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dengue fever in Honduras has meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, Hondurans are being educated about a potentially more effective way to control the disease — and it goes against everything they’ve learned. Which explains why a dozen people cheered last month as Tegucigalpa resident Hector Enriquez held a glass jar filled with mosquitoes above his head, and then freed the buzzing insects into the air.

Dozens of people died in a fire at an apartment block in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, state media said Wednesday, with witnesses reporting screams from inside and a small child was thrown from the building. The fire started just before midnight on Tuesday (1700 GMT) in the parking floor of the 10-storey building, witnesses said, an area packed with residents' motorbikes. "Authorities have rescued about 70 people, rushing to hospital 54 people, including dozens of dead," the official Vietnam News Agency said.

RBI) tolerance limit of 2-6% for a second consecutive month. Read here: India's retail inflation eases to 6.83% in August from 15-month high peak in July; remains above RBI's tolerance band In its August monetary policy, while keeping the repo rate unchanged, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the central bank, headed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das had raised CPI inflation forecast for the July-September quarter of FY24 to 6.2% from 5.2%.

G20 Summit is over now the absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping remained one of the top headlines in the world of diplomacy. But the diplomatic tension simmered when Chinese Premier Li Qiang showed his presence during the G20 Leaders' Summit in New Delhi. However, a report by Times of India has revealed details of a new drama that escalated at the Taj Palace Hotel where Chinese delegates stayed during the Summit.

New Delhi: MTV India and music label T-Series have struck a global deal for rap reality television show, MTV Hustle, as part of which all original music created for the first three seasons will be distributed worldwide by the latter. “MTV Hustle 2.0 has pioneered India’s hip-hop revolution. Its cultural impact in the sub-continent has been multi-fold, making rap the choice of expression for contemporary youth voices.

Apple has refreshed its iPhone line-up with the launch of the iPhone 15 series, including the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. These phones will be available in India and 40 more countries starting September 22. Sources familiar with the matter said that Apple will make India-built iPhone 15 units available to Indian customers and customers in “some other regions” on the first day of sales.

Kotak Flexicap Fund crossed a milestone of 14 years on September 11. The scheme has given 14.04% returns since its inception. The scheme manages assets worth Rs 40,086.25 crore, making it the second largest scheme based on assets managed in the flexi cap category. Launched in 2009, Kotak Flexicap Fund (earlier known as Kotak Standard Multicap Fund) has offered 17.32% in 10 years, 12.93% in five years, and 21.60% in three years. During the same periods, the benchmark (Nifty 500 — TRI) offered 15.96%, 14.17%, and 24.51% respectively. This shows that the scheme has outperformed its benchmark only in the 10-year horizon.

Ambuja Cements Ltd. dropped 0.8 per cent to Rs 441.5 at 11:11AM (IST) in Wednesday's trade.

Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would help North Korea build satellites and, when asked if he and Kim Jong Un would talk about weapons supplies, replied that the two leaders would discuss all issues. When asked by reporters if Russia would help Kim build satellites, Putin replied: «That's why we came here. The leader of the DPRK shows great interest in rocket engineering, they are also trying to develop space.» Putin showed Kim around Russia's most modern space rocket launch site, the Vostochny Cosmodrome, which is nestled among the forests of eastern Russia not far from the Chinese border. Kim arrived at Vostochny by train, after crossing into Russia early on Tuesday. «I am glad to see you,» Putin said as he shook Kim's hand for around 40 seconds at Vostochny. «This is our new cosmodrome.»

President Vladimir Putin. That meeting underscores how the two leaders’ interests are aligning in the face of their separate, intensifying confrontations with the United States. The launch extended a highly provocative run in North Korean weapons testing since the start of 2022, as Kim used the distraction caused by Putin’s war on Ukraine to accelerate his weapons development.

Nifty both showed significant volatility throughout the session, while the mid- and small-cap markets saw a big wave of selloffs. Despite new valuation concerns, the market declined.

