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polls 2024 is as tricky as it gets after Kamala Harris entered the US Polls 2024 race, and managed to secure a slight lead over Donald Trump, just 75 days before the elections. Meanwhile, this factor of odds slowly coming in favor of Kamala Harris is exciting bettors like anything, as bookmakers from across the world are watching on.

drone strike in northwestern Syria on Friday killed a Saudi militant from an al-Qaida-linked group as he was riding on a motorcycle, the U.S. military and a war monitor said. The strike in the Jabal al-Zawiya area of the opposition-held Idlib province was carried out by a U.S.-led coalition that was established years ago to fight the militant Islamic State group. The U.S. military has carried out a series of attacks over the past several years targeting al-Qaida-linked militants in northwestern Syria.

Michelle Obama dropped in a few interesting statements during her speech at the recently concluded Democratic National Convention 2024, and although she spoke highly of Democrat's Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, she was not very positive with her reactions around the current Biden administration in the White House, or so it seemed, as per a White House aide.

Meta said on Friday it had identified possible hacking attempts on the WhatsApp accounts of U.S. officials from the administrations of both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, blaming the same Iranian hacker group revealed earlier this month to have compromised the Trump campaign. In a blog post, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp described the attempt as a «small cluster of likely social engineering activity on WhatsApp» involving accounts posing as technical support for AOL, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. It blocked the accounts after users reported the activity as suspicious and had not seen any evidence suggesting the targeted WhatsApp accounts had been compromised, it said.

Consumers may face disruptions in getting service and transactional messages from banks, financial institutions and ecommerce firms on their mobile phones from next month following a telecom regulator move aimed at curbing spam, specifically phishing attempts. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has asked telcos to stop transmitting messages containing URLs, OTT links, APKs (Android application packages) or call-back numbers that are not whitelisted--or registered with telcos--by senders from September 1. The regulator's ultimatum means banks, financial institutions and online platforms must get their templates and content registered with operators by the August 31 deadline, failing which messages containing these elements will be blocked.

Inter Miami will be playing FC Cincinnati on Saturday evening as top ranked teams of Major League Soccer (MLS) will go head to head. Lionel Messi will miss the match as the Argentina football legend has nursing an injury. Inter Miami are leading the MLS chart after earning 53 points from 25 games. FC Cincinnati are at the second position with 48 points from 25 matches. The teams' all-time head-to-head is tied at 4-4-2, though Inter Miami hasn't beaten Cincinnati since 2021. Inter Miami versus FC Cincinnati football game is scheduled to kick off at 7.30 pm (ET) at Chase Stadium on August 24. One cam watch the Inter Miami and FC Cincinnati's match on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.

Ecommerce company Amazon India is set to tweak its seller fee structures with effect September 9, with several categories seeing a reduction in commissions in the run up to the festive season. The firm has reduced commissions in the range of 3-12% for 59 sub-categories, Amazon India's director of selling partner services, Amit Nanda, told ET. The reduction is focused on products with low average selling price (ASP), he said. «We wanted to help our sellers in planning for their Diwali and other festive sales… we're hoping sellers will find it as cheap, if not cheaper, to sell some products on Amazon compared to their offline channels,» Nanda said. In March, ET reported about Amazon increasing commissions in the range of 10-30% across major segments. At the time, it had shifted several categories like car electronics, keyboards and mouses, and personal care appliances from a single flat commission to a tiered system based on ASP. This time, categories like apparel, home furnishing, fashion and sports will see a reduction in seller commissions.

Delhi: Real-world vehicle emissions are much higher than laboratory tests suggest and CNG vehicles, once considered a cleaner alternative, actually emit high levels of nitrogen oxides, according to a new study. Conducted as part of The Real Urban Emissions (TRUE) Initiative in collaboration with authorities in Delhi and Gurugram, the study utilised non-intrusive remote sensing technology to measure the emissions of on-road vehicles. The study, conducted with technical analysis by the global think tank International Council on Clean Transportation, revealed that nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from BS-VI private cars were 81 per cent lower than those from BS-IV cars. Similarly, BS-VI buses produced 95% lower NOx compared to BS-IV buses.

Frasier Crane, returning to Seattle’s KACL radio station, reuniting with familiar faces from the original series.

World shares gained on Friday, just shy of all-time highs, while the dollar languished around one-year lows after the Powell speech. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Avg rose 0.73%, to 41,011, S&P 500 gained 0.65%, to 5,606 and Nasdaq Composite gained 0.9%, to 17,778. Europe's broad Stoxx 600 index rose 0.5% after Asian shares outside Japan had nudged down 0.1%, but Japan's Nikkei gained 0.4%. US Treasury yields fell across the board with benchmark US 10-year notes dipping 5.4 bps to 3.808%, from 3.862% late on Thursday. The dollar turned lower and sterling rose to its highest in more than two years. The euro gained to $1.1179, up 0.6% on the day, hitting a one-year high.

