Morning Digest - January 19, 2023

16 days ago The Hindu

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern to resign, sets October electionPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called New Zealand's next general elections for October 14. She said Thursday in Napier she will remain a lawmaker until then. She said she had given her "absolute all" during nearly six years in office but didn't have the reserve to serve another term. He is set to inaugurate and lay foundation stones for a string of projects worth more than Rs 38,000 crore during his visit. Nadda on two-day visit to Bengal, first since extension as BJP presidentDuring his visit, he will hold organisational and public meetings in Nadia district on Thursday.
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Shop for pre-loved designer wear this Deepavali 2022

Realising that the the products could get a new life, she launched pre-loved by Virja in early 2020. Turns out, Virja wasn’t the only one on a journey towards rehoming designer wear. GUCCI Ophidia Top Handle Tote at Relove Closet | Photo Credit: Special ArrangementFestive boomThe latest brand to join the bandwagon is Revivify, a pre-loved Indian designer wear platform retailing apparel with labels such as Manish Malhotra, Sabyasachi, Ritu Kumar, Anita Dongre, among others. The vintage closet Carol Humtsoe, founder of Nagaland-based Carol’s Shop, reminisces how she would wear hand-me-downs from her mother, aunts, friends and from flea markets. It’s a total win-win.”Making a case for pre-loved fashion, Anuradha says these pieces of clothing are a discounted alternative to first-hand designer.

3 months ago The Hindu

U.K.’s Johnson, Sunak meet amid private battle for Tory leadership

Former Prime Minister Johnson, who returned from a Caribbean holiday earlier in the day aiming to launch an audacious political comeback just weeks after leaving office, met ex-Finance Minister Sunak to discuss the race, the BBC and others reported. Mr. Johnson cut short a luxury stay in the Dominican Republic to join the seemingly three-way tussle, with allies saying he was “up for it”. “We must move on,” he urged the Tories, adding they “must get behind a capable leader who can deliver a Conservative programme” who he identified as ex-Finance Minister Sunak. Tory MP James Duddridge, a key Johnson ally who confirmed Friday the ex-leader was intent on standing, said on Saturday that he had now secured the support of 100 colleagues. Mr. Johnson has nonetheless been endorsed by several Tory heavyweights, including on Saturday ex-Interior Minister Priti Patel.

3 months ago The Hindu

ICC Twenty20 World Cup: Ind vs Pak | India wins toss; opts to bowl against Pakistan

India may have an overall edge in ICC contests, but Pakistan has slowly turned the tideA view of the Melbourne Cricket Group where India will be against their arch-rivals Pakistan at the ICC Twenty20 World Cup. Over the last year, the rivals have faced-off thrice — once during the 2021 T20 World Cup and twice in the recent Asia Cup. “Luckily for us, we got to play them in Asia Cup twice, otherwise we don’t play them at all. So it’s very hard to gauge what sort of mindset they play with, and for those two games that we played in Asia Cup,” he added. India will open their T20 World Cup campaign in a much-anticipated clash against arch-rivals Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, here on Sunday.

3 months ago The Hindu

Kohli’s fireworks come just in time to make it happy Diwali for India

And, despite an early stutter, India dished out a splendid chase with Virat Kohli’s incandescent knock lighting up the skies. Edge-of-the-seat stuffChasing Pakistan’s 159 for eight, India finished with 160 for six in 20 overs with the last over being high on drama and chewed up nails. | Photo Credit: AFPHowever, Kohli had other plans and with Hardik for company, the two ran briskly and India moved to 45 for four in 10 overs. The former India captain remained the last man standing with his arms aloft, a big grin lighting up his sweat-streaked visage. The India skipper’s decision found validation as Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled a niggardly first over but the hero was Arshdeep Singh.

3 months ago The Hindu

F1 | Sainz takes pole, Verstappen second in U.S. Grand Prix 2022

The session was overshadowed by the news of Red Bull owner Mateschitz, aged 78, with Red Bull Racing on the cusp of their first titleFerrari’s Carlos Sainz is in the pole position for the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. No driver has won at the Circuit of the Americas from outside the front row since the first grand prix was held there in 2012. "I think for tomorrow Red Bull are still the favourites and they normally have the better race pace," he added. Ferrari need to score 19 points more than Red Bull, who have won the last seven races, to keep the constructors' championship alive with three rounds remaining. Aston Martin's four times world champion Sebastian Vettel, who won his titles with Red Bull, starts 10th.

3 months ago The Hindu

Explained | CCI’s ₹1,300 crore fine on Google and how that will change Android smartphones

Google operates and manages the Android OS and licenses other Google proprietary applications such as Chrome and Play Store through it. According to the EU, the Google Play Store accounts for more than 90% of apps downloaded on Android devices globally. So, the CCI, examined if Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store had any substitutability between the two. The mention of Google’s antitrust practices with regard to Youtube was the distinguishing factor between the CCI probe and the EU probe of Google in 2018. What has the CCI told Google to change in the Android smartphones ecosystem?

3 months ago The Hindu

U.K. is ready to support manufacture of Indian jet engines, says British High Commissioner Alex Ellis

At the Expo, India and U.K. announced a new defence industry joint working group to strengthen defence collaboration which also held its first meeting. “What the U.K. brings is high levels of expertise and technology in everything from missiles to engines. So, what I’d also like to see is not only British companies tying up with Indian companies but also looking at how they can export,” Mr. Ellis said in a brief conversation with The Hindu at DefExpo. And we’ve also seen the effectiveness of Ukrainian response with support from the U.K. and other countries. “And the future, frankly, is a tougher one, both in the Indo-Pacific and also in the European theatre and we can actually gain strength from being together,” Mr. Ellis said.

3 months ago The Hindu

Delhi L-G launches one-time property tax amnesty scheme 'SAMRIDDHI 2022-23'

Coercive measures to collect the tax dues shall be launched against such defaulters from April 1 next yearLt. Under the scheme, residential property owners can pay just the principal property tax amount of the current and of the past five years. Mr. Saxena added that this new amnesty scheme will also widen the tax base and enable MCD to build a proper tax database by being more pragmatic about the enforcement of its long-pending tax dues. Coercive measures to collect the tax dues shall be launched against such defaulters from April 1 next year, the statement said. Such cases where principal, interest and penalty have already been paid before the launch of the scheme, shall not be reassessed and reopened, the statement added.

3 months ago The Hindu

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