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FCNR(B) mobilisation starts slow; banks remain optimistic on September-end targets

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:32:25+00:00

Tax considerations, narrowing India-US yield spreads and competing investment options keep NRI participation cautious, even as banks intensify outreach efforts and target higher collections by September

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Investment process has to be simple

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:24:11+00:00

A simple core portfolio may not help earn more returns than a benchmark index but it could help you achieve your goals. The objective is to keep investment process simple and moderate regret

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Electronic Gold Receipts: A new way to own gold

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:20:44+00:00

The yellow metal has long gone digital, but this time it is offering the convenience of electronic investing along with ownership of physical gold

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Thames Water creditors prepare for legal fight over possible nationalisation

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:17:11+00:00

Investors say they will work with Andy Burnham but hire litigation specialists amid reports the firm could enter temporary public ownershipThe group of investors pursuing a rescue bid for Thames Water have said they are willing to discuss greater public control, but are also preparing for a potential multi-billion pound legal battle amid reports Andy Burnham could temporarily nationalise Britain’s biggest water company.London & Valley Water (L&VW), a consortium of 100 institutional investors that hold £17bn of the water company’s £21bn debt, has said it is open to government involvemen

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Thames Water creditors seek talks with Burnham as nationalisation looms

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:17:11+00:00

Consortium preparing for potential legal battle amid reports new PM could put the company into temporary public ownershipThe group of investors pursuing a rescue bid for Thames Water have said they are willing to discuss greater public control but are also preparing for a potential multi-billion pound legal battle amid reports that Andy Burnham could temporarily nationalise the company.London & Valley Water (L&VW), a consortium of 100 institutional investors that hold £17bn of the company’s £21bn debt, has said it is open to government involvement with Thames Water, but indicated that

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Israeli settlers torch homes and mosque in Masafer Yatta

Fonte: Al Jazeera - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:06:55+00:00

Videos show Israeli settlers attacking the Palestinian village of al Tuwani in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

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US boxer Hannah Rapp allegedly killed by driver while cycling in Texas

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:06:23+00:00

Investigators arrest 31-year-old man identified as Charles Medina in connection with death of Rapp who was 26US boxer Hannah Rapp, who in June fought for the World Boxing Council women’s featherweight championship, was killed on Saturday while she bicycled in Texas after a motorist struck her with his car, according to authorities.Rapp was 26, and investigators arrested a 31-year-old man identified as Charles Medina in connection with her death, the sheriff’s office of Brazos county, Texas, said in a statement. Continue reading...

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US boxer Hannah Rapp struck and killed by driver while cycling in Texas, police say

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:06:23+00:00

Investigators arrest 31-year-old man identified as Charles Medina in connection with death of Rapp who was 26US boxer Hannah Rapp, who in June fought for the World Boxing Council women’s featherweight championship, was killed on Saturday while she bicycled in Texas after a motorist struck her with his car, according to authorities.Rapp was 26, and investigators arrested a 31-year-old man identified as Charles Medina in connection with her death, the sheriff’s office of Brazos county, Texas, said in a statement. Continue reading...

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US boxer Hannah Rapp struck and killed by driver while cycling, police say

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:06:23+00:00

Investigators arrest 31-year-old man identified as Charles Medina in connection with death of Rapp who was 26US boxer Hannah Rapp, who in June fought for the World Boxing Council women’s featherweight championship, was killed on Saturday while she bicycled in Texas after a motorist struck her with his car, according to authorities.Rapp was 26, and investigators arrested a 31-year-old man identified as Charles Medina in connection with her death, the sheriff’s office of Brazos county, Texas, said in a statement. Continue reading...

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : après des entretiens avec des commandants militaires, Volodymyr Zelensky annonce des « conversations cruciales » pour lundi

Fonte: Le Monde - International · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:05:18+00:00

Ces réunions, qui en sont à leur troisième jour, se déroulent dans un contexte de manifestations dans les grandes villes, exigeant la destitution du commandant en chef, Oleksandr Syrsky, et la réintégration de l’ancien ministre de la défense, Mykhaïlo Fedorov.

