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far-right Alternative for Germany won a state election for the first time Sunday in the country’s east, and was set to finish at least a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a second vote, projections showed.A new party founded by a prominent leftist also made an immediate impact, while the parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular national government obtained extremely weak results.Projections for ARD and ZDF public television based on exit polls and partial counting showed Alternative for Germany winning 32-33% of the vote in Thuringia — well ahead of the center-right Christian Democratic Union, the main national opposition party, with about 24%.In neighboring Saxony, projections put support for the CDU — which has led the state since German reunification in 1990 — at 31.7%, with AfD on 30.6-31.4%.“An openly right-wing extremist party has become the strongest force in a state parliament for the first time since 1949, and that causes many people very deep concern and fear,” said Omid Nouripour, a leader of the Greens, one of the national governing parties.Other parties say they won’t put AfD in power by joining it in a coalition. Even so, its strength is likely to make it extremely difficult to form new state governments, forcing the parties into exotic new coalitions.

Aadar Jain, cousin of Bollywood stars Kareena Kapoor Khan and Ranbir Kapoor, has officially gotten engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Alekha Advani. The engagement took place in a picturesque beach setting, marking a new chapter in the lives of the couple. Aadar, known for his roles in Qaidi Band and Hello Charlie, shared glimpses of his dreamy proposal on social media. Dressed in a crisp white and blue striped shirt paired with white pants, Aadar was seen down on one knee, proposing to Alekha, who looked radiant in a sheer yellow dress. The couple’s love story unfolded against a backdrop of golden lights and a heart made of sand and rose petals. As Aadar slipped the ring onto Alekha’s finger, emotions ran high, with Alekha visibly moved, tears glistening in her eyes. The couple sealed the moment with a passionate kiss, and Aadar captioned the post, «My first crush, my best friend & now, my forever.»

Dipan Mehta, Director, Elixir Equities, says that typically, after a few quarters of downbeat numbers, you do see an upswing in sugar numbers as well and valuations are reasonable. In markets like this, investors are looking for good quality, low PE stocks, and this is one segment that certainly fits that criteria.

₹8.4 lakh for the Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling Academy and the Mary Kom Regional Boxing Academy. FairPlay India, another betting platform with over 115,000 followers on Instagram, features actor Jacqueline Fernandez as its brand ambassador. In a video from May, Fernandez states that FairPlay is "India’s most trusted platform" for various sports, including cricket and tennis.

«They are still at about 20 times FY26 earnings at the index level. So, I would not call it that this valuation is so far stretched that there are no opportunities. At the same time, are the valuations at a level that you can say with a lot of certainty that anything you buy will make you money? I do not think we are there also,» says Abhay Agarwal, Piper Serica. Given the fact that we are hitting fresh record high now on the markets once again, do you believe that the market valuations is now looking a bit stretched or do you think that it is not that expensive yet? Abhay Agarwal: If we look at by traditional standards, the valuations are definitely on the higher side. I do not think the valuations or the index, when we look at valuation, we typically talk about the valuation of the Nifty Index stocks, the 50 stocks. So, they are not in the exorbitant range yet.

Nifty at new all-time high of 25,236 simply indicates momentum as it steps in uncharted territory. The upward momentum is evident specifically with a directional contribution from Pharma, Tech and Finance. At present, the underperformance in Bank Nifty and other sectors make the current rally very specific in terms of outperformance from sectors like Finance, commodities, Pharma and tech.

Burman family of Dabur and promoters of Jubilant Group, the Bhartias, are separately closing in on a 40% stake in Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB) for Rs 10,800-12,000 crore ($1.3-1.4 billion), said executives aware of the development. This values Coca-Cola India’s wholly owned bottling subsidiary at Rs 27,000-30,000 crore ($3.21-3.61 billion). The two sides submitted bids over the weekend, said the people cited.

youth employability, promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing carbon emissions are key measures for India to «power a billion dreams», prominent business leaders from the consumer sectors said on Saturday. At a panel discussion on 'The India opportunity: Empowering a billion dreams', moderated by Kaushika Madhavan, Asia Pacific leader at AT Kearney, leaders from diverse businesses spotlighted rapid growth in the world's fifth largest economy and stressed on the need for inclusive growth and development at a time when economic recovery is showing sharply divergent trends. «We have got to take India with us… India is a country of opportunities, a country of dreams… we need to have inclusive growth as a lot of India is poor,» said Raymond Ltd chairman and managing director Gautam Hari Singhania.

Bayer Leverkusen lost a Bundesliga game for the first time in 15 months when Lois Openda scored twice in a 3-2 comeback win for Leipzig on Saturday. Under coach Xabi Alonso, Leverkusen has made crucial late goals a speciality. It briefly seemed like that might happen again when the referee went to review a possible penalty in the 86th minute after Leipzig's Castello Lukeba and Leverkusen's Patrik Schick made contact. The referee decided against the spot kick and Leverkusen lost to a German opponent for the first time since May 2023 after 35 Bundesliga games unbeaten, including its entire title-winning 2023-24 season. «It's hard, it's bitter,» Alonso told German broadcaster Sky. «I don't think we deserved to lose today.»

«The regulators and government are balancing a lot of things, some of which we are not privy to… I don't see a challenge with this issue of market share because there are a large number of players operating and there is scope for everyone,» he said. Kenghe, who helms Google Pay in India and Asia Pacific region, was in conversation with ET's Samidha Sharma at the ET World Leaders Forum on Saturday.