Supreme Court on Friday asked the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA), which has challenged a debt resolution proposal for Jaiprakash Associates' Jaypee Infratech unit, to file an affidavit indicating the steps it has taken to protect the interests of homebuyers in the projects of the bankrupt developer and others. Coming down heavily on YEIDA for its stand towards homebuyers in the residential projects, the court said: «You are not concerned with the homebuyers; that's where the problem lies.» Observing that the homebuyers are the «ultimate sufferers», a bench led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna told solicitor general Tushar Mehta that «you cannot say that I'm concerned with my dues and the homebuyers, who are the real sufferers, can bear the brunt».

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's bail plea in the Delhi excise case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday told the Supreme Court that Kejriwal is likely to tamper with the evidence and hamper its ongoing probe if released on interim bail. The CBI filed an affidavit in response to Kejriwal's plea seeking quashing of his arrest by the CBI and seeking interim bail.

officials not to opt for a "hard approach" at an early stage with taxpayers and instead communicate and explain tax liabilities to them. She told the officials to prioritise solving problems at the stage where they are mere doubts, rather than allowing them to develop into full-blown grievances. Speaking at the inauguration of a new goods and services tax office building in Udaipur, Rajasthan, Sitharaman said officials' focus should be on grievance redressal while handling tax-related issues.

YouTube has launched a new feature to help recover users their hacked accounts. The feature includes Artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for the hacked YouTube channels. The new features is part of YouTube Help where a creator can learn how to «recover a hacked YouTube channel». Here YouTube has an option of «Chat with our hacked Channel assistant», as per a report on Dexerto. This option will lead you to recover hacked YouTube account. YouTube AI assistant feature is currently available in English.

separate administration or a Union Territory for tribals in Manipur, have urged the Centre to ask the judicial commission probing the ethnic violence in the state to expedite its probe. They demanded that chief minister N Biren Singh be «immediately barred» from the office so that he can't influence the «outcome» of the investigation. The MLAs, including two ministers, said: «We once again appeal to the Government of India to expedite our demand for a separate administration in the form of UT with a legislature, as that alone is the path to lasting peace in the region.» Last June, the MHA, had constituted a three-member Commission of Inquiry, headed by former chief justice Ajai Lamba, to probe ethnic violence in Manipur. The tribal legislators, seven of whom belong to the ruling BJP, in a joint statement said that the judicial commission must expedite its investigation and identify the guilty. The statement said that the state government had to issue a press release on August 7 regarding some «doctored audio clips», which claimed to be that of the CM and meant to incite communal violence and derail various peace initiatives by the state and central governments at multiple levels.

Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DGGI) has dropped a tax demand of about ₹3,000 crore for 2017-18 against 18 foreign shipping companies operating in the country, people familiar with the matter said. The move brings cheer to foreign shipping lines, such as Maersk, Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd and Hapag Lloyd Mediterranean Shipping, who were facing notices for non-payment of goods and services tax (GST) on import of services from July 2017 onwards. The tax demand was dropped after the shipping companies gave a joint undertaking that there was no import of services in 2017-18, the people said.

Coal India's financial impact may run into Rs 35,000 crore in a «worst-case» scenario if the Supreme Court's review on mining taxes yields no favourable outcome or if the company fails to recover the taxes from its customers, a top official said on Friday. The miner is awaiting final clarity before considering any «provisioning» in its accounts. «Two subsidiary companies — Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd and Central Coalfields Ltd — are being affected, while the rest of the subsidiaries remain unaffected. Mahanadi Coalfields in Odisha is the most impacted. In the worst case scenario, our impact could be about Rs 35,000 crore, if we are unable to recover from long-term fuel supply agreements (FSAs) customers,» Coal India Chairman P M Prasad said. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a Bharat Chamber of Commerce interaction, he said Central Coalfields in Jharkhand will be affected by about Rs 350 crore.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday said he had spoken with his Israeli counterpart to discuss a range of issues in the region, including the ongoing exchanges of fire on the Israel-Lebanon border and the need to finalize a ceasefire deal. In a post on X, Austin said he also discussed the risk of escalation from Iran and Iran-backed groups in the call on Thursday and told Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant that the United States is well postured across the region.

trainee pilot and his instructor, who were on board the two-seater aircraft, were found in the Chandil dam on Thursday. «The missing Cessna-152 aircraft is still traceless,» Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Chandil Subhra Rani told PTI. An Indian Navy team, that began its search on Thursday, continued the operation on Friday but without success.

The NSE Nifty index closed 11.66 points up at 24823.15, while BSE Sensex ended up 33.02 points at 81086.21.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has lowered India’s growth forecast by 20 basis points each for this year and the next, citing a contraction in central government expenditure. The bank now expects the nation’s economy to expand at 6.7% in calendar 2024, and 6.4% in 2025. The current year’s downgrade factors a 35% year-on-year contraction in government expenditure during the April-June quarter that coincided with the weeks-long general election, the US bank’s economist led by Santanu Sengupta wrote in a report Friday. India’s growth next year will be hampered by the government’s commitment in the budget to bring down the fiscal deficit to below 4.5% of gross domestic product. Expansion will also face headwinds from slower real consumption growth, driven by a slowdown in household credit due to the Reserve Bank of India’s stricter rules to control unsecured lending by banks, the economists said.