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Titan bets on premium watches as automatic business scales five-fold

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-27T12:41:12+00:00

Titan Company aims to grow its automatic-watch business to ₹350–400 crore this year, expanding from metros into Tier 1–2 towns despite Swiss/Japanese competition

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Pope Leo urges healing of ‘deep wounds’ before meeting child sexual abuse survivors in France

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-27T12:20:21+00:00

Catholic church must reckon with its ‘painful errors’, pontiff tells crowd in Lourdes during four-day tourThe pope has called on the Catholic church to heal “deep wounds” and “painful errors”, before a meeting with survivors of child sexual abuse as he continues his four-day visit to France.Addressing a crowd in a large field near the Catholic shrine of Lourdes on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called on the church to reckon with its past, without directly referencing sexual abuse scandals in France that affected at least 330,000 children over seven decades. Continue reading...

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"Нептуни" вдарили по важливому заводу РФ: експерт пояснив, як це вплине на атаки по Україні

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-09-27T12:14:55+00:00

За словами фахівця, на протикорабельну ракету замість головки самонаведення встановили апаратуру, яка "влучає" по цілі на суходолі.

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Mann Ki Baat: Modi urges people to participate in Census

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-27T12:14:07+00:00

PM Narendra Modi also drew people’s attention to making efforts to surrounding cleanl, citing numerous community effort ahead of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2

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Only 3% of US sickle cell patients receive red blood cell exchange for disease, researchers find

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-27T12:00:04+00:00

Various factors block sufferers of disease from receiving treatment that is effective and has widespread availabilitySickle cell patients are missing out on an effective treatment despite widespread US hospital access to the technology, new research has found.That treatment is called a red blood cell exchange, a procedure that discards a patient’s damaged red blood cells while simultaneously mixing the patient’s remaining plasma, platelets and white blood cells with red blood cells from a donor before returning them to the body. Continue reading...

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Bad language: profane Trump brings presidential swearing out into open

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-27T12:00:04+00:00

President has let rip with swearwords in recent months, redefining norms about acceptable language in public officeWith a lifetime of political memories stretching back to John F Kennedy’s assassination and the Black civil rights struggles of the 1960s, Cheryl Johnson had one complaint above all else about today’s politicians: the swearing.“All this cursing in politics, we never heard that before,” said Johnson, a retired social worker living in the Pittsburgh area. “Words are very powerful, and the past 45 presidents of this country, have not used such vile language. Continue reading...

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Au Maroc, un an après le mouvement de la « gen Z », des centaines de détenus et une chape de plomb

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-27T12:00:03+00:00

Au total, près de 5 700 personnes ont été arrêtées pendant et après les manifestations de la jeunesse entre septembre et octobre 2025, dont 650 sont toujours en prison. Associations et avocats dénoncent des « procès inéquitables » et des « atteintes à plusieurs droits fondamentaux ».

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Вівсянка чи пластівці: експерти пояснили, який сніданок кращий для рівня цукру в крові

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-09-27T11:50:00+00:00

Збалансований сніданок допомагає підтримувати стабільний рівень цукру в крові та забезпечує тривале відчуття енергії протягом усього ранку.

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Houses can be built on floodplains despite failing safety test, says high court

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-27T11:48:47+00:00

Decision to allow development of 190 new homes in north Somerset sparks campaign for change in the lawHouses can be built on floodplains even if they fail a crucial safety test, according to a high court judgment that will be of “immense interest” to developers across England and Wales.The ruling clears the way for a highly controversial development of 190 new homes on north Somerset’s floodplains, despite the site being in “flood zone 3a”, the highest level of flood risk before land is considered a functional floodplain. Continue reading...

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27 killed in mass shootings in South Africa overnight

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-09-27T11:37:19+00:00

These were the latest deadly incidents at bars or taverns in a nation with one of the world’s highest murder rates.

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Alemania reinicia las conversaciones diplomáticas con Rusia

Source: El País - Internacional · Published: 2026-09-27T11:25:59+00:00

“Se debe negociar con los rivales”, dijo el ministro de Exteriores alemán, Johann Wadepuhl, tras una tensa reunión con su homólogo ruso Serguéi Lavrov en Nueva York

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Trans ACNR Solutions, 8 others file IPO papers with SEBI

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-27T11:22:08+00:00

The proposed IPOs are aimed at raising funds for a range of purposes, including business expansion, working capital requirements, repayment of debt and general corporate purposes

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