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4th of July sales is a rather traditional celebratory occasion for shopaholics across the United States as thousands of retailers across the country join hands to take part in it to make the shopping experience pocket-friendly as well as interesting. There are a plethora of items to choose from during the 4th of July sales, be it tech gadgets, kitchen items, and more at some amazing discounted deals from popular US brands. However, you need to maintain caution about the products to purchase during 4th of July sales as some of the products may be found even cheaper on other sales like Amazon Prime Day 2024 sales.

solar mission Aditya-L1 spacecraft completed its first halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point on Tuesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement. The Aditya-L1 mission is an Indian solar observatory at Lagrangian point L1, launched on September 2 last year and was inserted in its targeted halo orbit on January 6. Aditya-L1 spacecraft in the Halo orbit takes 178 days to complete a revolution around the L1 point.

Mumbai: In another tragic hit-and-run incident, a woman tragically lost her life after a BMW collided with the bike she was riding with her husband early on Sunday morning. According to a report from TOI, the couple, residents of Worli, Mumbai, were heading to fetch fish when the accident occurred. The collision was so severe that the 45-year-old woman was thrown onto the car's bonnet. Rather than stopping, the driver continued for approximately 100 metres before fleeing the scene. The injured woman was rushed to Nair Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Kerala and Tamil Nadu are likely to experience the 'kallakkadal' phenomenon — the sudden swell of the seas causing rough waves — and high tides till 11.30 pm on Monday, according to the weather agency. The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) on Sunday sounded an alert to fishermen and coastal residents in the area about the possible sea surge. INCOIS, the central agency that issues weather warnings for fishermen in the country, advised people to safely moor their fishing vessels in the harbour. It advised coastal people, living in accident-prone areas, to relocate to safer places in view of possible danger.

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Border Patrol agents say a woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak

Canada’s second largest airline, WestJet, has cancelled 829 flights from Thursday, June 27 to Monday, July 1, which is also considered to be the busiest travel weekend of the season. The reason for this is a strike by 680 workers who are engaged in the daily inspections and repair tasks for the airline. However, as per the recent development, the union representing WestJet Airlines’ striking mechanics has negotiated a contract with the carrier, ending their strike immediately on Monday, July 1. 

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NEW YORK—Patrons at the Comfort Diner in Midtown Manhattan recently encountered an unexpected person working the tables: Gov. Kathy Hochul. Rather than take orders, she went booth to booth seeking opinions about the city’s first-in-the-nation plans for congestion pricing—a $15 toll on vehicles entering the core of Manhattan.

education has petered off a little in the light of job shortages, visa issues and higher living expenses abroad, many a parent is continuing to save for this goal without considering either the financial feasibility or practical problems of living and finding employment in these destinations. If you, too, are looking at this option, it is important to check if this goal is worth the effort you may be putting into it. Since this decision has the potential to wreak havoc with your finances and create uncertainty for your child, it’s best to consider the following factors before you proceed.

Mumbai-based business analyst Sweta Chandra earns well, but also pays a high tax because her salary structure is not very tax-friendly, she doesn’t avail of all the deductions available to her, and invests in tax-inefficient options. TaxSpanner estimates that Chandra can save more than Rs.91,000 in tax if the taxable allowances in her salary are replaced with tax-free emoluments and her employer offers her the NPS benefit. She also needs to invest in the pension scheme on her own.

T20 World Cup final on Saturday, a 1,000-strong audience cheered for esports champions at the Battleground Mobile India (BGMI) series event at Hyderabad. This signifies the increasing popularity of such pursuits even in a cricket-crazy nation like India.

international airport in Hosur promises significant benefits for Bengaluru’s IT corridor, Electronics City, and nearby areas close to the Tamil Nadu border. The commute from Electronics City to Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), located over 60 kilometers away, is challenging at times due to increasing traffic congestion and the lack of a robust mass transit system. Industrialists in Hosur have long advocated for an airport to boost the region's growth.

Also read | Step-by-step: Setting up trusts for specially-abled children He began to seriously consider financial planning after the covid-19 outbreak, when many doctors with private practices suddenly found themselves without income due to clinic closures. “We never imagined doctors could face such a situation. I realised it was time to plan our finances systematically, so I approached Suresh Sadagopan and his team at Ladder7 Wealth Planners," Das recalls.

Mint ahead of the upcoming full-year budget for 2024-25. Simplifying the taxes and promoting Indian tourism in overseas markets more aggressively would revive interest in India among foreign travellers, said Kalra, also the founder-mentor of online travel platform MakeMyTrip. Edited excerpts from the interview: The country’s tourism sector has moved beyond the pandemic, and we expect inbound, domestic and outbound tourism to surpass 2019 levels by the end of 2024, but maintaining economic stability and controlling inflation will be crucial for sustaining India’s tourism growth.

Jonny Beardmore, a naturally friendly guy, has a novel way to meet more people. Earlier this year, he loaded up a carry-on bag, left his London home and embarked on a yearlong journey across seven continents with the goal of hand-delivering 50 postcards to their intended recipients. One was to Steve in Belize from Denise, professing her love.

Most of my life, I didn’t need tourism. The first time I went on a vacation was when I was 27, and it was just about 20km across the bay from Mumbai, where I lived. But, finally, I was on this famous thing called a vacation.

The Economic Consequences of Peace (1919), Woolf’s close friend, the economist John Maynard Keynes, had issued a kind of nostalgic benediction on the globalisation the world—or rather his world—had enjoyed until the outbreak of World War I in 1914: “The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep; he could at the same moment and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprises of any quarter of the world." By the standards of Amazon today, this seems an overstatement, but Keynes was making a fair point when he says that the Industrial Revolution and this opening up of the world also made advancement possible into the middle and upper classes “for any man of capacity or character at all exceeding the average, for whom life (then) offered conveniences, comforts, and amenities beyond the compass of the richest and most powerful monarchs of other ages." It is hard to guess how K.K. Jacob’s career would have played out if he had stayed in his native Travancore, but his career as an expatriate Indian in government administration and hospitals in Sri Lanka could not occur today.

The House of Beckham: Money, Sex, and Power," Tom Bower describes an uncomfortable moment that happened between Meghan Markle and David Beckham at the 2018 Invictus Games. Tensions surfaced soon after Beckham and his wife, Victoria, attended Harry and Meghan's wedding. During the October 2018 Invictus Games in Sydney, Beckham allegedly discovered that Prince Harry was purposefully pushed aside from him, in contrast to their customary cordial exchanges. As per Bower, Meghan allegedly planned this split to avoid any rivalry in the media, especially from Victoria, as reported by the 'New York Post'.

Chef Ho Chi Ming doesn’t want to forget his roots. “I want to travel around, telling people what Calcutta Chinese food is all about,” says the third-generation cook in the family.

WestJet has cancelled more than 200 flights after the union representing its plane mechanics announced late Friday that members had hit the picket lines.The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) announced its members started to strike around 5:30 p.m. MDT Friday because the airline’s “unwillingness to negotiate with the union made the strike inevitable.”The move came after the federal government issued a ministerial order for binding arbitration Thursday.