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Tata Sons, the owner of Air India, has urged the carrier's management to proceed cautiously with the airline's ongoing merger with Vistara to avoid alienating the latter's loyal customer base. The merger is due to take effect November 12. The seamless integration of both the brands and continuity of Vistara's service standards for all its consumers unaware of the integration of the Tata Group's aviation business was a key point during an Air India meeting last Thursday. «There is this huge quality expectation from consumers after the Tatas acquired Air India. Vistara was always seen as offering superior brand experience to Air India and after the merger, Vistara consumers should not feel dissatisfied ,» said an official close to the matter. «Vistara employees have also been edgy about merging into the Air India system. Hence, there is this anxiousness that it should be a seamless merger that has no impact on the ground for consumers.»

Princess Beatrice, is expecting her second child. As per the palace, the new baby is due in early spring. They have a daughter Sienna and a son, Wolfie. Wolfie is the child of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi from a previous relationship, as per ABC News. Buckingham Palace shares that the king and the families are in utmost happiness because of the news regarding the arrival of the second baby of Princess Beatrice. Princess Beatrice's younger sister is Princess Eugenie, who is the mother of two children, August and Ernest. Her husband is Jack Brooksbank. Also Read: Morgan Nick missing update: Hair sample DNA links to mother, siblings. Details here

economic policy framework for the next generation of reforms. That is a sensible move. India has compelling reasons to move away from a textbook framework of open economy macroeconomics. It strives for strategic autonomy in a geopolitically riven world, in which one superpower sits astride the northern border, has built supercharged industrial muscle that can smother Indian industry, and casts a covetous eye on Indian territory. India can find ready support, vis-a-vis China, in the US. However, if the US finds that India is reliant solely on American support, it would have it where China has Pakistan — by the scruff of the neck. India would have to give up all dreams of strategic autonomy.

BJP leader Amit Shah and Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday exhorted party cadres to begin work for the upcoming Assembly polls and expressed optimism that the ruling Mahayuti-BJP alliance in the state would retain power. «Bury your pessimism and start work again. Maharashtra elections will change the country's direction...,» Shah told party leaders and workers in Mumbai at a closed door event. «I am giving you my word that the BJP-Mahayuti government is coming back to power.» Shah gave the example of how at one time the BJP had just two parliamentarians, but now they are in power. The BJP was the only party in the last 60 years to come to power thrice, he said.

Rahul Gandhi carried out the yatra to seek votes for the party in the grand trunk (GT) road belt. The region which has paved the way for the BJP's power in Haryana. In last two assembly polls, the Congress performed poorly in this region compared to BJP. In 2014, the Congress drew blank, while BJP won 21 out of 23 assembly seats in this region and two went to others. While in 2019, the BJP won 12 seats, Congress 9 and two went to others.

artificial intelligence (AI) and technological advancements, American economist Lawrence H Summers said while cautioning against leaving technology unchecked. Speaking at the diamond jubilee event of the Delhi School of Economics, Summers highlighted how technological changes are poised to dominate economic history in the coming decades. «There's a chance we may be headed for another kind of transformative change with the spread of artificial general intelligence,» Summers said, describing AI as «the first technology that is, in a profound sense, self-improving». Unlike previous innovations like electricity or fire, which required human input for improvements, AI has potential to enhance itself and lead to exponential advancements, he observed.

The main issues this time were unemployment, lack of development, inflated electricity bills and loved ones languishing in jails. Voting took place in 40 constituencies — 24 in Jammu Division and 16 in Kashmir Valley — spread across seven districts of the Union Territory.

Bombay High Court on Tuesday pulled up the special investigation team probing the Badlapur sexual assault incident and questioned why they have still not arrested the two trustees of the school. «The police goes outside (the state) to nab (an accused). How come they have not been able to apprehend these two? Are they waiting for them to get anticipatory bail,» asked a division bench of justice Revati Mohite Dere and Justice Prithviraj Chavan. HC was hearing the suo motu PIL after the assault incident when two kindergarten students of a school were sexually assaulted in the school's toilet by one of the employees.

Ajit Doval and French armed forces minister Sebastien Lecornu held wide-ranging talks in Paris and focused on enhancing defence ties, including a deal for Rafale Marines and submarines. Sources told ET that Doval and his French interlocutors discussed advancing defence industry partnership, with focus on Make in India besides civil nuclear ties. «On his visit to France, India's National Security Adviser, Shri Ajit Doval, engaged in extensive discussions with French armed forces minister, Mr Sebastien Lecornu,» the Indian embassy in France said in a post on X on Tuesday.

National Taco Day marks today on October 1 has an extra twist of flavor as it is coinciding with Tuesday, and hence it can be called Taco Tuesday. Taco Day and the National Day Calendar reveal a change regarding the celebration of National Taco Day. From now onwards, it will be celebrated on the first Tuesday of October, which was previously celebrated on October 4. Taco John has renounced its Taco Tuesday trademark in the midst of the dispute regarding the ownership, and after that, Taco Bell began an online petition to make the trademark available for all the restaurants, as per USA TODAY.

