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bullet train prices increased by 70 per cent from October onwards. This is the first price hike in four decades. The 14 days unlimited travel pass will now cost 80,000 yen (INR 44719). Earlier, the same pass used to cost 47,250 yen (INR 26412).

Investing.com — U.S. futures rose Thursday, ahead of the release of the eagerly-awaited September consumer prices report.

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Tata Starbucks has opened its island store surrounded by the vistas of Arabian Sea in the coastal town of Alibaug in an attempt to serve high-quality Arabica coffees to local customers and meet the demand from global travellers to the city, the JV announced on Thursday. Located at a vantage spot at the M2M Ferry Terminal in Alibaug, the new store will present Starbucks coffees sourced and brewed from around the world, the coffeehouse said in a release, adding that its menu will also feature favourite Indian beverages including South Indian Filter Coffee, Masala Chai, and Elaichi Chai. The seaside town has had tremendous growth in both infrastructure and economic development over the years, making it a popular weekend retreat and more so like a second home for the Mumbaikars.

TOI. Moreover, the indigenously constructed platform screen corridor will be virtually launched.

₹1,500) more, and student visas will be £127 (approximately ₹12,750) more expensive for international travelers. The changes became effective from 4 October.

Hamas, its foreign affairs ministry said Wednesday. Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Mauro Vieira has interrupted an Asia trip to travel 'to New York to participate in a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, called by Brazil… to address the situation in the Gaza Strip,' the Ministry said in a statement. Brazil previously called an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday, the day after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel. Israeli forces say 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the onslaught, the worst in the country's history. As Israel pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, a densely populated enclave of 2.3 million people, in response, the death toll there has also reached 1,200 people, including a high number of civilians, according to Palestinian authorities. More than 3,38,000 people in the enclave have been displaced, according to the United Nations. At Sunday's Security Council meeting, members were divided over policy concerning Israel and the Palestinians. Earlier on Wednesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for urgent international action to protect both Palestinian and Israeli civilians, especially children. «Children must never be held hostage, anywhere in the world,» Lula wrote on social media platform X. «Hamas needs to free the Israeli children who were kidnapped from their families.

Israel, US President Joe Biden on Wednesday addressed Jewish community leaders at a roundtable in the White House and called the attacks by Hamas a «campaign of pure cruelty». «I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,» Biden said in broader remarks about his administration's support for Israel amid its war with Hamas and efforts to free American hostages. During the event at the White House, featuring a group of around two dozen rabbis and leaders of Jewish organisations, Biden also warned Iran to «be careful». «We moved the US carrier fleet to the eastern Mediterranean and we are sending more fighter jets to that region, and made it clear to the Iranians: Be careful,» he said, adding, «When terrorist groups like Hamas, brought not only a sheer evil, sheer evil to the world, evil that echoes the worst matches in some cases exceeds the worst atrocities of ISIS.» Earlier on Wednesday, the US president spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu, marking the fourth known call between the two.

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Investing.com — Stocks were heading higher in the last 30 minutes of trading on Wednesday after the release of the minutes from the Federal Reserve's meeting in September.

LD Sharma and Optimise, LD Sharma through Shoogloo, has bought Optimise India 100% and rebranded to Shoogloo. As part of the changes, LD Sharma has exited the Optimise group, and Optimise has acquired 100% ownership of Optimise APAC.

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Mint explains why insiders expect the current quarter to be historic. India’s air passenger traffic has more than doubled since 2013. Domestic air passenger traffic for April-September 2023 saw a 142% jump to 112.9 million passengers from 46.6 million during the same period in 2013.

₹75 crore) in its first institutional funding round since it was founded in 2010. The round was led by homegrown private-equity firm First Bridge, which will deploy capital for Lavie via its India Growth Fund. “Lavie comes with a long track record of building successful consumer businesses," said Ayush Tainwala, chief executive of Bagzone.

Vladimir Putin will visit Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, the presidential office of the Central Asian country said, in what would be the Russian leader's first known trip abroad since the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest. Putin has rarely travelled abroad since the start of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and is not known to have left Russia since the ICC issued in March a warrant for him on suspicion of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. The Kremlin denies those allegations. «At the invitation of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Sadyr Japarov, on October 12 of this year, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, will make an official visit to the country,» the Kyrgyz presidential administration said in a statement on its website. Putin agreed in May during talks with Japarov to visit Kyrgyzstan, but there has been no official confirmation yet from the Kremlin that the Russian president will travel there on Thursday. The Russian leader is also due to travel to China next week for the third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing.

BEIJING — China's consumer spending still isn't growing as fast as it did before the pandemic, analysts said.

TCS Q2 Results Preview: IT major to report muted earnings growth; share buyback in focus (Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here!) Another brokerage firm Nuvama Wealth Management believes Infosys' Q2FY24 revenue may rise 6 per cent YoY. Besides, the brokerage firm expects revenue to grow by 1.2 per cent QoQ in CC terms and 1 per cent QoQ in USD terms.

Sophie Turner, the celebrity couple, have successfully reached an agreement concerning the custody of their two daughters. The court documents shed light on the resolution of this custody matter, bringing clarity to their ongoing legal proceedings. The divorce process initiated by Joe Jonas, a member of the renowned Jonas Brothers music group, officially began when he filed for divorce from Sophie Turner on September 1.

₹2,62,996. Customers can reserve the motorcycle by paying a refundable booking amount of ₹10,000. Additionally, Triumph will provide over 25 accessories to cater to various rider requirements.

Goibibo announces Kareena Kapoor Khan aka Bebo as its new brand ambassador to initiate two-way communication between a brand and its audience. This announcement coincides with the launch of Goibibo’s new campaign – ‘Hotels aise on Goibibo, full marks by Bebo’ – and a new adapted social media identity. The brand integrates cues from the actor’s most memorable roles and her name in real life to its own personality thereby converging the brand and the brand ambassador.

In Aristophanes’ classical play The Clouds, when confronted with a map of Athens, the anti-hero Strepsiades denied that it could possibly be so because he could see no lawyers.