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New Delhi: Smartphone brand Motorola has signed actor Kriti Sanon as its brand ambassador. The company said she has been brought on board to announce its ‘Motorola Razr 40 Ultra’ and ‘Razr 40’ products. Sanon will be seen in two television commercials.

Godrej Properties Ltd soared to a 52-week high of ₹1,616 on the National Stock Exchange on Thursday, driven by promising new land acquisitions. The real estate giant recently acquired approximately 15 acre of land in Gurugram, Haryana, and plans to develop for premium residential properties. Additionally, a 7.44 acre parcel in New Alipore, a high-end residential area in Kolkata, will soon be under Godrej's ownership, acquired from the West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corp.

Boksburg, Ekurhuleni on Wednesday night, reported TimesLIVE. The gas, nitrate oxide, was reported to have leaked from a gas cylinder used by zama-zamas, who work out of a shanty in the informal settlement.Ekurhuleni EMS spokesperson William Ntladi said officials were still searching for other victims at the scene, as per TimesLIVE. TimesLIVE is a South African online newspaper that started as The Times daily newspaper.

₹4,900 in July from ₹7,200-plus in the previous month, down by around 50%. Likewise, spot fares for Mumbai-Goa dipped to around ₹1,500 from over ₹3,200, declining 112%. For Mumbai-Lucknow, last-minute fares have contracted to almost ₹5,000 from ₹9,000 earlier, while Delhi-Kolkata shrunk to around ₹5,200 as compared to over ₹8200 in June.

The residential market in Chennai witnessed a 3 per cent growth during the first six months of the year as compared to last year, indicating a positive sales momentum in the real estate sector, a study conducted by leading international property consultant Knight Frank India has said.

₹100 per kilogram, it has breached the petrol and diesel prices in major cities of the country. In comparison to Mumbai and Delhi's petrol prices -- i.e.

shopping/booking/hiring of products and services. One such interesting finds of the survey is that a smartphone consumer in India benefits by ₹6 for every Re 1 spent. The study also states that the economic value of smartphones for the rich is almost 50% higher in India as compared to the middle class.

asset management firm Rare Enterprises. After his death, Rekha Jhunjhunwala inherited the portfolio.

₹155 per kg across major cities in the country due to the supply disruption caused over heavy rains amid monsoons in the producing region, according to official data. In metro cities, retail tomato prices were ruling in the range of ₹58-148 per kg, with the highest in Kolkata at ₹148 per kg and lowest in Mumbai at ₹58 per kg. In Delhi and Chennai, prices were ruling at ₹110 per kg and 117 per kg, respectively.

The housing market, a significant growth driver in the real estate sector, is poised for a remarkable year ahead. Residential sales have already witnessed a substantial increase following the Covid-19 period. Nationally, price increments of approximately 7.5% are expected, with varying rates across different cities, says Aman Nagar, JMD, Paras Buildtech.

Sensex and Nifty50 are achieving new milestones almost every session, most money managers believe that the valuation at current levels is far more reasonable and that this rally after a good 18-month of correction phase has more legs. On Tuesday, the Sensex scaled a record high at 65672.97 points, and Nifty 50 at 19434.15 points.

NEW DELHI : Brands across various industries are increasingly finding it difficult to secure high-quality real estate as a result of steep rentals, and an increase in the store expansion plans of both large and small brands. Several major retailers have attributed their post-covid expansion plans to make up for the slower pace of growth in 2020 and 2021. Now, with improved mobility and return of consumers to physical outlets, the pace of real estate expansion has picked up, outpacing the available supply in the market.

Delhi Metro's Yellow Line record third time in twenty-four hours DMRC, in a third amendment notice within a day, renamed HUDA City Centre Metro Station. The metro station on Delhi Metro's Yellow Line will now be known as Millennium City Centre Gurugram. The DMRC in a tweet said that ,"In reference to our earlier tweet regarding the renaming of the HUDA City Centre Metro station, this is to inform that the full name of the station will read as Millennium City Centre Gurugram."   The station falls in Haryana's Gurugram, a bustling IT and commercial hub in the National Capital Region (NCR) that is known as Millenium City.

Jinan, China, says all of its bus routes now accept digital yuan pay, and will incentivize adoption by granting discounts to central bank digital currency (CBDC)-paying passengers.

Mick Jagger, 79, has reportedly got engaged to his longtime girlfriend, 36-year-old Melanie Hamrick. The couple has a child together. The Rolling Stones band member has been together with the choreographer and former ballerina since 2014. In 2016, Mick Jagger and Melanie Hamrick were blessed with a son, Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger. Melanie was seen wearing a ring on her engagement finger, but had earlier said that it was a ‘promise ring’. A source claimed to The Mirror, as quoted by Metro that on a recent trip to New York, when Melanie attended the American Ballet Theatre, she told her friends that she was “engaged to Mick”. The source told The Mirror, “She was very clear her ring is an ­engagement ring and she is now his fiancée. Her family also very much understands them to be engaged and are thrilled.” In June 2023, Melanie confirmed to People magazine that the ring was given by Mick, “I have to giggle because did Mick give me the ring? Yes. Is it for that finger? Yes.” But she added that the couple was like teenagers and that “in my mind, it’s a promise ring. We’ll be immature and call it a promise ring”. When asked about marriage, Melanie said: “I don’t know. I’m kind of like, a live-in-the-moment type of person, so who knows.”

The highly anticipated Madurai Metro Rail project is making significant progress as the Detail Project Report (DPR) is set to be submitted on July 15, according to MA Siddique, Managing Director of Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL). Siddique revealed that the metro rail in Madurai will cover a total length of 32 kilometers, with 27 kilometers of elevated structure and 5 kilometers underground.

Delhi Metro tickets. Now you can buy metro tickets from the comfort of your home as the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has launched a mobile app --'DMRC TRAVEL' — for generating paperless online mobile QR tickets for travelling across its network in Delhi and NCR. The travellers of Delhi Metro can now purchase Delhi metro tickets directly from their smartphones.

Canada’s competition watchdog released its much-awaited study into the country’s retail grocery market on Tuesday, painting a picture of a highly concentrated industry dominated by few players.

Good news for Delhi Metro commuters! Now the passengers can carry alcohol bottles inside the Delhi Metro. The move comes following the revision of norms for carrying alcohol inside the metro trains by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

Odey Asset Management has cut its short position in Metro Bank after severing ties with its founding partner and star portfolio manager Crispin Odey.

The Chinese city of Quingdao will pilot an electricity- and network-free digital yuan public transport payments solution, marking another national first for the central bank digital currency (CBDC).