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India Inc. reported a healthy year-on-year (y-o-y) jump in net profit growth in the June 2023 quarter, aided by declining input costs.

China’s economy was meant to drive a third of global economic growth this year, so its dramatic slowdown in recent months is sounding alarm bells across the world. Policymakers are bracing for a hit to their economies as China’s imports of everything from construction materials to electronics slide. Caterpillar Inc.

US Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai said the India-US relationship is on an upward trajectory and the two sides should map out their economies to develop supply chains in complementary ways. In an interview with ET's Kirtika Suneja and Deepshikha Sikarwar, Tai, who was on a visit to India to attend the G20 trade ministers meeting, said the upcoming conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be the first of the «reform ministerials».

The boss of Australia’s second-largest pubs group, Australian Venue Co, says bookings for Christmas functions are up 40 per cent on this time a year ago as households and businesses seek out better value alternatives to restaurants, keeping the economy on track for a soft landing.

Union home minister Amit Shah will chair a meeting of the Western Zonal Council on Monday in Gandhinagar where a host of issues such as speedy investigation in cases of sexual offence and rape and matters related to infrastructure and environment will come up for discussion, officials said. The Western Zonal Council comprises Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The meeting will be attended by chief ministers, ministers, chief secretaries, principal secretaries and senior officers of member states and central government, officials said. The meeting is likely to discuss issues like speedy investigation in cases of sexual offence and rape against women and children, implementation of Fast Track Special Courts for expeditious disposal of rape and The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act cases. Facilitation of banks and India Post Payment Bank branches within 5 km in each village, addressing malnutrition among children through Poshan Abhiyan, reducing drop-out rate of school children, participation of government hospitals in Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana and issues of general interest at national level will also be discussed at the meeting. The meeting will discuss issues of common interests in areas of road connectivity, power, industries and other matters, they said.

Quadria Capital, a healthcare-focused investor, has started distributing the gains from its 10-year-old first fund, along with the principal, to its limited partners or investors. The process is anticipated to conclude by 2023-end. “We are in the process of returning the fund completely.

OTTAWA (Reuters) — Canada is concerned about the overall integrity of the system that educates hundreds of thousands of international students and not just the added pressure they put on housing, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

It is easy to gain weight but difficult to shed the extra kilos, say fitness experts. Weight gain brings with it a host of lifestyle-related diseases, including diabetes and hypertension. Obesity is also associated with arthritis and even heart diseases. Losing weight the right way, say experts, is the only solution to such problems. And that means regular exercise in some form or the other—walking, running, yoga, swimming, cycling, aerobics and workouts at the gym help cut the flab and keep you fit. And, there is dieting as well.

Investing.com — With just a week symbolically left for the peak of summer driving, most Americans must be relieved that they survived not just the road but also prices at the pump.

Narendra Modi said on Sunday. Speaking at the 104th episode of Mann Ki Baat, the prime minister's monthly radio outreach programme, Modi termed the Indian presidency of G20 as 'people's presidency'. He said that the country is fully prepared to host the G20 Leaders Summit in September that will see 40 heads of states and several global organizations make their 'biggest participation ever in the history of the G20 Summit.' "Among the eleven engagement groups of G20, academia, civil society, youth, women, our parliamentarians, entrepreneurs and people associated with urban administration played an important role," Modi said.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — A U.S. judge has canceled a hearing on a $10 billion lawsuit filed by Mexico seeking to hold U.S. gun manufacturers responsible for facilitating arms trafficking to drug cartels, Mexico's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

Jerome Powell could prompt investors to continue booking profits. The week ahead is also eventful for Dalal Street investors from a corporate standpoint.Mukesh Ambani the Chairman of Reliance Industries will address the shareholders at the company’s 46th annual general meeting on Monday, which will be closely tracked by investors. The next big event for the market is the Supreme Court’s hearing on Tuesday in the Adani-Hindenburg case. Volatility is expected to be high in the market, according to experts, given weak global sentiment and domestic events. “Equity markets are expected to remain volatile due to weakness in the external environment,” said Hemant Kanawala, senior EVP and head — equity, Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Co. While corporate earnings of Indian companies are showing strong growth, valuations aren’t cheap, and there is limited room for them to expand, Kanawala said, adding that investors are likely to get returns in line with earnings growth till the end of the year.RIL AGMIn the last few years, some of the big bang announcements from Ambani have usually come at the AGM.

