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Juneteenth 2024 in the US is being observed on Wednesday, June 19. Juneteenth is federal holiday after US President Joe Biden had signed the legislation on June 17, 2021.

The people who experience the US economy disagree with the people who measure it, and the most likely reason is inflation: Most Americans still see it as a major problem, while economists don’t. But this debate recently veered from economics to semantics. Has the common definition of ‘inflation’ changed, and do economists just need to accept it? Felix Salmon of Axios answers ‘yes’ to both questions.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) winning 293 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Modi will be the second Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to come to power in India for three straight terms.Modi, however, failed to equal Nehru in another aspect of elections. Nehru had won an outright majority in his third election held in 1962.

NDA allies –– BJP and JDU –– won an equal number of 12 seats in Bihar, JDU is all set to play a very significant role in the formation of the next NDA government at the Centre. The BJP’s failure in achieving the magic figure has placed the JDU in a bargaining position.

A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners on Monday, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program is discriminatory

—Name withheld on request In the event of the demise of your father or mother without leaving a will, the distribution of their assets would be governed by the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. According to this law, the estate of the deceased is inherited by the legal heirs classified under different categories, with primary preference given to Class I heirs.

Election Results 2024 Live Updates: 'Sabak aam janata ne sikhaya' says INDIA bloc as BJP fails to cross halfway markEarlier in the day, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resign. “He used to pretend that he was extraordinary.

Host Jack Otter and «Barron’s Roundtable» senior writer Nicholas Jasinski discuss how rate cuts are looking unlikely for 2024.

PM Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the centre. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is also predicted to win 400+ seats, which the party aspired to achieve in its pursuit for another five-year term at the Centre.Also Read: Lok Sabha Elections 2024: PM Modi is likely to equal this record of Nehru, however...The Lok Sabha Elections 2024 was held in seven phases beginning April 19 with the last phase held on June 1. The BJP-led NDA, seeking a record third term under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has set a target of winning 400 seats this election.

Lok Sabha Elections Results: Most exit polls predicted a third consecutive term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. If elected to power again in 2024, PM Modi is likely to equal the record of Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who is the only PM to be elected thrice consecutively. Pandit Nehru served as the Prime Minister for 17 years – from 1947 to 1964.

employees in India have experienced age-related discriminations across sectors with the highest prevalence reported in multinational companies, a study said on Monday. The 'Ageism in the Workplace' study by talent company Randstad India revealed that 31 per cent of employees in India have experienced discriminations due to their age and such discriminations are mostly prevalent during recruitment process, especially in job advertisements of organisations. About 61 per cent respondents said job advertisements in India have age biases (qualifying age criteria or years of experience), it added.

record-high temperatures. Sea surface temperatures have been record-high for the past 13 months, according to the WMO.The WMO said this is happening due to the naturally occurring El Niño — unusual warming of waters in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean — and the additional energy trapped in the atmosphere and ocean by greenhouse gases from human activities.Amid a prevailing but weakening El Niño, millions of people in South Asia, including India and Pakistan, endured brutal heat in April and May.The latest forecasts from the WMO Global Producing Centres of Long-Range Forecasts give equal chances (50 per cent) of either neutral conditions or a transition to La Niña during June-August.The chance of La Niña conditions increases to 60 per cent during July to September and 70 per cent during August to November.The probability of El Niño redeveloping is negligible during this time, the WMO said.While El Niño is associated with weaker monsoon winds and drier conditions in India, La Niña -- the antithesis of El Niño -- leads to plentiful rainfall during the monsoon.Last month, the India Meteorological Department had forecast above normal rain in the monsoon season in India with favourable La Niña conditions expected to set in by August-September.The monsoon is critical for India's agricultural landscape, with 52 per cent of the net cultivated area relying on it.

Life insurers are smart and savvy when it comes to understanding the mindset of Indians. While a majority of Indians still opt for traditional endowment-type life insurance, there is a growing section of the population which understands why purchasing plain-term lifeinsurance is the best option.

Norway Chess competition.“Incredible Praggnanandhaa! Beating both World No.1 Magnus Carlsen and No.2 Fabiano Caruana in classical chess at #NorwayChess is mindblowing. You’re on a roll and still just 18! Keep the tricolour flying high.

chess sensation R Pragananadhaa continued with his dominating ways in the ongoing Norway Chess competition as he defeated the world number two player Fabiano Caruana in round five in a classical chess game on Saturday night.

Iceland, the world's most gender equal country, is set to elect a woman as president for the second time in its history.

index services subsidiary, NSE Indices, on Friday launched a new strategy index — Nifty500 Equal Weight — which represents an alternative weighting strategy to its parent index, the Nifty 500. It includes the same companies as the Nifty 500, however, weighed equally, an NSE press release said. The base date for the index is April 1, 2005, and the base value is 1000. The index is reconstituted on a semi-annual basis and weights are rebalanced on a quarterly basis.

Three top crypto coins , namely Avalanche, Cardano, and Rollblock have been in the spotlight of analysts and investors with regard to their future price movements. While Avalanche is preparing to reach $100, Cardano and Rollblock are aiming for $1. The question now is if Cardano and Rollblock can hit $1 before Avalanche reaches $100.

₹865 a share (25 shares equal one contract). This is the price that option sellers have charged buyers of the 22500 call and put option—straddle in market speak—which works out to a total 7.7% range (22500-865 and 22500+865)to cover their risk in the event of sharp price movements.For context, the Nifty swung 427 points (4%) between intraday high and low in the previous Lok Sabha election result day on 23 May 2019 and 433 points (6%) during the results for Lok Sabha 2014 polls on 16 May 2014.During such events traders' anticipation of wild swings raises prices of both call and put options.

Major Radhika Sen, born in Himachal Pradesh in 1993, is set to receive the UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award on May 30, coinciding with the International Day of UN Peacekeepers. She is the second Indian peacekeeper to receive this award, after Major Suman Gawani, who was honored in 2019 for her service with the UN mission in South Sudan. This prestigious award, established in 2016, recognizes the dedication of individual military peacekeepers in promoting gender equality across peacekeeping missions. It aligns with the principles of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security. The awardee is chosen from candidates nominated by force commanders and heads of missions from all peace operations, according to UN peacekeeping.