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the world's largest hotel franchising company, will launch its first luxury hotel in India with the opening of the Wyndham Grand in Udaipur next year, and the chain is also considering 'strategic alliances' with white label operators to boost its presence in the country and bring in more brands, said Dimitris Manikis, president for Europe, the Middle East, Eurasia, and Africa (EMEA), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, in an interview. The chain has also appointed Shailender Singh as the market managing director for Eurasia. Wyndham has 60 operational hotels in India, with 45 hotels in the pipeline. Wyndham's upcoming hotel openings for this year include new properties in Srinagar, Nainital, Ayodhya, Vrindavan and Wayanad. «This is India's decade and Wyndham has to be one of the key players in India's hospitality sector. There is no better time to be in India than now,» said Manikis.

Donald Trump claimed to be the late Queen Elizabeth II's «favorite president.» He angrily refuted rumors that the Queen considered him to be «very rude.» In a recent book, journalist Craig Brown claimed that Queen Elizabeth II disapproved of Trump and questioned his marriage to Melania. This infuriated Trump, who vented his fury at Brown. Trump appeared to be disputing the late monarch's memory with his remarks, although directing his wrath towards the journalist, as per the reports of Yahoo entertainment. Also Read: Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4: What we know about end date, quest pack and more

Trump has probably found another great promotional tactic ahead of the US Presidential elections 2024, and this is something no President hopeful has ever done or supported. It looks like he has turned to Elon Musk for all out-of-the-box promo ideas, and this time Musk has developed an AI system which shows both of them in an armed robbery and other crimes. The most striking factor of this entire build is the fact that the video looks very close to being real. People can now actually use Musk's AI tech to make both these individuals commit a variety of crimes, as designed in the application.

While Tim Walz’s disclosed net worth might seem modest compared to other candidates in this year’s presidential election, the 60-year-old VP aspirant is still probably far more financially stable than many retirees.

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Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, and her unbridled total hatred had no bounds. On Wednesday, Donald Trump disclosed his opinion of the nastiest speaker to have spoken at the DNC thus far. Hochul discussed her shared values of grit, determination, and compassion with presidential candidate Kamala Harris on August 19, the first night of the Democratic National Convention. The governor continued, saying that those principles have always defined New Yorkers. She stated that Donald Trump was a New Yorker by birth, but he turned out to be a liar, philanderer, and felon. New York had to suffer through Trump's 78 long years in office. Hochul criticised the fraud, the tax-dodging, the sham university, and the shady charities of Trump. Also Read: Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: All about premiere date, plot, cast, characters, trailer and production

UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath will lead the party campaign in the upcoming bypolls on 10 assembly seats in the state. Yogi has already started touring the assembly constituencies and has covered Milkipur and Katehari assembly constituencies. On Friday, Yogi Aditya Nath was in Ghaziabad assembly constituency which is also scheduled to go for the by-poll after sitting MLA Atul Garg became an MP from Ghaziabad. On Thursday evening, a meeting of the BJP state unit, the government and the RSS took place for the first time post the Lok Sabha results to take stock of the situation and ensure better coordination between the government, the party and the cadre. The meeting took place under the leadership of RSS Sah Sarkaryawah Arun Kumar where along with Yogi, both the deputy chief ministers, state president and state general secretary (oraganisation) were present.Recently, the rumours have been floating around about differences among the leadership at the top in UP and this meeting was aimed to ease out differences and put up a united face ahead of assembly elections. Behind the scenes efforts were already going on by the RSS and the results were visible over the past few days. On August 18, deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya openly praised the CM and termed him the best chief minister among all states. Maurya has also been attending party workers meeting alongside Yogi to send out a message of truce among the party cadre.

Congress high command threw its weight behind Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah over land allotment controversy and termed it as a BJP plot to destabilise the state government. Siddaramaih and deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar travelled to Delhi on Friday afternoon for a meeting with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and senior party leaders to discuss political developments in Karnataka. This was their second visit to Delhi within a month. Emerging from the meeting, Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala told reporters that this was BJP's ploy to target their "Dalit chief minister". «We stand behind our chief minister and stand united,» said Surjewala. The meeting came amid a controversy over land allotments in Mysuru to Siddaramaiah's wife. On August 16, Karnataka Governor granted sanction to three private individuals to file a police complaint against the CM and others.

India's stand of "dialogue and diplomacy" and announced every possible assistance to resolve the Russo-Ukraine conflict, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said in Kyiv on Friday following the PM's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The PM, Jaishankar said, stressed «India's willingness to contribute in all ways possible». The two leaders also discussed Modi's conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow in July, Jaishankar said, adding India explained its position on energy ties with Russia. Modi invited Zelenskyy to visit India at a mutually convenient opportunity.

Sanctuary Wealth has strengthened its advisory network in the eastern US as a four-person breakaway team makes a leap for independence.

