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head towards the southern part of the region, between 10 am and 1 pm local time. Once the deadline exhausted, the IDF warned that it would “implement a wide range of offensive operative plans" in the region to target the Hamas militants. - The ground invasion, which would reportedly involve 10,000 soldiers along with aerial and naval forces, will be set off following “a political decision", military spokesmen Lieutenant Richard Hecht and Daniel Hagari said in a press briefing.

Xi Jinping hosted the Palestinian president in Beijing and invited the Israeli prime minister for an official state visit. Benjamin Netanyahu accepted, and China was on track for a bigger role in the region.

Adani Ports & SEZ is “confident” of repaying by Feb 2024, the $650 million of foreign currency bonds that are maturing next year, its CEO said Sunday. “We have already prepaid $120 million and then another $190 million,” Karan Adani told reporters on the sidelines of the inauguration of its Vizhinjam port in Kerala. “We are very confident that by January-February we will prepay the balance amount. And that was part of our commitment at the start of the year, when we had said our net debt-equity ratio will be 2.5X,” Adani had in February said his company would repay Rs 5,000 crore worth of debt by next financial year. Adani’s debt-prepayment is part of its efforts to win back investor trust, large swathes of which were eroded after an American short-seller Hindenburg alleged it of stock price manipulation. As of June, the company had prepaid $2.65 billion worth of loans. The company, that aims to become the world’s largest port operator by 2030, is looking at brownfield international port projects in Vietnam, Kenya and Tanzania, said CEO Adani. The Vietnamese government had, in a statement in May, said it welcomed Adani’s investment in its Lien Chieu port and renewable energy projects.

Trading in the stock market just isn’t much fun anymore. Individual investors are dialing back how much risk they are taking across markets. Some are accumulating cash or stashing it in funds tracking bonds or money markets to take advantage of yields that have soared to 16-year highs.

What are the live-in nannies slipping into the morning OJ of corporate Australia at the moment? Everyone’s sucking on epiphanies.

PM Modi to flag off India's first, fastest urban transit system RAPIDX train in Delhi NCR next week. Details here Notably, this change requires the development of a new detailed project report (DPR), which is likely to delay in the project's timeline. According to the updated plan, the RapidX track is set to run along the Delhi-Jaipur side of the expressway, extending from Aerocity to Cyber Hub.

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Individuals owning multiple vehicles such as private cars as well as two-wheelers can opt for a motor floater policy for convenience, flexibility and lower premium as compared to standalone policies. Such a cover solves the problem of keeping track of the renewal dates of all separate policies and paying multiple premiums.

Private sector life insurance firm HDFC Life Insurance was able to grow its number of policies sold by 10% in the first half of this fiscal, while the premium category below Rs 5 lakh grew around 17-18%, said managing director and chief executive officer Vibha Padalkar. In an interview with Mithun Dasgupta, Padalkar said that the insurer’s annualised premium equivalent (APE) should grow by mid-teens in the current financial year. Edited excerpts:

Quantum AMC has announced the launch of a new fund offer (NFO) – Quantum Small Cap Fun, which is an open-ended equity scheme predominantly investing in Small Cap Stocks. The scheme will open for subscription on Monday, October 16 and close on Friday, October 27, 2023. It will be co-managed by Chirag Mehta – Chief Investment Officer and Abhilasha Satale.  

Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour is on track to earn the artist an astonishing $4.1 billion, making it the highest-grossing solo tour in history. Swift's tour has not only filled her coffers but has also significantly boosted the US economy, with its expansive production leading to increased travel, ticket sales, and merchandise sales for her dedicated fanbase known as 'Swifties.' Swift's substantial income is expected to grow as the Eras Tour film premieres in theatres, having already generated over $80 million in advanced ticket sales.

“wipe off Hamas" in the besieged Gaza Strip. Air India, the erstwhile national carrier, operated five flights per week for Tel Aviv.

