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Shibasish Sarkar has been unanimously re-elected as the president of the Producers Guild of India (PGI) for the third consecutive term at its 69th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Mumbai on September 27, 2024. The AGM also witnessed the re-election of Manish Goswami and Madhu Bhojwani as Vice Presidents, while Ashim Samanta and Fazila Allana were re-elected as Treasurers. Additionally, Aashish Singh, Dipti Kotak, and Ankur Garg were elected as Vice Presidents, fortifying the leadership team.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden set an ambitious goal to improve and expedite the visa process and I am proud to say that we have delivered on that promise. Our consular teams at the embassy and four consulates work tirelessly to ensure that we meet the surging demand," said US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti. More than 1.2 million Indians have travelled to the United States in 2024, a 35 per cent increase over the same period in 2023. 

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that no challenges can stop the country from moving forward and reiterated Beijing's reunification aims with Taiwan.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. PARIS : Marine Le Pen and dozens of other members of National Rally stand trial on Monday on charges of misusing European funds, a case that risks disrupting the French politician’s efforts to carry her far-right party into the political mainstream. French prosecutors allege Le Pen and other National Rally leaders used close to 7 million euros—or around $7.8 million earmarked for assistants working inside the Strasbourg-based European Parliament—to pay party staffers in other parts of France between 2004 and 2017.

Amit Shah on Monday described Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public meeting in Jammu and Kashmir as «absolutely distasteful and disgraceful». Shah said «in a bitter display of spite», Kharge unnecessarily dragged the prime minister into his personal health matters by saying that he would die only after removing Modi from power. At an election rally in Jasrota in Jammu on Sunday, Kharge felt dizzy and uneasy but resumed his speech after a brief pause, saying he won't die before PM Modi is removed from power. Shah hit out at Kharge over his remarks.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If Ukraine and its Western backers are to win, they must first have the courage to admit that they are losing. In the past two years Russia and Ukraine have fought a costly war of attrition.

Congress leader Pawan Khera on Monday came out in defence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge over his comments on Narendra Modi in a rally in Jammu and Kashmir, saying that his «party does not hate PM Modi but loves the country.» This came after Union Home Minister Amit Shah attacked Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday, saying that the Congress leader had outperformed himself, the party leaders,, and the party in being «distasteful and disgraceful» during his speech on the last day of campaigning for the third and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls. Shah's remarks came against the backdrop of Kharge's speech, where he said that he would stay alive until Prime Minister Narendra Modi was removed from power after he felt unwell while addressing a rally in the Jasrota area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district on Sunday.

On Tuesday, the Labor Department releases data on job openings for August and shoe giant Nike reports its latest quarterly results

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Donald Trump held a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, his fourth campaign stop in a month in what has become the 2024 campaign's most hotly contested state. The former president had begun addressing supporters in Erie, in Pennsylvania's northwest corner, shortly after 2 p.m. local time (1800 GMT). His rally comes one month to the day after his running mate, U.S. Senator JD Vance, held his own event in the lakeside city, and six days before Trump is due to hold another rally in western Pennsylvania, on October 5. Many allies and informal advisers to Trump privately characterize Pennsylvania as the most important of the battleground states in the November 5 election.

Stop-and-start negotiations between Israel and Hamas to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip, pushed by the United States, have repeatedly been described by the Biden administration as on the verge of a breakthrough, only to fail. The current Western-led attempt to avert a full-scale Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon amounts to a scramble to avert disaster. Its chances of success seem deeply uncertain after the Israeli killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, on Friday. «There's more capability in more hands in a world where centrifugal forces are far stronger than centralizing ones,» said Richard Haass, the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. «The Middle East is the primary case study of this dangerous fragmentation.»

Stellantis, an automotive colossus that owns more than a dozen brands including Chrysler, Fiat, Jeep, Peugeot and Ram, is facing challenges at seemingly every turn. The company's sales and profit have been plummeting. Dealers stuck with parking lots filled with unsold cars are publicly criticizing Stellantis and its CEO in unusually harsh terms. Stellantis' stock price has fallen almost 50% from its high point in March. And the union that represents its U.S. factory workers is threatening to go on strike at several plants. United Automobile Workers locals are expected to vote in the coming days to authorize strikes against several Stellantis factories, protesting what they say are broken promises by the automaker.

Republicans on Sunday sought to distance themselves from Donald Trump's latest insults of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris during a rambling weekend rally in Wisconsin in which he called her «mentally disabled.» Trump escalated his personal attacks on the vice president during a self-described «dark speech» on immigration following Harris' trip to the U.S.-Mexico border. "Joe Biden became mentally impaired," Trump said. «Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country. Anybody would know this.»

Lavasa Corp, which was once touted as India's first private hill town project, have set an eligibility criteria of ₹100 crore net worth and a ₹25 lakh refundable deposit for new expressions of interest (EOIs) from prospective bidders as they try to find a buyer for a second time after junking the previous attempt earlier this year. The minutes of the meeting of the committee of creditors (CoC) held on September 17 show that 77% of lenders led by Union Bank of India (UBI) have agreed to a minimum criteria for bidders which is a change from the last time the process ran without any eligible criteria to «maximise participation» of applicants. «Besides this eligibility criteria, lenders also want to make certain changes with most likely a new resolution professional (RP) in place of Shailesh Verma and a process advisor to make way in place of Deloitte as both have been in charge for long and has presided over a what has been a failed process prior to this,» said a person aware of the matter. A joint lenders forum (JLF) called by UBI is expected to finalise timelines and appointment of a new RP as early as next week as lenders pick up the pieces after many twists and turns in the case.

Donald Trump scrambled political norms. Democratic governor of Minnesota Walz made it to national prominence by labelling rival Republicans 'weird'. Republican junior senator from Ohio Vance has torn into Vice President Kamala Harris' party on immigration, notably by spreading a false story about Haitian immigrants in his home state that Trump then cited during his own debate with Harris. A nominee's choice of number 2 has historically made little Election Day difference. This year could be different.

Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump may disagree on numerous issues, but they’ve both recognized the value of apprenticeships and trade schools as viable alternatives to traditional four-year college degrees. Both political figures are advocating for policies that encourage young Americans to pursue these routes to well-paying jobs, as mentioned in a report by USA Today. Recently, Kamala Harris announced her intent to reduce college degree requirements for federal jobs and urged private-sector employers to do the same if elected. Speaking in the working-class town of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Harris emphasized the need to recognize the value of different career pathways beyond the conventional college route.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tech companies scouring the country for electricity to power artificial intelligence are increasingly finding there is a waiting list. In many places the nation’s high-voltage electric wires are running out of room, their connection points locked up by data centers for AI, new factories or charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It is a bruising ownership fight in South Korea over the world’s largest zinc smelter. Fueling the dispute: fears the company could one day fall into China’s hands.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), an international organization based in New Delhi, is planning to tap artificial intelligence (AI) to curb infrastructure-related disasters, which also be discussed at the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), said director general Amit Prothi. “We will have a discussion on data at COP29.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Former US President Donald Trump, running against a strong and confident woman, is facing a historic gender gap. And as he tries to dig himself out of this 21-point hole, he is flailing and likely making his problems much worse.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The outcome of November’s US presidential election will have profound consequences for democracies worldwide and for geo-political flashpoints like Ukraine, the Middle East and Taiwan. But the potential economic fallout could be equally far-reaching.