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(Reuters) -Escalating tension in the Middle East and surging U.S. bond yields set financial markets up for more turbulence, exacerbated by high oil prices and China's property pain.

Mumbai has directed real estate developers and contractors of infrastructure-related works to follow pollution control measures in the backdrop of a deterioration in air quality in the country’s commercial capital over the last few days. Construction, including private and infrastructure work led by the government, is currently underway at 6,000 locations and sites in Mumbai. While the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) will issue detailed guidelines in the next few days, municipal commissioner and administrator Iqbal Singh Chahal has stated that projects being undertaken by both private as well as government bodies will be stopped if these measures are not followed. Following directions from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) that expressed concern over air quality index of Mumbai, Chahal interacted with state government agencies including MMRDA, MMRCL, MHADA and SRA, real estate developers’ bodies Credai and Naredco, and architects’ body PEATA on Friday. “Hardly 10 to 15 days have passed since the end of the monsoon…it is being observed that the air quality is adversely affected in the Mumbai region and also in the Mumbai metropolis,” Chahal said. The central and state governments have taken note of it and have instructed the local body to implement immediate measures, he added. “Dust is a major factor behind the increase in air pollution,” Chahal said, adding that there is a need to take measures to prevent and control dust and other factors that cause pollution. All the government agencies in Mumbai need to coordinate with each other and take urgent and mandatory measures, he said. Apart from construction, Chahal has also instructed that efforts should be made by projects related to electricity,

FMCG industry amid lukewarm consumer demand and a fall in rural consumption. Sticky food inflation and uneven rains in some regions hurt demand during the quarter. Rural demand has continued to be sluggish, and some green shoots, which were visible in the preceding June quarter, seem to have fizzed out in the wake of adverse conditions. In their September quarter earnings commentaries, top FMCG companies like HUL, ITC and Nestle flagged worry over uneven rains, the impact of crop output and rising prices of some commodities (wheat, maida, sugar, potato, coffee, etc). As per ITC's statement, «Consumption demand has been relatively subdued, especially in the value segment and rural markets on the back of sub-par monsoons and persistent Food inflation, which saw a sharp spike during the quarter.» Analysts said that sticky inflation has hit rural demand, which make up more than one-third of FMCG sales, because consumers are still going cautious on discretionary spending. Nestle India's commentary also suggested an «adverse impact on pricing» due to the rain deficit mentioned above. «Uneven rain and rain deficit is expected to impact production of maize, sugar, oilseeds and spices that may have an adverse impact on pricing,» Nestle India said, adding that «coffee continues to be volatile because of the global supply deficit.

Thanos, the Mad Titan, orchestrated the infamous snap with the Infinity Stones in «Avengers: Infinity War,» a cataclysmic event that wiped out half of all life across the universe. It was a moment that left a lasting impact in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). However, the MCU has now introduced a new villain who has escalated the stakes to unimaginable levels.

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LAS VEGAS — The Southern California street gang leader charged in the fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas will make a court appearance Thursday with a lawyer from one of the city's best-known political families, one that has represented mobsters, athletes and other famous clients. Attorney Ross Goodman told The Associated Press Wednesday he'll appear in Duane «Keffe D» Davis' defence against accusations that Davis orchestrated the drive-by killing of the rap music icon. Davis won't immediately enter a plea, Goodman said, he'll seek another two weeks to confirm that he'll be hired for Davis' case. Davis, 60, originally from Compton, California, was arrested Sept.

Maryland Circuit Court Associate Judge Andrew Wilkinson was shot and killed outside his home on Thursday. According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office, the shooting occurred around 8 p.m.

Captain America: Brave New World, the highly anticipated MCU movie, originally slated for a May 3, 2024 release, encountered a shift in its release date. The change was announced during San Diego Comic-Con, relocating the release to July 26, 2024, and accompanying this shift was a title change from New World Order to Brave New World. Amid concerns about delays due to ongoing strikes within the entertainment industry, Brave New World found itself in a state of uncertainty. This included the writers' strike, which had recently concluded, as well as the persistent actors' strike.

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Some Republican contenders for their party's 2024 presidential nomination have turned to a blunt policy proposal to tamp down on crime: killing criminals. The approach is not entirely novel, and it no doubt would face legal challenges. Major Republican presidential candidates have long advocated for an expansion of the death penalty, and former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, said police should rough up criminals during his 2017-2021 term. But Republican strategists involved in previous campaigns and experts in political rhetoric say that calls to shoot, kill or otherwise injure criminals, at least those who commit the most heinous crimes, appear to be more common during this Republican primary race than they have been in other cycles. The reasons are various, those people said. Trump received little political blowback from inside the party for his rhetoric toward crime while in office, when he routinely called criminals «animals» and «thugs,» noted Doug Heye, a long-time Republican strategist. Crime, meanwhile, is a greater concern for voters than it has been in previous elections, even as crime trends are mixed. Violent crimes, including rape and murder, declined in the United States in 2022 from the previous year, according to a report released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation this week.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday announced that two shooting ranges will be established in Jhajjar and Panchkula while two archery training centres will be set up in Yamunanagar and Faridabad. Khattar felicitated the players from Haryana who won medals at the recently held Asian Games in China. At a grand felicitation ceremony organised at Karnal, players, both medal-winners and others who participated at the event, received cash prizes from the chief minister.

ban on assault weapons did it again on Thursday, ruling that the state's attempts to prohibit sales of semiautomatic guns violates the constitutional right to bear arms. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego conceded that powerful weapons like AR-15 rifles are commonly used by criminals, but said the guns are importantly also owned by people who obey the law and feel they need firearms to protect themselves. «The State of California posits that its 'assault weapon' ban, the law challenged here, promotes an important public interest of disarming some mass shooters even though it makes criminals of law-abiding residents who insist on acquiring these firearms for self-defense,» Benitez wrote.

