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India on Sunday unveiled 'Operation Sadbhav', an inititative that would help countries severely hit by Tyhpoon Yagi, namely Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos. External Affairs Minister Dr S jaishankar took to social media platform X to announce that New Delhi so far has sent three aid packages to the impacted areas. The Operation is being backed by the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force, with INS Satpura and IAF jets carrying out the relief operation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: Unlike many Indians, Sahil Aggarwal doesn’t share their deep faith in astrology. And yet, the 28-year old, who works in the investment industry in Bengaluru, sought guidance from astrologers twice in the last one year.

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online gaming sector topped the apex goods and services tax (GST) intelligence and investigation agency’s evasion list with detection to the tune of about Rs 1.10 lakh crore, involving show cause notices to 34 taxpayers, action against 118 domestic entities and 658 offshore entities. In its annual report released Saturday, the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) identified online gaming as one of the challenging sectors with offshore entities based in tax havens. “Bringing the gaming entities under tax net continues to be an uphill task,” the report said. Use of the dark web and virtual private networks (VPNs) based platforms for such have been cited as key challenges.

Polygon put one more point on its phase 2.0 map when it announced its major migration from MATIC to POL, however, the ongoing presale of Rexas Finance (RXS), an RWA debutant, appears to be stealing the spotlight. While Polygon struggled to sustain the price pump after the upgrade, Rexas Finance has gained more ground as its presale has captured investors’ attention.

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ET Wealth Online has identified two people who have fallen victim to such type of impersonation scams and lost lakhs of rupees.

Pope Francis said that American voters face the choice between “the lesser evil” in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, taking aim at both Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump, and emphasizing that he believes both are running for president on anti-life policies.

Russian hacker groups briefly disrupted Taiwanese financial platforms including the stock exchange and lender Mega Financial Holding Co.’s website, exposing the vulnerability of the island to foreign cyberattacks. Two groups that go by the handles “NoName057” and “RipperSec” on Telegram swamped targeted websites with a so-called Distributed Denial of Service attack, which caused unstable connection issues for the platforms Thursday afternoon, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said Friday. During the incident, the Taiwan Stock Exchange detected web queries from overseas internet-protocol addresses at volumes several times bigger than usual, the bourse said in a separate text message to Bloomberg News.

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Dragon Ball Daima directed by the late Akira Toriyama is all set to release on October 11 in Japan at 11:40 PM JST. Crunchyroll will stream the anime on the same day for the global audience.

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Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr will face Al Ahli on Matchday 3 of the 2024/2025 Saudi Pro League. Here is information on how to watch this game live in your nation or on TV. On September 13, Al Nassr FC and Al-Ahli Saudi FC will play in the Saudi Pro League 2024–25 at Al Awwal Park in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Onsurity has raised Rs 219.7 crore (around $26.2 million) in a funding round led by private equity firm Creaegis. The round also saw participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Quona Capital. According to a regulatory filing with the Registrar of Companies (RoC), Onsurity’s board has approved a special resolution to issue 10 equity shares and 6,302 Series B1 compulsory convertible preference shares, priced at Rs 3,48,089 each, totalling Rs 219.7 crore. Creaegis invested Rs 176.4 crore, while Nexus Venture Partners and Quona Capital contributed Rs 31.4 crore and Rs 11.9 crore, respectively.

Competition Commission of India (CCI) will likely issue final orders by November on its four-year-long investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices by ecommerce giants Amazon and Walmart-backed Flipkart, said people aware of the development. The probe by the CCI's investigation wing, headed by director general Ansuman Pattnaik, has now corroborated the charge that the two companies have indulged in antitrust activities by extending preferential treatments to select sellers on their platforms, the people said. «The platforms' deep discounting through preferred sellers is distorting competition and the anti-competitive practices have been noticed across most product categories,» one of the persons told ET.

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Russian hacker groups briefly disrupted Taiwanese financial platforms including the stock exchange and lender Mega Financial Holding Co.'s website, exposing the vulnerability of the island to foreign cyberattacks. Two groups that go by the handles "NoName057" and «RipperSec» on Telegram swamped targeted websites with a so-called Distributed Denial of Service attack, which caused unstable connection issues for the platforms Thursday afternoon, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said Friday. During the incident, the Taiwan Stock Exchange detected web queries from overseas internet-protocol addresses at volumes several times bigger than usual, the bourse said in a separate text message to Bloomberg News. Government websites and trading functioned normally on Friday. DDoS attacks are intended to overload systems rather than steal valuable information, and the stock exchange restored normal operations within a half-hour on Thursday. But the incident exposes the potential vulnerability of computing platforms in Taiwan, the world's biggest producer of advanced semiconductors and a potential flashpoint in a US-China conflict.