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The purchases in Diwali season this year will be more than Rs 1,50,000 crore across the country in comparison to 2019 when this figure was about Rs 90,000 crore, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Friday, terming the growth of Rs 60,000 crore in business very satisfactory and encouraging.

ANN/THE STAR – Sabah’s wildlife conservationists are geared up to ensure that no other species disappear following the extinction of the Sumatran rhinoceros in 2019. Efforts are underway to ensure the Borneo pygmy elephants, banteng (wild buffalo) and pangolins, among others, continue to thrive in Sabah’s wild through specific breeding programmes as well as prepare […]

According to some reports about half of India’s population uses social media and this number is expected to grow.

PARIS (AFP) – Chinese video game giant NetEase has acquired the independent studio Quantic Dream, developer of the upcoming adventure game Star Wars Eclipse, the French company said yesterday. It marks NetEase Games’s first major push in Europe, having already invested in the studio in 2019. Quantic Dream said it “will still operate independently”. “To […]

LONDON (AFP) – London’s Notting Hill Carnival was marred by a murder and hundreds of arrests, police said yesterday, as the world-famous party returned in person for the first time since 2019. A 21-year-old man died after being stabbed, while police said they introduced emergency stop-and-search powers in the area due to “a number of […]

AP – The prequel to Game of Thrones’ is set to forge its own storytelling path, with a new set of characters and a more diverse team behind the scenes. House of the Dragon takes place two centuries before the events of the original series, which ended its hit eight-season run in May 2019. The […]

THE NATION THAILAND – Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) president Chamnan Srisawat said the tourism sector needs to welcome 12 million to 16 million foreign tourists to survive. This number, he pointed out, is 30 to 40 per cent of total visitors before the Covid pandemic or 40 million in 2019. Chamnan said he was […]

New Delhi, August 8 (ANI) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered 100 cases involving 132 firms relating to Ponzi schemes in the last three and half years -- since 2019, while the Enforcement Directorate (ED) launched 87 money laundering inquiries in such cases during the period, the Centre informed Lok Sabha on Monday.

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) achieved a disposal rate of around 91 per cent in three years from 2015 to 2019 and there continues to be a steady rise in the disposal of cases.

Charu Asopa and Sushmita Sens brother Rajeev Sen tied the knot on June 7, 2019. There are reports that the couple is heading for divorce.