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New Delhi: Toy retailer Hamleys, owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd., has inaugurated its first retail store in Italy with franchisee Giochi Preziosi S.P.A (GP), a prominent player in the European country’s toy manufacturing and distribution industry.. Under the terms of the franchise agreement, GP has secured the exclusive rights to operate Hamleys stores throughout Italy, Reliance Brands Ltd. (RBL), that acquired the British toy retailer in 2019, said in a statement on Thursday Hamleys has made its debut in Italy with a store in Milan at the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II.

Hamleys, owned by Reliance Brands Limited has opened first retail store in Italy with franchisee Giochi Preziosi SPA (GP), a leading player in Italy's toy manufacturing and distribution industry. Under the terms of the franchise agreement, GP has the rights to operate Hamleys stores throughout Italy. The first store is situated in Milan, at the renowned Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, and will be followed by the launch of a flagship store in Rome. “Guided by our vision — crafting memories through the joy of play, we are looking forward to becoming a centerpiece store in the popular shopping and tourist destination of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan,” said Sumeet Yadav, CEO, Hamleys Global. Hamleys was founded in 1760 by William Hamley and acquired by Reliance Brands Limited (RBL) in 2019. Currently it has a footprint of 191 stores spread across 15 countries. Hamleys continues to expand into newer markets, most recently the Balkans, with its first store in Albania and Kosovo, and further its reach in existing territories like India and Middle East with a store in Qatar. Spread across 13,300 sq.

India and the frameworks drafted during India's Presidency will help the world to address its challenges over the next decade, Union Minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia said. The G20 Leaders' Summit concluded under India's Presidency on September 10. «Under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, it has been a historic G20 Presidency.

HDFC Mutual Fund has launched HDFC Pharma and Healthcare Fund, an open-ended equity scheme investing in pharma and healthcare companies. The new fund offer or NFO of the scheme is open for subscription and it will close on September 28. The scheme will re-open for continuous sale and repurchase within five business days from the date of allotment of units under NFO. The investment objective of the scheme is to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing predominantly in equity and equity-related securities of pharma and healthcare companies.

Anand Shah, Head- PMS & AIF Investments, ICICI Prudential AMC, says, this is a market which has strong legs of earnings and one needs to be very focussed, very careful and continue to buy the right businesses which will benefit from a multi-year growth which is a very clear possibility as the stars are aligned today.Where do you think the entire volatility of the election cycle would kick in? Today, we are not talking about it, but soon we will start talking about it. Historically, we have seen that the election cycle in India is always a swing event. It is not a binary event, but a swing event. What should one do?Our experience of the last 20-23 years is that notwithstanding the macro risks that exist in the market, focussing on stock picking, identifying the right businesses has actually paid off very well. To be very honest, many of the macro risks had a much larger impact than elections – be it the global financial crisis or more recently Covid. There would always be external forces which will push down markets and one needs to be cognisant of that and that is why the asset allocation of an individual is very important.

Himanshu Gupta knows full well the heavy toll climate change is taking on agriculture. Growing up in India and eventually working in public policy, he saw how the unpredictably late monsoon season was damaging crops and worsening farmers’ lives. “I always knew there was a big problem,” he said of the climate change-fueled dangers to agricultural commodities like cotton and the resulting impact on livelihoods.

Perpetual is shutting down two well-known funds – and parting ways with Pendal’s head of global equities, Ashley Pittard, as well as technology portfolio manager Thomas Rice, sources said.

The first artificial womb to gestate a human baby is fast approaching reality. Food and Drug Administration regulators will weigh next week how scientists should conduct the first human tests of bag-like wombs, meant to nurture babies born so premature that modern medicine struggles to keep them healthy. The agency plans to meet with outside advisers and discuss behind closed doors what the agency called “confidential commercial information," citing a federal law that allows nonpublic meetings to discuss trade secrets.

The assumption that an athlete’s birth sex dictates his or her performance level has made transgender participation in sports a lightning rod—but the issue is moot in coed sports, from competitive sailing to pickle-ball to e-sports. And in the future, athletics are likely to evolve so that mixed-gender competition becomes common. That will lead to a rise in sports that are just as rivetting but more inclusive.

SDNY Judge Lewis Kaplan has rejected a plea from Sam Bankman-Fried's legal team to release the FTX founder before his upcoming trial to better prepare for the legal proceedings.

Another month, another suspenseful inflation number. India’s 6.8% rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Tuesday was lower than expected because of slower-rising vegetable prices that however still jumped 26%. The US’s August inflation number released on Wednesday, meanwhile, disrupted the cheery view that the US economy is managing to avoid a recession while inflation does the Federal Reserve’s bidding without needing more interest rate hikes.

Kota to prepare for medical entrance exam NEET, a 16-year-old girl from Jharkhand's Ranchi allegedly hanged herself to death in her hostel room, police said. According to official figure, Richa Sinha became the 23rd student who committed suicide in Kota this year, the highest ever for the country's coaching hub.

