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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 […]