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India’s top cement maker, UltraTech Cement, reported a 38% decrease in quarterly profit on Saturday, dented by a surge in expenses. Profit for the three months through December fell to 10.62 billion rupees ($131.2 million) from 17.10 billion rupees the same period a year earlier, UltraTech said in an exchange filing. Expenses surged to 141.23 […]
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VISEGRAD: Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during the wet weather of winter and early spring. This week, the barrier once again became the outer edge of a
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KALABURAGI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched the ‘Hakku Patra’ (land title deed) distribution drive for over 52,000 nomadic Lambani (Banjara) families in five districts in north Karnataka. The Prime Minister distributed ‘Hakku Patra’ to five nomadic couples on the occasion. This Hakku Patra will secure future of thousands of people living in the
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PARIS: Government measures to boost electric vehicle sales, the share of green ammonia in fertiliser, and public purchasing of plant proteins could help shift the decarbonisation of the global economy into high gear, researchers said Friday. Strategic support through regulation and subsidies in these three areas would have knock-on effects, accelerating the transition away from
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Prices of luxury properties appreciated by 8-12 per cent during the last year across major cities and has breached the 2015 peak level, according to India Sotheby’s International Realty. In its annual ‘Luxury Outlook Survey 2023’, India Sotheby’s International Realty (ISIR) revealed that 61 per cent of High-Net-worth Individuals (HNIs) and Ultra High-Net-worth Individuals (UHNIs)
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Representative Image MUMBAI: Dadar police on Tuesday submitted a chargesheet in the SRA flat cheating scam case, in which they had recorded the statement of former mayor and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Kishori Pednekar last year. Pednekar’s name has not been included in the chargesheet, but police said the investigation would continue. Sources said the
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File Photo NEW DELHI: Restrictions imposed under Graded Response Action Plan’s (GRAP) Stage III have been withdrawn from Delhi-NCR after marginal improvement in the city’s air quality, Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) said on Sunday. Curbs under Stage III included a ban on non-essential construction and demolition, closure of stone crushers and mining activities
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Dubai recorded real estate transactions worth more than $143 billion in 2022, the official Dubai Media Office said Monday, calling it a “milestone” for the United Arab Emirate’s main business hub. The property boom comes amid an influx of Russians who have purchased properties in some of Dubai’s most popular areas, after Moscow faced a
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PARIS: The world’s oceans, which have absorbed most of the excess heat caused by humanity’s carbon pollution, continued to see record-breaking temperatures last year, according to research published Wednesday. Climate change has increased surface temperatures across the planet, leading to atmospheric instability and amplifying extreme weather events such as storms. Oceans absorb about 90 percent
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File Photo Asia-focused investment firm PAG and Singapore-based real estate group Mapletree Investments said on Thursday they have entered into a 50-50 joint venture to buy Hong Kong office building Goldin Financial Global Centre from receivers for $713 million. The price of HK$5.6 billion was less than half of the HK$14.3 billion that developer Goldin
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With the opening up of the economy post the COVID pandemic, Knight Frank on Tuesday said housing sales rose 34 per cent to a 9-year high and gross office leasing grew 36 per cent during 2022 across eight major cities. While housing sales rose 34 per cent to 3,12,666 units in 2022 across eight major
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CHENNAI: The state government on Monday announced that the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority would create a new growth cluster through land pooling on 600 acres at Madambakkam. The state would also soon unveil policies to promote ethanol blending, green hydrogen and e-vehicles. Governor R N Ravi, while making his customary address to the assembly, said
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