The man, Manohar Shukla, allegedly murdered his 28-year-old girlfriend, Naina Mahat, her Naigaon residence on August 9. Manohar's wife, Poornima, allegedly helped him in helping him stuff the body in a suitcase. According to police, the couple then traveled over 150 kilometers on a scooter, carrying the lifeless body of Naina in a suitcase. To further avoid suspicion, they also brought along their two-year-old daughter. The grim details of the murder came to light during the investigation into a missing person complaint lodged by the victim's sister in mid-August. Manohar Shukla was taken into custody from his residence in Vasai, while his wife, Poornima, was arrested later in connection with the case. During questioning, Manohar revealed that he had taken this extreme step because Naina Mahat, a hairstylist who occasionally worked in the film industry, had refused to withdraw two complaints filed against him in 2019, one for rape and another for assault.

Rohit Srivastava, Founder & Market Strategist, Indiacharts.com, says For the midcap index, the reading was at around 89 on the day before’s close. Yesterday's closing, it has come back to 63 and right now live, it is trading at 60. For the small cap index, the similar thing would be the day before, it would have been at 87.98. After yesterday's close, it is down to 59 and right now also it is at around 59. As mid and smallcap indices are coming very close to the 20-day moving average, we will expect them to get support and bounce back over the next couple of days.”Yesterday's fall and today's follow-up activity, how do you read it?This is part of a minor correction in what is a bigger trend in favour of mid and smallcaps. We have to view it from both the short term time horizon and the long term time horizon. In the short term, indicators like the RSI is hitting overbought but what that usually means is we get a one day knee-jerk reaction, maximum two days and then that is it, because then it takes only two days for the RSI to come off from something like 85-87 which is an extremely overbought state to something like a 65-66 or even 60 which we have already seen yesterday and are further seeing today. Both the mid and smallcap indices now are coming very close to the 20-day moving average and that is more significant because that is where we will expect them to get support and bounce back over the next couple of days.

valuations. The small cap mutual fund category has given an average return of 24.95% in this year so far. The category offered around 26.53% returns in six months. Mutual fund managers and advisors have been cautioning investors about imminent corrections in the small cap segment after the indices soared very high over a short period of time. There were around 24 schemes in the small cap category. Quant Small Cap Fund lost the most of around 3.95% in the one-day horizon. DSP Small Cap Fund, and Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund lost around 3.57%. ITI Small Cap Fund and Bandhan Emerging Businesses Fund lost 3.40%.

«There are actually no any big negative signs or any big negative triggers which can spiral into a problem as of now but I am saying that the world is in a very disorderly state,» says Vinit Sambre, DSP Mutual Fund.Enough and more has been discussed and debated that where and why midcap stocks are up. But after the sharp selloff yesterday, do you think we are nearing the end of the party for mid and the small cap stocks for an extended period of time? Is the party over so the Cinderella's of the world be worried now?I think it is extremely tough to really make out of these daily moves and the way current sentiments are around the midcap, small cap stocks, the kind of flows which we are seeing in these categories, I would say that these small corrections will be really bought into and people may not really give up till the time there are, let us say, bigger triggers. I mean, there are actually no any big negative signs or any big negative triggers which can spiral into a problem as of now but I am saying that the world is in a very disorderly state.

National Highway near the Hantra village in Rajasthan's Bharatpur. The passengers were heading to Uttar Pradesh's Mathura from Gujarat's Bhavnagar. The bus was standing on the highway while its repairing work was going on.

Byju’s, allegedly hid $533 million in an obscure three-year-old hedge fund that once said its principal place of business was an IHOP pancake restaurant in Miami, according to lenders trying to recover the cash. Byju’s last year transferred more than half a billion dollars to Camshaft Capital Fund, the investment firm founded by William C. Morton when he was just 23 years old, some Byju’s lenders claim in a lawsuit. Morton’s fund received the money despite an apparent lack of formal training in investing, according to the lenders. What’s more, luxury cars — a 2023 Ferrari Roma, a 2020 Lamborghini Huracán EVO, and a 2014 Rolls-Royce Wraith — have been registered in Morton’s name since the transfer occurred, according to court papers.

Insurance customers want more frequent and clearer outlines about how their damage claims are progressing and timelines for conducting repairs, the industry’s association has admitted.

Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he will only comment on whether he will run for re-election in 2024 after the ballot is officially announced later this year. Putin has led Russia since the turn of the century, winning four presidential elections and briefly serving as prime minister in a system where political opposition has become virtually non-existent. «According to the law, parliament must make a decision at the end of the year,» Putin told the audience at the Eastern Economic Forum in the Pacific port of Vladivostok. «When the elections are announced, when the date is set, then we will talk about it,» he added. Presidential elections in Russia are officially set by parliament and held every six years, after the term limit was lengthened from four years previously.

Mint takes a closer look at the idea and the benefit it offers. An economic corridor, a term coined by the Asian Development Bank, is an integrated network of infrastructure—including rail, road, and port—within a defined geographical area that connect various economic hubs. They link centres of production with centres of consumption.