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Amidst the expected chill of winter, Brazil finds itself grappling with an unexpected challenge: scorching heatwaves that are defying seasonal norms. The National Institute of Meteorology has issued a concerning report, revealing that over 11.5 million residents of Sao Paulo are confronting the impact of soaring temperatures, which have surged nearly 10 degrees above the average of 24.5 degrees Celsius.

₹10 lakh for the kin of the deceased. Speaking to media persons, Madurai District Collector MS Sangeetha said, “Today early morning at 5:30 am there was a fire accident in the coach which was halted here at Madurai railway station...They were pilgrims and were traveling from Uttar Pradesh." “This morning when they tried to make coffee and tried to light the gas stove, there was a cylinder blast. 55 people have been rescued and as of now, we have retrieved nine bodies...Rescue operation is underway…," she told reporters.

Chandrayaan-3's successful lunar landing at the southern pole establishes it as the first nation to attain this distinction. ISRO is “The Mastermind” behind the success.

Climate change is destroying southern Europe. An era comes to an end." This tweet in early July by Karl Lauterbach, Germany’s health minister, went down badly in Italy. The country’s minister for tourism, Daniela Santanchè, sourly retorted that she thanked Mr Lauterbach for picking Italy for his holiday, but the Italian government was well aware of climate change and that sustainability was one of the central elements of its strategy for managing tourism.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a speech to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists who played a pivotal role in the Chandrayaan-3 mission. PM Modi became sentimental as he congratulated scientists of the ISRO team for the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3. Speaking at the ISRO Telemetry Tracking & Command Network Mission Control Complex in Bengaluru, PM Modi said, “The spot where Chandrayaan-3’s moon lander landed, that point will be known as ‘Shivshakti.

Bronny James, the 18-year-old son of Los Angeles Lakers' superstar LeBron James, recently experienced a cardiac arrest during a basketball workout at the University of Southern California (USC). The incident, which occurred on July 24, has brought to light a congenital heart defect that has been identified as the probable cause of the sudden cardiac arrest. Here's an overview of the incident and its aftermath:

college football season kicks off on Saturday, August 26 in Week 0. On this day Notre Dame will take on Navy in Ireland while Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams will meet San Jose State at the field of Southern California. It is called 0 week because not too many games are held this week. The season will kick off in full swing in the following weekend.

Peru is believed to be over 4,000 years old and could have been part of a ceremonial temple, according to archaeologists, offering new insights into the region's historic cultures. The wall was first stumbled upon by farmers in 2020 during harvesting work, prompting an extended dig and work to determine its origins, said archaeologist Feren Castillo, head of a research project in the coastal region of La Libertad. «Three years later we started a new procedure whose results showed us its age… Today we are sure it's a building built during the Pre-ceramic Period (the initial period of the Andean civilizations) between 4,000 and 4,500 years ago», the expert said this week", the expert said this week. The remains of the ancient building were revealed in the Viru Valley, some 480 km (298 miles) north of Lima. The wall is estimated to be about three meters (9.84 feet) high and presents triangular geometric lines with occasional shades of red and yellow, Castillo added.

European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have made a groundbreaking discovery. They have observed a sizable dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, accompanied by an unexpected smaller bright spot nearby.

under-construction railway bridge collapsed on Wednesday, the death toll has reached 23. Mizoram minister for home and disaster management Lalchamliana stated in X, “The rescue teams have just located and found the last body at the accident site at the under construction railway bridge, Sairang. Kuddos to the rescue mission teams #DM&R QRT #SDRF #NDRF etc” On Wednesday around 18 bodies were recovered.

Dwarka Expressway will have to extend their patience. According to officials from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the final stages of work on the 18.9 km section of the expressway within the city's limits will now conclude in October, a delay from the earlier projected completion date of August, a TOI report stated. The Dwarka Expressway is India's first elevated urban expressway.

agriculture sector, with farmers largely depending on reservoirs for irrigation. Data from the Central Water Commission (CWC) showed that water level in 146 reservoirs is currently at 113.584 billion cubic metres (bcm), which is 64% of their overall capacity. Although there's been a slight uptick since last week, it pales in comparison to the same period last year, where storage was at 144.569 bcm.

