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Life as a woman in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan just got even more restrictive as a government ministry enacts new laws on “vice and virtue” in the country, banning women’s voices and uncovered faces from public life.

drone strike in northwestern Syria on Friday killed a Saudi militant from an al-Qaida-linked group as he was riding on a motorcycle, the U.S. military and a war monitor said. The strike in the Jabal al-Zawiya area of the opposition-held Idlib province was carried out by a U.S.-led coalition that was established years ago to fight the militant Islamic State group. The U.S. military has carried out a series of attacks over the past several years targeting al-Qaida-linked militants in northwestern Syria.

Kolkata: Bengali actor Payel Mukherjee said she was allegedly heckled by a motor cyclist while driving her car on Friday night on a city road. A sobbing Payel in a video on Facebook said that a youth stopped his two-wheeler before her SUV on Southern Avenue and asked her to come out of the vehicle. «As I refused to come out fearing for my safety, the man banged against the glass on my right side window and broke it into pieces injuring my hand,» she said. Local people came to her rescue and police detained the man following complaint lodged by Payel.

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Friday gave the clearest indication yet that the central bank is likely to start cutting interest rates, which are currently at their highest level in two decades.

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck had problems right from the start of their marriage. When they weren't in front of the cameras, they would hardly talk to each other during what was meant to be the happiest time of their lives. Only a few months after their official separation date in April, on August 20, Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck. Fans are certain they have discovered the exact moments the Good Will Hunting actor decided he no longer wanted to be married to the Wedding Planner actress, even though it hasn't been confirmed what their particular marital problems were. While Affleck and Lopez lived separately for a while, ignoring their second wedding anniversary in July, rumours about them circulated online for weeks. Fans questioned whether the couple would get back together or call it quits, with the singer now living in the Hamptons and Affleck in Los Angeles. The latter was the case. Also Read: Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: All about premiere date, plot, cast, characters, trailer and production

Narendra Modi's BJP came to power. As then-secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (Dipp), Kant was presiding over a stakeholder discussion on whether multi-brand retail should be allowed in India. Over a decade since, Piyush Goyal has, yet again, highlighted his government's concerns over the growth of ecommerce in India — that there will be social disruption, there is predatory pricing in ecommerce, and the number of mobile stores in the country has declined over the past 10 years. He is concerned — and rightly so — about the fate of millions of small retailers and kirana stores in the country. The point that I made to Kant in 2014 still stands: ecommerce offers consumers a much wider variety of products, whether coloured socks, numbered swimming goggles or air-purifiers. It benefits both sellers and buyers. Customers in Tier-2 and -3 towns access a wider variety of products online, without relying on someone to go to a metro to purchase it. Sellers find buyers across the country.

India has become the flavour of the US presidential elections. For the first time, two Americans of Indian origin, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, figured as possible candidates for the presidential elections. When JD Vance became former President Donald Trump's running mate, spotlight fell on his wife Usha Vance, an Indian American and practicing Hindu. With the nomination of Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency, once again India has come to foreground. In her speech on Thursday night in which she formally accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency, Harris spoke at length about her childhood days when she was raised by her mother Shymala Gopalan alone, who had divorced from her Jamaican American husband. What Harris said about her mother Harris started her speech by remembering her mother. «But I’m no stranger to unlikely journeys. So, my mother, our mother, Shyamala Harris, had one of her own. And I miss her every day, and especially right now. And I know she’s looking down smiling. I know that,» she said.

Union telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scindia in second advisory committee meeting with telecom operators on Friday asked them to take lead in the development of 6G technology. According to sources, who were present in the meeting, telecom operators reiterated their old demand of easing right of way permits, rationalisation of power tariffs and lowering of levies in the meeting. «Had a productive meeting with the Advisory Group of Telecom Service providers. Discussed issues pertaining to quality of services, India's 6G vision and promoting research and development to take our sector to new heights of development,» Scindia said on social media platform X. Minister of State for Communications, Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, Telecom Secretary Neeraj Mittal, Digital Communications Commission member (Finance) Manish Sinha and other senior officials from the Department of Telecom were present at the meeting.

Coal India's financial impact may run into Rs 35,000 crore in a «worst-case» scenario if the Supreme Court's review on mining taxes yields no favourable outcome or if the company fails to recover the taxes from its customers, a top official said on Friday. The miner is awaiting final clarity before considering any «provisioning» in its accounts. «Two subsidiary companies — Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd and Central Coalfields Ltd — are being affected, while the rest of the subsidiaries remain unaffected. Mahanadi Coalfields in Odisha is the most impacted. In the worst case scenario, our impact could be about Rs 35,000 crore, if we are unable to recover from long-term fuel supply agreements (FSAs) customers,» Coal India Chairman P M Prasad said. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a Bharat Chamber of Commerce interaction, he said Central Coalfields in Jharkhand will be affected by about Rs 350 crore.

