Month: November 2024

FMCG firms worry over high inflation, squeezing urban market; hint price hike

November 3, 2024 admin

HUL, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL), Marico, ITC, and Tata Consumer Products Ltd (TCPL) have expressed concerns over squeezing urban consumption. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: M. Karunakaran Leading FMCG companies reported a decline in margins in the September quarter on account of higher input costs and food inflation, which ultimately slowed down the…

Business

Israeli forces capture senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, Israeli military official says

November 2, 2024 admin

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, early Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) | Photo Credit: AP Israeli naval forces captured a senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, an Israeli military official said Saturday, as the conflict between the Iran-backed group and Israel showed few…

World

Israeli forces capture senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, Israeli military official says

November 2, 2024 admin

Nation

How is Tamil Nadu bracing for heatwaves?

November 2, 2024 admin

Children, senior citizens, pregnant women, those with pre-existing co morbidities, and people forced to work in the open are more vulnerable to the impact of heat. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The story so far: The Tamil Nadu government, last week, notified a heatwave as a State-specific disaster. This would entail providing relief to…

Nation

Why is Brazil weighing options on China’s Belt and Road Initiative?

November 2, 2024 admin

Security personnel stand guard near a “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” decoration for the Belt and Road Forum outside the China National Convention Center in Beijing, China, April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee | Photo Credit: JASON LEE The story so far: The Brazilian government indicated this week that it may not want to join China’s…

World

NYC declares a drought watch and asks residents to conserve water

November 2, 2024 admin

New York’s mayor urged residents to take shorter showers, fix dripping faucets and otherwise conserve water, issuing a drought watch Saturday after a parched October here and in much of the United States. A drought watch is the first of three potential levels of water-saving directives, and Adams pitched it in a social media video…

World

Spain sends thousands more troops to flood zone

November 2, 2024 admin

A house covered in mud is pictured in an area affected by floods in Paiporta, a town in the region of Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Spain is deploying 10,000 more troops and police officers to the eastern Valencia region devastated by historic floods that have killed 211 people, Prime Minister…

World

Joe Biden makes final campaign stop for Kamala Harris in Scranton, his childhood hometown

November 2, 2024 admin

President Joe Biden talks with volunteers at a campaign office in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Barack Obama once said if there were no Scranton, Pennsylvania, there would be no Joe Biden. The sitting president, whose term ends in January, returned to his childhood hometown on Saturday for a final campaign stop in…

World

Micrographia: Hooke’s monumental masterpiece – The Hindu

November 2, 2024 admin

There are some scientific books that change the course of how we view and perceive the world around us. English naturalist Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species brought us natural selection and the theory of evolution. English polymath Isaac Newton gave us his laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation in his…

Science

The Impact Of The World’s Richest Man On US Democracy

November 2, 2024 admin

Washington: How much influence can the world’s richest man have over one of the world’s oldest democracies? Next week’s elections are not just about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris but also a measure of Elon Musk’s influence on American democracy. Although Musk has donated modestly to both Republicans and Democrats in the past, including $5,000…

World