Covid-19 vaccine to protect against the potentially serious outcomes of Covid-19 illness this fall and winter." Bloomberg reported, the statement further added, “Updated Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna will be available later this week." Cohen’s final green light means the shots can be administered across the US. The Food and Drug Administration has already approved them. Distribution of these boosters could be especially helpful for Pfizer, which has struggled amid a sharp decline in sales of its Covid vaccine and antivirals after a surge during the pandemic.

Around 50 school children complained of stomach ache and vomiting allegedly after consuming a mid-day meal at a primary school in Dumra Block of Sitamarhi district, Bihar on 12 September. The children were referred to Sadar Hospital. According to the doctor, the children are fine now.

wholesale inflation slowed in August for the eighth straight month, data showed on Wednesday, offering some relief for households and retailers hit by past sharp rises in raw material imports. The corporate goods price index (CGPI), which measures the price companies charge each other for their goods and services, rose 3.2% in August from a year earlier, matching a median market forecast. It slowed from a revised 3.4% rise in July, and is now off a peak 10.6% year-on-year surge hit in December last year, data by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) showed. «While crude oil prices remain high and yen falls continue, wholesale inflation is slowing… and could post a year-on-year decline in the fourth quarter,» said Toru Suehiro, an economist at Daiwa Securities. «The price declines seen for some goods can't be ignored» as it could affect households' perception of future price moves, he added. Rising wholesale prices, driven by last year's surge in global commodity costs and the weak yen, have pushed up Japan's broader consumer inflation by prodding many firms to charge households more for their goods. While consumer inflation has remained above the BOJ's 2% target for more than a year, the central bank has stressed the need to keep ultra-loose monetary policy until such supply-driven rise in prices is replaced by an increase backed by domestic demand.

Day trading guide for today: Domestic equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty settled lower in the previous session, exhibiting significant volatility with the mid and smallcap spaces witnessing a strong wave of selloffs. Investors booked profits after the blue-chip index hit a record high near the open, while the small-caps and mid-caps snapped an 11-session winning run. Sensex closed at 67,221.13, up 94 points, or 0.14 per cent while the Nifty closed the day at 19,993.20, down 3 points, or 0.02 per cent.

President Vladimir Putin, a rare encounter between isolated leaders driven together by their need for support in escalating standoffs with the West. Kim is expected to seek economic aid and military technology for his impoverished country, and, in a twist, appears to have something Putin desperately needs: munitions for Russia’s grueling war in Ukraine. It’s a chance for the North Korean leader to get around crippling U.N.

Over 20,000 crypto tokens have been manipulated via decentralized exchange (DEX) wash trading in the last three years, according to market surveillance firm Solidus Labs.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un rolled through Russia on an armored train Tuesday toward a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, a rare encounter between isolated leaders driven together by their need for support in escalating standoffs with the West. Kim is expected to seek economic aid and military technology for his impoverished country, and, in a twist, appears to have something Putin desperately needs: munitions for Russia's grueling war in Ukraine. It's a chance for the North Korean leader to get around crippling U.N. sanctions and years of diplomatic isolation.

Libya's eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city. The startling death and devastation wreaked by Mediterranean storm Daniel pointed to the storm's intensity, but also the vulnerability of a nation torn apart by chaos for more than a decade. The country is divided by rival governments, one in the east, the other in the west, and the result has been neglect of infrastructure in many areas. Outside help was only just starting to reach Derna on Tuesday, more than 36 hours after the disaster struck.

Google Antitrust Trial: Google pays $10 billion every year to maintain monopoly, says US Google's lawyer, John Schmidtlein said, "Users today have more search options and more ways to access information online than ever before," and added that Google won competitions that Apple and Mozilla held to pick the best search engines. The Justice Department's Kenneth Dintzer argued Google manipulated auctions for ads placed on the internet in order to raise prices for advertisers.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday it reached a settlement with digital alternative investments platform YieldStreet of $1.9 million, with the company facing SEC allegations of failing to disclose critical information to investors in a $14.5 million asset-backed securities offering involving a ship that was to be taken apart.