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Mute buttons and plexiglass: Inside the final presidential debate

While millions of people will be watching on television, only around 200 will be allowed inside the massive college arena in Nashville where President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, meet Thursday night for the final presidential debate of the 2020 election.

 

One of them will control a mute button.

1:02 AM

Huawei outhustles Trump by stockpiling chips needed for China 5G

Huawei Technologies quietly spent months racing to stockpile critical radio chips ahead of Trump administration sanctions, ensuring it can keep supplying Chinese carriers in their $170 billion roll-out of 5G technology through at least 2021.
 

Partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing began ramping up output in late 2019 of Huawei’s 7-nanometer Tiangang communications chips, the most crucial element in 5G base stations, people familiar with the matter said. The Taiwanese contract manufacturer eventually shipped more than 2 million units at Huawei’s behest ahead of the sanctions cutoff last month, one of the people said, asking not be identified discussing internal matters. The sheer magnitude of orders at one point got TSMC executives wondering whether they had underestimated global demand, the person said.

11:52 PM

Northern Railways new service to transport passenger luggage to home

Passengers travelling from Delhi, Ghaziabad and Gurgaon will be the first to avail the soon-to-begin 'Bags on Wheels' service of the Railways through which their luggage will be transported to their homes from the railway station upon their arrival in trains and vice versa.

11:27 PM

Guterres reiterates call on UN Day for global ceasefire to fight Covid-19 together

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India has taken up case of workers not paid end of service dues in Saudi: MEA

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RBI bars payment system operators from launching any new QR codes

9:43 PM

China, Germany heading for superpower status as US influence wanes: Putin

The era when the United States and Russia decided the world's most important questions is in the past, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, saying China and Germany were now heading for superpower status.

 

Addressing a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, Putin suggested that the role of the United States had waned, along with that of Britain and France, while Beijing and Berlin - in terms of political and economic weight -- were heading for superpower status.

 

If Washington was not prepared to discuss global problems with Moscow, Russia stood ready to have that discussion with other nations, said Putin, who was speaking via video link.

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Goldman Sachs to pay nearly $3 billion to settle charges over 1MDB scandal role

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Air quality 'very poor' in Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad; Gurgaon relatively better

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Joint committee of Parliament issues summons to Facebook officials asking them to appear before it on Friday on Personal Data Protection Bill

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Mehbooba Mufti chairs first meeting with PDP leaders in Srinagar after release from detention

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RBI pegs minimum NOF for housing finance companies at Rs 25 crore

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday fixed the minimum Net Owned Fund (NOF) size for housing finance companies at Rs 25 crore.

 

The housing finance companies (HFCs) holding a Certificate of Registration (CoR) and having an NOF of less than Rs 25 crore will be required to achieve NOF of Rs 15 crore by March 31, 2022 and Rs 25 crore by March 31, 2023, the Reserve Bank said in a notification. The RBI has issued the revised regulatory framework for HFCs.

 

The RBI further said that it would be incumbent upon such HFCs whose NOF currently stands below Rs 20 crore to submit a statutory auditor's certificate to the central bank within a month evidencing compliance with the prescribed levels.

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