Israel Thursday and American bases in Iraq and Syria were repeatedly targeted by drone attacks.The USS Carney, a Navy destroyer in the northern Red Sea, intercepted three land attack cruise missiles and several drones that were launched by Houthi forces in Yemen. The action by the Carney potentially represented the first shots by the U.S. military in the defense of Israel in this conflict.Brig.

Debashis Chatterjee, CEO & MD, LTIMindtree, says “while last year we were very confident that we should see good growth but having seen the Q1 and Q2, it is probably not fair to call out anything specifically. But as I said, we are fairly confident that our second half will be better than the first half. So you can do the math and we have to probably wait for another quarter to see where we eventually end up. But definitely we are confident that the second half will be better than the first half.” Let us just start by talking about your numbers. You sounded very confident about your second half being stronger than the first half of FY24. What gives you such confidence? We have always been saying that this whole year has a very cautious outlook and now we can confidently say that the cautiousness will continue through the rest of the calendar year. But having said that, we have closed many opportunities in Q1 and Q2 which are ramping up and so in spite of the challenges that we see in Q3 in terms of furloughs, in terms of some ramp down etc, but given the fact that there are a lot of ramp-ups also which will happen we are very confident that our second half will be better than the first half of FY24.

«We will see that August especially, when the rainfall was at a 100-year low, 36% deficit, that has derailed the rural recovery green shoots, which had started in Q1,» says Abneesh Roy, Executive Director, Nuvama. Let us begin with talking about the overall momentum. Do you think that there is a sense that festive sales, a pickup in rural, all of that will be witnessed across the board? The result season is definitely picking up. Yes, we do expect that in Q3 the momentum should be better. Unfortunately, in Q2 the results which will come out for HUL, Nestle and ITC today, the rural slowdown has impacted them. We will see that August especially, when the rainfall was at a 100-year low, 36% deficit, that has derailed the rural recovery green shoots, which had started in Q1.

Shetty says he will start working on his film 'Richard Anthony' after the release of 'Sapta Sagaradaache Ello — Side B', which hits the screens on October 27. Shetty received the National Film Award for the best Kannada film for '777 Charlie', which follows the journey and bonding between a lonely factory worker and a stray Labrador dog. The actor, who starred in and produced '777 Charlie', said he is elated to be recognised by the country for the 2022 film.

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United States authorized non-essential personnel and their families to leave their embassy near Beirut on Tuesday, citing the unpredictable security situation in Lebanon due to the Israel-Hamas war. The State Department also raised its travel advisory for Lebanon from level three, issued in July, to the highest available level four, as it told Americans to avoid the country. «Do not travel to Lebanon due to the unpredictable security situation related to rocket, missile, and artillery exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah or other armed militant factions,» the State Department said in a statement Tuesday. Hamas launched a massive assault against Israel on October 7, shooting, stabbing and burning to death more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians. Reeling from the worst attack in its history, Israel launched a wave of retaliatory air strikes against the Gaza Strip, killing about 3,000 people, mostly civilians. Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which like Hamas is backed by Iran, has since been involved in a series of tit-for-tat incidents along the south Lebanese border with Israel. After a blast ripped through a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, killing hundreds, Hezbollah called for a «day of rage.» Israel and Palestinians have traded blame for the blast, though neither's claim could be independently verified. Following Hezbollah's call, hundreds of demonstrators scuffled Tuesday night with Lebanese security forces outside the US embassy in the Beirut suburb of Awkar, where protesters hurled stones and set a building on fire, according to AFP correspondents. Hundreds also gathered at the French embassy in Beirut, raising Hezbollah flags and also hurling stones which piled up at the embassy's main entrance. Palestinian

New York | Goldman Sachs posted a second straight quarter of real estate write-downs and a continued dealmaking slump, leaving the investment bank’s profitability at about half the level it’s targeting.

Brussels police arrested a suspected gunman accused of shooting dead two Swedish football fans in what Belgium's prime minister condemned as an act of «terrorist madness». Officials said police opened fire and the suspect was «neutralised» during the arrest, which followed an intensive overnight manhunt in the Belgian capital for an assailant armed with an automatic rifle. There were conflicting accounts of the suspect's condition after his arrest which took place in the Schaerbeek district of central Brussels. Prime Minister Alexander de Croo earlier said the detained man was of Tunisian origin and had been living in the country illegally. He added that someone claiming responsibility for the killings had posted on social media that he was inspired by the Islamic State extremist group. «The terrorist attack that happened yesterday was committed with total cowardice, the attacker chose as a target two Swedish football fans,» de Croo told a news conference, adding that a third person — a taxi driver — was seriously wounded. «Terrorism strikes indiscriminately,» he said.

Brussels on Monday night, and a man who identified himself as a member of the Islamic State claimed responsibility in a video posted online. The suspected assailant fled the scene after the shooting as a football match between Belgium and Sweden was about to start, triggering a massive manhunt and prompting Belgium to raise its terror alert to the highest level. A Belgian federal prosecutor said there was no evidence that the attacker, who was still on the loose, had any link to the recent renewed conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants. The likely motive for the attack was the Swedish nationality of the victims, the prosecutor said. Sweden in August raised its terror alert to the second-highest level, warning of an increase in threats against Swedish interests abroad, after Koran burnings and other acts in Sweden against Islam's holiest text outraged Muslims and triggered threats from jihadists. The suspected assailant, calling himself Abdesalem Al Guilani, claimed in a video on social media that he was a fighter for Allah. The federal prosecutor said the third victim, who was wounded but whose condition was not in life-threatening, was a taxi driver.