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public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case, a decision that unleashed an unprecedented political scandal for the long-serving nationalist government. Katalin Novak, 46, announced in a televised message that she would step down from the presidency, an office she has held since 2022. Her decision came after more than a week of public outrage after it was revealed that she issued a presidential pardon in April 2023 to a man convicted of hiding a string of child sexual abuses in a state-run children's home.

iPhone 15 smartphone was launched in India at a price of ₹79,9990, but the smartphone has since received several price cuts and is currently available in India for under ₹65,0000 during the Mobile Bonanza days on Flipkart. The 128GB variant of the iPhone 15 is listed at ₹66,999 on Flipkart, but with an HDFC bank card discount, you can buy the premium device at a discount of ₹2,000, bringing the effective price of the smartphone to ₹64,999. There is also an additional discount of ₹1,500 when using cards from Citi Bank, HSBC, DBS and Bank of Baroda.

Garena Free Fire Max is a slightly revamped version of the original Free Fire game, which was banned by the Indian government in February 2022. The battle royale game offers users a mix of intense graphics and vibrant gameplay, while the developers, 111 Dot Studios, release daily redeem codes to keep people hooked on the game. FIUYSGY6H67T5KY FLUOIHMGKFO5ITK FYMUYTYHF6YG7FQ FBHWEURF7Y6TGBD FNJEKR5IUTGMK8U FEFTHY66T7U57YH FFGBYHRDTFGY5MK FYUJTI67UJ45EO9 F5GBTGNVK6O9IUYH FMKOUYJ655T0TDEB FNRH67UTHTN77BYV Garena Free Fire Max redeem codes are 12-digit alphanumeric codes made up of capital letters and numbers.

Fund Organisation (EPFO) has fixed 8.25% interest rate on provident fund deposits for 2023-24, the highest in three years, following the approval of its central board of trustees at its meeting on Saturday. For 2022-23, the retirement fund body offered 8.15% interest, higher than 8.10% in 2021-22. The interest rate for 2023-24 will be officially notified after approval from the finance ministry, following which EPFO will credit the interest to subscribers' accounts at the end of the financial year.

loyalty programmes and co-curating unique itineraries, hotel chains and travel companies are tailoring offerings and services to see how they can better manage the expectations of their increasingly younger guests. The average age of the customer, said some of India's travel and hospitality companies, has reduced by a decade in the past five to 10 years. Vishal Suri, managing director of SOTC Travel, said the digital focus of the company has helped attract young customers. «To cater to the unique preferences of this younger and more enthusiastic segment, we are offering co-curated holidays across destinations,» said Suri.

Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink has moved its legal corporate home from Delaware to Nevada after a Delaware judge struck down Musk's $55.8 billion pay package as CEO of Tesla. Neuralink, which has its physical headquarters in Fremont, California, became a Nevada company on Thursday, according to state records. Delaware records also list the company's legal home as Nevada.

US inflation likely continued to slow at the start of the year, helping to feed expectations that the Federal Reserve will find interest-rate cuts more palatable in the coming months. The core consumer price index, a measure that excludes food and fuel for a better picture of underlying inflation, is seen increasing 3.7% in January from a year earlier. That would mark the smallest year-over-year advance since April 2021, and underscore the inroads Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues have made in beating back inflation.

Also Read: Nifty February series outlook: 4 stocks where investors can park their money; do you own? "When valuations are high, the bears will use any negative news to drag the market down," said Dr VK Vijayakumar, chief investment strategist at Geojit Financial Services, referring to "slightly hawkish comments" from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor on Thursday. The RBI kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday, as expected, and signaled rate cuts may not be imminent. The BSE benchmark fell by 723.57 points or one per cent to settle at 71,428.43 on Thursday amid uncertainty about the timing of interest rate reduction after the RBI policy decision.

Cathie Martin, professor and founder of Norfolk Healthy Produce, has come up with the idea of developing purple tomato. Martin during a research found out that tomato gets enriched with additional nutrients and purple pigment once genes from the snapdragon are combined with the tomato, the Fox weather report stated.

The Golden Bachelorette" has officially been announced by ABC. The show is a spin-off of «The Golden Bachelor». «The Golden Bachelor» season 1 was hugely successful as it became the ABC's most-watched unscripted debut release on Hulu. The show will premier in the fall, as per a report in Variety. Following the triumph of the first season of The Golden Bachelor, ABC is now gearing up to offer a golden opportunity to a woman seeking love with «The Golden Bachelorette».