NTPC Ltd generated 219.94 billion units in the first half of FY25, at a growth of 3.91% compared to the corresponding period of previous year. The state-owned power generator’s coal stations recorded a plant load factor of 76.3% during Apr-Sep. NTPC is India's largest integrated power utility, contributing a fourth of the power requirement of the country. The company’s mining division produced over 19 million tonnes of coal in the first half of the financial year registering an on-year growth of 20% and has dispatched 19.7 million tonnes of coal to NTPC’s power stations with a growth of around 16% compared to last financial year.

e-commerce companies Flipkart and Amazon as they are engaging in predatory pricing and are burning cash to offer heavy discounts on products, traders' body CAIT and mainline mobile retailers' association AIMRA said on Tuesday. These practices, in turn, are creating a grey market of mobile phones, causing losses to the exchequer «as players in the grey market evade taxes», they said. Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), in collaboration with the All India Mobile Retailers' Association (AIMRA), placed the demands in a white paper on the impact of e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart on India's retail ecosystem. AIMRA demanded suspension of operations of Chinese mobile phone companies OnePlus, iQOO, and Poco for allegedly colluding with e-commerce players.

The minister was asked about India's role in dealing with Russia and Ukraine. «Our public position is that we do not believe that differences or disputes between countries can be settled by war. A second public position is we do not believe that we are actually from the battlefield going to get a decisive outcome. Three is if you're not going to get a decisive outcome, at some point, in some form, there has to be a negotiation.

Piyush Goyal discussed the potential investment opportunities in India’s electronics manufacturing, data infrastructure and logistics sectors and new areas of collaboration particularly in advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, and sustainable technologies with American companies during his ongoing visit to the US, commerce and industry ministry said in a statement Tuesday. “He invited American companies to leverage India’s unmatched scale and take advantage of the Make in India initiative, particularly in high-tech manufacturing and quality production,” the ministry said. During his meeting with Blackstone, Goyal said that the company has already invested about $50 billion in India and is one of the largest commercial and real estate investors in the country.

American Pickers star, passed away at the age of 58. The news of Fritz's demise was confirmed by Frank Fritz's friend and co-host Mike Wolfe. People reported that Frank Fritz suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in 2022. According to People, Mike Wolfe’s Instagram post read that Frank Fritz was a great human being and more than anything was a lovely friend. Mike Wolfe noted that Frank Fritz was an avid dreamer while being sensitive and funny at the same time.

Jimmy Carter discussed his cancer diagnosis and treatment during a press conference held nine years ago at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Jimmy Carter, who was 91 years old at the time, gave an explanation of how a severe cold in May of the previous year prompted a complete physical, which in early August of 2015 revealed the presence of melanoma, a very serious form of skin cancer. During his liver surgery earlier that month, medical professionals found four areas on his brain where the cancer had metastasized. He would have had roughly six months to live if his diagnosis had been made a few years earlier. Rather, the former president commemorates his 100th birthday on Tuesday.

Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Girish Chandra Murmu on Tuesday called for further bolstering local bodies, arguing that all-round development at the grass-root levels is a prerequisite for turning India into a developed India by 2047. “More than 50% people live in rural areas, and until their governance, their development, their administration, their resources are not augmented, we will not be able to reach (Viksit Bharat goal),” Murmu said. Murmu inaugurated the ICAI’s local governance synergy conclave here, aimed at strengthening government accounting at the municipal levels.

vessels sustained damage after being hit with missiles and a sea drone off Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodeidah early on Tuesday, maritime security agencies and sources monitoring the area said. Both vessels reported that their crews were safe. One of the vessels, the Panama-flagged tanker M/T Cordelia Moon, reported being hit by an Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) 64 nautical miles northwest of Hodeidah, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said.

broking platform Groww has reported a net profit of Rs 297 crore in FY24, a 300% increase from Rs 73 crore in the previous year, according to filings made with credit rating agency ICRA. In FY24, its overall revenue more than doubled to Rs 2,899 crore, compared to Rs 1,294 crore in 2023. The continued growth in Groww’s client base has been supporting the scale-up in its broking volumes and earnings. Despite its foray into the margin trading facility (MTF) business, which will lead to higher dependence on borrowings, Groww’s financial leverage is expected to remain comfortable, the ICRA report noted.

U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down Tuesday when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977, as per an AP report. American consumers will notice the shortage of products if the massive strike by dockworkers at seaports lasts for a long time. Workers at ports started a strike on Tuesday from Maine to Texas, which marks a significant strike of labor in the shipping industry. The International Longshoremen’s Association has conducted this kind of action for the first time in nearly half a century.