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Guinness World Records 2024 edition has just been released, featuring an impressive array of 2,638 record-breaking achievements from around the globe. Over 60 of these remarkable feats hail from India, showcasing the nation's prowess in various domains.

oil prices held steady near $85 a barrel, but traders remain cautious following the eruption of violence between Israel and Hamas, which could potentially disturb the oil supply chain in the Middle East. Prices clocked one-year highs at the end of September, driven by worries about supply shortages after a surprise extension of voluntary supply cuts by Saudi Arabia and Russia, but the momentum was short-lived. An unexpected buildup in US crude inventories and concerns over demand adversely hit the sentiments. However, extreme uncertainty prevails in the global oil market as the ongoing clash between Israel and Hamas sparks fears that the turmoil could spread across West Asia and threaten the world’s oil supply. The direct impact on oil prices is limited, as neither Israel nor Gaza produces significant amounts of oil.

private jet flights-four times the usual traffic-will ferry some of India's wealthiest people to and from Ahmedabad, as per data from the city airport. Reason: the much-awaited India-Pakistan match of the ICC World Cup to be held at the Narendra Modi stadium, the world's largest cricket ground, on Saturday. The 48-match tournament runs till November 19. The Ahmedabad airport has run out of parking slots for private jets, said a person in the know. It's giving conditional approval to some of these jets and asking the rest to park at other airports such as Surat and Mumbai. «The last time we saw such massive demand for private jets was during Isha Ambani's wedding,» said Kanika Tekriwal, founder of JetSetGo, a charter operator and aggregator, referring to the opulent wedding of India's richest man Mukesh Ambani's daughter.

Will rain wash out IND vs PAK World Cup match? Here’s what Meteorological Centre in Ahmedabad is saying “While the weather is expected to remain dry during the next five days in Gujarat, light showers may occur at isolated places in Ahmedabad district on October 14. The atmosphere will remain cloudy," PTI earlier quoted Manorama Mohanty, director of the Meteorological Centre in Ahmedabad as saying.

Parliamentary Speakers' Summit (P20) on Friday condemned terrorism in all its forms while underlining that counter terrorism measures and protection of human rights are not conflicting but complementary. In a joint statement adopted at the Parliament-20 Summit here, speakers of parliaments of G20 countries pledged to utilise their legislative, budgetary and oversight functions to play their part in combating terrorism and violent extremism.

German Shepherd dog (GSD). He simply followed her into her building and then into her apartment and stayed on. The only problem was that once he settled down, he would have a tantrum if she left him alone in the flat.

A government audit of one of Canada’s largest Muslim charities alleges some of its directors and employees were involved in “an apparent Hamas support network.”

social media influencers have taken center stage. Tommy Fury, 24, will face KSI in a brand-new battle this Saturday night in Manchester as he seeks to establish his fighting credentials. With a remarkable ability to captivate fight fans, Fury's previous bout against social media influencer Jake Paul in Saudi Arabia generated a whopping 800,000 pay-per-view purchases, making it one of the year's most popular fights. The purse for this showdown exceeded £8 million, roughly translating to a million pounds per round spent inside the ring. This time, as always, pay-per-views take precedence, with both Fury and KSI's camps intensifying the pre-fight banter to entice a predominantly new audience of boxing enthusiasts to invest in the spectacle. In a week filled with theatricals, John Fury, Tommy's father, joined the two fighters inside a cage, engaging in a display of punches and headbutts against the partition separating them.

SlateStone Wealth chief market strategist Kenny Polcari joined ‘Cavuto: Coast to Coast’ to discuss the various union strikes and their impact on the stock market.

Refrigerants are chemical fluids that have made air conditioning and refrigeration possible, but they are hundreds or even thousands of times more powerful at warming the planet than carbon dioxide, the most notorious greenhouse gas

Air conditioning has made life in many hot places possible, but the special fluids that make it work are extremely hazardous to the climate

₹1,806 apiece. Despite the company's shares underperforming this year, domestic brokerage firm Nuvama Institutional Equities has remained optimistic about the firm's long-term prospects. It has a 'buy' rating on the stock with a target price of ₹1,935 apiece, indicating a 22.31 percent upside.

All year, Wall Street pros have been sinking record sums of cash into the world’s largest Treasury ETF in a high-conviction bet that interest rates have peaked. All year they’ve been wrong, with an estimated $10 billion loss — yet that’s not stopping a cohort of dip buyers braving the worst market drawdown in decades.

NoBroker, a prop-tech unicorn, has launched CallZen.AI, a conversational intelligence tool that is set to transform the way businesses interact with their customers. CallZen.AI, an enterprise ready B2B product empowers businesses with conversational insights and can analyse millions of calls within minutes, uncovering valuable data-driven insights to improve customer service and drive business growth. Utilizing advanced machine learning models, CallZen accurately transcribes and extracts valuable insights from conversations conducted in multiple languages, including English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Marathi. Notably, it offers features like speaker identification, sentiment analysis, and entity recognition, even in mono-channel scenarios, enabling a deeper understanding of customer interactions. Akhil Gupta, Co-founder & Chief product & Technology Officer, NoBroker, said, “We saw the vast potential of AI in transforming the real estate landscape of India and leaped right in.

United Nations officials to relocate from North Gaza to southern areas within 24 hours as it prepares for a ground assault on Gaza which is likely to be extremely brutal. Yet, there is nervousness in Israel, the American military and the political elite over the risk of a trigger getting pulled on Israel's northern border with Lebanon — an attack by Hezbollah, the battle-hardened Lebanese terror group which is more organised and better-equipped than Hamas. The fear of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia, is palpable as all eyes are watching it for any move to join Hamas against Israel.

₹2.8 lakh crore. Sustained infrastructure investments shall help the capital goods, industrials, and infrastructure sectors to continue performing in the coming months. Auto and auto ancillary sectors shall also continue to see selective traction as a few sub-segments in the industry are performing extremely well and with the upcoming festive season, the momentum is expected to continue.

SUV while walking on a road within her Sector 78 society. The driver of the vehicle was allegedly talking on the phone at the time of the accident. Krishna Narang sustained severe head injuries and later passed away at a hospital.

Telangana is set to witness a triangular contest between the BJP, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi, and the Congress in the upcoming assembly election. In the previous Assembly election held in 2018, BRS managed to win 88 seats out of 119 and had a dominant vote share of 47.4 per cent. Congress came in a distant second with 19 seats.

National Security Guard (NSG) director general MA Ganapathy said on Thursday that anti-terrorism professionals must examine the unprecedented attacks in Israel. He said it could never have been envisaged that terrorists could get under the radar of extremely sophisticated technological infrastructure and perpetrate the ghastly act on such a scale and proportion.

NEW DELHI : A united front of mothers combatting the menace of vaping addiction among Indian youth has written to women parliamentarians, including Nirmala Sitharaman and Smriti Irani, flagging the easy accessibility of vaping devices and urging them to join their cause. In their letter, the 'Mothers Against Vaping' highlighted that despite the ban on e-cigarettes and vaping devices, their use among children and youth has surged to alarming proportions.