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«In fact, August numbers in the industry predicted to be just around the 355,000 mark which could make it the highest ever month also. Last was September 2022, which was 3,55,400 odd vehicles. So, yes, it has been a great run so far,» says Shashank Srivastava, Maruti Suzuki India.Industry channel checks have been indicating that in the month of August, the passenger vehicle demand was actually up 9% and Maruti sales were higher than the industries. What has been your analysis, whether this is a trend which is here to stay?So far this year has gone very well for the auto industry. So, we have seen a record April, highest ever April, the highest ever May, highest ever June, highest ever July, looks like the highest ever August. In fact, August numbers in the industry predicted to be just around the 355,000 mark which could make it the highest ever month also. Last was September 2022, which was 3,55,400 odd vehicles. So, yes, it has been a great run so far. And now we are into the festive season, the beginning in Onam festival in Kerala, that is where the festive season starts, has been pretty good, almost a 25% jump in retails. So, I think so far going is good. We have those couple of question marks though going forward. But yes, it has been good so far for the auto industry this year.

ChatGPT took the world by storm last year, the internet has been littered with predictions of just how disruptive “generative" artificial intelligence (AI) will be. “Entire industries will reorient around it," enthused Bill Gates in a blog post earlier this year, in which he declared the technology to be as disruptive as the internet and the microprocessor. From media and education to law and health care, vast areas of human endeavour are expected to be turned upside down.

Suits. This new insight was shared by Suits creator Aaron Korsh during a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Meghan Markle's journey from a successful acting career to Royal life has been widely discussed.

Russia has informed Brazil's aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules «at the moment», the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday. Prigozhin, two top lieutenants of his Wagner Group and four bodyguards were among 10 people who died when the Embraer Legacy 600 crashed north of Moscow last week. He died two months to the day after staging a brief mutiny against the Russian defense establishment that posed the biggest challenge to President Vladimir Putin's rule since he rose to power in 1999. Brazil's Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (CENIPA), in the interests of improving aviation safety, had said it would join a Russian-led investigation if it were invited and the probe held under international rules. Russia's aviation authority was not obligated to say yes to CENIPA, but some former investigators said it should, as the U.S. and other Western governments suspect the Kremlin of being behind the Aug.

Adam Sandler and his two daughters, Sunny Sandler and Sadie Sandler. All these three real-life characters have similar roles in their reel life in the Netflix comic series ‘You Are Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah’. It’s a hilarious comedy revolving around two friends who make plans to bat mitzvah. Bat Mitzvah is a Jewish rite that every child has to undertake when he or she becomes 13. It is a celebration of passage from childhood to adulthood and is accompanied by Jewish religious rites. Reel life Bat Mitzvah Sunny Sandler portrays Stacy Friedman, the teenage girl, who is having a bat mitzvah. She has an elder sister Ronnie Friedman, played by her real-life sister Sadie Sandler. The series is about the night of celebration.

Amazon employees have been pushing back against the company’s return to office policy for months — and it seems the ecommerce giant’s CEO has had enough

₹1,000 and called her ‘gandi aurat’ (dirty woman). Both, the complainant woman and the man were working in the same organisation and the man was her senior.

compensation claims in road accidents, the case is not expected to be proved like a criminal trial, the High Court of Karnataka has said. «It is well known that in a case relating to motor accident claims, the claimants are not required to prove the case as it is required to be done in a criminal trial.

Reliance’s annual general meeting on Monday, the 66-year-old announced that his three children would be joining the board, even as he continues as chairman and managing director for five more years. Reliance’s sway has grown following a $150 billion investment spree over the past decade. It now controls 15% of the total fixed capital deployed at India’s top 300 non-financial firms, employs 7% of the workforce and garners 10% of their combined ebitda.