Sanjiv Bhasin, Director, IIFL Securities, “says steel stocks have become growth stocks rather than value picks. I am very bullish on select stocks because their whole functioning has changed. It is more of shareholder value, appreciation of value and that is very positive. So use all these declines to accumulate this basket or buy a mutual fund which has exposure to metals because I am very sure the dollar run is short-lived.”You have been tracking metal. I remember SAIL was your pick. But the China issue seems to be kind of throwing a spanner in the works for the metal trade. Would you avoid metals right now or do you have something on radar?Metals have been a proxy to the dollar trade and we have seen the dollar come back from 99 to 104.

Narendra Modi received a rousing welcome from BJP workers and the public as he landed in Bengaluru on Saturday to congratulate the scientists who worked on Chandrayaan-3. He addressed the crowd after he landed at HAL airport, saying «Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan, Jai Anusandhan (hail soldier, hail farmer, hail science, hail research)», before heading to meet the scientists at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) office. «I was not in the country (at the time of the launch) but I decided the first thing I would do after getting back would be to visit our scientists,» he said. The PM flew in early in the morning from Greece after attending the 15th Brics summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. Local artists waiting for him at the HAL airport played the dhol and danced, waving the Tricolour. The BJP had asked its workers to wave the national flag instead of the party flag as they were celebrating ISRO's achievement, not the party's. The crowd was packed around HAL airport, with adults, old and children all equally excited to catch a glimpse of the PM as he came to felicitate the scientists of their home state.

Kids aren’t spending enough time outside. It’s fueling an epidemic of nearsightedness. Nearsightedness develops in childhood, typically between ages 5 and 16, and it’s closely linked to a lack of exposure to sunlight.

Grand Prix Badminton League (GPBL) on Saturday was postponed indefinitely after several players pulled out of the event, said League Commissioner Prasanth Reddy here. Reddy said the players were forced to withdraw from the GPBL, which was scheduled to begin on Sunday, after the Badminton Association of India (BAI) did not give necessary permission to run the league. «Our attempts to reach out to BAI thus far have proved futile.

New Delhi: To ensure uninterrupted power supply for the G20 Summit, authorities are leveraging latest technology and have installed multiple backups at the venue, Pragati Maidan, officials said on Saturday. Power discom BSES has enhanced the supply to Pragati Maidan by establishing three separate power sources to ensure reliability.

Chandrayaan-3 on the moon will be known as 'Shiv Shakti', Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru on Saturday. India, on August 23, had successfully landed its third lunar mission, the Chandrayaan-3, 70 degrees to the south pole of the moon. August 23, will now be celebrated as National Space Day to celebrate the spirit of science, technology and innovation. The area on the moon where Chandrayaan-2 left its footprints will now be called 'Tiranga'. «This tricolor point will be the inspiration for every effort of India, this tricolor point will teach us that no failure is final,» the PM said.

Narendra Modi received a rousing welcome on Saturday from the BJP workers and the public as he landed in Bengaluru to congratulate the scientists who worked on Chandrayaan-3. The PM addressed the crowd after he landed at HAL airport, saying «Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan, Jai Anusandhan,» before heading to meet the scientists at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) office. “I was not in the country [at the time of the launch] but I decided the first thing I would do after getting back would be to visit our scientists,” said Modi.

Bengaluru visit to meet ISRO scientists, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday alleged that he purportedly barred Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar from receiving him at the HAL Airport. Meanwhile, a war of words erupted between BJP MLA and former minister R Ashoka and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar over «ignoring» protocol to receive the Prime Minister at the airport. Modi flew down to Bengaluru around 6 AM directly from the Greek capital of Athens to interact with ISRO scientists involved in the Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon. Addressing a large number of people gathered outside the HAL airport, the PM said since he was coming from a far-off place (Athens) he did not know what time he would reach here, and he requested Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, CM Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM Shivakumar not to take the trouble of coming to receive him as he would return soon after paying tributes to ISRO scientists. «So, I had requested them that when I pay a formal visit, they definitely follow protocol,» Modi said. «They cooperated and I am thankful and grateful to them,» he said. Ramesh alleged that the PM was irritated with Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar for felicitating the ISRO scientists before him, and termed Modi barring the Chief Minister and his deputy as «petulant petty politics». Siddaramaiah on Thursday visited the Missions Operations Complex at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) and felicitated ISRO chief S Somanath and his team on the successful touch down of Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander on the Lunar surface. «The government will officially honour them by organising a special programme at the Banquet hall at Vidhana Soudha.