Banijay Asia plans to invest $50 million (over Rs 400 crore) in a «first-of-its-kind» reality series tentatively titled 'Race to Space', making it India's most expensive television show, sources close to the development said. The investment will cover the licensing fee to the US-based Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) as well as production and talent costs, they added. Industry watchers said 'Bigg Boss Hindi', hosted by Bollywood star Salman Khan, is currently the country's most expensive non-fiction show, with budgets exceeding Rs 150 crore. «Given the scale and scope of the project, this is not just a documentary series or just a reality series — it is a 'space programme',» Banjay Asia CEO Deepak Dhar said. The new reality format will revolutionise competitive reality television and rekindle interest in space exploration, he added. Expressing optimism about the show's success in India, SERA co-founder Joshua Skurla cited the interest in last year's Chandrayaan-3 moon landing live-stream.

data analytics, predictive tech and AI, data points are valuable not so much for what they tell us about the past but for how well they can predict the future. By that yardstick, Q1 GDP numbers released by NSO last Friday for the quarter ended June 2024 are likely to fail the test. In a world dogged by uncertainty, where black swan events are seemingly no longer the exception, macroeconomic numbers like GDP are incredibly hard to predict. The past is no guide to the future. No one foresaw the pandemic or, further back in time, the Global Financial Crisis, both of which saw GDP growth collapse dramatically. Sure, these were catastrophic events. But, thanks to geopolitics, there are just too many unknown unknowns in the world today to expect GDP estimates for a single quarter to give us more than a very rough idea of how growth is likely to pan out in future.

Sudha Murthy on Sunday said although she has read a book set in Parliament way back in the 1980s, about Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, since so much has changed about India and the Parliament since then, that she would not mind writing about it. «Although, I have to finish my term as a Rajya Sabha member first, before I could attempt to do that,» said Murthy on Sunday. Murthy was in conversation with fellow author and actor Twinkle Khanna, at the celebration of the launch of her 300th book title — and 46th book — 'Grandpa's Bag of Stories' here. The event was organised by Bengaluru-based Lit Spirit Foundation. But in her immediate list of wishes is a book on 'shlokas' that her grandfather used to recite, she said.

Golden Inuverse is making waves in the gaming world as a standout project from the Golden Inu developers team. In beta testing since late 2023, this play-to-earn RPG has quickly become one of the fastest rising DeFi games after they finally released its complete version to the public.

big screen to surprising success — from the 2012 hit "Gangs of Wasseypur" full of blood, gore and revenge to the romantic «Laila Majnu» that had a lacklustre run when it was first released in 2018. According to trade experts and exhibitors, this is a good way to fill up the halls and recover money as those who loved watching these movies or missed them at the time of their release seem keen for the big screen experience. «It's beneficial for exhibitors, and whoever holds the right to the film also earns money. For instance, when 'Laila Majnu' and 'Rockstar' were released, they didn't do well but this generation loved these films. »The average occupancy for 'Laila Majnu' was 40 per cent all over India. In some properties in Mumbai, it registered over 80 per cent occupancy," trade analyst Atul Mohan told PTI, adding that he is confident that «Gangs of Wasseypur» will be immensely loved.

Mint. "In India, offline is a much bigger market, and that is our big push," said co-founder and chief executive officer Harshil Mathur. In August 2022, Razorpay entered the offline segment through the acquisition of Ezetap.

traceability and user privacy rules on WhatsApp, Telegram, Google Meet as well as other calling and messaging apps along with telecom operators as such platforms provide similar services using internet network, industry body COAI said. Telecom operators want the government and regulator to enforce message traceability and user privacy rule on these apps to curb spam and illegal activities as majority of messaging traffic has moved to data networks from SMS, COAI said. In a recent direction, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has mandated telecom operators to enhance message traceability. The regulator has mandated that the trail of all messages from senders to recipients must be traceable from November 1, 2024. Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and others, said that while the telecom service providers are working jointly with the Trai and the other stakeholders on this aspect, the OTT (over-the-top) communication services, without the requisite security and regulatory checks, is a growing concern in this regard.

Sales of passenger vehicles in the local market declined for the second straight month in August, on a high base, and with carmakers reducing dispatches to rationalise stocks at dealerships. According to industry estimates around 350,000-355,000 cars, sedans and utility vehicles were dispatched from factories to dealerships last month, which is a decline of 1.7-3% over 361,123 vehicles sold in August 2023. Automakers in India mostly report wholesale dispatches to dealers and not retail sales to customers. Carmakers are hopeful of healthy demand in the upcoming festive season during the Ganesh Chaturthi in Maharashtra starting Sep 7 and Onam in Kerala from Sep 16.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is to be reconstituted soon, as per its usual schedule, and its revised composition will be of interest. The approach so far has been to have three members from RBI, including its governor, and three external members. These members are appointed by the central government for a term of four years.

Congress MP Manickam Tagore on Sunday slammed the Election Commission for postponing the Haryana Assembly polls and accused the poll body of working for the BJP. «Not only ED and CBI but now Election Commission has also started to work for the BJP. It's very unfortunate that the Election Commission, for a political party's demand, has pushed the date back and it shows that the BJP is afraid of the defeat in Haryana,» Tagore told ANI. «The unpopular government in Haryana which is led by BJP will be defeated with a huge margin in each constituency and the Congress Government will be formed in Haryana with a clear verdict from the people,» he added.

When I do the math now, I realize that many people whom I considered old when I was 21 were actually only in their 40s and 50s. Nari Hira, for instance, who I thought was the most flamboyant old man in India was in his mid-50s when I first met him in 1995. I had just arrived from Madras and Bombay was a foreign land that was years ahead of the India I knew.