Disney+ Hotstar has announced an addition to its southern language slate—a new Malayalam original called Master Peace starring Sharaf U Dheen, Renji Panicker, Maala Parvathi, Shanthi Krishna, and Asokan, among others. It will also be available in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi. Video streaming platforms are likely to offer 50-60% of the budgets to southern language content, with these programmes seeing much traction, accounting for 30% of OTT viewership, said industry experts.

Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem(up 5.00%), ZUARIAGRO(up 1.20%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers(up 0.16%) and Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(up 0.09%) were among the top gainers. Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 2.79%), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(down 2.42%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(down 2.28%), Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals(down 2.10%), Madras Fertlizers(down 1.96%), Rama Phosphates(down 1.72%), Coromandel International(down 1.58%), Sikko Industries(down 1.49%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals(down 1.19%) and National Fertilizer(down 1.16%) were among the top losers. The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 132.65 points down at 19254.05, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 432.0 points at 64820.34 at around 10:39AM. Bajaj Finserv(up 1.03%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(up 0.69%), Bajaj Finance(up 0.64%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation(up 0.27%), Maruti Suzuki(up 0.17%) and Asian Paints(up 0.15%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack. On the other hand, IndusInd Bank(down 2.46%), Larsen & Toubro(down 1.69%), Tech Mahindra(down 1.46%), State Bank of India(down 1.32%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprises(down 1.29%), Adani Enterprises(down 1.27%), Divis Laboratories(down 1.26%), Dr Reddys Laboratories(down 1.2%), UltraTech Cement(down 1.16%) and Hindalco Industries(down 1.06%) were trading in the red.

FOX Business' Ashley Webster speaks to Winton Machine Company CEO and owner Lisa Winton about why she moved operations from the northeast to Georgia.

The major freight railroads say a disagreement over whether they will be allowed to discipline some workers who use a government hotline to report safety concerns has kept them from following through on the promise they made back in March to join the p...

Trump was arrested at a Georgia jail Thursday on racketeering and conspiracy charges and released on $200,000 bond after having a historic mug shot taken. Trump, who is accused of colluding with 18 other defendants to overturn the 2020 election result in the southern state, spent less than 30 minutes inside Atlanta's Fulton County Jail before leaving in a motorcade for the airport. Like the other defendants in the case who have surrendered so far, the 77-year-old Trump had his mug shot taken during the booking process — a first for any serving or former US president. In the photograph released by the sheriff's office, he scowled at the camera while dressed in a dark blue suit, white shirt and red tie. Speaking to reporters after his arrest, Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said it was a «very sad day for America.» «What has taken place here is a travesty of justice,» he said.

Journey Beyond, owner of “experiential” tourism assets like The Ghan train and Cruise Whitsundays, is back on the auction block less than two years after it changed hands.

Mizoram’s Sairang area mishap, where an under-construction railway bridge collapsed on Wednesday, has reached 22. On Wednesday, 18 bodies were recovered.

sugar exports for the 2023/24 season once firm estimates of total sugar cane production become available, the government said on Thursday. «Government's priority is to ensure sufficient availability of sugar for consumption, ethanol production and maintaining closing stocks of 6 million tonnes for 2023/24 season,» the Department of Food and Public Distribution said in a statement. Reuters on Wednesday reported that India expected to ban mills from exporting sugar in the next season beginning October, halting shipments for the first time in seven years, as a lack of rain has cut cane yields. India allowed mills to export only 6.1 million tonnes of sugar during the current season to Sept. 30, after letting them sell a record 11.1 million tonnes last season. The world's second-largest sugar exporter last year placed sugar in a restricted category until Oct.

Some California lawmakers want to make striking workers eligible for unemployment benefits