(Reuters) — DirecTV said on Monday it had reached a multi-year deal with Nexstar Media Group (NASDAQ:NXST) that would return the local broadcaster's content to the AT&T-controlled distributor's network after a more than two-month blackout.

Ahead of the upcoming State Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, AAP chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal targeted Congress for rampant corruption at a rally in Rewa on Monday. Despite sharing the common umbrella of I.N.D.I.A. alliance, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal attacked the grand old party for promoting corruption in Delhi and Punjab.

GABI and GCP Infra had also been having discussions with the RM Infrastructure trust over a potential combination of assets, but talks were scrapped at the start of September. 

fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused by coal, oil and natural gas. But protesters say it's not going to be enough. And they aimed their wrath directly at U.S.

retail sales remain strong, and the Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady this week. For investors with money on the line, the gloom on Wall Street creates a dilemma.

Runaway standings leader Max Verstappen’s winning run ended at 10 races and Red Bull’s at 15 — both F1 records — as Carlos Sainz Jr. won the Singapore Grand Prix for Ferrari on Sunday. Red Bull dreamed of winning every race this year but had Verstappen fifth and Perez eighth after struggling all weekend in Singapore. Sainz started on pole position and held on with badly worn tires over several tense final laps for his second career win in F1 ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris and the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton. It was a four-car fight for the win before George Russell crashed the other Mercedes on the final lap from third position to promote Hamilton to the podium. “I felt under control. I felt like I could manage well and we brought it home. That was the best feeling,” Sainz said after celebrating with his team as fireworks lit up the Singapore circuit.

H-1B visa programme as a form of «indentured servitude», Indian-American Republican presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to “gut” the lottery-based system and replace it with meritocratic admission if he wins the race to the White House in 2024. The H-1B visa, much sought-after among Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China. Ramaswamy himself has used the H-1B visa programme 29 times. From 2018 through 2023, US Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 29 applications for Ramaswamy's former company, Roivant Sciences, to hire employees under H-1B visas, the Politico reported.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Turkey may part ways with the European Union

Angela Ellard said negotiations are on to resolve the impasse about the dispute settlement system, to make it fully functional and accessible to all by 2024. She also said WTO's dispute settlement mechanism «created a path» for India and the US to mutually resolve their disputes. «The resolution of the US-India disputes is a very welcome development.

Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said here on Saturday that terrorism would soon end in India as the three wings of the defence forces are strong. Union Minister of State Bhatt was speaking at the three-day conference organized for security personnel at Brahma Kumaris Institute. Bhatt also slammed DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin for his remarks on Sanatan Dharma. Bhatt said, «Our country is not the same as before.

NEW DELHI : Mercedes-Benz India Pvt. Ltd, the country’s largest luxury carmaker, will follow a top-down strategy with its electric vehicles (EVs) in alignment with its global plan to exit the “volume segment" play, and hopes to benefit from the fact that its rivals are launching EVs in more affordable price brackets, competing with mass-market players, a top company executive said.

climate activists around the world are set to march, chant and protest Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe suffers dramatic weather extremes and record-breaking heat. The strike — driven by several mostly youth-led, local and global climate groups and organizations, including Greta Thunberg's Fridays for Future movement — will take place in dozens of countries and in hundreds of cities worldwide and continue through the weekend. A week before the planned protest, the United Nations warned that countries are way off track to curb warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, as agreed in Paris in 2015.

By Bansari Mayur Kamdar

FTSE 100 hit its highest in six weeks on Thursday after the European Central Bank signalled an end to its monetary tightening cycle, while industrial metal miners led the gains after a surge in iron ore prices. The exporter-heavy FTSE 100 index rose the most in over 10 months, soaring 2.0%. The midcap index mirrored the moves and was up 1.8%. The European Central Bank raised its key interest rate to a record high of 4% on Thursday but, with the euro zone economy in the doldrums, signalled that the hike, its 10th in a 14-month-long fight against inflation, was likely to be its last. «The focus is now shifting from how high policy rates get to how long they stay there,» said Ann-Katrin Petersen, Senior Investment Strategist at the BlackRock Investment Institute. «We see inflation remaining sufficiently high that the ECB will not cut until well into 2024 amid a tight labour market and subdued productivity.» Boosting sentiment, data from U.S.

NYU Langone Health has pushed the boundaries of science and kindled hope for animal-human transplants, offering a potential solution to the nation's critical organ shortage. In a first-of-its-kind endeavor, a pig's genetically modified kidney was successfully transplanted into a brain-dead human donor, Maurice “Mo” Miller, marking the longest duration a pig kidney has functioned inside a human, albeit in a deceased individual. The experiment has garnered global attention, raising optimism for future xenotransplantation efforts.

Markets were split over whether the ECB would hike rates due to a lack of forward guidance.

By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi

equity market benchmarks the Sensex and the Nifty ended in the green on Thursday amid broadly positive global cues ahead of the European Central Bank (ECB) interest rate decision. Moreover, sentiment was underpinned by healthy domestic macro numbers as government data showed wholesale price inflation remained in the negative territory for the fifth straight month in August at -0.52 per cent. In July, the WPI inflation was at -1.36 per cent.

Narendra Modi on Thursday elaborately spoke about the controversy surrounding the Sanatana Dharma remark made by Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin. Addressing a massive gathering at Bina in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, PM Modi said that the INDIA alliance has a “hidden agenda" to attack and end the Sanatana Dharma culture. Unleashing a no holds barred attack on the Opposition bloc — the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) — PM Narendra Modi called it an “INDI alliance" that “does not have a leader".

PwC Australia aims to end a “jobs for the boys” culture among its leaders and has headhunters searching for its first-ever independent board members before the release of a report into the governance-related failures that led to the firm’s tax leaks scandal.