Saurabh Bhardwaj on Tuesday said that AAP is not quitting the INDIA alliance as there is no reason for the party to withdraw from the alliance. When asked about the rumors surrounding AAP's stance on leaving the INDIA alliance, Bhardwaj said that they would remain part of the alliance. «Why would we quit? We will continue,» Bhardwaj told IANS. Earlier, there were reports that AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak had mentioned AAP's plans to contest elections in Bihar. However, when contacted, Pathak's office dismissed the claims as rumors, clarifying that Sandeep has not made any such statements about contesting elections in Bihar. So far, two meetings of the opposition-led INDIA alliance have taken place.

It’s been more than 100 days since members of the Writers Guild of America stopped working and more than a month since the actors union joined them

BJP leader Sambit Patra assailing a magisterial court's order of November 2021 directing the Delhi Police to register an FIR against him for allegedly posting a doctored video of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal supporting the now-scrapped farm laws. The court, however, directed the police to probe the allegations without naming Patra as an accused.

not-for-profit organisations, capital markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday proposed flexibility in the regulatory framework for social stock exchanges. Under the proposal, the regulator has suggested reducing the threshold of the minimum issue size as well as application size for not-for-profit organisations (NPOs). Additionally, it has suggested abolishing the requirement of no pending notice or ongoing scrutiny by Income Tax against NPOs for registration on social stock exchanges (SSEs) and substituting the term social auditor with social impact assessor. Further, NPOs should be permitted to provide past social impact but not strictly as per the format specified by Sebi in their fundraising document, according to a consultation paper. The proposals are aimed at facilitating fundraising by NPOs. A not-for-profit organisation (NPO) is required to be registered with the SSE to raise funds.

Zerodha founder and chief executive Nithin Kamath said that regulations made for a few people who are misselling, can potentially hurt the livelihood of the entire referral industry. Kamath, on his community platform TradingQnA, said that Sebi’s consultation paper is in the right direction and will “disallow any registered intermediary with SEBI to associate in any way with anyone who is acting like an advisor or analyst without being registered”. However, he added that “the solution to this isn’t as easy if you think of the overall structure of the capital markets”.

Putin is not planning to attend the funeral for Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin said, following reports that the mercenary chief who challenged the Russian leader's authority would be buried Tuesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov wouldn't say where or when the chief of the Wagner Group military company would be buried, adding that he couldn't comment on a private family ceremony. St. Petersburg's Fontanka news outlet and some other media said the 62-year-old Prigozhin could be laid to rest as early as Tuesday at the city's Serafimovskoye cemetery, which has been used for high-profile military burials.

The British government says a cyberattack was not the cause of a breakdown at the nationwide air traffic control system that saw hundreds of flights delayed and canceled

Jammu and Kashmir. On Tuesday the Indian government informed the apex court that that the union territory status of Jammu and Kashmir is not a “permanent thing". "The union territory status of Jammu and Kashmir is not a permanent thing.

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Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy communicated a new policy requiring employees to be present at the office for a minimum of three days per week. This decision was met with opposition, leading to protests and resignations from employees unwilling to relocate to the central offices.

Priyank Kharge on Tuesday said his government's initiatives to curb spread of fake news was not an attempt to impinge upon the press freedom. The minister's statement came in response to a statement from the Editors Guild of India which expressed concern about some aspects of Karnataka govt’s decision to set up a ‘fact-checking unit’ to monitor ‘fake news’. “We urge all govts to ensure such units are independent of executive control and their scope and powers are specified so as to not trample upon press freedom," it said. The Guild also urged the Karnataka government to clearly specify the scope of and powers of the proposed fact-checking unit, as well as the governing mechanism under which it will operate. It also sought consultation exercises with press organisations for developing the framework. Kharge said the online realm faced a challenge of misinformation and fake news, necessitating the implementation of measures to address this issue. «I wish to reassure the esteemed organization that our fact-check unit will uphold an apolitical stance, devoid of bias and will transparently explain the methodologies employed to the public. Furthermore, we are in the process of establishing independent bodies that will be enlisted to assist us in combating fake news and misinformation,» he said. He sought to assure that the new Congress regime adhered to the principles of Basavanna and BR Ambedkar.

A new study says Alexa, Siri and other voice assistants could do a better job giving instructions on CPR to help bystanders respond in emergencies