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Friday, October 4, 2024
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

Russia announces return of some troops to base after ‘drills’ near Ukrainian border

Defence spokesman Igor Konashenkov in a video said that units in western and southern military districts are loading equipment after completing drills and will return to permanent bases.

SpiceJet posts surprise profit after 7 Covid-hit quarters

India’s third-largest budget airline posts a net income of Rs 23.28 crore in the December quarter against an expected average loss of Rs 320 crore.

If your wife makes more than you do, read this

Uber-successful women have to often choose between career success and romantic success. To change this ugly part of our culture, we need to radically rethink our conceptions of masculinity.

Biden’s faltering global vaccine push echoes his stalled domestic inoculation efforts

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has acknowledged that the globe isn't on pace to meet target of vaccinating 70% of human population by 2022-end, set in 2021 by Biden and WHO.

Justin Trudeau invokes emergency, seeks to choke off cash flow to protesters in Canada

Banks will be required to review their relationships with anyone involved in an illegal blockade and report them. Anti-money-laundering rules have also been tightened.

Gold price rises to 3-month high amid geopolitical tensions over Ukraine

Bullion’s appeal as a store of value and an inflation hedge has seen its price hold up, despite the efforts to defuse the Ukraine situation.

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio plans satellite broadband connectivity rivaling SpaceX, OneWeb

Jio Platforms has entered into a joint venture with Luxembourg-based SES to deliver the next generation scalable and affordable broadband services in India.

LIC IPO is a delicate business & raises troubling questions

LIC is a flourishing money tree. But as investors and govt try to pull it their way, the roots that have been kept alive by a trusting Indian middle class over 60 yrs might start to dry up.

Imran Khan warns Afghanistan could descend into chaos, threaten Pakistan’s stability

The current humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan has reverberated in neighbouring Pakistan, PM Imran Khan said in an interview on CNN’s 'Fareed Zakaria GPS'.

Covid crisis isn’t over until it’s over everywhere. Here’s what the pandemic has in store next

In six months’ time, many richer countries will have made the transition from pandemic to endemic. Elsewhere in the world, the pandemic will be far from over.

On Camera

Indian Muslim leaders must drop Hezbollah solidarity. Put country before Muslimness

The India Islamic Cultural Centre found it appropriate to honour a leader of Hezbollah—which is officially designated as a terrorist organisation even by several Arab countries.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?