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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TEL AVIV : With escalating attacks on Hezbollah’s rank and file, commanders and infrastructure, Israel is pressing its military and intelligence advantage to give the Lebanese group an implied ultimatum: make a deal to pull back from Israel’s northern border, or go to war. Israel is rotating its attention to its border with Lebanon as the Gaza Strip battlefield becomes static, launching an aggressive series of attacks that have devastated Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.

Scotch whisky and fine wines registering double-digit growth, outpacing consumption rates in the US and China, according to a Switzerland-based researcher. «One subcategory where India surpasses China and is growing at double the rate of the USA over a five-year CAGR is Scotch luxury whisky,» Simon Joseph, a senior luxury brand builder and consumer experience expert based in Zurich, said. Joseph, a researcher with Glion Institute of Higher Education, said according to various data forecasts, the luxury Scotch whisky market is also growing at 16 per cent CAGR up to 2024-end. Scotch whisky exports to India grew at a compound annual growth rate of 66% up to 2022, outpacing the US, China, and other significant markets, Joseph said, citing data from the UK-based Scotch Whisky Association (SWA).

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. You can spend a lot of time on Federal Reserve kremlinology, analyzing policymaker statements and forecasts. Or you can ignore what they say, and just look at what they do—as markets decided after the Fed’s supersize rate cut on Wednesday.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In an interview published on the Booker Prize website, Australian writer Charlotte Wood offers a key insight to unlocking her unusual and absorbing novel, Stone Yard Devotional, shortlisted for the 2024 prize earlier this week. “I wanted nothing trivial, nothing insincere in this book," she says, taking a cue from the American master, Saul Bellow.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines festival thusly: a time of celebration marked by special observances; an often periodic celebration or programme of events or entertainment having a special focus; gaiety, conviviality. The West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have inadvertently coined a new meaning for the word.

IND vs BAN Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Rohit Sharma led team India are just 6 wickets away from a hard-fought victory against the visitors at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. While India are generally known to perform well on their home turf, this win will perhaps mean a little more to the skipper after the defeat they suffered in the ODI series against Sri Lanka.

Despite the rising number of applications and the falling number of internships, the hardest (major) investment bank to land an internship isn’t the venerable JPMorgan and its 0.91% acceptance rate or Goldman Sachs and its 0.8%. No, the toughest bank to land an internship at – statistically – is Morgan Stanley.

fall, meteorologists say – and that means leaf peepers will have to wait a little while longer.“A trend of above-normal temperatures” is forecasted for the rest of September and October across the country, according to Global News meteorologist Ross Hull.“It’s going to be a warmer-than-normal (fall) for much of the country, especially eastern sections of the country,” Hull said.Dominant air masses and air flows coming up from the United States seem to be influencing these warmer-than-normal conditions, said Geoff Coulson, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada.“Many of these air masses, especially in more southern parts of the country, are influenced by air masses coming up from the U.S.

Madonna has attempted a semi-stealth entrance to the Dolce & Gabbana runway show draped in a black veil for a runway show referencing her 1990s heyday and celebrating the cone bra

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is scheduled to appear before a congressional committee examining how states are falling short on using welfare to help families in need

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hit the headlines for his latest style statement which features a high end luxury watch.

Heritage Foundation came up with Project 2025 back in 2022. It aims to provide a comprehensive framework of policy for the Republican administration in future. It is focused on the outline of the series of few proposals, which are intended to reform the shape of the federal governance and the in-line policies with the conservative values. However, it has become a focal point of controversy as Donald Trump goes for the campaign for another term. It raises concerns about the potential strategies of implementation of Donald Trump’s electoral prospects, an Independent report said. Critics come with the argument that this project is formed to reflect an extreme approach to governance which has the tendency of alienating the moderate voters. The proposal of this initiative might develop significant inclusion of the rollbacks of the environmental regulations and take the common people away from addressing climate change. Also Read: Whopping $260,000 on a meteorite watch! That's Mark Zuckerberg's latest splurge

Shiv Sena leader Prataprao Jadhav on Saturday claimed his three generations, including himself, never paid farm electricity bills. «I am a farmer. We haven't paid bills for the last three generations. My grandfather's (water) pumps are still there. „Neither my grandfather and my father, nor I paid the farm electricity bills,“ said the Minister of State for Ayush and Health and Family Welfare. He was speaking at an event on a farm electricity bills waiver scheme, one of the flagship initiatives launched by the Eknath Shinde government.

India played model Test cricket on the third day of the first Test and put Bangladesh in the shade. First there was the calm batting of Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill, respectful of the bowlers and the conditions and then came Ravichandran Ashwin, showing off his skill to ensure that India moved the game forward. There was an air of inevitably over the hundreds Pant and Gill scored. For Pant, it was obviously a significant ton — his sixth — in the context of his life and the challenges he has faced over the last two years. It was an innings he was going to remember for a long time to come. Gill, while complementing Pant, understood that his role was slightly different. Gill needed to get some serious runs under his belt and the calm and collected manner in which he went about the task was pleasing on the eye.

car ownership is fuelling a surge in auto loans in India, extending beyond the metros to smaller cities. Consumers are also opting for longer-tenure loans to afford higher car prices, say executives. Top carmakers such as Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Mahindra, Tata Motors, Honda, and Toyota expect finance penetration to rise to 75-84% in 2024 from 64-75% in the pre-pandemic period, according to data collated by Jato Dynamics.

venture fund set up by former defence secretary Ajay Kumar has raised Rs 400 crore and closed its first deal, with three more deals approaching finalisation. In a first for a former defence secretary of India, Kumar turned an entrepreneur by launching MGF-Kavachh, an alternative investment fund approved by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, in January, following the completion of his mandatory cooling-off period after retirement. «We have so far raised Rs 400 crore with a visibility of reaching Rs 500 crore soon. Our plan is to invest in 30 startups in sectors like defence, space and deep tech,» Kumar told ET in a phone interview from Washington DC, where he is currently on a work trip.

Sean Diddy Combs has been lodged at the Metropolitan Detention Center of Brooklyn after his attorney’s bail bid got denied and he is placed on Suicide Monitor in the prison which is actually the standard protocol for keeping high-profile individuals in jail, reported DailyMail.