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New Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) China has propelled Apple’s growth with a remarkable 128 per cent surge in net sales in the last 9 years, a new report said on Tuesday.According to StockApps.com financial analyst Edith, “China has been a vital market for Apple, contributing significantly to the company’s global sales. The Chinese market has seen remarkable growth and challenges for Apple in the past decade”.Apple entered the Chinese smartphone market in 2010, and its sales soared over 20 times within five years. It peaked at $58.7 billion in 2015.However, economic headwinds and increased competition led to a gradual decline…

Nifty traded sideways amid subdued global cues and closed flat to negative at 19669 levels. Also mounting concerns over China’s real estate sector, and FIIs offloading in domestic equities dampened the sentiments, he said.However, momentum is seen in auto and defensive sectors like FMCG. Auto sector is expected to remain in focus going ahead as OEMs are likely to increase output by 25 per cent amid a build-up in orders ahead of the festive season. FMCG sector is looked at as a safe haven given the pressure seen in the broader markets, he said.Investors would watch out for the US…

The investigation was prompted by the discovery of a dismembered body, found in three pieces in Delhi’s Bhalswa Dairy area. The gruesome discovery led to the arrest of two individuals, Jagjit Singh alias Jagga alias Yaqub and Naushad, with suspected ties to terrorist organisations.Jagjit Singh hails from Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand, while Naushad is a resident of Jahangirpuri in Delhi.The chargesheet, which has been obtained by IANS, discloses the sinister plans of ISI and Khalistan separatists to carry out targeted assassinations of prominent public figures in the National Capital Region (NCR) and neighbouring states.As per charge sheet, these acts…

The 42-year old was holding the razor-sharp big blades with the caption, “I started playing in the kitchen with knives today” while she rubbed and even clapped the blades together while dancing, TMZ reported.The whole thing was extremely dangerous and can even be labeled a dance of death because as evident in the video, Spears clearly isn’t trained to hold or play with knives. Wielding knives requires special training, something which she does not have.But that did not stop her from juggling those knives around and dancing fiercely, even stumbling and actually almost ramming them in her.Spears, after her 13-year-conservatorship…

Stating that southern states can’t be penalised for performing well to control population on the advice of the government of India and in the interest of the nation, he said cutting across political lines people of South India will voice their concern.KTR said the BRS with like-minded parties will lead the discussion on the proposed delimitation and convey their sentiments to the government of India.The BRS leader referred to AIMIM leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s comment that South India is sitting on a powder keg as far as delimitation is concerned. “If you think you will suppress our voices…

Addressing the All India Management Association (AIMA) conference here, he further added that the competition in the market is huge.Elbers said that India is an “incredible” aviation market and IndiGo is going through a “maturing phase”.He underlined the need for having aviation hubs in India which is an underserved area. The IndiGo CEO said that India has the geographic advantage to become an aviation hub.He pointed out that 65 per cent of the world population is within 5-6 hours of flying range and with India’s own growing flying population, India should provide points of connection to international travellers in the…

The 128 startup founders who have written to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI) include Zerodha’s Nithin Kamath, Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma, PhonePe’s Sameer Nigam, Razorpay’s Harshil Mathur, Ajay Kaushal, Director, Billdesk, Nitin Saluja, founder, Chaayos, Ritesh Malik, founder, Innov8 and Rohan Verma, CEO, MapmyIndia, to name a few.Raising their concerns over the proposed regulation by the TRAI to selectively ban over-the-top (OTT) platforms, the startups founders said they are principally against bringing such services under the same or similar regulatory framework as telecommunications service providers (TSPs).“We believe that the premise largely relied upon in the consultation paper as well…

A GST team earlier sent a notice to the Vaidyanath Cooperative Sugar Factory in Beed — which has been shut down due to financial problems for past several months — and after it was ignored, the GST sleuths visited the factory on Monday for an inspection.Interestingly, the developments took place two days after the Mumbai trip of Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah (Saturday) and a day before the BJP President toured Maharashtra (Tuesday) shocking the supporters of Munde, who is the party’s national secretary.Taking umbrage at the actions, and potential attachment of the factory premises, Munde said that…

While it is well known that certain brain regions play a crucial role in memory processes, so far it has not been clear whether these regions exhibit different activities when it comes to storing information in people with better or worse memory performance.To understand, the team at the University of Basel in Switzerland conducted imaging studies on memory consisting of 1,500 participants between the ages of 18 and 35.Participants were asked to look at and memorise a total of 72 images. During the process, the researchers recorded the subjects’ brain activity using MRI and then asked them to recall as…

Sanguem MLA and Minister for Archives and Archaeology, Subhash Phaldesai on Tuesday said that it is not because of locals’ objection, but as the IIT site selection committee rejected the land, they have finalised another area for the project.”Process is almost at its final stage. We are working on it. Once selection of land is done at any point of time it will be declared officially,” he said.Clarifying on earlier proposed land, Phaldesai said that land which was proposed was not sufficient as it was non -development slope. “It was a mountain. It is not because people have objected… The…