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first searched in 2018. He said he has invited the company to meet him to evaluate new scientific evidence it has to find the plane's final resting place. If the evidence is credible, he said, he will seek Cabinet's approval to sign a new contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the search.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is expected to double down on his message that there’s no rush to cut interest rates, especially after fresh inflation data showed that price pressures persist. Powell is headed to Capitol Hill, where he’ll deliver his semiannual monetary policy testimony to a House committee on Wednesday and a Senate panel on Thursday. The US central bank chief and nearly all of his colleagues have said in recent weeks that they can afford to be patient in deciding when to cut rates given underlying strength in the US economy.

Mint looks deeper into the third quarter performance and the prospects for the next few quarters. After strong growth in the first two quarters of 2023-24 (8.2% in Q1 and 8.1% in Q2), it was expected that the economic expansion will moderate to 6.5% levels in the third quarter. This was because manufacturing, mining and electricity sectors were showing signs of weakness, and an uneven monsoon was hurting agricultural output.

BENGALURU : India’s top IT services company will grow at its slowest pace this year, but for the year ahead, it has nothing short of a growth blitz in mind. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) chief executive K. Krithivasan and Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran huddled with the company’s top 800 executives last week to sketch out a detailed plan for the company’s future, two executives privy to the Abu Dhabi gathering said.

WHO), India is firming up its own pandemic preparedness programme which will lay out a blueprint for surveillance, risk assessment and mobilisation of resources to effectively tackle any pandemic outbreak in the country. The NITI Aayog, in consultation with the health and family welfare ministry and other stakeholders, will submit a comprehensive programme by the middle of this year, aimed at containing the spread of any pandemic in future and restricting the loss of lives as had happened during Covid-19, a senior government official told ET on condition of anonymity. The idea is to come up with dedicated investments, financing options and monitoring mechanisms as part of the pandemic preparedness programme, with a focus on key challenges that had emerged during the past pandemics, including Covid-19.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday called on the West to rapidly deliver more air-defence systems as a wave of Russian missile, drone and artillery strikes killed at least 11 people. Eight were confirmed dead, including a child and a baby, after an overnight drone strike on the southern port city of Odesa, a regional official said. Separate shelling attacks on the frontline regions of Kharkiv in the northeast and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south killed another three people, Ukrainian officials said. «Russia continues to hit civilians,» Zelenskyy said in a post on social media.

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Goldman Sachs, which coined the term BRICS, has come up with monikers for stocks driving stock market rallies in Europe and Japan, alongside the US' 'Magnificent Seven' — Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla, Meta and Nvidia. European 'Granolas' — GSK, Roche, ASML, Nestle, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, L'Oreal, LVMH, AstraZeneca, SAP and Sanofi — are a more diversified grouping than the US tech constellation. Yet, the 11 companies are still tightly packed around lifestyle, with the occasional presence of software.

Episode 8 Act 2 is on the horizon, bringing a fresh Battle Pass filled with enticing rewards, including skins and Radiante Points. As players gear up for the new season, here's a comprehensive look at what to expect from E8A2's Battle Pass, according to a Dexerto report.

cycling in Navi Mumbai. The tragedy underscores a prime reason why those willing to shift to cycling in our cities do not. Saini chose to cycle even though he could have used a car because opting to pedal is a healthy, environment-friendly choice for a growing number of affluent Indians.

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BJP has given priority to winnability over background while choosing its candidates in the first list of 195 to meet its ambitious target of 370 seats in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party has fielded Rajya Sabha MPs, dynasts, defectors from other parties, even MPs — barring two — who had courted controversies in the past, and controversial celebrities to score a decisive mandate. The list also underlines that, along with Narendra Modi’s popularity, the candidates and cadre too play an important role. Around 20 percent of the sitting MPs have been dropped in the first list and the reason is their lacklustre performance of low chances of winning.

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World of Warcraft players are in for a treat as the Trading Post unveils its offerings for March 2024. From mounts to pets and transmogrifications, here's a detailed look at what players can expect to find.

₹2 trillion worth of sanctioned projects are fast-tracked. Slow progress on DPRs has been one of the reasons projects worth trillions of rupees have failed to move ahead and get awarded. The situation has become particularly alarming in the current financial year, with highway awards falling way below the targeted 12,000 km -- indicating a thinning of the pipeline for projects that would impact construction over a longer period.

Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha on Sunday launched a new startup policy with a focus to establish 2,000 startups in the Union Territory by 2027. The 'New Jammu & Kashmir Start-up Policy- 2024-27' will also provide patent-related assistance, financial assistance for mentorship to recognised startups, facilitation for department for the promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) registration and additional need-based support to startups working in diverse fields, Sinha said. «I invite the potential investors from across the country to explore the unlimited possibilities present in the Union Territory and contribute to the growth journey of Jammu Kashmir,» the lieutenant governor said at the launch of the policy at the Avinya Startup Summit here.

NEW DELHI : Dismal sales of ‘Bharat’ rice, a subsidized grain aimed at helping curb its market price, have made the Centre changed its strategy. The government’s new plan is to take subsidized rice as well as atta (wheat flour) to markets where their intake is high in a targeted attempt to increase their consumption and cool prices, two senior officials aware of the matter said. The new plan is in the works after only 7.2% of Bharat rice, compared to a high 84.6% of Bharat atta that were lifted from government warehouses by three agencies managed to sell, the first of the two officials said on condition of anonymity.

Mint explains where things stand in India, and what the immediate future holds. It’s a charge that Google levies on companies that sell services through apps listed on its Play Store. Under the current rules, apps that earn up to $1 million from subscriptions or in-app purchases are charged 15% of the revenue as service fee, and those that earn more than that are charged 30%.

Mint in Barcelona, on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress. The technology provider intends to meet the demand from Indian as well as global carriers from its India plant. The first pilot of the technology for Vodafone Idea is being conducted in Jalandhar, Punjab to test the equipment and functioning of the network such that it meets all the key performance indicators of the existing networks, while in parallel they're scaling up the number of sites to cover the entire state.

Times Now. “We are in the hospital, and something happened to us that we wouldn’t wish on anyone. Seven men raped me, and they have beaten us and robbed us, although not many things (were taken) because what they wanted was to rape me. We are in the hospital with the police, it happened tonight in India," the 28-year-old Spanish travel vlogger shared in her video post on Instagram.

WASHINGTON : Presidential contenders Donald Trump and Nikki Haley will face off in the Washington, D.C., Republican primary on Sunday, a small-stakes contest that could be one of Haley's best shots to score a win over the former president. The United States' capital city only sends 19 out of 2,429 delegates to the Republican National Convention in July, where the nominee is formally selected. Sunday's results are unlikely to change the trajectory of a race that Trump appears to have stitched up, having won all the previous nominating contests.