Indian space sector is changing from a «closed» and «secretive» society to an open one and the objective behind it is to turn it into an economic or business activity instead of government programme, ISRO Chairman S Somanath said here on Saturday. The change in mindset has been influenced by how space-related activities in countries like the USA have been turned into an economic activity, Somnath said while speaking at the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters (MBIFL) 2024 being held at Kanakakunnu Palace here. The ISRO Chairman said that in the past 60 years, the work of the space sector — from making rockets to satellites — was aimed at societal application, for delivering services that benefit the common man. As a result, the budget of the space programme was «very less» — Rs 10,000 crore, he said during a session of the fifth edition of the MBIFL.

Arsenal’s greatest players were divided over the celebrations that followed last weekend’s vital win over Liverpool at the Emirates. Ian Wright was quite justifiably outraged that a few fist-pumps from Mikel Arteta and Martin Odegaard taking a picture of a photographer dominated the post-match discourse. “Why is everybody trying to kill the joy? Don’t kill the joy,” the legendary striker pleaded in a video posted on social media. “There’s so much of the season to go. As soon as Arsenal do anything, they just come under a pileon. It’s like we can’t have any joy....the hatred is just so intense.”

ICC U-19 World Cup when they face Australia in the summit clash here. On November 19 last year, an Australian team left Rohit Sharma and his band teary-eyed on a global stage and for the Uday Saharans, Sachin Dhas, Musheer Khans and Saumykumar Pandeys, beating an Aussie team would certainly be very sweet. «No, we are not thinking about revenge. We are firmly focussed on present and we neither want to dwell on past or look too far ahead,» skipper Saharan recently told PTI Bhasha in Benoni. The Aussies have a quartet which could spell trouble for India and they are skipper Hugh Weibgen, opener Harry Dixon, seamers Tom Straker and Callum Vidler, the consistent performers during this edition.

daylight saving time for 2024.Daylight saving time will begin this year on Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. local time. While we might lose an hour of sleep by “springing forward,” it also marks the day when we’ll begin to notice those longer daylight hours.Canadians in most time zones should set their manual devices ahead an hour on Saturday, Mar.

Franklin Templeton's top boss Jenny Johnson can't wait for the India opportunity to unfold where she believes the mutual fund industry has tremendous scope for growth and credits her fund management company for spotting the country's vast potential 27 years ago when it became the first foreign fund manager to start operations. «Only 5% of the population has mutual funds. So, we are incredibly excited about how the future is going to be,» said Johnson, chief executive officer of the $1.4 trillion global investment management giant. Johnson, who has lived in India briefly during her long career with Franklin Templeton, said she had really seen the country grow over the past 27 years. «There was a saying India grows at night while the government sleeps. I would laugh at that because I always believed there is huge potential in the economy. 56% of the population is under 25. You have a British-oriented legal system,» she said. Citing how remarkably things have changed, she said the country, which earlier faced headwinds because the government was blamed for slowing things down, now has a tailwind.

Ram sport a beard? And if he did, or didn't, how are we to know? If an overwhelming number of people believe that he was clean-shaven, isn't that enough for us to consider the matter settled then — that the deity-king was as smooth on chin as Lord Salman is on chest? The 'beard' issue has been festering in my head for quite some time now. The heady partnership of mob and media may not have picked up on it yet. But a recent conversation about 'How on Earth did we fix the way our gods look?' — including the remarkable transformation of the West Asian, brown-skinned, dark-haired Jesus into a blond Haight Ashbury hippie dude — made my salt'n'pepper thoughts on the matter bristle again. One thing's for sure — as much as one can be sure about things like these: it's certainly unlikely that (wo)man created god in her/his own image. You only have to see your neighbours. Unless, that is, your neighbours' ancestors couldn't stand the idea of normal-looking devis aur devas, so had them 'made' super-real/surreal, desi Barbie-style perfect?

One Nation, One Election' on Saturday reviewed the progress made by it after it was set up in September last year. The committee under former president Ram Nath Kovind also evaluated the consultation process it is holding with political parties, former judges and state election commissions. Separately, the panel held interactions with a delegation from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led by P Wilson, an official statement said. The DMK presented its views on the issue of holding simultaneous elections in the country.

Vande Bharat trains in the coming years, railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at the Global Business Summit on Saturday. «The challenge was to develop it (Vande Bharat) in our country by our own engineers and the challenge has been taken very well. I can say with a good level of confidence that in the coming years, we would start exporting this train,» said Vaishnaw, who also holds the communications, and electronics and information technology portfolios. The minister said the feedback on Vande Bharat has been good but more improvements will be done on the trains. «Work has already started on another version of the train, the Vande Sleeper,» he said.

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With the contribution deadline for the registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) approaching, Canadians have more choices than ever for where they want to sock away their savings to get a lift on their tax returns.

Quebec’s tourism minister says demolishing Montreal’s Olympic Stadium would cost $2 billion, but that estimate is raising questions because other North American cities have torn down stadiums for hundreds of millions of dollars less.