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air-conditioning industry, valued at around Rs 27,500 crore (USD 3.3 billion), is likely to double in the next four years, Blue Star has said in its annual report. The Indian HVAC&R (heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerating) is poised for exponential growth, said Blue Star Chairman & Managing Director Vir S Advani. This growth would be driven by factors such as «low penetration» of room ACs and the burgeoning middle-class consumers with «high disposable incomes», especially from smaller Tier III, IV & V markets. «The Indian The overall AC industry (both residential and commercial), currently valued at around Rs 27,500 crore, is likely to double in the next four years,» Advani said in his address to the company's shareholders in the annual report for 2023-24.

Siddaramaiah on Sunday said the Karnataka government was ready to release 8,000 cusecs of water from the Cauvery river every day to neighbouring Tamil Nadu instead of one TMC as directed by the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee till this month-end. There is only 63 per cent water in the Cauvery basin dams and in this situation, the state was not in a position to release one TMC water each day, the Chief Minister told reporters after an all-party meeting here. Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, Leader of the Opposition R Ashoka, JD(S) MLA G T Deve Gowda, farmer leaders and legal experts attended the meeting. «Everyone was of the opinion that we should release 8,000 cusecs of water and not one TMC, which is 11,500 cusecs of water. If there is no rain then we will minimise the release of water and file an appeal before the Cauvery Water Management Authority,» Siddaramaiah said.

Tom Holkenborg, who is also known as Junkie XL, shared insights about Sonic the Hedgehog 3. He said that he has completed his work on the movie, a Collider report said.

Trump on Sunday said the US must «stand united» and called for people to show «true character as Americans», remaining «strong and determined», after he survived an assassination attempt during a rally. Trump, 78, survived the attempt on his life on Saturday when a 20-year-old shooter fired multiple shots at him at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, injuring his right ear. The shooting left one person attending the rally dead and two others in serious condition. The suspected shooter was shot and killed by a member of the Secret Service. Taking to his social media platform Truth Social platform, Trump said, «It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,» CNN reported.

When NBA contract extensions make news these days, it’s usually for their eye-popping sums. Today’s top deals are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, paying the league’s best players upwards of $50 million per season. But the contract news that shook up the league on Friday was of an altogether different sort.

Online sports betting companies enlist celebrities, offer free bets and dole out perks to promote a tantalizing possibility: winning. But some gamblers who manage to beat sportsbooks say they are often shut down when they succeed too much. Dave Holmes, a sports bettor in Chicago, said that as he started to win more using a math-based wagering strategy, companies including BetMGM, ESPN Bet and Caesars began rejecting his bets.

Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on July 15 a plea of BRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao challenging a Telangana High Court order dismissing his plea to declare as «illegal» the constitution of a commission to inquire into the alleged irregularities in the power sector during his tenure as the state's chief minister. The plea is listed to be heard by a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra. In his petition, Rao has sought to declare as «illegal» the Telangana government's order constituting the Commission of Inquiry to conduct a judicial inquiry into the correctness and propriety of the decisions taken by his government on procurement of power from Chhattisgarh by Telangana power distribution companies and construction of the Bhadradri Thermal Power Plant at Manuguru and the Yadadri Thermal Plant at Damarcherla by TSGENCO. TSGENCO is the abbreviation of the Telangana State Power Generation Corporation Limited.

Russia on Sunday said it had captured another village in south-eastern Ukraine as it continues to make battlefield gains in the conflict that is now into its third year. «Units from the Vostok troops captured the village of Urozhaine» in the Donetsk region, the Russian defence ministry announced in its daily report. The village was one of the few that Ukraine won back during its 2023 offensive.

Former United States President has survived an assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally. The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood streaked across his face after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, while the shooter and a bystander were killed and two spectators critically injured. The videos of a bloodied Trump went viral on the internet along with the pictures of one of his supporters who was behind the stage during the attack.

Donald Trump at an election rally on Saturday in which the former U.S. president was wounded in the ear: INDIAN PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI ON X «Deeply concerned by the attack on my friend, former President Donald Trump. Strongly condemn the incident. Violence has no place in politics and democracies. Wish him speedy recovery. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the deceased, those injured and the American people.»

