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Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has reached its first contract agreement with workers at a retail shop in the Vermont city where the company was founded after the employees petitioned to unionize last year

HanuMan movie calling it a “cinematic Masterpiece". “The CGI and VFX in the movie were the icing on the cake.", Anurag Thakur wrote. The union minister took to microblogging site X to express his feelings upon meeting the team of HanuMan.

Heavy snow and freezing rain have hit parts of northern and central Europe, bringing transport to a halt in some Scandinavian regions and causing major disruption at airports in Frankfurt and Oslo

New York City is likely to receive snow fall after around 700 days. Winter weather is set to make an appearance in major cities along the Interstate 95 corridor in the Northeast, potentially bringing snow to areas like New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The storm system, responsible for snow and ice in the South, is expected to exit the region on Monday, making its way towards the Northeast and New England, impacting millions in the area.

The new Prada menswear collection for next fall and winter unveiled on the third day of Milan Fashion Week menswear previews has marked the return of the seasons as a point of renewal of the spirit

₹5,100 crore for 100% stake in Capital Foods, and for a 100% stake in Organic India, TCPL will pay ₹1,900 crore, along with an additional earn-out for the shareholders linked to FY26 audited financials of the company, the company said while announcing the acquisitions Friday. The company will complete the integration of the two businesses over the next three-to-four months, with plans to leverage TCPL's existing distribution muscle to further the reach of the recently acquired brands—both in India and overseas. Meanwhile, the company will continue to scout for opportunities as it builds a “large" fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) business in India and overseas.

Insured damages from natural catastrophes and severe weather in Canada topped $3 billion for the second year in a row.

WMO) has officially confirmed that 2023 is the hottest year on record by a huge margin, smashing global temperature records. The yearly average global temperature approached 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, which is significant because the Paris Agreement on climate change aims to limit the long-term temperature increase to no more than the same amount. According to the agreement, the long-term increase is calculated as an average over decades rather than an individual year like 2023.

From electric cars to transparent TVs to the latest accessibility tech and virtual assistants backed by artificial intelligence, there was a wide range of innovations on display at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this week

winter may seem counterintuitive. But it's a delightful experience that breaks seasonal norms.

Tata Motors recently revealed its highly anticipated Punch EV, and it is now open for bookings with an initial amount of ₹21,000. The introduction of the Punch EV is anticipated to strengthen Tata Motors' position in the Indian electric car market, where the company currently commands an impressive 85 percent market share, reported HT Auto. Reportedly, the Tata Punch EV is set to be available for purchase in India around mid-February 2024, with an ex-showroom price ranging between ₹12 lakh and ₹14 lakh.

Many parts of Canada are set to get their first significant taste of winter snow this year with what’s expected to be a major storm ready to play out.

Averaged across last year, temperatures worldwide were 1.48C, higher than they were in the second half of the 19th century, the European Union climate monitor announced Tuesday. That is warmer by a sizable margin than 2016, the previous hottest year. To climate scientists, it comes as no surprise that unabated emissions of greenhouse gases caused global warming to reach new highs.

southern Ontario and will begin impacting the region Tuesday morning.Meteorologists are continuing to track the system and where you live will determine how much snow or rain you see.Global News meteorologist Ross Hull said snow is expected to begin Tuesday morning for much of southern Ontario, likely at the end of the morning commute for the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area.“It will begin as wet snow then transition to rain by the afternoon for areas closer to Lake Ontario where 2 to 5 cm of wet snow is likely,” Hull said.North of Highway 407, precipitation will likely stay as wet snow for longer, bringing the possibility of 10 to 15 cm, before transitioning over to rain, he said.During the transition, there may also be some freezing rain and ice pellets.Heaviest snow totals are expected for eastern Ontario where 15 to 25 cm is possible, Hull said.Ottawa and the surrounding area are under a winter storm watch with Environment Canada predicting 10 to 20 cm of snow, possibly turning into freezing rain and ice pellets Tuesday night.A special weather statement has been issued for parts of the Greater Toronto Area, including Newmarket and Caledon, where the agency is calling for upwards of 10 centimetres of snow and a risk of freezing rain.Environment Canada says weather warnings may be issued as the storm gets closer.“Even though Toronto won’t see significant snow, the roads will be quite messy considering the snow to start then the transition to rain (15-25 mm possible),” Hull said.He said he’s not expecting significant flooding, but there will be pooling on roadways and some flooding possibly in poorly drained areas.Gusty winds out of the east are also forecasted with the system, with the strongest winds near 100 km/h

CES 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas this week

Eicher Motors Ltd, Monday said it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tamil Nadu government to develop new products, Electric Vehicles (EVs) products and capacity building, news agency PTI reported. The company has earmarked an investment of ₹3,000 crore, the motorcycle manufacturer said, spread over eight years. The investments are expected to generate about 2,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region.

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debt mutual funds etc) and the volatility of equities (including direct stocks, equity mutual funds, ETFs etc). An astute investor should look towards creating a diversified mix of fixed income, equity and hybrid security investments to optimise returns on his/her portfolio. Smart investors will try to find a balance between the high-risk & high-reward world of equities and the reliability of fixed-income (Debt) investments.

HARBIN, China, — China's annual Ice and Snow Festival, with its fairy-tale ice sculptures, opened on Friday attracting throngs of tourists who shuffled carefully over the slippy ice and snow and dragged their children in sledges around the park. This year the ice park spans 810,000 sq metres with 250,000 cubic metres of sculptured ice, harvested from the nearby frozen Songhua River, and lit up at night with colourful lights. The sculptures, some a few-storeys-high, featured Chinese-style buildings and bridges, fairy-tale castles, towers and one fashioned after Beijing's Temple of Heaven.

Dal Lake and other water bodies in Kashmir as cold wave-like conditions gripped the region, officials said on Saturday. The minimum temperature in several parts of the valley dropped below the minus 4 degrees Celsius-mark on Friday night. Kashmir is currently under the grip of «Chilla-i-Kalan», a 40-day harsh winter period, when a cold wave sweeps the region and temperatures drop considerably leading to the freezing of water bodies as well as water in pipes.

The nation’s employers added a robust 216,000 jobs last month, the latest sign that the American labor market remains resilient even in the face of sharply higher interest rates