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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Urban India’s perception of healthy eating may not align with established nutritional guidelines, the latest YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey suggests. Nearly seven in 10 respondents claimed they had improved their diets in the past year.

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders and CRISIL among 4 companies are likely to remain in focus today as they had announced October 30 as the record date for the purpose of determining eligibility for their announced dividends. This means today is the last day to buy the shares of these companies in order to be eligible for the dividends announced.

China's Ministry of State Security said on Tuesday that it had retrieved spying devices both on the ocean surface and in the depths of the sea, including underwater «lighthouses» that could guide the transit of foreign submarines. The ministry said it had uncovered devices that had been hidden on the ocean floor and were sending back information that could «pre-set the field for battle,» in an article on its official WeChat account, China's most popular social media app. Recent sea and air confrontations in the South China Sea between China and the Philippines over competing territorial claims in the highly strategic waterway have raised the risk of an escalation that could eventually involve the U.S., which is treaty-bound to defend the Philippines if it is attacked.

import quotas to electronic hardware manufacturing companies that can step up domestic production under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for information technology (IT) hardware, said people with knowledge of the matter. In a meeting with stakeholders last week, government officials asked all companies to provide concrete production plans for the next fiscal year for products such as laptops, tablets, all-in-one personal computers, ultra-small form factor computers, and servers. “The idea is that companies must increase the domestic value addition for their products,” an official said. “All (companies) have been given enough time and we must look for ways in which it (domestic value addition) can be improved without any major business disruptions.”

PepsiCo said Monday it’s closing a Chicago bottling plant, a move the Teamsters union says will impact 150 workers

Artificial intelligence startup Sierra, co-founded by ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, is more than quadrupling its valuation to $4.5 billion in a fresh funding round.

In a letter addressed to the OBR on Friday (25 October) and published today (28 October), Hunt stated he was «not informed in advance» of the contents of the review despite it covering his time in office as chancellor. «In your letter to the Treasury Select Committee announcing the review on the 29 July, you stated that the review would cover ‘the adequacy of the information and assurances provided to the OBR by the Treasury regarding departmental spending,'» Hunt wrote in the letter. «As this covers my time as chancellor, as a matter of procedural fairness I would have expected to ha...

In the last year, job scams have been on the rise, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit that helps consumers with identity compromises and crime

The head of Volkswagen's works council says the company has informed employee representatives that it wants to close at least three plants in Germany

NTA) has begun the registration process for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025, with applications opening today, October 28. Interested students can register for JEE Main 2025 Session 1 through the official website at jeemain.nta.nic.in. The registration portal will remain open until 11:50 pm on November 22. Candidates can only apply for JEE (Main) – 2025 Session 1 online via the official website. According to the official notice, “The Application Form in any other mode will not be accepted.” The application fee can also be paid online using various methods such as credit and debit cards, net banking, and UPI.

The Financial Conduct Authority fined Käärmann £350,000 for breaking senior management conduct rule four, which states: 'You must disclose appropriately any information of which the FCA would reasonably expect notice.' FCA's Nikhil Rathi: 'The jury is out on whether the FCA is helping to achieve growth' An FCA investigation into Käärmann was originally opened in 2022 after he paid a £365,651 fine to HM Revenue & Customs the year prior for deliberately failing to notify the tax office of a capital gains tax liability after he sold shares worth £10m in 2017 and was subsequently added to...

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. CredR, a two-wheeler marketplace backed by Omidyar Network and Eight Roads Ventures, has delayed September salaries and temporarily halted operations as it chases a $20 million funding round. The disruptions have raised fears of an imminent shutdown, employees and people familiar with the matter told Mint.

agri-tech platform that creates a digital marketplace to connect buyers and sellers of farm products. It supports them with tools for order management, lead generation, logistics, distribution and route optimisation. In an interview with ET Digital, Yashasvini Kumar, COO, Innoterra, says that the company ensures farmers have access to essential resources such as information, insights, infrastructure, markets and capital. Kumar also says that Innotera aims to build India’s first digital B2B marketplace and fulfilment solution based on orchestration and agile trading. Edited excerpts: The Economic Times (ET): How is India’s agriculture sector placed? Yashasvini Kumar (YK): India’s agriculture sector is poised between contradictions — simultaneously massive in scale and opportunity yet lagging behind in infrastructure and investment. There are exciting consumer trends coming into play, including superfoods, nutraceuticals and a focus on regenerative agriculture, but balanced out by concerning trends in climate change and water reserves. The sector is ready for growth, investment and talent.

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Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to citizens in his monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ broadcast to be wary while sharing steps that they should take to deal with the issue. Modi said several people had asked him to speak on Digital Arrest, the term used for the cyber fraud menace where fraudsters make calls impersonating police personnel, or sleuths from CBI or Narcotics Control Bureau and at times the Reserve Bank of India to get information from unsuspecting people. The PM underlined that it is very important for people to understand this “dangerous game” and the modus operandi of the gangs. “The First Move is that they collect all of your personal information… ‘You went to Goa last month, didn’t you? Your daughter studies in Delhi, right’? They collect so much information about you that you will be surprised,” he said.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, Lorraine Black and Ricky Gillis started filing paperwork to get their rural home in Navajo Nation connected to the electric grid

Delhi Police has seized a mobile network jammer from Palika Bazaar in the national capital amid a checking ahead of Diwali, officials on Sunday said. «Our teams are verifying all shops, hotels and other public places ahead of the festive season. During a special check, a team found a suspicious object in a market,» Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahla said. The device, which is acting like a mobile network jamming device, was immediately seized, he said.

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social media platforms to make reasonable efforts to disallow such malicious acts including hoax bomb threats from being disseminated on their platforms. In an advisory sent to platforms, the ministry of electronics and information technology has said that all social media companies must follow the due diligence obligations to promptly remove any such “misinformation that affects public order and security of the state”. “Further, the scale of spread of such hoax bomb threats has been observed to be dangerously unrestrained due to the availability of the option of “forwarding/re-sharing/ re-posting/ re-tweeting” on social media platforms. Such hoax bomb threats are mostly misinformation that is massively disrupting the public order, operations of airlines and security of the airline travellers,” the IT ministry said in its advisory.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said the sale of eco-friendly green crackers alone should be allowed in the state this Deepavali. Also, there should be no harm, injuries or deaths due to fire crackers in the state, he underlined during a meeting with the deputy commissioners of all the districts. «Deepavali is approaching. The Supreme Court has given guidelines on what kind of crackers should be burst. Only green crackers should be sold and they should be burst from 8 pm to 10 pm,» Siddaramaiah briefed reporters after the meeting. The deputy commissioners have been directed to carry out inspections at cracker shops.