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New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast light to moderate showers in the national capital and adjoining areas for the next two hours. “Light to moderate intensity rain would occur over and adjoining areas of isolated places of Delhi (Safdarjung, Lodi Road, R K Puram, Defence Colony, Hauzkhas, Malviyanagar, Kalkaji, Tughlakabad,Dilshad Garden, Seemapuri, Shahadra, Vivek Vihar)," it said in an update on Tuesday. Light to moderate rain is also expected over and adjoining areas of Hodal of Haryana, Saharanpur, Deoband, Chandpur, Sikandrabad, Bulandshahar, Nandgaon, Barsana, Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, and Nadbai, Bayana of Rajasthan.

The Economist spoke to Mr Kissinger for over eight hours about how to prevent the contest between China and America from descending into war. These days he is stooped and walks with difficulty, but his mind is needle-sharp. As he contemplates his next two books, on artificial intelligence (AI) and the nature of alliances, he remains more interested in looking forward than raking over the past.

China's economy was on track to recover relatively quickly after being closed off to the world during the pandemic. Consumers were spending again. Exports picked up.

Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) at Mumbai has issued an 'orange' alert for Maharashtra's Palghar district, predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places here over the next two days, the local administration said on Tuesday. In view of the forecast, Palghar Collector Govind Bodke on Tuesday issued an advisory asking citizens to remain extra cautious, remain indoors and not to venture into rivers, lakes and other water bodies, the district administration said in release. District Disaster Management Cell chief Vivekanand Kadam said the RMC Mumbai has issued a 'yellow' alert for Tuesday, predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places in Palghar. For Wednesday and Thursday, it has issued an 'orange' alert, forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places in Palghar district, he said in the release. The collector has advised citizens to avoid going out of the house, not to take shelter under trees, and not attempt to cross the flooded and overflowing rivers, creeks and streams. The advisory also asked citizens not to venture into the water bodies, and not to carry any metallic object with them when moving out.

Also read: Japan Accuses Australia of Betrayal in Fight Over Natural-Gas Exports The multi-sport event, featuring 20 sports and 26 disciplines, was planned to be held across five regional hubs in Victoria. However, Andrews' team explored cost-cutting options, including reducing the number of hubs or moving the Games to Melbourne, but found them unfeasible.

Uttarakhand the Met Department on Tuesday issued an alert regarding possible inundation of low-lying areas and landslides in hilly areas, an official statement said. «Due to continuous rain/heavy rain in Koti, Mussoorie Tehsil/Block in Dehradun and Laksar Block/Tehsil in Haridwar districts, inundation of low-lying areas and landslides in hilly areas are likely to occur.

Russia on Monday halted a breakthrough wartime deal that allowed grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed more people into poverty.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Black Sea Grain Initiative would be suspended until demands to get Russian food and fertilizer to the world are met. An attack Monday on a bridge connecting the Crimean Peninsula to Russia was not a factor in the decision, he said. «When the part of the Black Sea deal related to Russia is implemented, Russia will immediately return to the implementation of the deal,» Peskov said.

Barclays Plc has been the go-to bank for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, leveraging a relationship forged when only a few global firms were working with the emerging conglomerate. An explosive report by short-seller Hindenburg Research in January has changed all that, prompting the bank to pare its exposure, leaving a hole in an Indian business that’s been a key driver of the firm’s Asian growth for years. Executives at the highest levels are scrutinizing ties with Adani, turning more cautious about adding new business pending a regulatory probe that’s supposed to end next month, according to people familiar with the matter.

₹5 lakh crore in Uttar Pradesh by 2024. The announcement was made during an event in Lucknow where Gadkari presented development projects valued at over ₹3300 crore. The ceremony was attended by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.

President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders met with labor organizers at the White House on Monday to talk about ways to boost union membership

Maharashtra, which has remained 19% rainfall deficient since 1 June, is expected to finally get heavy showers till Friday. Deficit rainfall in the state kept kharif sowing 23% lower year-on-year at 9.1 million hectares. This rainfall forecast could have brought respite to farmers, but the met office foresees damage to crops due to water inundation.

global tax pact, crypto assets, and digital public infrastructure at the two-day meet of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors that began Monday. «There is less acrimony inside the room,» said a person familiar with deliberations. The deliberations are now focussed on knotty issues and efforts are being made to ensure deliverables on key issues for the country's presidency at the meeting.

NCP leader Ajit Pawar and party chief Sharad Pawar may have made Congress and Shiv Sena (Thackeray) faction suspicious of the patriarch's intentions. Ajit met his uncle with 30 MLAs supporting him at the YB Chavan centre on Monday to persuade him to join the rebels and avert a party split. There were two more developments that may have caused a heartburn among Pawar's allies.

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Hollywood is on strike. For the first time in more than six decades, both writers and actors have walked off the job. They are protesting, principally, the disruption to residual payments in the age of streaming.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Monday asked the NCP faction led by his nephew Ajit Pawar how a way out can be found in the current political scenario as demanded by them when they had already cleared their stand in public. This was revealed by Maharashtra NCP president Jayant Patil after the NCP faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and 15 MLAs of his camp met Sharad Pawar at the YB Chavan Centre here in the afternoon and asked him to ensure the party stays united. This is the second meeting of Ajit Pawar with the NCP patriarch in as many days.

2024 Lok Sabha Elections. With less than a year to go for the 2024 elections, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the challenger again, both camps are leaving no stones unturned to claim victory.  As BJP-led NDA looks to return to power for a third straight term, , the Opposition parties seek to defeat the saffron party in the elections.

Whitehaven Coal says it is confident major banks will continue to lend toward its coking coal projects despite failing to find support from climate-conscious banks for a refinancing of a $1 billion debt facility.

Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Dara Singh Chauhan joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Lucknow on Monday. The joining ceremony took place in the presence of Uttar Pradesh BJP President Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary and Deputy Chief Ministers Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya.

Adah Sharma is on a roll. Her recent venture, ‘The Kerala Story’, has had a phenomenal run at the box-office. With a collection of more than Rs 300 crore (worldwide), the movie is currently the highest-grossing female-led film, surpassing Alia Bhatt’s ‘Raazi’ and ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ and Kangana Ranaut’s ‘Tanu Weds Manu’ series.

Indian diaspora in Germany staged a protest in Frankfurt in an appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help reunite baby Ariha Shah, currently in German state services custody, with her Indian parents. Waving the Indian national flag and holding banners reading “Modiji Save Ariha!” and “Ariha is Indian”, the group braved the rain on Saturday to make an appeal for the two-year-old toddler to be returned to her parents Bhavesh and Dhara Shah.