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Chadian President Mahamat Deby Itno. File | Photo Credit: AP “Unidentified assailants killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack on a military base in the country’s west,” Chad’s presidency said Monday (October 28, 2024). President Mahamat Deby Itno visited the base in Barkaram, an island in Chad’s Lake region, early morning and…
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Swiggy has in recent weeks cut its internal valuation goal twice by a combined 25% due to volatility in the Indian stock markets. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Food delivery giant Swiggy will likely price its $1.35 billion domestic initial public offering, which opens next week, at ₹371-390 per share, sources with direct knowledge of…
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Georgia’s president on Monday (October 28, 2024) urged the West to support opposition protests of the official results of a weekend parliamentary election in which the governing party was declared victorious amid voting irregularities and allegations of Russian meddling. President Salome Zourabichvili, who refused to recognise the official results, told The Associated Press that…
Riyadh: Global business leaders meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a glitzy investor forum as conflict shakes the region and scepticism mounts over the Gulf kingdom’s most ambitious development projects. The Future Investment Initiative (FII) debuted in 2017 as a showcase for de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s dream of diversifying the…
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Image used for representational purposes. File The rupee opened on a flat note and depreciated 1 paisa to 84.08 against the U.S. dollar in initial deals on Tuesday (October 29, 2024), as persistent foreign fund outflows and the strength of the American currency in the overseas market dented investor sentiments. Forex traders said a muted…
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People walk past the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building, in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: PTI Equity benchmark indices fell in early trade on Tuesday (October 29, 2024) amid continuous foreign fund outflows from the capital markets and largely muted earnings from corporates so far. The BSE Sensex declined 322.24 points to 79,682.80 during the initial…
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he would remove Canada’s 5% national sales tax on new homes sold for under C$1 million ($719,700) if he’s elected prime minister. Poilievre, whose party leads by about 20 points in recent polls, said the cut would save around C$2,200 a year in mortgage payments on a C$800,000 house. If…
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Virat Kohli has scored 88 runs in 4 innings against New Zealand© BCCI/Sportzpics If only numbers were to be taken into consideration, Virat Kohli would unarguably be India’s go-to player with the bat in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy starting next month. Kohli has been prolific against the Aussies over the years, scoring over 1300…
Srinagar: Security forces gunned down three terrorists responsible for attacking an Army vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Akhnoor sector yesterday. The operation spanned 27 hours and concluded early Tuesday morning. The encounter began on Monday when the terrorists fired at an ambulance that was part of an Army convoy near the Line of Control (LoC)….
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Noida: A 20-year-old man has been arrested from Noida over death threats to actor Salman Khan and Zeeshan Siddiqui, MLA and son of NCP (Ajit Pawar) leader Baba Siddique, who was shot dead on October 12. Mumbai Police have taken Gufran Khan into custody and shifted him on a transit remand. According to police sources,…
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