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Pentagon official said. Efforts are also on to establish a reciprocal defence procurement agreement with India, Siddharth Iyer, Director for South Asia Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defence said here on Tuesday at an event organised by the prestigious Hudson Institute. «We are in active talks with the Indian government to look at producing military systems in areas related to ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance), and then of course ground-based conventional warfare.

Meta India head Sandhya Devanathan said. The company is also focussing on launching features which will expand its ambitious bet WhatsApp Pay in India. It will also expand on enabling direct interface between merchants and customers where they will let users avail service delivery and make payments for it directly to merchants through WhatsApp.

The battle for Sims’ LMS Energy has been won.

Aarti Industries, part of the specialty chemical industry, has fallen 40% from September 2022 highs but a recent breakout from a trendline resistance suggests that bulls are here to stay.Short-term traders with high-risk profiles can look to accumulate stock for a possible target of Rs 580 in the next 3-4 weeks, suggest experts.The stock hit a 52-week high of Rs 844 on September 16, 2022, but it failed to hold on to the momentum.

Investing.com — Here is your Pro Recap of the biggest analyst cuts you may have missed since Monday: initiation at Underperform at Arm Holdings, and downgrades for Starbucks, Lazard, PayPal, Dropbox, and Arm Holdings.

As often has been the case, this week's Federal Reserve meeting will be less about what policymakers are doing now than what they expect to be doing in the future.

MUMBAI : HDFC Bank Ltd expects a worsening of net interest margin (NIM), net worth and asset quality in the short term following its merger with parent Housing Development Finance Corp. (HDFC), analysts who attended a meeting with a top bank executive said. NIM may narrow 25 basis points (bps) due to the combined effect of incremental cash reserve ratio (CRR) and excess liquidity, analysts cited chief financial officer Srinivasan Vaidyanathan as saying at the meeting.

NEW DELHI : Bilateral ties between India and Canada hang in the balance after India on Tuesday dismissed as “absurd and motivated" Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claim of a “potential link" between Indian government agents and the killing of Khalistani leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June, and the two countries carried out tit-for-tat expulsions of senior diplomats. Trudeau’s claim will further damage bilateral relations, which are already at an all-time low over the activities of pro-Khalistan elements in Canada, including holding a so-called referendum on a separate homeland for Sikhs, targeting of Indian diplomatic premises, and incitement of violence against top Indian officials.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. While Canada said it had raised the matter with France, it is unlikely that Paris will raise the matter with India or issue a statement. The US expressed concern at the allegations and said it is critical for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. «We are deeply concerned about the allegations referenced by Prime Minister Trudeau,» White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a brief statement. A spokesperson for Australia's foreign minister Penny Wong said Canberra's concerns had been conveyed to New Delhi at «senior levels». «Australia is deeply concerned by these allegations and notes ongoing investigations into this matter,» the spokesperson said in a statement.

Amazon said on Tuesday that it will hire 250,000 full and part-time workers for the holiday season, a 67% jump compared to last year

Regal Partners’ resources royalties fund is rounding up investors for a $50 million capital raising to help bankroll two Canadian deals.

₹13.8 trillion, compared to ₹17 trillion in 2021-22. During the same period, gross financial assets of households grew 14% from a year ago to reach ₹29.6 trillion. However, the financial liabilities witnessed a substantial 76% growth during the period, outpacing the growth in assets.

Federal Reserve kicks off a two-day policy meeting on Tuesday with officials widely expected to keep interest rates on hold for now, but also flagging in new economic projections whether they feel rates still need to rise further before the end of the year. A new policy statement and interest rate decision will be released at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) on Wednesday, with Fed Chair Jerome Powell scheduled to hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m. to elaborate. Investors in contracts tied to the federal funds rate consider it a near certainty the U.S. central bank will leave the benchmark federal funds rate at the current range of between 5.25% and 5.5%, a step consistent with the Fed's shift to a slower and more considered pace of rate increases. From March 2022 through May 2023 the Fed raised rates at 10 successive meetings — by anywhere from a quarter to three quarters of a point — as it fought the worst rise of inflation since the early 1980s. In June the Fed paused, but the quarterly economic projections accompanying that decision showed 12 of 18 policymakers still anticipated two more quarter-point rate increases by the end of the year.

India-Canada ties has put the focus back on Pro-Khalistan Elements (PKE) using foreign soil to carry out attacks against India. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is probing nearly 20 cases involving PKE and have been urging foreign governments, including Canada, to designate them as 'terrorists' for allegedly carrying out anti-India activities. Hardeep Singh Nijjar, chief of Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), had four first information reports (FIRs) registered against him by NIA and carried a reward of ₹10 lakh. He was designated as 'terrorist' by the Union home ministry in July 2020 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, along with several other top-rung pro-Khalistan supporters.

cyber security threats and zero day attacks as leading western countries due to its geopolitical importance, said cybersecurity executives. Speaking to ET, on the sidelines of the m-WISE Mandiant Security conference, cybersecurity experts said that in general, the threats across the Japan and APAC region have been on the rise.

NEW DELHI : Monsoon rains that arrived late but then lingered for an extended period, coupled with land acquisition delays, have slowed down road-building in the country. Signs of slowdown in road construction became pronounced with the government scaling down capital expenditure for the sector in calendar year 2023. It built just about 23% of highways in the first five months of FY24 against a record target of 13,800 km.

NEW DELHI : Developed countries can no longer afford to be cautious in providing financing for achieving sustainable development goals, the UN’s resident coordinator in India Shombi Sharp said in an interview. Sharp said the world faces a $4 trillion financing gap for the SDGs and called for greater political will to provide this funding. Sharp said India was uniquely placed between developed and developing countries, which allowed it to deliver a consensus at the G20.

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss

Amazon said it plans to add 250,000 U.S. workers for the holiday shopping season, 67% more than the number of people it hired for the past two years, as it scrambles to expand next-day delivery for shoppers. Amazon's plans contrast with other U.S.

Thailand would soon tax foreign earnings from crypto traders, a tighter measure to close the loophole, which allowed overseas income into the country tax-free.

Canada and despite multiple deportation requests Ottawa has taken no action against those involved in heinous crimes including the killing of popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, officials here said on Tuesday. They said that pro-Khalistani outfits such as the World Sikh Organization (WSO), Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) and Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) working at the behest of Pakistan have been allegedly operating freely form the Canadian soil. They said allegations levelled against India by the Canadian authorities and politicians in relation to the murder of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Khalistani terrorist, are incorrect and based on unsubstantiated assumptions. The issue of deportations of wanted terrorists and gangsters have been raised by Indian authorities at multiple diplomatic and security talks but the Canadian authorities remained non-committal and brazen in support of these terror elements, the officials said. Multiple dossiers have been handed over to the Canadian side but India's deportation requests have gone unaddressed, they said, adding at least nine separatist organisations supporting terror groups have found their bases in Canada. Eight individuals involved in terror activities and as many gangsters, who have been conspiring with Pakistan's ISI, have found a safe haven in Canada, the officials said. They said that deportation requests for these people — including Gurwant Singh who was involved in terrorist activities in early 1990s — have been pending with the Canadian authorities for years now.