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The company is the largest residential real estate developer by booking value in 2023-24 and its portfolio includes residential development, plotted development, and mixed-use and township developments. The management is confident of high growth because of the strong brand, pan-India presence, demonstrated track record and robust marketing. It is seeing strong demand momentum across markets (NCR, Bengaluru and MMR) leading to a jump of 68% and 126% year-on-year in the collections and operating cash flows in the September quarter.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. November is halfway through, and you, just like me, might also be wondering: When will winter start in Delhi? The national capital is already grappling with severe fog. Its air quality is regularly dipping to dangerous levels; the city was declared the most polluted capital city in the world on Wednesday.

To foster innovation and motivation among educators, CBSE will introduce a reward system for teachers who develop high-quality assessment items. This initiative also seeks to address the challenges faced by teachers in Tier-3 cities, where salaries are often limited between Rs 15,000 and Rs 20,000. Studies such as the National Achievement Survey by the Ministry of Education, the Annual Status of Education Report, and CBSE’s Structured Assessment for Analysing Learning all point to a common conclusion: the root cause of unsatisfactory teaching in schools lies with the teachers themselves. These reports consistently highlight significant learning gaps, where board exam scores fail to reflect actual skills, and note an increasing dependence on external help like private tuition or coaching.

Gold prices have experienced a significant decline of around 6% since Diwali, driven by a stronger dollar and concerns over US inflation data. The price of 24-carat gold per 10 grams, which was Rs 80,710 on November 1, fell to Rs 74,031 at the last closing. This sharp correction reflects the ongoing global economic pressures impacting commodity markets.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted a flight trial of its long-range hypersonic missile on November 16, 2024, from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island, off-the-coast of Odisha. This hypersonic missile is designed to carry various payloads for ranges greater than 1500km for all the Services of the Indian Armed Forces. The missile was tracked by various range systems, deployed in multiple domains. The flight data obtained from down-range ship stations confirmed the successful terminal manoeuvres and impact with a high degree of accuracy.

fossil fuel deals, a group of prominent scientists, advocates, and policy leaders — including former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, former head of the UN climate change body Christiana Figueres, and former Ireland President Mary Robinson — have called for an urgent overhaul of the UN climate process. They argue that it needs «a shift from negotiation to implementation». «28 COPs have delivered us with the policy framework to achieve this. However, its current structure cannot deliver change at exponential speed and scale, which is essential to ensure a safe climate landing for humanity. This is what compels our call for a fundamental overhaul of the COP,» they said in an open letter to UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres and executive secretary of UN climate change secretariat Simon Stiell. Calling for "COP reform", they said the shift is needed to enable the COP to deliver on agreed commitments and ensure urgent energy transition and phase-out of fossil energy.

BJP President Chandrakant Raghunath Patil was over in July this year, BJP in the state will have to wait till the party elects a national president before it can get a new one for itself. 69 year old Patil had in July itself appealed to get relieved of his political responsibility in the wake of his induction in the union cabinet as the minister of water resources but given his track record of scripting the record win of 156 assembly seats among 182 in 2022 polls, Patil's shoes were hard to fill in the state.

Money manager John Davi is positioning for challenges tied to President-elect Donald Trump's tariff agenda.

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COP officials facilitating discussions about fossil fuel deals, a group of prominent scientists, advocates and policy leaders including Ban Ki-Moon, former secretary-general of the United nations, Christiana Figueres, former chief of the UN climate change body, and Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, have called for urgent overhaul of the UN climate process saying it needs “a shift from negotiation to implementation” as the existing approach is no longer fit for purpose. “28 COPs have delivered us with the policy framework to achieve this. However, its current structure simply cannot deliver the change at exponential speed and scale, which is essential to ensure a safe climate landing for humanity. This is what compels our call for a fundamental overhaul of the COP,” they said in an open letter to UN secretary-general António Guterres and executive secretary of the UN climate change secretariat, Simon Stiell. They, while calling for “COP reform”, said the shift is needed to enable the COP to deliver on agreed commitments and ensure the urgent energy transition and phase-out of fossil energy.

Gold prices on Friday were on track for their biggest weekly decline in over three years as expectations of less aggressive interest rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve lifted the dollar, denting allure for bullion among investors. Spot gold lost 0.1% to $2,565.49 per ounce as of 01:44 p.m. ET (1842 GMT). Prices have fallen more than 4% so far this week, touching their lowest since Sept. 12 on Thursday. U.S. gold futures settled 0.1% lower at $2,570.10.

Netflix was down for thousands of users in the United States late on Friday, with more than 12,000 incidents reported, outage tracking website Downdetector.com said. The reports come as Netflix airs a much-anticipated live boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, that promises to draw high traffic to the platform. The number of users indicating problems had fallen to 5,114, by 9:21 p.m. ET, however, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from various sources.

Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday confiscated more than 80 kg of cocaine worth around Rs 900 crore in the national capital, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said and asserted that the government's hunt against drug rackets will continue «ruthlessly». The confiscation of the «high-grade» party drug came on a day a joint operation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Navy and Gujarat ATS led to the recovery of about 700 kg of Methamphetamine off the Gujarat coast. This operation on the sea also saw the arrest of 8 Iranian nationals.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: A mind-boggling 600 million cyber attacks are conducted daily, and artificial intelligence (AI) can play a critical role in securing billions of electronic devices by assessing attack patterns and developing autonomous defences over time, a top Microsoft official said.

India vs South Africa 4th T20I LIVE Score: Leading the series 2-1, India will be aiming to continue the winning momentum and clinch the series when they take on South Africa in the fourth and final T20I at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. The Men in Blue started with a 61-run win in Durban before slumping to a narrow loss in Gqeberha.

Chair Jerome Powell says the Federal Reserve will likely cut its key interest rate slowly and deliberately in the coming months, in part because inflation has shown signs of persistence and the Fed’s officials want to see where it heads next

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Japanese economy managed to continue growing for a second straight quarter thanks to a recovery in consumption, although the pace slowed amid the impact of natural disasters during the summer. Japan’s gross domestic product expanded 0.2% in the three months to September from the previous quarter, preliminary government data showed Friday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. From Bridgetown to Nairobi to Paris, no country is immune to the worsening effects of the climate crisis. With each passing year, we witness more climate-related destruction.

At around $1.06, the euro has slumped nearly 5% from more than one-year highs in September when a weakening economic outlook stopped it in its tracks.

The flurry of contract agreements announced early this fall — including two more Wednesday — offer evidence that major railroads and their unions are working to avoid the standoffs that led them to a brink of a national strike two years ago

Indian Railways has fast-tracked deployment of automatic train protection (ATP) system Kavach on a fifth of its network, with contracts for installing the system on 10,000 locomotives and 1,105 route kilometres (RKM) of tracks set to be awarded this month, said officials. The national transporter has also thrown its weight behind a 2030 Kavach Rollout Plan that targets manifold ramp-up of installed capacity, they said. «Bids have been invited for 14,735 RKM while over 1,500 RKM of Kavach is operational. Work is also underway on 3,000 RKM of tracks for Kavach deployment,» said a senior official, who did not wish to be identified.