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Mint explains: In 2022, an estimated 277,291 foreign tourists landed from Canada in India. This makes the country the fifth largest source nation for tourists behind the US, Bangladesh, UK and Australia. The number of tourists from Canada has grown over three-fold from 2021, when only 80,437 tourists had come.

The covid pandemic is over and it’s now business as usual. Cities have sprung back to life as people return to office. And, so have the huge traffic snarls, as people travel from home to office and back during rush hour. Meanwhile, young professionals are looking for cost-efficient and convenient ways to commute to their offices. Many of them are carpooling to hitch a more comfortable ride.

It is a well-known fact that real estate is an appreciating asset. Historically, average real estate prices have multiplied and given healthy and robust returns to investors, despite multiple cycles of recession.

Congress on Sunday alleged that the government has mismanaged the economy across all sectors and since it is «too inept» in fixing issues such as unemployment and price rise, it is distorting the data instead. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said now that the special session of Parliament is over, it is clear that the Modi government was trying to «distract and divert» the nation from some critical issues — «the Adani scam, the caste census and especially the rising unemployment, growing inequality and the economic distress». In a statement, he said no matter how much the Modi government hides the data, the reality is that the vast majority of people are suffering. He claimed that some of the facts reported last week are being «brushed under the carpet». He said RBI's latest bulletin of September 2023 shows the «complete failure» of the Modi government to execute a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. «Forty-three per cent of people were in the labour force in February 2020.

Asian Games 2023, hosted in Hangzhou, China. The event officially commenced on September 23 and will run until October 8. Originally slated for 2022, the quadrennial sports spectacle was postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Federal Reserve and Bank of England left interest rates unchanged this week, while both left the door open to additional increases should inflation prove persistent. Policymakers in the US made their decision unanimously, while those in the UK were split. Meantime, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda tamped down speculation of a near-term interest rate hike after the central bank chose to stick with its ultra-easy stimulus. Here are some of the charts that appeared on Bloomberg this week on the latest developments in the global economy:US Fed Chair Jerome Powell made clear Wednesday the central bank is close to done raising interest rates, but his colleagues delivered the message that resonated: Borrowing costs must remain higher for longer amid renewed strength in the economy.

Qantas Airways has never been more profitable. But as Australia’s national airline has emerged stronger from the pandemic, it has alienated its most important constituency: Australians. They bemoan that its flights are unreliable and expensive. They are aghast at how government protectionism has made Qantas by far the biggest airline in Australia and pushed up the price of travel.

In urban households where the mother-in-law is employed, daughters-in-law are 70% more likely to be employed, and 50% more likely in rural areas, according to the State of Working India 2023 report by Azim Premji University released this week. Mothers-in-law are often feared or revered by younger Indian women, who traditionally move into the groom’s family after marriage. Gender norms, amplified by strong intergenerational effect, play a crucial role in the lives of Indian women that could make up half of the labor pool. The report also found that the pandemic has pushed more women into self employment.

CPI inflation fell below 7% in August, and at 6.83%, it printed well below the market’s expectations led by deflation in the prices of vegetables, particularly, tomatoes. The bad news is that inflationary pressures shifted from perishable items to others in the food basket like cereals, spices, and pulses, which could prove to be sticky in coming months, much to the concern of the authorities, particularly the Reserve Bank of India. And the no-so-bad news about the August inflation is that it might not trigger any move from the Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI & could keep the repo rate steady at 6.5% for the remainder of this financial year.Inflation InternalsWhile August CPI inflation was below market expectation of 7%, it remained well above the MPC’s target range of 2-6%. Vegetable prices fell by 6% month-on-month in August as opposed to a 38% rise between June and July. This led to inflation falling to 6.8% from 7.4% in July.

COVID-19 pandemic, and potential interruptions to the academic schedule hindered their organization in 2022. Chander Shekhar, the chief election officer overseeing these elections, disclosed that the voter turnout at the university stood at 42 percent. Approximately one hundred thousand students were eligible to cast their votes in the election.

