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3 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 5:17 PM IST Myntra said the Big Fashion Festival (BFF), which concluded recently, has been the e-commerce firm’s largest edition by far, registering 627 million user visits—a significant growth over last year’s edition. In 2023, BFF concluded with about 460 million user visits. The event saw strong festive shopping sentiment across the country, which is expected to continue in the weeks to come, in the fashion, beauty, and lifestyle space. During this period, Myntra onboarded over 1.5 million new customers, with over 80 per cent coming from non-metros.…

Jagdeep Singh Bachher with Late Ratan Tata4 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 4:32 PM IST Nearly ten years ago, Ratan N Tata and I met for dinner in Los Angeles after having been introduced to each other by a dear mutual friend, Roy Doumani of UCLA. That night sparked in me an excitement about India as much as it did awe about sharing a meal with Tata. His vision and passion about a new entrepreneurial India was contagious. He spoke vibrantly, full of details, his words coming quickly. I, on the other hand, spoke very…

TEMPE, Ariz. — A Democratic National Committee campaign office in suburban Phoenix has been struck in a third shooting in recent weeks, police said Wednesday. No one was inside the building in Tempe, Arizona, and no injuries were reported in any of the shootings. The latest incident occurred Sunday, when someone fired shortly after midnight at the door and windows of the office. A $1,000 reward has now been offered for any information leading to the arrest or indictment of those responsible. Police did not provide any other new details in the latest update. The most recent shooting came days…

Rafael Nadal, who announced his retirement at the age of 38 on Thursday, was not only the “king of clay” but also reigned on every other tennis surface as he accumulated 22 Grand Slam titles. He won his first major title at his first French Open, beating Mariano Puerta in the final two days after turning 19. He won his last, a 14th Roland Garros title, 17 years later. While he dominated on clay, he won all four majors. The eight Grand Slam titles he collected on other surfaces — four US Opens, two Wimbledons and two Australian…

Florida authorities began assessing the damage left by Hurricane Milton’s passage across the state early Thursday, as the storm passed into the Atlantic Ocean after a night of high winds, torrential rain and storm surge.Milton made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast late Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane. It came ashore with winds of 100 mph and spawned dozens of tornadoes. As of early Thursday, more than 3 million Florida energy customers were without power, according to the PowerOutage.us website.The tornadoes on Florida’s Gulf Coast proved deadly. “We have lost some life,” St. Lucie County Sheriff Keith Pearson told West…

LOS ANGELES — Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey is making a late-hour push for Latino support in his longshot U.S. Senate campaign against Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for the California seat long held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.The low-key contest has been largely overlooked nationally in a year when control of the Senate will turn on a handful of competitive races, including in Ohio, Michigan and Nevada. Republicans are outnumbered by Democrats in California by a staggering margin – nearly 2-to-1 statewide – and a GOP candidate hasn’t won a Senate race in the state since 1988.Voting is…

As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the movement of electrons. But materials that can efficiently conduct protons — the nucleus of the hydrogen atom — could be key to a number of important technologies for combating global climate change.Most proton-conducting inorganic materials available now require undesirably high temperatures to achieve sufficiently high conductivity. However, lower-temperature alternatives could enable a variety of technologies, such as more efficient and durable fuel cells to produce clean electricity from hydrogen, electrolyzers to make clean fuels such as hydrogen for transportation, solid-state proton batteries, and even new kinds of computing devices…

2 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 3:47 PM IST The government on Thursday released Rs 1.78 trillion to states in tax devolution, including an advance instalment of Rs 89,086.50 crore, in view of the upcoming festive season and to accelerate capital spending, a statement by the finance ministry said. “It includes one advance instalment, in addition to the regular instalment due in October 2024… This release is in view of the upcoming festive season and to enable states to accelerate capital spending, and also finance their development/welfare-related expenditure,” the finance ministry statement said. Click…

By Prathiba Raju and Abhijeet Singh New Delhi: Whenever people discuss healthcare in India the argument often circles back to core issues that is the accessibility and affordability of such efforts, but for society like ours, where the socio-economic stratification dictates the access to medical interventions confronting such issues is both inevitable and indispensable.Pioneering in this regard ETHealthworld at its annual flagship event the fourth edition of Healthcare Leaders Summit convened inaugural panel discussion on ‘Promoting Inclusivity in Healthcare: Addressing Disparities and Access Barriers.’ The power-packed panelists for the session included Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Former Chief Scientist, WHO & Chairperson,…