Golden Retriever Happy was seen chilling at the festivities that followed the wedding of Anant Ambani and his fiancee Radhika Merchant. The beloved pet was seen looking cosy, all wrapped up in a delicate pink Banarasi silk brocade jacket at the wedding mandap. According to a Hindustan Times report, the ensemble was designed by The ensemble, crafted by Pankh Designer Pet Wear based in Mumbai, is made from pure silk jacquard fabric. This is the 29th pet outfit designed for the Ambani family, including one for Mukesh Ambani's son-in-law, Anand Piramal's pet, according to Khyati Shah of the firm, who spoke to HT.com.

shooting with multiple victims at a Birmingham nightclub late Saturday, while an earlier shooting outside a home in the city killed three people including a young child, police in Alabama said. Officers responded shortly after 11 p.m. to a report of multiple people shot outside a nightclub on the 3400 Block of 27th Street North, Birmingham Police Department Officer Truman Fitzgerald said in a video posted on social media. Birmingham Fire and Rescue personnel pronounced one man dead on a sidewalk near the nightclub. Two women were pronounced dead inside the club, Fitzgerald said. A second man was pronounced dead at University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, where at least nine additional victims were being treated for gunshot wounds, he said.

RBI ban on tech related loopholes, the newly appointed chief of Kotak Mahindra Bank, Ashok Vaswani in his maiden annual letter to shareholders has said that technology will be at the centre of the lender’s efforts to transform and scale further. Addressing the RBI order Vaswani added that the bank had much more to do to leverage technology. “It is evident that we have more to do… Changing customer expectations, the dramatic pace of business growth and the emerging risk landscape have meant that we have to move at a much faster pace,” Vaswani said. “We are absolutely committed to further enhancing our resources and commitments in this area and I am very confident that collectively, as a team – we will deliver and use this as an opportunity to leapfrog. It is also very clear that technology is going to be at the centre of our efforts to transform and hence, scale.” In April this year, the banking regulator had directed Kotak Mahindra Bank to stop onboarding new customers through its online and mobile banking channels and banned it from issuing fresh credit cards.

Donald Trump was targeted in a shooting incident during a rally in Pennsylvania, Chinese online retailers wasted no time in offering souvenir T-shirts adorned with photos depicting the aftermath of the assassination attempt on the former president. According to a report from TOI, Taobao seller Li Jinwei said, «We put the T-shirts on Taobao as soon as we saw the news about the shooting, though we hadn't even printed them, and within three hours we saw more than 2,000 orders from both China and the US.» The rapid production and sale were made possible by digital printing technology, which allowed the T-shirts to be quickly printed and made available for purchase. Companies like Xinflying Digital Printing Production in Guangdong reported their capability of printing 8 election-themed T-shirts per hour using digital printing machines.

The largest Donald Trump-themed memecoin, MAGA (TRUMP), experienced a price surge of over 50% following an assassination attempt on the former United States president while he was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

India is likely to see retail digital payments double to USD 7 trillion by 2030 from current levels, a study by Kearney and Amazon Pay said. In the report 'How Urban India Pays', Kearney-Amazon Pay said strong adoption of digital payments in online purchases has potentially led to a permanent shift in consumer behaviours, fuelling offline adoption as well. While 90 per cent of the respondents of the survey preferred digital payments when making online purchases, affluent consumers lead the way with the highest Degree of Digital Payment Usage (DDPU), tending to use various modes of digital payment for 80 per cent of their transactions. «Millennials and Gen X are leading in the adoption of all types of digital payment instruments,» it said. «Men and women both use digital payments in about 72 per cent of their transactions, indicating gender parity.»

Oravel Stays Ltd is set to appoint Sumer Juneja, Managing Partner and Head of EMEA & India Investing at SoftBank Vision Fund, as a non-executive director on its board, sources said. The appointment is subject to shareholders' approval to be sought at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), according to information accessed by PTI. Sumer will join Oravel Stays' Board as a nominee director of Softbank.

One of the major steps taken by many tech companies is building diversity initiatives to have an inclusive workforce. In fact, a recent Foundit report said the tech sector was among the top industries that showed the maximum spike in diversity job postings. However, the 2024 Compensation and Benefits Survey by ANSR and Talent500 reveals that 65% of respondents think there is a significant gender-based pay gap, with 56% noting disparities of at least 25% in compensation levels across different roles.

Justice Rohit Arya, a former judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, nearly three months after his retirement. He was welcomed into the party by BJP's state unit chief, Dr. Raghavendra Sharma, during a program in Bhopal, as reported by Bar & Bench citing local media.

It’s summertime, and the bargains seem easy at a time when many consumer prices are high

SIM-swapping is a growing form of identity theft that goes beyond hacking into an email or social media account