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Ramadan lights installation at Piccadilly Circus to start Ramadan 2024 celebrations He said that the great thing about Ramadan lights is that it gives Muslims Brits a sense of belonging. It sends a message ‘we are not simply tolerated but respected, embraced and celebrated. Also, not only Muslims, but even non-Muslims enjoy these lights.

If your success can be credited to a woman, be sure to thank them Friday, which is International Women’s Day. At some point, the world will take a moment to reflect on the women who have shaped us, molded us and supported us in this journey that we call life.

By Patrick Wingrove and Sriparna Roy

Investing.com – Gold prices settled at a record high Friday after briefly topping $2,200 for the first ever as growing optimism on major central banks dropping the axe on interest rates in the coming months and ongoing geopolitical tensions in high demand.

Investing.com — The S&P 500 snapped a two-week win streak Friday, on an abrupt halt in Nvidia's record run and a mixed labor market report showing that more jobs were created in February, but the unemployment rate unexpectedly ticked up as layoffs picked up pace last month.      

Investing.com —Canada’s main stock index, the S&P/TSX Composite, traded in the red by late-afternoon trading, tracking the S&P500 and Nasdaq lower as tech stocks retreated.

women are taking the wheel of sport-utility vehicles, once considered the domain of men, contributing to the segment's sales surge. The share of women SUV buyers has climbed 4.5 times from five years ago amid a growing preference for vehicles with high ground clearance and higher seating. It jumped from only 29,000 units in 2018 to 125,000 units in 2023, showed data from industry sources. Meet Sonal Deshmukh, 40, a Mumbai-based banker. A fortnight ago, when she was in the market to replace her 15-year-old midsize sedan with another vehicle, she was very clear — she didn't want just another sedan and her next vehicle had to be an SUV. Last month, Deshmukh drove home the top-end variant of a midsize SUV. «I needed a car which gives me enough headroom and legroom, offers high seating without compromising on the finesse of a sedan but manoeuvres through the traffic and potholes with ease. Also, something which can be used for the weekend getaways with family. The mid-size SUV we finally chose ticked all the boxes,» said Deshmukh.

pharmaceutical market registered nearly 9% month-on-month growth in February, with all therapy areas doing well except the respiratory segment, which saw negative growth in terms of value and units, according to market research firm Pharmatrac. Cardiology and anti-infective were the top-two therapy areas, data from Pharmatrac showed. «If I were to look at the IBM therapy performance for the month, the industry has done really very well. It has shown a close to 9% growth,» said Sheetal Sapale, VP commercial, Pharmarack. «And if you look at all the therapy areas, all of them have shown robust growth, except the respiratory segment.»

Federal Reserve policymakers weighing when to start interest-rate cuts got another reason Friday to sit tight for now, after a government report showed jobs growth surged in February but the overall labor market continued to show signs of cooling. Employers added a robust 275,000 jobs last month, a Labor Department report showed on Friday, handily beating the 200,000 that economists expected.

Congress has released its first list of 39 Lok Sabha candidates, which included Rahul Gandhi from his sitting Wayanad constituency in Kerala, AICC general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal from Alappuzha and former CM Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandangaon in Chhattisgarh. The formal decision on Gandhi contesting from Amethi will be taken when the central election committee takes up the party's probable list for Uttar Pradesh later. Rahul seeking re-election from the safe seat Wayanad shows his disinclination to fight from the old Amethi seat without taking an electoral insurance from the Kerala seat, where Gandhi-led Congress' main rival BJP is just a marginal player. The first list has 24 candidates from the OBC-SC-ST minority segments, 15 from the general category. While 12 are below the 50 age bracket, eight are from the 50-60 age group. It includes many sitting MPs.

NEW DELHI : Falling water levels in hydro power dams are raising worries, as a looming summer threatens to turn up power demand and strain the electricity grid. Thanks to last year's late monsoon, scanty winter rains and lack of snowfall, reservoir levels fell 17% from a year earlier to 73.29 billion cubic metres (bcm) on Thursday, data from the Central Water Commission (CWC) showed. The levels are also nearly 3.6 percentage points below the 10-year average of 76.06 bcm.

Zomato can now wear kurtas while working. The company explained that many female delivery partners had "expressed discomfort with the western-style Zomato t-shirts". “Starting today, Zomato women delivery partners can choose to wear a kurta," the company announced on various social media platforms.

₹2,000 crore or ₹6,000 crore turnover in India alone had warranted CCI approval. This has been revised to a combined asset threshold of ₹2,500 crore and turnover threshold of ₹7,500 crore. In the case of businesses with cross-border presence, the threshold since 2016 has been aggregate assets of $1 billion, out of which at least ₹1,000 crore of assets should be in India or combined sales of $3 billion, out of which at least ₹3,000 crore should be from India.

By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider

Investing.com — U.S. stocks inched broadly higher on Friday after a widely-anticipated labor market report showed that the American economy added more jobs than expected last month, although January's blockbuster number was revised sharply lower.

Gold prices surged to a fresh record high on Friday as data showing a rise in the U.S. unemployment rate boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve could begin cutting interest rates soon. Spot gold rose 0.7% to $2,173.49 per ounce by 10:42 a.m. ET (1542 GMT), while U.S. gold futures added 0.7% to $2,180.50.

film will rule them all? The countdown for the moment when a worthy film and actor will be crowned the best among the current crop has begun! All eyes are on the 96th Academy Awards, which will take place on Monday (11th March). The Academy Awards, aka the Oscars, will be hosted by popular comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. Ahead of the biggest day in showbiz, here’s what you can expect:

Avatar: The Last Airbender" series, fans are eagerly awaiting the release of the upcoming animated film that will continue the journey of the original team. Here's a detailed look at what we know about the project so far.

₹65,298 per 10 grams on the MCX, indicating a notable increase of over ₹2,700 within the initial week of March last week on Thursday. This remarkable uptrend in the value of the precious metal is primarily attributed to the anticipation of an interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve in June. This expectation has ignited bullish sentiments in both domestic and international markets, further fueling the rise in gold prices.

MUMBAI : Mumbai: Net inflows into equity mutual funds jumped to a 23-month high in February, led by a surge of investments in thematic or sectoral funds. Net inflows rose 23% month-on-month to ₹26,865.78 crore, the highest since March 2022, data released by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) showed on Friday. Thematic or sectoral fund inflows rose a whopping 134.4% month-on-month to ₹11,262.72 crore in February, from ₹4,804.69 crore in January.

40% price increase in the past week. Pullix has scored a potential listing on Uniswap and BitMart, making it one of the best DeFi projects in the market. Its upcoming launch in the next few weeks also adds more allure to the project, as market experts have forecasted a 100x surge after its launch.