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Seven children killed in rebel shelling of school

After Syrian rebel shelling of the school in government-held western Aleppo.




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Growing clamour among U.K. public that Queen must pay for palace repairs

“Make Royals Pay for Palace Renovation” plea urges her to shell down £370 million from her own pocket.




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A lacklustre American presidential race in the making

Democrats and Republicans have to brace themselves for soul searching and painful decision-making before 2024




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U.K. PM race | At debate, Truss says she will call out Putin in front of “swing” countries like India, Indonesia

Sunday’s debate was the second in the U.K. Prime Ministerial race that began last week, with a third round of voting set for Monday




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Iran arrests several after protests at drying lake

Urmia, one of the largest "hypersaline" — or super salty — lakes in the world, is located between the cities of Tabriz and Urmia, with more than six million people dependent on agriculture around its shores.




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Sri Lanka Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe declares Emergency

Opposition calls it ‘an undemocratic, draconian act’; Parliament to elect new President tomorrow 




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Morning Digest | Presidential election today; Centre to convene all-party meeting on situation in Sri Lanka on DMK, AIADMK’s request, and more

A select list of stories to read before you start your day




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Indiana mall shooting | Three dead; witness kills gunman: police




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Regulating digital currencies

Some experts and central bankers point to regulation as the way forward. And supervising stablecoins and crypto exchanges would be a much easier affair than exercising controls over individual financial crypto products.




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Twitter claims Musk is ‘slow-walking’ trial over $44 billion deal

The two sides will make their arguments about the trial's proposed start date to a Delaware Court of Chancery judge on Tuesday




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U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase wins regulatory nod in Italy

The European Union is working on new rules and controls that crypto companies will have to comply with




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UK tribunal quashes Meta-Giphy deal block, regulator to reconsider ruling

The Competition Appeals Tribunal said it had quashed the CMA’s ruling and referred the matter back for a new decision




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Sri Lanka crisis live updates | Majority of Sri Lanka’s ruling SLPP party in favour of Dullas Alahapperuma as President, Sajith Premadasa as PM: G.L. Peiris

Acting Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and two others were proposed by lawmakers as the three candidates for the July 20 Presidential election




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Crypto lender Celsius defends Bitcoin mining plans as bankruptcy kicks off

Celsius hopes that Bitcoin mining will help it repair its damaged relationship with customers, whose funds were frozen




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U.S. bill strengthens digital news publishers’ right for revenue sharing with Big Tech

A revised version of the bill was tabled by bipartisan senators in the United States on Wednesday that strengthens the stance for digital news publishers to negotiate with Big Tech companies for sharing revenues that entail the use of their content.




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Explained | Big tech firms swing the axe on talent

Why are tech companies freezing their hiring process and laying off their employees? How has the new app tracking feature by Apple led to the sacking of employees?




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Data Point | Understanding the goals and vision of COP27 

The Data Point is a bi-weekly newsletter in which The Hindu’s Data team decodes the numbers behind today’s biggest stories.  




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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh interacts with Indian diaspora in Nigeria

The Defence Minister represented India at the swearing-in ceremony of Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during an unprecedented three-day visit to the African nation.




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‘Bengaluru is a fast-growing city, very diverse and has a big commitment to culture’

Bengaluru joins the league of 40 global cities including New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo among others at World Cities Culture Forum




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Keep calm, Doga is coming




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Sensex, Nifty hit fresh record closing high levels on rate cut hopes




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West Bengal economy performs poorly over several decades: EAC-PM paper

West Bengal’s economic decline, southern States’ growth post-1991, and regional disparities in India’s economic performance analysed in a working paper by Economic Advisory Council to the PM




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U.S. Fed slashes lending rate by 50 bps in first cut since 2020

Policymakers voted 11-to-1 in favour of lowering the U.S. central bank's benchmark lending rate to between 4.75% and 5.00%, the Fed announced




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Prices of essentials unlikely to rise during festive season: Centre

The Food Secretary said the Centre is thinking of lifting the export ban on certain varieties of non-basmati rice




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India's logistics cost will reduce to single-digit in 5 years: Gadkari




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On the pitfalls of estimating GDP

The ongoing GDP series is due for revision. The official agency is considering using GST data to estimate value addition. However, the agency should be careful to not apply unverified datasets and shaky methodologies without adequate testing and validations for GDP estimation




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ADB retains India's growth forecast at 7%; govt spending, agriculture to boost economy

The Indian economy grew 8.2% in the last fiscal (2023-24)




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Government retains borrowing target, to raise ₹6.61 lakh crore in H2 to fund revenue gap

The gross market borrowing of ₹6.61 lakh crore shall be completed through 21 weekly auctions.




