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By Krystal Hu and Ira Iosebashvili

NBA in-Season Tournament has moved into the knock stage as a total of eight teams have entered the quarter-finals of the inaugural season. From the Western Conference, four teams are Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings, and New Orleans Pelicans. From the Eastern conference top four teams are Indiana Pacers, Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, and Milwaukee Bucks. Eight teams consist of the top-performing team from each of the six groups in Group Play and two additional «wild card» teams. The Knockout Rounds will feature single-elimination games in the Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Championship, where the qualifying teams will vie for both a prize pool and the coveted NBA Cup, the new In-Season Tournament trophy.

Star Trek: Discovery graced our screens, Paramount+ has, at last, unveiled the anticipated release window for Season 5. The revelation took place at CCXP (Comic-Con Experience) in São Paulo, Brazil, where Sonequa Martin-Green, the star of the series, joined co-showrunner and Executive Producer Michelle Paradise on the Thunder Stage. The duo not only treated fans to a sneak peek of Season 5 but also dropped the much-awaited bombshell: Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 is set to premiere in April 2024.

RBI) monetary policy committee (MPC) will hold its fifth meeting of FY24 during 6-8 December. Although the MPC has kept the repo rate unchanged at 6.5% in all the previous four meetings this fiscal year (with unanimous voting), it is notable that the weighted average call money market rate (WACMMR) has averaged 6.75-6.8% in the past four weeks. In fact, barring about 10 working days, the WACMMR has been higher than 6.5% for the last three months.

Telangana Assembly Election Results 2023: As the Indian National Congress (Congress) sweeps a triumphant win in the Telangana Assembly Elections 2023 one key state party leader has taken centre stage – A Revanth Reddy. The Congress' road to victory in Telanga comes at the cost of upsetting incumbent BRS' and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's (KCR) plans for a hattrick government run in the state. And the one gaining the most praise for the reversal is Reddy.

Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the results in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan indicate that the people of India are firmly with politics of good governance and development. In a post on X, Modi wrote, “The results in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan indicate that the people of India are firmly with politics of good governance and development, which the @BJP4India stands for." He further thanked the people of these states for their unwavering support and assured them that we will keep working tirelessly for their well-being, adding, “A special thanks to the hardworking Party Karyakartas.

By Jitendra Karsan

FPIs again made a comeback in the Indian stock markets in November and pumped in Rs 9,000 crore amid fall in US treasury bond yields and the resilience of the domestic market. Additionally, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) made a net investment of Rs 14,860 crore in the debt market last month, making it the highest level in six years, data with the depositories showed. Going forward, FPI response will be crucially determined by the market trend, which, in turn, will be influenced by the state election results, VK Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services, said. If the state election results turn out to be favorable for the ruling dispensation, the market will stage a rally, and overseas investors are unlikely to miss that rally by big selling, he added. According to the data, FPIs made a net investment of Rs 9,000 crore in Indian equities in November. This came after FPIs dumped Indian equities worth Rs 24,548 crore in October and Rs 14,767 crore in September.

Congress prospects in the assembly elections in Hindi heartland. Even demand for caste survey and welfare schemes floated by congress failed to transform voters into numbers. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) decisively won state elections in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and hhattisgarh. The electoral contest has gone horribly wrong for the Congress in MP where they were pinning their hopes on a return to power.

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Significant digital asset ranking shifts continually happen in the crypto market. According to CoinMarketCap, Terra (LUNA), an algorithmic stablecoin, has re-entered the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization after a recent spike in its price. This development coincides with the milestone of another decentralized finance project (DeFi), InQubeta (QUBE), which is propagating the dominance of artificial intelligence (AI).

Congress candidate from Nagda Khachrod constituency, Dilip Gurjar, was at the divine door on Sunday morning, offering earnest prayers to the Almighty at the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga Temple in the Ujjain district.

Telangana Assembly started at 8 am on Sunday. The election in the state was held on November 30, 2023.

Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra on Sunday exuded confidence in his party forming the government in the state with a full majority Speaking to just hours before the counting begins, Dotasara, said, «The voters of Rajasthan have shown full faith and support to the Congress candidates because of our good governance. Our guarantees and the work done by the Congress government over 5 years have ensured a fresh term for us.» «In our manifesto, we promised to provide government jobs to 4 lakh youth, MSP to farmers and increased pension of Rs 2000 per month.

railway signal engineers, including him, were over the moon when an indigenously developed signalling equipment was successfully tested on a passenger train that chugged along the Telangana-Karnataka border. By then Mansukhani had spent over four years in a laboratory in Lucknow’s Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), a railway arm, to figure out an alternative to the popular European Train Control System (ETCS).

United States led calls at UN climate talks Saturday for efforts to curb methane emissions but also pushed a deeply controversial drive to boost nuclear energy to curb global warming. With smoggy skies in Dubai highlighting the challenges facing the world, other pledges are expected at the COP28 conference, including stepping up the deployment of renewable energy. The use of nuclear power as a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels is highly controversial as environmental groups are concerned about safety and the disposal of nuclear waste. But more than 20 nations ranging from the US to Ghana, Japan and several European countries said in a declaration that it plays a «key role» in the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by mid-century. They called for the tripling of nuclear energy capacity by 2050 from 2020 levels. «We are not making the argument to anybody that this is absolutely going to be a sweeping alternative to every other energy source,» US climate envoy John Kerry said at COP28. «But we know because (of) the science and the reality of facts… that you can't get to net zero 2050 without some nuclear,» he said. The other signatories include Britain, France, South Korea, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates.

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The Walking Dead concluded its remarkable 11-season run on November 20, 2022, fans are left pondering whether Season 12 is in the pipeline. The series, known for its gripping portrayal of survivors navigating a zombie apocalypse, initially hinted at a 12-season plan. However, with the expansive world of spin-offs taking center stage, the fate of a potential Season 12 remains uncertain.

assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telanagana, Mizoram and Chhattisgarh have been a battleground of ideas, promises, and political maneuvering. Citizens and politicians await with bated breath as the electronic voting machines (EVMs) tomorrow (December 3, 2023) will tally the votes cast by millions of voters.

ICC World Cup 2023: Team India fans are still recovering from the heartbreak they faced on 19 November after Australia defeated India in the ICC World Cup 2023 finals to lift the trophy. Team India, former cricketers, experts, and fans are all wondering about the things that went wrong in the last match of the tournament, where India did so well, winning all 10 matches before the final game.

US Federal Reserve is done with interest rate hike have acted as key catalysts for the foreign fund inflows into emerging markets like India. The FPI inflows into Indian equities during the month of November stood at ₹9,001 crore as against selling of over ₹39,000 crore in September and October together, according to National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) data. Taking into account debt, hybrid, debt-VRR, and equities, FPI inflows were at ₹24,546 crore during the month.