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Mumbai: The Indian stock markets opened on a strong note on Thursday, even as global cues remained mixed.   The benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty, started the session with solid gains, driven largely by strength in IT stocks. The Sensex opened 727.81 points higher at 85,154.15, while the Nifty reclaimed the 26,000 mark, opening 188.6 points higher at 26,057.20. Add Zee News as a Preferred Source “For now, upside objective is set at 26186, with 26800 appearing as an optimistic objective,” market experts said. “Meanwhile, downside marker is placed at 25780, but an outright reversal is not expected today,” they…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has disabled more than 2,500 Starlink devices in and around scam centers in Myanmar, following warnings from activists that mainly Chinese syndicates were using the technology to defraud people worldwide.The company “proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected ‘scam centers,’” Lauren Dreyer, SpaceX’s vice president of business operations, wrote on X late Tuesday.“We are committed to ensuring the service remains a force for good and sustains trust worldwide: both connecting the unconnected and detecting and preventing misuse by bad actors,” she added.The company’s terminals enable internet in remote areas by using…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “I know that I know nothing” – Socrates”You don’t know nothing” – Baseball Legend Yogi BerraSocrates may have been claiming ignorance, Berra was talking about baseball, but both may as well have been talking about the government shutdown.So when will it end?”You shouldn’t ask me because I’m the guy who said it’ll only last five days,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., said on Fox. “But I will tell you, a couple of Democrat senators recently indicated that they think this is going to go ‘til at least the first of November.”However, Biggs added…

Shabana Mahmood has said the Home Office is “not yet fit for purpose” after the release of a damning report that was kept secret for years.The review, written under the previous government, uncovered a series of perceived shortcomings including a “culture of defeatism” on immigration, a lack of trust from other departments, and “several confused and conflicting systems”.Written by the former Home Office special adviser Nick Timothy in 2023, it has been released after a two-year legal battle by the Times.Responding to the revelations, Mahmood, who took over as home secretary from Yvette Cooper in September, vowed to overhaul the…

New Delhi: The Department of Food and Public Distribution, under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, has notified a key amendment to the Vegetable Oil Products, Production and Availability (Regulation) Order, 2011 (VOPPA Order). Under the amended order, it is now mandatory for all edible oil manufacturers, processors, blenders, re-packers, and other stakeholders involved in the edible oil supply chain to register under the VOPPA Order and submit monthly production and stock returns through the designated online portal. The amended VOPPA Order, 2025 aims to bring greater regulatory oversight and transparency across the edible oil sector in India, said Consumer Affairs ministry.…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City mayoral contenders relentlessly criticized their opponents as they made their final pitch to voters Wednesday night in the last debate before early voting starts this Saturday. Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, Independent candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa once again traded barbs on the debate stage, meeting for the second time in less than a week.Wednesday’s debate at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City came as billionaires called for Sliwa to drop out of the mayoral race this week to consolidate support for Cuomo against…

New Delhi: Infosys promoters and members of the promoter group, including co-founder Nandan M. Nilekani and Sudha Murty, have decided not to participate in the company’s Rs 18,000 crore share buyback, the IT major said in an exchange filing on Wednesday.  The promoters collectively hold 13.05 per cent of Infosys’ equity as of the buyback announcement date. The promoters include co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy’s family — wife Sudha N. Murty, daughter Akshata Murty, and son Rohan Murty — as well as co-founder Nilekani, his wife Rohini Nilekani, and their children Nihar and Janhavi Nilekani, among other co-founders and their families.…

Keir Starmer’s grooming gangs inquiry has descended into fresh turmoil after the only remaining candidate to be its chair blamed “political opportunism” and “a lack of trust” for his withdrawal as an applicant.As a key survivor called for a face-to-face meeting with the prime minister to save the inquiry, Jim Gamble, a former deputy chief constable, said the process to appoint a committee head was “toxic” and defined by “vested interests”.The loss of another candidate risked eclipsing attempts by Starmer on Wednesday to get to grips with the inquiry by announcing that Louise Casey, the civil service troubleshooter, would be…

The Treasury Department announced new sanctions targeting Russia’s oil sector Wednesday, the day after President Donald Trump confirmed that a planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Russia’s war with Ukraine was off. “Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire,” Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said in a statement. “Given President Putin’s refusal to end this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil companies that fund the Kremlin’s war machine. Treasury is prepared to take further action if necessary to support President Trump’s effort to end yet another war.…