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Also Read: US Polls 2024: Vivek Ramaswamy's Silicon Valley fundraiser dinner to cost ₹41 lakh per ticket. More details here "Strength and pride are essential to our national survival, especially in the face of Communist China. China is an existential threat.

global financial crisis more than a decade ago. New data from S&P Global has shown that the nation could be sliding towards a recession, with the labour market showing signs of loosening, Bloomberg reported. The reading for September, according to the latest composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) by S&P Global, plummeted to 46.8 from 48.6 in August.

Nikki Haley has claimed Beijing is «preparing for war». China has spent half a century plotting to defeat America and in some respects, the Chinese military is already at par with the US armed forces, Haley said in a major policy speech on the economy in the key early primary State of New Hampshire on Friday. Her speech comes two days after her India-American Republican rival Vivek Ramaswamy delivered a foreign policy speech on China in Ohio. Both Haley and Ramaswamy have emerged as popular GOP candidates after former US president Donald Trump. «Strength and pride are essential to our national survival, especially in the face of Communist China.

Narendra Modi is scheduled to lay the foundation stone of the International Cricket Stadium in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Saturday afternoon. The Uttar Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has spent Rs 121 crore on land acquisition for the construction of the International Cricket Stadium in Varanasi. Moreover, the BCCI will spend Rs 330 crores on the stadium's construction. The thematic architecture of this stadium draws inspiration from Lord Shiva, with designs developed for crescent-shaped roof covers, trident-shaped floodlights, ghat steps-based seating, and Bilvipatra-shaped metallic sheets on the facade.

Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin’ as strikes hit Hollywood. The renewal was announced in January after the first season's debut on November 23, 2022, but viewing data wasn't released. The cancellation follows similar decisions due to strikes, including Amazon Prime Video's 'The Peripheral' and 'A League of Their Own.' The strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) began on May 2, causing ‘Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin’ to fall behind schedule for season two. Peacock and Amazon Prime Video have made similar renewal reversals during the pandemic. Negotiations have resumed between WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), raising hopes for a resolution to the labor dispute. The strike has been ongoing for five months, nearing the guild's previous record of 154 days in 1988. ‘Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin’ featured Adam Devine, reprising his role as Bumper Allen from the 'Pitch Perfect' film series. He portrayed the leader of an all-male a cappella group, attempting to revive his music career in Germany. The show also starred Flula Borg, Sarah Hyland, Lera Abova, and Jameela Jamil. Megan Amram from 'The Good Place' served as showrunner and executive producer alongside Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman, Devine, and more from 'Pitch Perfect 2.'

These shocks could have been far worse without the critical role digital public infrastructure (DPI) played during the pandemic to provide emergency fiscal transfers to hundreds of millions, support and coordinate vaccine deployment across large populations, and offer digital platforms for education and commerce to blunt the worst ravages of the lockdowns. In doing so, it supported job creation and private sector innovation. The latest IMF and World Bank forecasts project that the 'global south' will contribute nearly 70% of global growth in the next few decades.

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Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman analyzes the state of the housing market after mortgage rates surged past 7% on 'Cavuto: Coast to Coast.'

Instacart named former chief financial and operating officer Ravi Gupta to its board of directors Friday, formalizing a move after the grocery technology company went public earlier this week. “There are new growth areas — Connected Stores, Instacart Health, AI — entire plethora of ways that the company’s going to innovate,” Gupta said in an interview ahead of the announcement. “Just being able to be around for that and provide opinions and weigh in on that is such a gift.”

Leading the field of Republican presidential candidates is former President Donald Trump, who faces a battery of federal and state criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. If Trump captures the Republican nomination and wins the general election, he will become the first president in 130 years to win the White House after sitting out a term, after Grover Cleveland. Biden, the incumbent president, is the presumptive Democratic nominee. He will be 81 when the election is held in November 2024, making him the oldest American ever to win a presidential election should he secure a second term.THE REPUBLICANS Trump, 77, is dominating a field of 10 major candidates who have largely avoided criticizing him directly for fear of alienating his base of diehard supporters. His Republican rivals, such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former U.S.