Holiday rush: US retailers eye Black Friday lift; shoppers hunt deals despite weak sentiment

Black Friday no longer pulls Americans from Thanksgiving dinners for midnight mall queues, but it still draws more in-store traffic than any other day of the year — and remains the unofficial start of the US holiday shopping season.This year’s kickoff came as US consumer confidence slipped following the federal government shutdown, weak hiring and…

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Mithi River Rejuvenation: Adani Group now bags bid for Rs 1,700-crore; project spans 48 months | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: After bagging the Dharavi slum redevlopment project, Adani Group is now part of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) that has emerged as the lowest bidder for the Rs 1,700-crore Mithi River Rejuvenation Project (Package 3). The contract will be carried out by Adani Transport in partnership with Ashoka Buildcon Limited and Akshaya Infraproject Pvt…

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Ease of compliance: RBI scraps 5,673 circulars; issues 244 master directions to streamline rules

The Reserve Bank on Friday completed a nearly six-month regulatory consolidation, repealing 5,673 obsolete circulars and subsuming over 3,800 into 244 function-wise master directions (MDs), the central bank said.In all, 9,446 circulars have been repealed, subsumed or withdrawn as part of the exercise, Deputy Governor S C Murmu said, describing the review as a “mammoth…

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Retained by CSK for IPL 2026, 18-year-old Ayush Mhatre breaks Rohit Sharma’s record, becomes youngest cricketer ever to … | Cricket News

Ayush Mhatre (Photo by Pankaj Nangia/Getty Images) Mumbai’s Ayush Mhatre has set a new record as the youngest cricketer to score centuries in all three formats of professional cricket – first-class, List A and T20. He achieved this milestone with a remarkable 49-ball century in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match against Vidarbha at Lucknow’s…

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‘Feels like Covid’: Kiran Bedi flags Delhi-NCR pollution crisis, urges PMO action; claims AQI hit 587 in Indirapuram | Delhi News

NEW DELHI: Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi has once again raised alarm over Delhi’s deteriorating air quality, sharing multiple posts on X (formerly Twitter) highlighting the city’s hazardous pollution levels. In her latest update, she revealed that the Delhi Air Quality Index (AQI) currently stands at 458, classifying the air as hazardous. The main pollutants…

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Religion, history and classrooms: Ohio launches Charlie Kirk Act, promoting positive lessons on Christianity in schools

Ohio launches Charlie Kirk Act, promoting positive lessons on Christianity in schools The debate over how religion should be addressed in American public schools has intensified after the Ohio House passed the “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act,” a bill that formally states teachers may highlight the positive influence of religion—especially Christianity—on U.S. history. According to…

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‘No proof of life’: Imran Khan’s son sparks new round of doubts amid ex-PM’s health rumours; who said what?

Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan (File photo) Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan‘s son Kasim Khan on Thursday claimed his father has been kept in a “death cell with zero transparency”, despite Islamabad refuting rumours that the cricketer-turned-politician was “brutally” assaulted by police for seeking a meeting with their brother last week. Kasim Khan said there…

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Bank of Baroda application 2025 underway at bankofbaroda.in: Direct link to apply here

Image caption: (File Photo) Bank of Baroda (BOB) has officially kicked off its 2025 Apprenticeship Programme, and is accepting applications for 2,700 positions across the country. The online registration began on November 11 and will close on December 01, 2025, according to the notification published on the bank’s official website. This recruitment marks one of…

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