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Bitcoin’s latest rally to $66,400, showcasing nearly 6% uptick within a mere 24 hours, becomes a focal point for analysts and investors alike.

Classroom of the Elite Season 3 Episode 10 is set to captivate viewers on Wednesday, March 7, 2024, airing at 12:00 am JST on AT-X in Japan. International audiences can catch the episode on March 6, around 7:00 am PT, with release times varying by timezone. Crunchyroll provides both subbed and dubbed versions, ensuring a comprehensive viewing experience. The anime is also available on platforms like Netflix and DisneyPlus, with new episodes released weekly on Wednesdays.

Warner Bros.' new sci-fi film «Dune: Part Two» shot to the top of the North American box office this weekend, taking in an estimated $81.5 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. «This is an outstanding opening» for a sci-fi sequel, said analyst David A. Gross, adding that a sprawling international cast including Anya Taylor-Joy, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, Lea Seydoux and Javier Bardem had provided an added boost. Denis Villeneuve's epic sequel to the original «Dune» — based on Frank Herbert's 1965 novel about war and survival on the deeply inhospitable desert planet of Arrakis — saw the young year's largest opening, roughly doubling the original film's opening. «Dune: Part Two» has taken in an additional $97 million abroad.

Mint on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress last week. “We’re open to divesting certain businesses. We are looking at this portfolio all the time.

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China on Monday signed a defence cooperation agreement with the Maldives to provide free military assistance to foster «stronger» bilateral ties with Male, weeks after President Mohamed Muizzu set a deadline for the withdrawal of the first group of Indian military personnel from his island nation. The Defence Minister of the Maldives Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon met with Major General Zhang Baoqun, Deputy Director of the Office for International Military Cooperation of China, to discuss enhancing defence cooperation between the two countries. Maumoon and Major General Baoqun «signed an agreement on China's provision of military assistance gratis to the Republic of Maldives, fostering stronger bilateral ties,» the Maldivian defence ministry posted on its X handle. The details of the defence cooperation agreement were not provided.

natural gas sector has not reached the end customer, oil minister Hardeep Puri has said, adding that the government will take all measures to ensure compliance by city gas companies. “At the end of the day our objective is, and should always be, to bring the energy, gas to the consumer at the most affordable rates,” Puri said on Monday after distributing letters of intent to the winners of city gas licenses in the North-East and Jammu & Kashmir. “What has been happening so far, and I’m not intending this as a criticism, but whilst the government has taken a number of measures, the full benefit of that pass-through has not come to the customer. And that, I think, can be easily seen if you see what the profit sheets of all the companies are,” he said.

methane emissions from space. The MethaneSAT satellite will add to a growing fleet of spacecraft in orbit that are meant to help fight climate change by publishing data on emissions of the invisible but potent greenhouse gas.

Manipur witnessing several months long ethnic strife, the Union Home Ministry is giving ten mine protected Quick Reaction Fighting (QRF) vehicles to the state. An official said that of the ten QRF vehicles, seven have already arrived in the state and three more are on the way. The Ministry of Home Affairs provided the QRF vehicles to equip the security forces in enforcing law and order in a very effective manner in the state. These mine protected QRF vehicles would greatly help in protecting the security forces while performing their duties at vulnerable spots, the official said, adding that the state government continues to take up initiatives for strengthening security measures and the protection of lives and properties.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday asked GST officers to leverage technology to plug loopholes and provide better taxpayer services. Inaugurating the first-ever National Conference of Enforcement Chiefs of the State and Central GST Formations, Sitharaman advocated for sharing of the emerging best practices, emphasising the need for seamless coordination across states in the larger national interest. «The Union Finance Minister urged all the GST formations to leverage technology to plug the loopholes as well provide better taxpayer services,» an official statement issued after the meeting said. She also stressed that clarity on the classification of related issues should be looked into at the earliest through appropriate channels.

Connie MacIntosh was working as a social service worker in Pond Inlet, a tiny hamlet in Nunavut, when her phone rang.On the line was a representative from a company operating group homes for youth in southern Ontario, more than 3,000 kilometres away.She said the caller had a request: they wanted kids from Nunavut.“They would call up and go like, ‘We’ve got three empty beds,’” said MacIntosh, who was a supervisor for Nunavut’s Department of Family Services between 2012 and 2017 and is now retired.“Well, what do you expect me to do? Go out and apprehend three kids to send them to you?”A months-long Global News investigation has found that amid a backdrop of what workers describe as aggressive targeting and recruitment efforts, Nunavut was billed 53 per cent more per day, on average, for a child to live in an Ontario group home compared with what children’s aid societies in Ontario paid.The government of Nunavut is responsible for placing kids into group or foster care arrangements. Over the last four years, it spent millions sending its youth outside the territory.Despite that, Global’s investigation found that some kids and teens received inadequate care when sent south, according to internal government emails, group home inspections, and interviews with more than 45 former group home workers, former government staff and other Inuit child-welfare experts.“It’s more money.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is set to inaugurate several infrastructure projects at the Indian Navy's strategically located base in Karnataka's Karwar on Tuesday. These projects, developed under Project 'Seabird,' aim to enhance India's long-term security interests in the Indian Ocean region. Expansion of Naval Base The infrastructure projects to be inaugurated by Singh include two major piers and seven residential towers comprising 320 houses for naval officers and defence civilian personnel. The expansion of the naval base is crucial for accommodating a growing fleet and enhancing operational capabilities.

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MILAN (Reuters) -Italy's Agnelli family has a 10.1% stake in New York-listed information services provider Clarivate through their investment arm Exor (AS:EXOR), the two companies said on Monday, adding that Exor could increase its stake to up to 17.5%.

AU Small Finance Bank Ltd, a little over four months after it was first announced. “All branches of Fincare Small Finance Bank will function as branches of AU Small Finance Bank with effect from 1 April," the RBI said on Monday.

₹1,930 crore in Ananya Birla’s Svatantra Microfin. They said this will be the largest private-equity investment in the sector in India. Mint had reported on the development in February, noting that the Mumbai-based microfinance institution (MFI) would use the funds to expand and consolidate its growth.

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Bernstein analysts explored the notable difference in product launch strategies between Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and BYD (OTC:BYDDF).

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Vedanta Group's Sterlite Power Transmission. The appeal sought to declare corporate guarantees to subsidiaries non-taxable under the current tax regime. It also contested the valuation criteria set by the finance ministry for the purpose of taxing such guarantees when there is no financial consideration involved.