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Victoria and South Australia face an increased risk of rolling blackouts this summer, the electricity grid operator has warned, as the return of an El Niño weather pattern brings a hot, dry summer with lower wind output.

Thousands of Optus customers who had personal details stolen in a cyberattack and leaked on the dark web may never find out how the breach happened after the telecommunications group pleaded “legal professional privilege” to try to stop a report into the hack being released.

Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said women were the ones who suffered the blow of inflation as he explained the rationale behind the guarantee-schemes the Congress regime was implementing in Karnataka.. “I have met several women in the Bharat Jodo Yatra, and in the 600 km I travelled across Karnataka, thousands of women told me they couldn’t bear inflation,” he said. Gandhi was speaking at a massive launch of the Congress regime’s Gruha Lakshmi scheme in Mysuru, where he transferred Rs 2,000 each into the bank accounts of 1.08 crore women beneficiaries with a click on a tablet. The recently reinstated MP also slammed the Central government, accusing it of working for billionaires. “We think that the government should work for the poor and the weak,” he said. Under the Gruha Lakshmi scheme, which is the fourth of the regime’s five major guarantees to be implemented, women heads of low-income households in the state receive Rs 2,000 in their bank accounts every month.

Google has once again somehow leaked its upcoming flagship smartphone, the Pixel 8 Pro, and that too on its own website. The leak occurred on the Google Store website and on the same day that Apple announced its September launch event. The image showed a person using a porcelain colour variant of the Pixel 8 Pro, confirming previous leaks and renderimages. This image was initially spotted by @Android_Setting on X (Twitter), shedding light on the eagerly awaited device. The leaked image not only gave a clear view of the Pixel 8 Pro but also subtly hinted at another potential surprise — the Pixel Watch 2. Although Google promptly removed the image, by then people had already captured the evidence. The image displayed a person answering a call on what was presumably the Pixel 8 Pro.

Bitcoin mining has long been attacked by policymakers as an expensive, wasteful industry consuming power that would otherwise be going to households or valuable industries. Indeed, the scale of global Bitcoin mining is massive: Coin Metrics estimates that Bitcoin miners today consume 13.5GW of power, equivalent to 15% of the peak generation capacity of the Texas grid. But in recent years miners have adapted to changing grid conditions and found ways to make their presence much more benign — whether this involves exploiting entirely stranded sources of power, like flared gas, by co-locating with under-monetized renewables, or by participating in grid flexibilization initiatives.

₹26 to ₹28 per equity share and the Mono Pharmacare shares will get listed on Thursday, September 7 on NSE SME. Bids can be made for a minimum of 4,000 equity shares and in multiples of 4,000 equity shares thereafter. Mono Pharmacare Limited IPO cap price shall be at least 105% of the floor price, according to Red herring prospectus (RHP).

₹200 on domestic liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders or cooking gas. The move comes in the backdrop of high inflation and also at a time when the government is gearing up for assembly elections in five states as well as general elections next year. Here's a look at the factors behind the decision and its likely impact.

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Electric vehicle tax credits aren’t just for new EVs anymore

Hollywood crew members are turning to nonprofits like the Entertainment Community Fund for assistance as they have also lost work during the writer and actors strikes

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is pledging that his government will tone down frequent public infighting that has weighed it down badly in polls as it works to pick up the country’s stagnant economy, Europe’s biggest

RAPIDX corridor project, a major breakthrough has been accomplished with the successful completion of the last 2km-long tunnel segment between Anand Vihar and Sahibabad. As per a TOI report, with completion of tunneling at the Vaishali retrieving shaft in Ghaziabad, the entire tunnelling work for this 82-km long Delhi-Meerut Rapid rail corridor is now concluded.

Most OEMs are targeting the young buyers for electric two wheelers and elevating the technology pitch to showcase their aspirational products.TVS Motor Company, which recently launched its new high performance EV called 'X', is also targeting the Gen-Z with its technology-high features. Away from a traditional scooter body style, X is being touted as a ‘crossover’ of scooter and motorcycle. Far away from similarities with the existing iQube, X is built on a new platform and TVS said its in-house R&D team made significant contributions to the development of this technologically advanced product and its electronic and software architecture.ALSO READ: TVS Motor to double EV volume With the connectivity and features intact, TVS X gives a touch and feel of a premium two wheeler.

3M, a multinational conglomerate, has agreed to a substantial settlement amount of over $6 billion in a class-action lawsuit involving faulty earplugs. The lawsuit alleged that the company's Dual-Ended Combat Arms Earplugs, CAEv.2, manufactured between 2003 and 2015, led to hearing loss, tinnitus, and other hearing-related injuries among consumers and military members. This decision comes as a significant milestone in a legal battle that centered on claims of inadequate earplug design.

The price of Stacks (STX) has risen by 16.5% in the past 24 hours, with the coin's move to $0.526349 making it the best-performing major cryptocurrency today.

Narendra Modi had met on the side lines of BRICS summit and sought that the LAC stand-off be solved as soon as possible. Senior advocate of Supreme Court and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said that China asserting claim on Arunachal Pradesh is ‘not a new thing’. ""We already know that the Aksai Chin has been under China for many years...That is not a new thing...China's claim on some portions of Arunachal Pradesh is also not a new thing..." Kapil Sibal said in an interview to news agency ANI.

Dollar bulls have history on their side going into September as the currency has strengthened during that month for six years in a row.

BEIJING — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has called on China to improve the predictability of the business environment for American companies in the country.

IndiGo is carrying out the «technical evaluation» of the engine issues faced by the airline's two aircraft on Tuesday, according to an official. Two flights of IndiGo, one from Kolkata to Bengaluru and another from Madurai to Mumbai suffered engine issues on Tuesday. In a statement, IndiGo said its flight 6E 455 from Kolkata to Bengaluru returned to Kolkata after take off due to a technical issue.

railway stockshave been on the radar of investors. And for good reason. The government is planning to introduce aproduction-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for train component makersas part of its efforts to attract foreign manufacturing firms and reduce dependence on import.

Also Read: ‘Invite to African Union made G20 more inclusive’ The G20, consisting of 19 individual nations (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Türkiye, United Kingdom, and the United States) along with the European Union, collectively forms a prominent international assembly. As per the central government website on the G20 Summit, the G20 was upgraded to the level of heads of state, and government in the wake of the global economic and financial crisis of 2007, and, in 2009, was designated the “premier forum for international economic cooperation". The G20 Presidency oversees the G20 agenda over a span of one year and takes on the role of hosting the Summit.