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El Deif' or the Guest, because, for decades, he has stayed in different houses every night to avoid being tracked, and killed, by Israel and he is now in charge of the militant group's military wing, the Al Qassem Brigades, the media reported. Thought to have been born in the 1960s, El Deif is little known to ordinary Palestinians, CNN quoted Mkhaimar Abusada, a professor of political science at Al Azah University in Gaza, as saying. “He’s very much like a ghost to the majority of the Palestinians,” he said. The Al Qassem Brigades were opposed to the peace process embraced by Yassir Arafat, then-leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the 1993 Oslo Accords that were supposed to pave the way to a two-state solution of a new Palestine living in peace alongside Israel. In 1996, El Deif, an accomplished bomb maker, was behind a wave of four suicide attacks that killed 65 people in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and other outrages intended to derail the peace process, CNN reported. The tighter the Israeli and Egyptian control over Gaza’s borders – the more Hamas (and other groups) developed military means to fight back. Chief among them is rockets. Primitive at first, the missiles have been improved and refined over years of help from Iran. The Tehran theocracy, also dedicated to the eradication of the Jewish state, trained engineers, organised technology transfers and guided developments to create rockets capable of hitting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, CNN reported. Men like El Deif, the bomb makers and decision takers, were hunted by Israel. In 2014, an air strike killed his wife and daughter.

A solar eclipse will darken skies across parts of North America this weekend — one of two must-see celestial events over the next six months that the continent won’t see again for years.

Rubio now has to get used to that pesky thing Earthlings call gravity. «Walking hurts a little bit the first few days, the soles of your feet and lower back,» he said at a news conference Friday at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. «I think there is a certain level of pain that comes with the fact that your lower back now supports half your weight.» Rubio returned to Earth two weeks ago after spending 371 days in space, having taken off in September of last year aboard a Russian rocket for what was supposed to be a routine, six-month mission. The Soyuz spacecraft that was supposed to bring them back was docked at the International Space Station to be used as an emergency backup vehicle. But then it sprung a coolant leak in December, probably due to a micrometeoroid. So as a precaution, the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, returned the vessel to Earth.

G20 finance ministers and central bank governors (FMCBG) agreed to «ambitious efforts» for substantially reforming and strengthening multilateral development banks (MDBs), including increasing their lending capacity. They also adopted a road map for the regulation of crypto assets, marking significant progress on India's G20 agenda. "...The G20 finance track saw key achievements in several areas of India's presidency year," said finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday, briefing reporters on the outcome of the fourth and last G20 FMCBG meeting under India's presidency. She listed progress on strengthening of MDBs, advancing financial inclusion and productivity gains through digital public infrastructure, crypto assets agenda, managing global debt vulnerabilities, and financing cities of tomorrow.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, the latest addition to Legendary's Monsterverse, at a New York Comic Con panel on Friday.

India will not chase volumes in electric vehicles, but will focus on creating an ecosystem for EVs such as lowering the cost of ownership, building charging infrastructure and offering a hassle-free experience that will likely help boost sales eventually, the company's top executive said. This is even as the company remains steadfast on meeting the mid-term target of EVs contributing 25% to its total sales by 2027, Mercedes-Benz India chief executive Santosh Iyer told ET. «For us, volume is not a strategy and it's the outcome of what we do. As a luxury brand, we are measured by customer experience and profitable growth. To achieve this, we need to be cautious about how we go about EVs. It must be a long-term strategy. That's our core strategy,» Iyer said. Reaffirming the trend that Mercedes buyers are up-trading to feature-rich, technology-packed models, sales of models priced above ₹1.5 crore (ex-showroom) grew 22% in the first nine months of 2023, accounting for a quarter of its total sales that expanded 11% to 12,768 cars.

Mongolia and Mongolia (a neighbouring but a sovereign state) to launch a Sinicization programme, people tracking the development said. The Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region (IMAR) is the new target of the CCP's Sinicization programme, through the launch of 'Inculcating Chinese Nationality Common Identity' among 6 million local ethnic population, these people said. Chinese authorities recently banned a Mongolian theatre release, 'Mongol Khan', just 30 minutes prior to its official opening at Honhot's Ulaan Theatre IMAR. Chinese authorities in Inner Mongolia have also reduced the number of weekly Mongolian language classes in schools, according to Radio Free Asia. The Southern Mongolia Human Rights and Information Center, based in New York, reported that Chinese authorities were enforcing a complete ban on the use of the Mongolian language in all schools throughout Inner Mongolia. Xi Haiming, an ethnic Mongolian activist based in Germany, recently stated that authorities were employing other methods to compel ethnic Mongolian children to abandon their native language in favour of Chinese, often by exerting pressure on parents at their workplaces. Xi alleged that the parents who send their children to schools that teach Mongolian may face job loss, creating significant pressure on families.