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Rohit Sharma-led Indian cricket team all set to face the Pat Cummins-led Australia on 19 November at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi stadium for the high-adrenaline-filled ICC Men's World Cup final, hotel room tariff in Gujarat's Ahmedabad and airfares to the city have skyrocketed. According to a report by news agency PTI, the hotel room tariffs for the night of the match have gone up as high as ₹2 lakh in top five-star hotels in the city, while other hotels have also increased their rates by five to seven times.

 DISTILL CEO Neely Tamminga reacts to the Supreme Court slashing President Biden's student loan handout plan on 'Making Money.'

Biden and Xi Jinping had more in common with a counseling session for a couple contemplating divorce. The premise: Let’s try to keep things civil for the kids. All week, fear of a new Cold War has loomed over San Francisco, where Asia-Pacific leaders are gathered. After four hours of talks on Wednesday, the US and Chinese presidents offered a glimpse of just how hard it’s going to be to manage their relationship away from that course. The meeting at the Filoli Estate, 30 miles south of San Francisco, was months in the planning. But when the stakes are high, and the differences fundamental, even the most arduous diplomatic groundwork can sometimes only yield small victories. The US and China have agreed to collaborate on climate and artificial intelligence, and resume military-to-military contacts. More American students will be welcomed in China, Chinese pandas may return to American zoos, and Xi vowed to crack down on fentanyl shipments. Bigger and more divisive issues like trade, tariffs leftover from the Trump years and competition over technology were set aside for now. Also largely unanswered after Wednesday’s talks was the question of what comes next. There are plans for working groups that will see middle-ranking officials meet occasionally, but no future high-level interactions were announced aside from a planned China trip by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, although the two leaders pledged to speak directly if tensions flared. And 2024, which starts with a presidential election in Taiwan and ends with another one in the US, is shaping up to be a crucial year for the world’s most important relationship.

Walmart reported an uptick in its consolidated gross margin, attributed to the delayed launch of its Indian ecommerce arm Flipkart's Big Billion Days (BBD) festive season this year. “Consolidated gross margin rate up 32bps (basis points) positively affected by a slight improvement for Walmart US and timing of Flipkart’s The Big Billion Days (“BBD”) event, which flipped from Q3 last year to Q4 this year,” a bullet point in the company’s October quarter earnings statement noted.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has called upon the world leaders to join hands as a global community to construct a future where climate action is not a burden but an opportunity for innovation and growth. While speaking at the APEC Informal Leader's Dialogue in San Francisco on November 16, the minister also highlighted India's environmental leadership in meeting the renewable energy target of 175 gigawatts nine years ahead of the target.

Tech Mahindra trading lower. The Nifty IT index has outperformed the benchmark Nifty 50 this year. The IT index has gained about 13 per cent this year so far while the benchmark index Nifty 50 is up over 9 per cent.

Surrey Police Board on ice Thursday, in the latest move to force the city to complete its transition to a municipal police force.Mike Farnworth announced that he had suspended all of the board’s members, and that former Abbotsford police chief Mike Serr has been appointed as administrator to fulfil their functions on the Surrey Police Board.In October, Farnworth introduced legislation to force the city to complete its transition from the RCMP to the Surrey Police Service (SPS), which included provincial powers to appoint an administrator to replace board members and act in their stead.Farnworth said the move was necessary due to the lack of progress from the city in moving the police transition forward.The action also results from the need to address budgeting for the current and coming fiscal years, he said.“The best way to do that is to put in place an administrator, suspend the board, and that’s why it is being done,” Farnworth said.“This is not a reflection on the board members who I think have worked incredibly hard and done outstanding work.”Farnworth said he had spoken to the board about the decision, along with Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke — with whom he had a “cordial” conversation.“It’s no secret that this has been a complex issue, it is the largest policing transition in the history of this province and I think in the country,” he said.“They mayor has her views I think on this transition, and I have made it clear that this transition will continue.”Locke was not available for an interview Thursday, but issued a statement accusing the government of a “provincial police takeover” that eliminated civilian oversight.“In effect, the Minister has removed checks and balances,” Locke wrote.“Not only is the Province

Investing.com — The U.S. dollar edged higher in early European trade Friday, but was heading for a sharp weekly loss after cooling inflation spurred growing bets that the Federal Reserve has completed its series of rate hikes.

By Joe Cash

Antony Blinken has said the US will continue to say things that China doesn't like, as he defended President Joe Biden's remarks wherein he called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a "dictator". Biden called Xi a «dictator», just hours after they met for the first time in more than a year and held candid and productive discussions to revive bilateral ties on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. When pressed on whether Biden's comments were the position of the US government, Blinken responded that the president «speaks for all of us», CBS News reported.

Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said on Friday that he has paid a fine of Rs 68,526 for drawing electricity from an illegal connection to illuminate his JP Nagar residence here during Deepavali, but termed it as «unjust and excessive». However, the JD (S) state unit president protested the way the fine amount had been calculated and found flaws in the FIR registered against him.

Taliban security forces rollerblading through Kabul streets has gone viral. In the video, masked and camouflaged Taliban fighters were seen speeding through central Kabul on rollerblades and directing directing traffic. The security forces were also seen holding AK-47 automatic rifles.

Investing.com — European stock markets are expected to open higher Friday, looking to end a volatile week on a positive note ahead of the final release of eurozone inflation data for October.

Also Read | Israel-Hamas War LIVE Updates: Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza; Blinken asks for 'urgent' action “I am mildly hopeful," President Biden said. In response to a question, he said he was not considering any US military involvement in rescuing the captives.

China’s President Xi Jinping a “dictator". The video of Joe Biden calling Xi Jinping a “dictator" surfaced a day after Joe Biden met his Chinese counterpart Xi on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Anthony Blinken, 61, visibly grimaced and was seen fiddling with his hands when Joe Biden said Xi “is a dictator in the sense that he is the guy who runs the country that is a communist country … based on a form of government different than ours" at a press conference.

Congress chief ministerial face and PCC president Kamal Nath said he has faith in the people and that they will side with the truth. Expressing the hope that the people will prefer the Congress this time, Nath also alleged the BJP side was deploying money and liquor on the polling day.. «I have faith in the entire state that they will side with the truth.

Mining and clean-energy billionaire Andrew Forrest has pledged to plough $US35 million ($54 million) into a new battery manufacturing plant in the United States, as Fortescue Metals aims to cash in on the benefits of President Joe Biden’s $US369 billion ($550 billion) Inflation Reduction Act.

Jennifer Hicks, Binance’s Senior Counter-Terrorism Official, has officially resigned from the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, as disclosed on her LinkedIn profile.

By Wayne Cole

general elections will be the biggest trigger for the market even though the outcome of state elections can cause short-term volatility in the market. "The next trigger for equity markets is the outcome of General Elections 2024. State elections can create short-term volatility, but the outcome of the General Elections 2024 is a key monitorable," said Dikshit Mittal, fund manager of LIC Mutual Fund.

By Wendell Roelf