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November 5, 2024 12:28 PM
The four-day Chhath Puja, an annual festival celebrated in northern and eastern India as well as in Nepal, began on Tuesday. The first day, known as Nahay Khay, marks the beginning of the festival with a cleansing ritual in preparation for the days ahead. Day two is observed as Kharna, followed by ...
November 5, 2024 10:47 AM
India’s benchmark indices opened in the red on Tuesday as the too-close-to-call U.S. presidential election kept investors on edge. Foreign investor outflows further weighed on the markets. The BSE Sensex dropped 240 points, or 0.13%, to 78,542.16, while the Nifty 50 fell 78 points, or 0.06%, open...
November 5, 2024 10:41 AM
Residents of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' ancestral village in southern India were preparing to hold prayers on election day on Tuesday in a Hindu temple more than 8,000 miles (13,000 km) from Washington. Harris' maternal grandfather, P.V. Gopalan, was born more than a cent...
November 5, 2024 10:24 AM
Australia and India's foreign ministers said on Tuesday they were confident the Quad group of the U.S., India, Australia and Japan would continue to cooperate in the Indo-Pacific region regardless of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong told reporte...
November 5, 2024 9:30 AM
Over a thousand Canadian Hindus gathered outside the Hindu Sabha Mandir in Brampton, Canada, on Monday evening (local time) to protest against repeated attacks on Hindu temples across the country. The rally followed an attack by suspected Khalistani extremists on the temple, which occurred just a da...
November 4, 2024 5:40 PM
India has strongly condemned the violent clashes at the Hindu Sabha Temple in Brampton, Canada, where an Indian consular camp was attacked on Sunday. In response to media queries regarding violence in Brampton, Randhir Jaiswal, the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, said, "W...
November 4, 2024 5:37 PM
Americans are still eagerly seeking prescriptions for Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk's weight-loss and diabetes drugs but cannot always fill them because of supply issues and insurance hurdles, according to their doctors. Those frustrations, along with the medicines' high cost, are pushing patients to ...
November 4, 2024 4:55 PM
India’s benchmark indices tumbled on Monday, with the Sensex shedding 941.88 points, or 1.18% to close at 78,782.24, while the Nifty dropped 309.13 points, or 1.27%, to 23,995.35. The session was marked by high volatility, as the Sensex briefly plummeted by over 1,500 points before regaining some...
November 4, 2024 3:48 PM
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has rescheduled by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, and Punjab, shifting the polling date from November 13 to November 20. The decision comes after requests from national and state parties, including INC, BJP, BSP, and RLD, to avoid low voter turnout. National ...
November 4, 2024 3:06 PM
UAE energy giant ADNOC will apply highly autonomous agentic artificial intelligence in the energy industry for the first time, in partnership with G42, Microsoft and AIQ, its CEO Sultan Al Jaber said on Monday (November 4) at an industry event in Abu Dhabi. The UAE, a wealthy oil producer and longt...