European Central Bank policymakers are lining up behind another interest rate cut in September and only major data surprises in the coming weeks could delay the move, on and off record conversations with seven sources indicate. Financial markets already overwhelmingly expect a fresh rate cut next month, but policymakers have been circumspect on their next move after the central bank was criticised by some for too overtly committing itself before its first rate cut back in June. A raft of figures on growth, wages and prices in recent weeks has started to sway them and many are increasingly open to discussing their views, arguing that conditions laid out for a cut are being fulfilled.

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"Auto industry is 1.4 times compared to its pre-COVID level. So, we have to look at what is relatively better when it comes to the valuation and one should look at in that context, especially at this level of markets," says Shreyash Devalkar, Axis Mutual Fund. Nifty FMCG Index is actually at life-high levels. Is this really a right time to perhaps come up with a consumption fund or are you not concerned about valuations at all? Shreyash Devalkar: Actually in the market, most of the indices or most of the stocks are at their premium valuations and they are at their peak valuations per se. Barring, actually, if you look at the re-rating which has happened across the board. So, it has happened across the board. It is like consumer durable companies, say capital goods companies.

St Stephen's College through the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) are encountering uncertainty. Although they were allocated seats based on their CUET scores, the college has denied them admission. One student's allocation status says ‘verified by convener', but it hasn't been processed further. Another student says she was never given the fee payment link after allocation. On contacting the college, they were told the seats were already full. This has left the students, all high-scorers, and their families in a catch-22 situation as they are not able to opt for their second choice now. According to a senior university official, the number of such candidates is 22.

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Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted with a sustained standing ovation and cheers lasting nearly three minutes at a recent event. The enthusiastic reception demonstrated the audience's strong support and admiration. Once the applause subsided, Harris began her address with a brief acknowledgment of her personal milestone. «OK, let's get to business,» she stated, shifting focus to the day's agenda. Harris also took a moment to celebrate her 10th wedding anniversary with Doug Emhoff, saying, «And happy anniversary, Dougie.» Harris followed a moving speech by her sister, Maya, who highlighted their mother’s accomplishments. In her own address, Harris spoke about her parents and the impact of her upbringing, focusing particularly on her mother’s influence. Although Harris seldom mentions her father, she made an exception during this speech to share his advice.

Devang Mehta, Director-Equity Advisory, Spark Private Wealth, says a combination of sectors related to capex and consumption and certain sectors in credit growth will be a good investment portfolio if somebody has a one-and-a-half, two-year horizon. Mehta further says look into proxy plays like bearing companies for railways and defence stocks. What are you doing in the markets right now? Any fresh stocks that you have managed to recommend to your clients? Any fresh ideas? Devang Mehta: I will talk more about themes and sectors rather than ideas. I will give certain examples on the way. We feel that both sides of the market – be it consumption or capex – have come back with a bang. Post the elections, post the budget, and post this volatility that we saw a couple of weeks back during the yen carry trade, the market has gone from strength to strength. So, whichever sectors were not performing, be it FMCG companies, auto companies and even discretionary consumption companies like Titan, and Trent, have come up with a good set of numbers.

«The management strategy of expanding across various formats, expanding its food delivery, TajSATS. So, I think strategically they are doing very well and now the big focus only on managed hotels is working well for them. Stock is not cheap at these valuations at all. Like, we obviously hold for from very low levels and we continue to hold,» says Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com. Two stocks you track closely, both InterGlobe as well as Indian Hotels giving fresh solid moves today. Do you think the prospects continue to look brighter and what if one were to look to add positions at these levels? Would you recommend that at all? Sandip Sabharwal: InterGlobe is in a very unique position where the competitive intensity instead of increasing on improved profitability in the sector actually reduced.

Chicago: Leaders of an «Uncommitted» movement, which garnered hundreds of thousands of votes in Democratic primaries across the nation in protest of the Israel-Hamas war, have been negotiating for weeks to secure a speaking slot for a Palestinian American at the Democratic National Convention this week. The negotiations stalled late Wednesday when leaders with the Uncommitted National Movement say a Democratic National Committee official called and delivered a firm response: «The answer is no.» The leader, Abbas Alawieh, an «Uncommitted» delegate to the convention and co-founder of the movement, described the call as shocking after weeks of talks that he felt were positive. In response, he and other delegates decided to stage a sit-in outside Chicago's United Center, where the convention is being held. They spent the night on the sidewalk on Wednesday, and vowed to remain until their request was granted or the convention ended Thursday night. «When we ran out of options — doing everything we can and working from the inside, when we ran out of options as uncommitted delegates, we just sat down,» Alawieh said in an interview Thursday.

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Raveendran, the embattled founder of Byju's, appeared close to settling his company's payment dispute of Rs 158 crore with the Indian cricket board after approval by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). However, on August 14, theSupreme Court intervened by staying the NCLAT order that had approved the settlement agreement between Think & Learn Pvt Ltd--Byju's parent company--and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), adding to the woes of the troubled edtech firm. On Thursday, the apex court rejected pleas by Byju's and BCCI to halt a meeting of the Committee of Creditors (CoC) in its ongoing insolvency case. The court will hear the matter next on August 27.