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left Vatry airport near Paris at 2:30 PM local time, reaching Mumbai after 4 AM. The flight was originally en route to Nicaragua from Dubai. French authorities interrupted it for a technical stopover after an anonymous tip, AFP reported.

MV Chem Pluto on its arrival at Mumbai harbor. Officials said the Navy deployed P-8I long-range patrol aircraft for surveillance, and warships INS Mormugao, INS Kochi, and INS Kolkata in the region to maintain a “deterrent presence. This came given the spate of attacks on commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea.

Bengaluru witnesses surge in new real estate investments. Details here Nath was addressing a meeting with Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV), an organisation that has been pushing the Kannada language use in the state. Nath added that legal action will be taken against shops that do not install Kannada nameplates by February 28.

ChatGPT and Bard stiff competition in the realm of AI. Perhaps the first launch of the year for Apple will be the Vision Pro mixed reality headsets which could be made available to the public around January or February of 2024. Hinting at the imminent launch, Apple recently sent an email to software developers asking them to "get ready" for the mixed reality headset by testing their apps and sending the software to Apple for feedback.

Dunki, after its opening on December 21 (Thursday), raked in ₹29.2 crore nett in India. However, the film witnessed a dip on its second day, Friday, garnering ₹20.12 crore nett, marking a decrease of 31.1%. During the weekend, Dunki saw an upswing on Saturday with collections bouncing back to ₹25.61 crore nett, a substantial 27.29% increase from the previous day.

upcoming polls in Pakistan that are scheduled to take place on February 8, 2024, to elect the members of the 16th National Assembly. Saveera Parkash, who has officially submitted her nomination papers for the general seat of PK-25 in Buner, is optimistic about contesting the elections on a Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ticket. Parkash is a 2022 graduate of Abbottabad International Medical College.

Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep up the fight against Hamas militants, but a United Nations humanitarian team leader said Palestinian civilians in Gaza who honor Israeli evacuation orders cannot be guaranteed they will be safe. Netanyahu, who visited Israeli troops in northern Gaza on Monday, told lawmakers from his Likud Party that the war was far from over and dismissed what he cast as media speculation his government might call a halt to the fighting.

markets to analyse a stock and its valuation trajectory. ET looks at the interpretation and accuracy of PE ratio and how investors can use PE ratio to assess a stock or company.

Out of the 166 companies listed, 136 closed higher on debut and 24 companies recorded over 99.5% gains on listing day. Goyal Salt had the highest listing day gains at 258% followed by Sungarner Energies and Basilic Fly Studio with 216% and 193.4% gains, respectively. The most visible aspect of SME IPOs was the subscription rates, said FYERS.

Rubrik Inc is eyeing acquisitions as it expands India business cashing in on the large-scale data and digital growth story amid rising number of cyber attacks. “We are very active in both organic and inorganic developments… Having a large presence in India gives us an unfair advantage, not only (on) the scale of talent, but also the ability to acquire and absorb companies here in India… We are looking at great ideas and products around cybersecurity, AI (artificial intelligence) and data security,” Bipul Sinha, chairman, cofounder and CEO of Rubrik, told ET.

claims can drag both under the taxman's glare. The Income Tax (I-T) department is using a fine-tooth comb to nab discrepancies in the tax deducted at source, or TDS, by companies and the declarations by its employees in the annual I-T returns. What's underway is a line-wise reconciliation of the two sets of numbers under different heads — house rent allowance, medical insurance, outgo on home loans, tax saving investments under 80c etc. Around early December, several companies in Mumbai, Delhi and other big cities have been served notices under Section 133C which was introduced in 2014-15, empowering authorities to call for information to verify details.

Wipro has filed a complaint against a former senior executive for violation of a non-compete clause in his employment contract by joining Wipro’s direct competitor Cognizant before August this year. In its complaint, Wipro said Mohd Haque, who quit in June this year, had agreed to certain restrictions on his post-employment activities, including prohibition of work for a small set of Wipro competitors including Cognizant, for 12 months after his employment ended. Upon Haque’s promotion to the role of Wipro’s senior vice president (SVP) and localisation as a US employee, he was eligible to receive more than $1 million in equity awards over many years, said the complaint filed in a US court.

passengers, mainly Indian, and previously grounded in France due to suspected human trafficking, touched down in Mumbai during the early hours of Tuesday. According to officials, the aircraft completed its journey, departing from Vatry airport near Paris at approximately 2:30 pm local time and arriving in Mumbai shortly after 4 am. Based on information from French authorities, the aircraft carried 276 passengers when it departed for Mumbai. Twenty-five individuals, including two minors, had indicated their intention to seek asylum and remained on French territory. Two additional individuals were apprehended and subsequently brought before a judge.

