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Outlander Season 7 Part 2 returns this week, promising eight episodes of gripping storytelling. The season continues the saga of Jamie and Claire Fraser against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War.

White House advisors. Ivanka Trump, who was a senior advisor during Trump's first term, has decided not to return to politics. Unless she is appointed to the Senate by Governor Ron DeSantis, Lara Trump will remain the co-chair of the RNC, as quoted in a report by Insider. Family members of President-elect Donald Trump will continue to play a significant role in his political campaign even though they may not have as many official White House positions as they did during his first term.

Google is reportedly developing a new feature called ‘Shielded Email’ which will be aimed at enhancing user privacy and reducing spam. According to The U.S. Sun, this feature will eventually allow users to create temporary email aliases that forward messages to their primary email account which is pretty similar to Apple’s existing ‘Hide My Email’ functionality. The U.S. Sun reported that by using these aliases, users can eventually sign up for services without revealing their actual email addresses, thereby protecting themselves from unwanted emails and online tracking. According to early reports, Shielded Email is still in development and has not yet been officially launched, asserted The U.S. Sun. It was discovered through a teardown of the Google Play Services code while indicating that it may soon be integrated into Android devices.

Many large U.S. companies have seen their stocks swell since the presidential election.

At $17.8 billion, the reserves fell the most in the week ended November 15, eclipsing the $15 billion retreat in the week of October 24, 2008, when the subprime sinkhole had swallowed global financial assets — and emerging market currencies — in the immediate aftermath of the Lehman Brothers mothballing. This time, too, the rupee declined 79 paise per dollar, or 1%, since the reserves hit a record of $704.9 billion on September 27. «Our exchange rate policy is well articulated and has remained consistent over the years,» Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said at a recent media event. «Our exchange rate regime is market-determined and RBI does not target any level or band of the exchange rate.»

Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet, with a mix of humor and mystery.

Adani Group's ambitious plan to invest more than $100 billion (~₹85,000 crore) in the energy transition business and scale up its renewable energy operations over the next decade could face delays following the indictment of the conglomerate and its founder-chairman Gautam Adani by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to analysts. The majority of the investment is geared towards building facilities to manufacture electrolysers for producing green hydrogen, wind power turbines, and solar panels, besides establishing solar parks. Adani Group's renewable energy arm Adani Green Energy (AGEL), also India's largest renewable energy company, follows a debt-fuelled growth model with a 70:30 debt-equity structure like most peers.

Adani Solar USA and Adani Green Energy Ltd India based on a complaint filed by a Chinese firm about alleged violations of its patents on solar cells, modules, panels, components and products made from such components. The United States International Trade Commission (USITC), earlier this month, said that an «investigation be instituted to determine whether there is a violation… of section 337 in the importation into the US, the sale for importation, or the sale within the US after importation of certain products identified… in infringement of one or more… patent and claims». The complaint, filed by Chinese photovoltaics company Trina Solar in September, claimed that an industry in the US exists or is in the process of being established. Besides the Adani companies, various firms of Chinese solar module maker Runergy will be investigated for the alleged infringement of intellectual property rights.

Episode 9 will mark the beginning of this high-octane return, featuring a gripping two-part thriller that will turn the spotlight on Maddie’s harrowing ordeal when she is taken hostage by a serial killer, as mentioned in a report by Collider.

Adani Group's gross assets swelled by ₹75,277 crore in the first half of this fiscal year as the diversified conglomerate accelerated capital spending across projects, said people close to the matter. Gross assets are on track to reach a record ₹1.2 lakh crore by March-end, the people said. The surge in assets sparked a 7% or ₹16,882 crore increase in gross debt in the fiscal first half to ₹2,58,276 crore. The group's liquidity to service debt has fallen to 28 months as of September-end, from more than 30 months at the end of March. The Ahmedabad-based conglomerate has been battling turmoil over the past two days with promoter Gautam Adani, his nephew Sagar Adani, along with six others indicted by the US Department of Justice. The charges include securities and wire fraud, alleging the group lied to US investors about its anti-bribery practices while engaging in widespread corruption.

