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" To some extent, though, it should not come as a surprise if you have been looking at last six months' data. So, the PPI number has been negative for at least three or four months now and this is just confirming things that we have discussed in the past," says Manish Singh, Crossbridge Capital.

Threads to connect with their followers, including many Twitter refugees tired of the drama surrounding Elon Musk's raucous oversight of that platform. But the real question is: Will they stay? Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a Threads post Monday that in the five days since its launch, 100 million people have signed up for Threads, which was rolled out as a companion app to Instagram. Ann Coleman is among them.

Sweden's membership of NATO took a big step forward on Monday after Turkey agreed to remove one of the last major roadblocks in return for help in reviving Turkey's own chances of joining the European Union. At talks in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are meeting for a two-day summit starting Tuesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan committed to put the Nordic country's accession protocol before Parliament «as soon as possible,» the head of NATO said.

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Also read: New CM for Maharashtra amid NCP rift? Opposition leaders say Eknath Shinde will… Earlier on Monday, Union Minister of State for Social Justice, Ramdas Athawale, met State Minister Chhagan Bhujbal, who was among the dissident leaders of the Nationalist Congress Party that joined the Eknath Shinde-led government along with Ajit Pawar, following a split within the party, reported ANI. On Thursday, Athawale met Ajit Pawar at the latter's residence in Mumbai.

BEIJING — For foreign businesses in China, geopolitics hold more sway than new Chinese laws, according to analysts.

Manufacturers called for baseload coal power stations to be kept running longer to keep electricity supply secure as the pace of the energy transition needed to meet 2030 climate targets falls far behind.

Taylor Russell and Harry Styles are now the talk of the town, with the internet especially filled with posts speculating a love between the two. Taylor Russell and Harry Styles were spotted together at a concert in Vienna and the speculation intensified when a video of them walking together in the city went viral. While neither party has officially confirmed or denied the rumors, fans and particularly Harry Styles' supporters, known as Harries, can't help but discuss the possibility of a Hollywood power couple.

During his visit, the defence minister called on Malaysian Prime Minister YB Dato' Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim. He also met Minister of Foreign Affairs Zambry Abd Kadir during which they exchanged views on matters of bilateral importance and cooperation in international fora.

West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose met Union home minister Amit Shah here on Monday. It is learnt that he submitted a report on violent incidents that occurred during panchayat polls in the state.

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has appealed to China not to let disagreements about trade and other irritants disrupt cooperation on climate change and other global challenges

Japan’s industry minister has visited the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to see equipment that is to be used to release treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean to ensure the safety of the contentious plan

South Korean opposition lawmakers have sharply criticized the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog for its approval of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant

Home Run Derby Title? With 26 homers, he is tied with White Sox center fielder Luis Robert and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Each of the great players like Robert, Alonso, Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts and Rangers outfielder Adolis Garcia have at least 22 homers to their credit. Other participants of the MLB Home Run Derby will be Randy Arozarena, Julio Rodríguez, and Adley Rutschman. The field is open for Alonso as 2022 winner Juan Sotto will not participate this year. If Alonso wins the derby, he will join the rank of great players like Ken Griffey Jr. Nicknamed the Polar Bear, the American professional baseball first baseman made his MLB debut in 2019 and won the National League’s Rookie of the Year Award. He became the first MLB player with 11 extra-base hits in his 10 games. In April same season, he scored nine home runs, eight doubles, one triple, and 26 RBIs. On Jun 22, he scored 26 home runs and broke the record for the most homers by a rookie. He scored 27h homers the next day. He became the second Mets player to score 30 home runs. The MLS Home Run Derby will be broadcast on July 10 on ESPN. An alternate StarCast will be aired on ESPN2. It will be available live stream on ESPN+, ESPN App, and Fubo TV.

Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said efforts are on to rescue the 300 stranded people, and they could be airlifted as the weather clears. Power and water supply has been snapped in several areas. He said an assessment of loss is underway and it is estimated to be in the range of Rs 3,000-Rs.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. Putin agreed to allow the Wagner founder and his men to move to Belarus and to drop criminal cases of armed mutiny against them.

Power consumption grew by 4.4 per cent to 139.23 billion units in June this year compared to last year. In the year-ago period, power consumption stood at 133.26 billion units (BU), higher than 114.48 BU in June 2021, according to government data. The peak power demand met, which is the highest supply in a day, rose to 223.23 GW in June 2023.

Congress and the Sidhi SP Dr Ravindra Verma, wherein the former has said that the victim and the person whose feet were washed are different, and the latter has refuted the claim. Madhya Pradesh has been reporting caste based discriminating incidents in the past week. While addressing the social and spatial issue of caste discrimination remains a pipe dream, the incidences have sure been a ploy in partisan politics that have ensued in the poll-bound state.

New Delhi: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday met Malaysia's prime minister Anwar Ibrahim and other top leadership to discuss a wide range of issues to bolster bilateral defence and strategic ties. Singh arrived in Kuala Lumpur on a three-day visit to Malaysia on 9 July. The defence minister and his Malaysian counterpart Mohamad Hasan discussed initiatives to further expand bilateral defence ties, with particular focus on identifying ways to strengthen industrial cooperation.

Vladimir Putin met with Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin days after a short-lived rebellion by the mercenary chief and his private army. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that the three-hour meeting took place June 29 and also involved commanders from the military company Prigozhin founded.