RIL Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Walt Disney Co signed a non-binding term sheet in London last week to move ahead with plans to create India’s largest media and entertainment business, ET reported. Aurobindo Pharma The US FDA conducted a pre-approval inspection (PAI) at a new injectable facility of Eugia US Manufacturing LLC (a step-down wholly owned subsidiary of Aurobindo Pharma). The inspection closed with 10 observations. Vedanta Vedanta arm Bharat Aluminium Co (BALCO) received Rs 84 crore GST demand from Bilaspur authorities for FY17-18 on account of various interpretational issues. Infosys A global company terminated the MOU for a $1.5 billion deal with Infosys.

Reserve Bank of India need not have to tighten liquidity any further as a metric cited by the central bank has fallen below levels that could stoke inflation, potentially paving the way for Mint Road to effectively deliver a rate cut by letting market rates ease from their current elevated levels. As of December 15, core liquidity, which accounts for government cash balances that periodically flow in and out of the banking system, is at around 1.1% of net demand and time liabilities (NDTL) — a broad measure of bank deposits. In its Report on Currency and Finance for 2021-22 published in April last year, the RBI had said that every percentage point increase in surplus liquidity above 1.5% of NDTL leads to average inflation rising by 60 basis points in a year. «RBI has talked about 1.5% of NDTL as the threshold for liquidity being classified as inflationary or non-inflationary. As of December 15, we are at 1.1% of NDTL in terms of core liquidity so we are below that threshold,» said Vivek Kumar, economist, Quanteco Research. «They have not clearly defined whether they are talking about headline liquidity or core liquidity, but my sense is that it pertains more to core liquidity because the headline liquidity is extremely volatile.

«This is a milder version of Covid-19. Right now, we are not seeing any hospitalisation or severity of the disease, so would want to wait and watch and not do any procurement right away,» said a senior executive at a leading private hospital.

Netflix's "We Have a Ghost" faced some criticism from reviewers, but it turned out to be a hit on the streaming platform. The movie directed by Christopher Landon starring Anthony Mackie, David Harbour, Jahi Winston, Tig Notaro, Erica Ash, and Jennifer Coolidge, tells the story of a family encountering a ghost in their new home, leading to unexpected events.

Vatican City: Pope Francis said in his Christmas message on Monday that children dying in wars, including in Gaza, are the "little Jesuses of today" and that Israeli strikes there were reaping an "appalling harvest" of innocent civilians. In his Christmas Day "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and world) address, Francis also called the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants "abominable" and again appealed for the release of around 100 hostages still being held in Gaza.

BENGALURU : Infosys Ltd and Wipro Ltd have each seen about two dozen executives at the rank of senior vice-president (SVP) and above leave under the tenures of chief executives Salil Parekh and Thierry Delaporte, respectively, underscoring the challenge of retaining senior leaders at the Bengaluru-based IT twins. Since Parekh took over as Infosys boss in January 2018, 22 executives at the rank of SVP and above have left, according to a review of the annual reports and press releases by Mint.

ICIMOD) report, released earlier this year, warns that glaciers in Hindu Kush Himalayas are melting at unprecedented rates. They could lose up to 75% of their volume by the end of the century, leading to flooding and water shortages for the nearly 2 billion people who live downstream of the rivers. Such warnings mean that international monitoring of glaciers will be a crucial bulwark for safeguarding the region's future. But, last week, GoI rejected a parliamentary panel's recommendation for a data-sharing agreement on Himalayan glaciers with countries of the region, including not-best-of-pals China.

Kanye West and his 'wife' Bianca Censori took fans by surprise during a recent outing with Kanye West in Miami. The usually reserved muse for West's creative endeavors seemed to shed her stoic image, engaging in carefree laughter and even indulging in a spontaneous lap dance from DJ Sky High Baby.