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By the time we made it to the water fountain at Havasupai Gardens, about 3 miles up from where the Colorado River lacerates the Grand Canyon, I had started questioning the choices that had brought me here. We had trained on long-distance hikes in the summer heat, kitted ourselves out until we looked like walking REI catalogs, printed maps and studied routes, but my cousin Jeremy had hit a wall. With the energy I had left, I located an alarmed park ranger, who pointed out the salt stains on Jeremy’s shirt and told him to cool off in a nearby creek.

new tax regime in the July 2024 Budget, increasing its attractiveness compared to the old tax regime. This was done by changing the income tax slabs to reduce tax payable, hiking the standard deduction to Rs 75,000 and increasing the deduction to 14% on employer's contribution to the NPS account under the new tax regime. However, these changes have been made in the new tax regime after almost 4 months of the financial year 2024-25 are already over. Salaried individuals have already informed, in April of this financial year, their employers about their individual choice of tax regime for deducting tax from their salaries. Employers use the tax regime chosen by the employees as the basis for calculating the TDS from each employee's salary. In the most cases, this choice has to be made in the first month of the FY as per employers' requirements. Each employee chose the tax regime favourable to him/her based on the income tax slabs under the old and new tax regimes existing at that point in time. Latest income tax slabs in old, new tax regime for FY 2024-25

NEET PG Hearing 2024 Live Updates: The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a plea seeking postponement of the NEET-PG examination, scheduled for August 11, which claimed that candidates have been allocated cities that are highly inconvenient to reach. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra on Thursday took note of lawyer Anas Tanwir's submissions on the issue.The plea said many candidates have been allocated cities which are highly inconvenient for them to reach.

2024 OR1, measuring approximately 110 feet in diameter, is on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth on August 6, 2024, at 6:41 PM IST. NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) issued a warning about this near-Earth object (NEO), which is traveling at a speed of 30,381 kilometers per hour. However, it is predicted to pass safely away from Earth. 2024 OR1 belongs to the Apollo group, a category of asteroids with orbits that intersect Earth’s orbit, making them subjects of intense study. The asteroid's dimensions and rapid speed place it under NASA's close observation regime, part of a broader effort to track potentially hazardous asteroids. The size of 2024 OR1 is roughly comparable to that of a blue whale, and it moves at velocities similar to other fast-moving NEOs. Radar observations and optical telescopes have been employed to determine its trajectory and physical characteristics. NASA's initial detection of 2024 OR1 happened at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. The detection is part of the agency’s ongoing mission to monitor NEOs that could pose a danger to Earth. These efforts are managed by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), which is tasked with detecting, tracking, and characterizing hazardous asteroids and comets.

The UK’s FCA has unveiled fresh guidance for crypto companies after assessing their adherence to financial promotion regulations.

Vienna leg of a tour by American mega-star Taylor Swift has been cancelled after Austria arrested an Islamic State sympathiser in connection with an attack plot, the organisers said Wednesday. Authorities had earlier confirmed the arrest of a 19-year-old sympathiser of the armed group for allegedly planning an attack in the Vienna region, warning he had a «focus» on Swift's three upcoming shows. «With confirmation from government officials of a planned terrorist attack at Ernst Happel Stadium, we have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone's safety,» Barracuda Music said on Instagram.

BHEL, REC, HPCL, Ceat, and BPCL, along with several other companies, are likely to be in focus today as they have declared August 9 as the record date for determining eligible shareholders for dividend payments. This means today is the last day to buy shares of these companies to qualify for the announced dividends.

One of the warning signs that an investment banking franchise is in trouble is that memos start going round the office telling everyone that business class travel is being curtailed . It tends to be followed by strict limits on client entertainment, or even the banning of particularly popular and expensive restaurants.

Fresh talent hiring increased 11% from a year earlier in July, with the index rising from 268 to 298, despite falling 1% sequentially, according to the foundit insights tracker (fit), a monthly analysis of online job posting activity. “We have also noticed that the salaries of employees have consistently risen, driven by higher demand for fresh talent and competitive salary offerings. This growth is likely fueled by high-growth sectors such as technology, digital marketing, and e-commerce,” said Sekhar Garisa, CEO, foundit, a Quess company.

Day passes to resorts and hotels really took off during the pandemic and have remained popular

Dubai International Airport has seen a record 44.9 million travelers pass through its terminals in the first half of this year

Egypt's local currency is sliding against the U.S. dollar after recent increases in fuel prices and subway fares

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Tata Motors on Wednesday launched the electric vehicle SUV Curvv.ev, in a bid to further strengthen it's dominance in an emerging electric vehicles market in India. The Tata Curvv EV, priced from Rs 17.49 lakh to Rs 21.99 lakh, will compete with the MG ZS EV, which falls within the range of Rs 18.98 lakh to Rs 25.44 lakh. Curvv EV will feature a 123 kWh motor, which will enable it to go from 0 to 100 km/h in just 8.6 seconds.

Anurag Singh, Founder & Managing Partner, Ansid Capital, says fundamentals do not change like that. The unwinding of carry-trade has happened now. Hopefully, that is behind us. People will not again try and play smart on this, borrowing in yen and investing in US or global markets. What do you make of first the big global meltdown on Monday and the recovery thereafter? Anurag Singh: I will not pretend to act as if I saw this coming. I was also caught by surprise. I was traveling in the last couple of weeks and was not prepared for it. Well, all fingers point to the yen carry trade. Now, of course, everybody knows how that works and looks like that because it was a quick technical selloff.

A Texas family of four is still missing after their boat capsized and sank off the coast of Alaska on Saturday while they were on a family vacation. The U.S. Coast Guard searched throughout the weekend for the family but suspended its search mission on Sunday evening after finding no sign of the missing four.

Microsoft blamed Delta Air Lines on Tuesday for its dayslong struggle to recover from a global cyber outage that led it to cancel more than 6,000 flights. The flight disruptions stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers and are estimated to cost the Atlanta-based airline $500 million. Last week, Delta's CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC that while the airline heavily relies on Microsoft and CrowdStrike, both tech companies had failed to deliver an «exceptional service.» In the interview, he also said that Microsoft had the «most fragile platform.»

Mint explains the rationale for these moves and what it entails for the future of IndiGo and the Indian aviation ecosystem. After covid-related restrictions were eased in May 2020, India’s aviation ecosystem recovered strongly. The visible signs of an expanding economy, a growing middle class, and higher disposable income were credited with for boosting travel across metros and smaller cities.

The stock quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 1148.3 and low of Rs 635.2.

food services group K Hospitality Corp plans to list the business on Indian stock exchanges with a Rs 2,500-3,000 crore initial public offering, said people aware of the development. The operator of restaurants and cafes, food courts, and airports stores with brands such as Copper Chimney, Bombay Brasserie, Cafeccino, and The Irish House has hired Kotak Mahindra Capital and ICICI Securities to manage the IPO process, they said.