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New Delhi: The industry, on Saturday, welcomed the important step taken by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) extending the Export Obligation (EO) period under advance authorisation for products subjected to mandatory Quality Control Orders (QCOs) issued by the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals (DCPC). In respect of QCOs notified by the Ministry of Textiles, the EO period under advance authorisation had already been extended from six to 18 months. Together, these measures provide timely and much-needed relief to exporters of man-made fibre (MMF) textiles and technical textiles, according to an official statement. Add Zee News as a Preferred…

“We happen to be alive at this really transitional moment,” said Prof Jane Falkingham, the director of the Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton. “We’re moving from a world with high fertility and high mortality to a world of low mortality and low fertility. We have to get our heads around how we’re going to make that transition from the old world to the new world.”Earlier this week, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the fertility rate for England and Wales had fallen for the third year in a row to reach a record low…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Trump administration has ordered a nationwide review of public housing in an effort to root out residents who are in the country illegally, according to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner announced Friday.Turner wrote that each Public Housing Authority has 30 days to conduct an audit to ensure that the existing orders are enforced. The department is asking for information about the public housing units, as well as verifiable citizenship or “eligible immigration status.””No longer will illegal aliens be able to leave citizenship boxes blank or take advantage of HUD-funded…

On a video call, 20-year-old Daniel Jackson, the self-proclaimed president of the Free Republic of Verdis, looks the part: He is sitting at a desk with the country’s flag to his right and a banner sporting the name of his country behind him.Instead of a presidential palace, he is speaking from a humble house in Dover, a port city in the south of England. And the Free Republic of Verdis, the country he claims to have founded in 2019, is nothing more than a small strip of uninhabited forest on the border between Croatia and Serbia, more than 1,000 miles…

New Delhi: The stellar GDP growth for the first quarter this fiscal (Q1 FY26) is absolutely exhilarating because of the fact that it is across sectors, Ashishkumar Chauhan, CEO and MD of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), said on Saturday. He said that the 7.8 per cent growth is the best performance in the world, which shows the great momentum the Indian economy is currently going through. “The growth is seen across sectors — travel, tourism, production, manufacturing, services, the tertiary sector. Overall, this has been a tremendous performance, especially if you look at the growth rate projections even by…

Are you an asylum seeker and are you considering buying an armoured car, a snowmobile or a timeshare using your Home Office pre-paid cash card? If so, think again, for these are just some of the luxuries on a list of banned items and activities drawn up by the government.Quite how asylum seekers living in hotels who are banned from working but are provided with meals and receive £9.95 a week are expected to afford any luxuries is unclear. Similarly, those in self-catering accommodation who receive £49.18 a week may find it tricky to foot the bill for flowers (also…

Members of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian government will be unable to travel to the United Nations General Assembly next month after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their visas.The ban comes as several U.S. allies have declared they would recognize a Palestinian state at the gathering of world leaders at the U.N. headquarters in New York in response to Israel’s escalating assault in northern Gaza, which intensified Friday after the country announced it had begun the “initial stages” of its operation in the famine-gripped area.Headed by Abbas, who has not faced an election in almost two decades, the Palestinian Authority…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A pair of parents from Virginia say their sons, who were suspended and found responsible for sexual harassment after questioning why a biological female was using the boys locker room, were provided no formal way to express discomfort with their school’s transgender locker room policy.Parents Renae Smith and Seth Wolfe say unclear policies and poor communication on the part of the Loudoun County Public Schools District led to the Title IX ruling and 10-day suspension for the boys. They say their kids were never instructed on how to communicate any potential concerns…

New Delhi: India’s engineering goods exports surged 13.81 per cent (year-on-year) in July 2025, driven by increased shipments to the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and China, a report said on Saturday. Indian engineering exports crossed $10 billion for the first time this fiscal, reaching $10.43 billion in July, up from $9.16 billion in July 2024, according to data from the Engineering Export Promotion Council of India (EEPC). The growth is despite the international trade facing tensions from escalating US tariffs, regional divergence, and heightened policy uncertainty. Engineering goods exports to the US rose 19 per cent YoY to…

At the end of August the Sun put a picture of a pink poodle-shaped balloon on its front page, not to illustrate the last dog days of summer but the latest migrant hotel scandal, a story that has dominated the UK news agenda for weeks. In this case, the “balloonacy” of teaching hobbies to asylum seekers.The silly season, in which the press seeks to entertain readers with lighter news during the summer, is cancelled this year.Anti-migrant papers such as the Sun, the Mail, the Express and the Telegraph have, predictably, delivered most of the 1,571 stories mentioning “migrant” and “hotel”…