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‘What has the BBC ever done for me?’ Romesh Ranganathan reboots corporation’s 1985 licence fee plea

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T16:02:20+00:00

As with the John Cleese original, comedian is supported by famous faces from Claudia Winkelman to David Jason John Cleese’s 1985s advert for the BBC in which he asks a pub full of stars, “What has the BBC ever given us?” is one of the most famous examples of the corporation making the case to the public for the value of paying the licence fee.In the advert, Cleese is complaining to the bartender that he has just bought his TV licence. “Fifty-eight quid for the privilege of sitting in your own home, watching your own television set. It’s diabolical. I mean, what’s the BBC ever given us for 58 q

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Hidden life of trees

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:58:58+00:00

A valuable deep ecology work on nurturing trees

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5.6 magnitude earthquake hits Peru

Fonte: Al Jazeera - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:54:22+00:00

Footage shows firefighters looking for a missing person amongst the rubble of a collapsed building in Pumpunya, Peru.

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A searing expose of ‘modern slavery’

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:48:33+00:00

This book tells the story of the H-1B visa and how it was misused to exploit IT workers both Indian and American

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Editorial. Systemic cancer

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:46:42+00:00

India’s cancer burden needs a public health response

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Solex Energy in talks for solar venture in Ghana

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:45:59+00:00

Solex Energy plans to set up an end-to-end solar manufacturing ecosystem in Ghana

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How solar thermal can ‘green’ manufacturing processes

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:41:31+00:00

Solar thermal lowers not only carbon emissions but also costs, compared with heat from fossil fuel

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‘He’s a war criminal’: Mamdani exploring whether he can arrest Netanyahu if he visits New York

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:38:11+00:00

NYC mayor says in Times interview that’s he’s in ‘active conversation’ with city’s law department about the matterNew York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he was reviewing whether his administration could arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if as expected the Israeli prime minister visits the city for the UN general assembly in September.Mamdani’s comments on Saturday’s episode of the New York Times’s the Interview podcast echoed ones he had made to the publication as he successfully ran for mayor last fall. Continue reading...

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The missing element in India’s rare-earths scheme

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:37:56+00:00

What will it take for the country to cut import dependency and build a resilient critical-minerals ecosystem?

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Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in US on UK rape and sex trafficking charges

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:31:31+00:00

Britain seeks extradition on charges including rape, sexual exploitation and offences linked to ‘extreme pornography’The controversial influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in the US as part of a UK police investigation into a number of alleged sexual offences.The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was bringing further charges in relation to four additional individuals, and had requested the two men’s extradition. Continue reading...

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‘He’s a war criminal’: Mamdani exploring whether he can arrest Netanyahu if he visit New York

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:25:41+00:00

NYC mayor says in Times interview that’s he’s in ‘active conversation’ with city’s law department about the matterNew York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he was reviewing whether his administration could arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if as expected the Israeli prime minister visits the city for the UN general assembly in September.Mamdani’s comments on Saturday’s episode of the New York Times’s the Interview podcast echoed ones he had made to the publication as he successfully ran for mayor last fall. Continue reading...

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Designing cities for a hotter future

Fonte: Al Jazeera - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:25:01+00:00

Climate advocate Mina Hasman’s vision of designing cities that behave like forests and buildings that act like trees.

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Tate brothers arrested in the US

Fonte: Al Jazeera - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:23:49+00:00

Video shows the moment controversial influencer brothers Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate were arrested in Miami, US.

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Їх неможливо зламати: у ці дні народжуються люди, які ніколи не здаються

Fonte: UNIAN (General) · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:23:00+00:00

Люди, народжені в певні дні місяця, мають особливу внутрішню стійкість і рідко відмовляються від своїх цілей, навіть якщо стикаються з численними невдачами.

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Increased Cooperation With U.S. Has Put Jordan in Iran’s Cross Hairs

Fonte: New York Times - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:17:53+00:00

Jordan’s role in U.S. operations against Iran has grown as other allies in the region have restricted Washington’s ability to use their bases and airspace.

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Health officials identify source of US explosive diarrhoea outbreak

Fonte: BBC News - World · Pubblicato: 2026-07-19T15:17:23+00:00

The US Food and Drug Administration says iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms and sold at Taco Bell and Walmart locations was the source of cyclosporiasis infections.

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