Black Friday deals. Enjoy these early Black Friday discounts, which include AirPods Pro for $60 off and a MacBook Air for $300 off, as quoted in a report. Amazon's early Black Friday sales are booming, and this time around, some of the greatest Apple offers one has seen in a while. You don't have to wait to shop because these are currently live. Many of your favourite Apple staples are available for as little as $24 right now. Some Apple favourites have reached new all-time low prices, such as the 256GB 9th generation iPad, which is $149 off. The iPad Air is also at a record low at $100 off.

bad loan aggregator National Asset Reconstruction Co (NARCL) is set to take over the distressed textile company Sri Govindaraja Mills after its ₹270 crore offer to lenders did not receive competing bids. Chennai-based Sri Govindaraja has been a non-performing asset for five years and owes creditors led by Canara Bank more than ₹750 crore. The ₹270 crore offer from NARCL equates to a 36% recovery for lenders. NARCL will pay banks through a mix of 15% cash upfront and 85% security receipts which can be redeemed later. This is the second asset NARCL has been selected as the winning bidder. Last month its ₹300 crore offer for ₹1,773 crore loans in Bareilly Highways Project received no counterbids during a Swiss challenge auction.

If there was any doubt Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government wanted a firmer hand in the direction of the nearly $170-billion Alberta Investment Management Corp., that evaporated on Wednesday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Unilever said it will put India at the center of its new business strategy as it aims to benefit from increasing consumption in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. In an event with investors, Chief Executive Hein Schumacher on Friday said India is the best opportunity for Unilever over the next couple of years and will be the key for all its group businesses.

Narayani Gupta gathered where else but at the India International Centre for the release of a Festschrift on her. It is a measure of the calibre of the audience that most of them knew the meaning of that Germanic word so beloved of academics and applauded appreciatively as the book was unveiled. For the uninitiated, a Festschrift, literally 'celebration writing', is a collection of essays published in honour of a scholar and presented to them at a landmark event such as retirement or birthday. As the contributors are usually that scholar's peers and friends, such volumes are also called liber amicorum or 'book of friends'. It inevitably has a virtual avatar nowadays too called Webfestschrift, and if published after a scholar's death the compilation is called a Gedenkschrift. The Germanic overtone notwithstanding, Festschrifts are fairly commonplace in academic circles around the world, although initially there were more of these for luminaries in the field of sciences rather than humanities. Now such epistolary toasts are routinely brought out on poets and legal eagles (in India, Keki Daruwala and Nani Palkhivala come to mind), administrators and conservationists, economists and librarians, diplomats and theologians, even journalists.

Reliance Jio's heavy 4G and 5G user losses following recent tariff hikes triggered a sharp fall in India's mobile broadband user base in September — the first decline after two years of steady growth since the launch of 5G services in October 2022. India's 4G-cum-5G user base plunged by a record 5.6 million in September, shrinking the nation's mobile broadband user base to 901 million, latest subscriber data collated by Trai showed. This user base had earlier risen from 790 million in October 2022 to around 906 million in August 2024. According to Trai data, Jio lost 8 million 4G/5G users in September while Airtel and Vodafone Idea added 0.4 million mobile broadband users each. State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), which did not raise prices, added 1.5 million such users.

Lioness Season 2 continues its gripping storyline with Episode 6 set to air soon. The show is available to stream on Paramount Plus.

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour security cost UK taxpayers $1 million. It's going to be a lot of dollar signs and reports about Taylor Swift's UK leg of her Eras tour, so buckle up for this one. After a terrorist plot was thwarted, Swift was forced to postpone three concerts in Vienna, Austria, as many fans are aware. She has increased security since then, which makes sense, but it seems that all of the extra protection has come at a high cost, as quoted in a report by SheKnows. The Metropolitan Police now have to pay almost $1 million in taxpayer funds for the additional security. The US Sun claims that providing security for each of Swift's UK performances cost the Met about $880,000. Swift's group also asked for $200,000 worth of security measures, such as a blue-light escort.

Ikigai, the Japanese way of living that involves finding your life's purpose. It seems like a simple Venn diagram where you constantly seek the intersection of what you are good at, what you enjoy doing, what makes you money and what the world needs. It helps you discover your passion, your mission, your profession and your vocation, and if all these things align, you live the perfect life-or at least that's how it has been presented.

Trump 's team still hasn't signed agreements that are required to formally begin the transition process to the White House — meaning the government can't provide security clearances and briefings to incoming administration officials and the FBI can't screen his rush of picks for the Cabinet and other key posts. The importance of strenuous federal background screenings — and the fact that Trump's team has not been subjecting the president-elect's selections to such vetting — was evident on Thursday, when former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew as Trump's pick for attorney general following continued scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation that cast doubt on whether he could be confirmed by the Senate. The continued delay on agreeing to start the formal transition process may eventually force senators to vote on Trump's choices without the benefit of the usual background checks. That process is designed to uncover personal problems, criminal histories and other potential red flags that would raise questions about a nominee's suitability for key jobs.