Narendra Modi's BJP came to power. As then-secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (Dipp), Kant was presiding over a stakeholder discussion on whether multi-brand retail should be allowed in India. Over a decade since, Piyush Goyal has, yet again, highlighted his government's concerns over the growth of ecommerce in India — that there will be social disruption, there is predatory pricing in ecommerce, and the number of mobile stores in the country has declined over the past 10 years. He is concerned — and rightly so — about the fate of millions of small retailers and kirana stores in the country. The point that I made to Kant in 2014 still stands: ecommerce offers consumers a much wider variety of products, whether coloured socks, numbered swimming goggles or air-purifiers. It benefits both sellers and buyers. Customers in Tier-2 and -3 towns access a wider variety of products online, without relying on someone to go to a metro to purchase it. Sellers find buyers across the country.

Montreal billionaire André Desmarais has joined one of the consortiums angling to build and jointly operate the federal government’s new high-frequency electric railway.

India has become the flavour of the US presidential elections. For the first time, two Americans of Indian origin, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, figured as possible candidates for the presidential elections. When JD Vance became former President Donald Trump's running mate, spotlight fell on his wife Usha Vance, an Indian American and practicing Hindu. With the nomination of Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency, once again India has come to foreground. In her speech on Thursday night in which she formally accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency, Harris spoke at length about her childhood days when she was raised by her mother Shymala Gopalan alone, who had divorced from her Jamaican American husband. What Harris said about her mother Harris started her speech by remembering her mother. «But I’m no stranger to unlikely journeys. So, my mother, our mother, Shyamala Harris, had one of her own. And I miss her every day, and especially right now. And I know she’s looking down smiling. I know that,» she said.

Narendra Modi met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy here on Friday, he first shook hands and immediately gave him a warm hug. The hug to the top leader of the war-torn country came barely six weeks after Modi had similarly hugged the leader of Ukraine's arch enemy Russia, President Vladimir Putin. During a media briefing after the Modi-Zelenskyy talks, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar was asked about the 'embrace' in a question meant to seek comments on apparent linkages with Modi's meetings with Putin earlier and Zelenskyy now. «In our part of the world, when people meet people, they are given to embracing each other, it may not be part of your culture but I can assure you it is part of our's. In fact, today, I think, I saw, Prime Minister (Modi) also embrace President Zelenskyy,» Jaishankar replied to a specific question by a Western reporter which mentioned in as many words about Modi's embrace of Putin a few weeks ago.

Zelenskyy on Friday said India supported his country's national sovereignty and territorial integrity, underlining that New Delhi's support was «critical» because everyone in the world must equally respect the UN Charter. «Today, history was made. The Prime Minister of India @narendramodi made his first visit to Ukraine since our country's independence, on the eve of our Independence Day,» Zelenskyy posted on X after holding talks with Modi. Modi arrived in Kyiv this morning on a special train on the first-ever visit to Ukraine by an Indian prime minister after it became independent in 1991. Zelenskyy noted that four documents between Ukraine and India, covering the medical field, agricultural cooperation, humanitarian relations, and culture, were signed.

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ISRO on Friday threw open its scientific data gathered from the Chandrayaan-3 mission for researchers across the world for analyses to mark the first anniversary of India landing a spacecraft on the Moon. The space agency has granted access to over 55 gigabytes of data from the five payloads — three on the Vikram lander and two on the Pragyan rover — that created history on August 23 last year by making a soft landing near the unexplored south pole region of the Moon. «This data is not going to be confined with those scientists who have created those instruments, but it will be made available to all the researchers of the country and the world for furthering the outcome of this,» ISRO Chairman S Somanath said at the National Space Day celebrations here. The Chandrayaan-3 data sets are available on Policy-based data Retieval, Analytics, Dissemination and Notification System (PRADAN) portal of the Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) — www.pradan.issdc.gov.in.

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IMF's approval. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb and his team had a virtual meeting with Dr Adnan Chilwan, Group CEO of Dubai Islamic Bank, on Thursday, the Dawn newspaper reported on Friday. On Wednesday, a similar interaction was held with Mashreq Bank President and Group CEO Ahmed Abdelaal. Both meetings had been arranged to «discuss the economic outlook and explore investment opportunities in Pakistan». For the current fiscal year, Pakistan has pitched about USD 20 billion in foreign borrowing in the budget, besides another USD 3 billion rollover from the UAE that was reported separately for the balance of payments. With this much borrowing, Pakistan's reserves are estimated to grow to about USD 19-20 billion by the end of the current fiscal year.

Prathamesh Mallya, Deputy Vice President, Research, Commodities & Currencies, Angel One, says in an ideal scenario, if you are a genuine, risk-averse investor who wants to diversify some part of your portfolio, 10% can be in gold. But in times of uncertainty like this, wherein you have a lot of things at play, gold is one asset that rallies and there is no stop to this rally. In that case, the ideal allocation should be in the 10- 15% range.

M3M India on Friday reported a 37 per cent increase in sales of residential and commercial properties in the June quarter to Rs 3,911 crore on strong demand. Its sales bookings stood at Rs 2,854 crore in the year-ago period. Out of total sales bookings in the April-June period of the current fiscal, Rs 2,972 crore pertained to the housing segment and Rs 940 crore to commercial properties, the company said in a statement. During the first quarter of this fiscal, M3M India said the total sales bookings in Gurugram stood at Rs 2,415 crore, while Noida projects contributed Rs 402 crore. Sales of residential plots at Panipat in Haryana were Rs 1,094 crore.