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Government claim of eight crore new jobs is data jugglery, says Congress

Centre included even unpaid household work in its employment data, says Jairam Ramesh




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Govt. extends deadline for filing Income Tax audit report to October 7

The I-T Department said that due to the difficulties faced by taxpayers in electronic filing of audit reports, the deadline is being extended from September 30, 2024 to October 7, 2024




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Centre decides to maintain status quo of return on small savings scheme

The interest rates on small savings schemes such as Public Provident Fund (PPF) and National Savings Certificate (NSC) are reset each quarter




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SEBI tightens noose on insider trading




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Fed Chair Powell says U.S. economy is in 'solid shape' with more rate cuts coming




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Working with MCA to roll out PM Internship Scheme: CII

The MCA has also launched a dedicated, user-centric portal for the scheme, which will serve as a centralised hub and a link between the companies and the aspiring interns




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Gold cools, oil surges amid escalating tensions in West Asia




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India, U.S. exploring combined engagement with third countries to source minerals: Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal said that critical minerals figured in his official parleys with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Thursday.




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India to see steepest rise in living standard of common man in coming decades: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Addressing the 3rd edition of Kautiliya Economic Conclave here, the Minister said, India's critical economic performance in the recent decade was underscored by its leapfrog from the 10th to the fifth largest economy in five years.




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RBI Monetary Policy Committee meeting: policy rate unchanged at 6.5% for 10th time in a row

‘RBI changes stance of monetary policy to ‘neutral’ from withdrawal of accomodation,’ says Shaktikanta Das.




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Indian conglomerates to spend $800 billion in new projects in 10 years: S&P Global Ratings’ report 

“The Vedanta, Tata, Adani, Reliance and JSW groups alone are prepping about $350 billion of investment in these sectors over the next decade,” Neel Gopalakrishnan of S&P Global Ratings said




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A Nobel prize for explaining why nations fail or succeed

The 2024 Economics Nobel laureates have argued that differences in the quality of economic and political institutions is what best explains the divergence in the economic fates of countries




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India’s logistics cost will come down to single-digit percentage in two years: Gadkari

According to quick estimates of the economic think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), logistics costs in India ranged between 7.8% to 8.9% of GDP for the fiscal 2021-22




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'India's growth rate among the shiniest parts of the world economy': Ajay Banga

A lot of that growth is in India, is driven by the domestic market as well, which actually is a healthy sign, in some ways, says World Bank president Ajay Banga




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China's economy grew 4.6% in July-September quarter, falling short of 5% target

The latest data show the world's second largest economy slowing from 4.7% annual growth in the previous quarter and falling short of the official target of “about 5%” growth for 2024,




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India wouldn't be fastest-growing economy if people hadn't utilized digital infrastructure: Nirmala Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted that providing free digital access to the public, coupled with extensive campaigns and awareness programs in local languages, helped people across the country embrace technology




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Watch: US elections: Who are Trump and Harris appealing to?

We also analyse the IMF’s report on world economy as well as their forecast for India.




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Core sector output at 10-month low in September, deepening growth anxieties

Steel, power, oil and gas output growth slows, though cement output grows faster; economists say industrial production growth likely slowed in September, and may drag down annual growth projections




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

Rising prices of commodity inputs such as palm oil, coffee and cocoa were also accentuated and some FMCG firms have hinted at a price hike




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India’s manufacturing growth accelerates in October: PMI

Cost pressures spiked to a three-month high, new export orders accelerate from 18-month low growth in September




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Indian service providers signal robust growth in October on strong demand conditions

India’s services PMI rebounds to 58.5 in October, driven by strong output, new business, and job creation, signaling economic growth




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Singles' Day shopping festival loses its shine under China's lagging economy

The annual event named by the numeric form of its Nov. 11 date was started by e-commerce platform Alibaba, which offered attractive discounts to entice shoppers to spend big.