Indonesia is mesmerised by the dubbed version of Mahabharat, the Indian television series, which has even spawned a spinoff reality show where Arjuna selects the winner from14 beautiful women

Mahabharat takes Indonesia by storm

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The defining feature of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, is indisputably the traffic jam. For much of the day the creaking infrastructure of this city of 10 million people faces almost total gridlock. But there is one unlikely beneficiary of this vehicular somnolence: Twitter. Stranded in stationary cars, or crowded bus stops, Jakarta's residents send out more tweets on average than citizens of Tokyo, London or New York.According to Semiocast, a social media marketing research firm, Jakarta accounts for 2.4 per cent of the 10.6 billion tweets worldwide. And Jakarta has company from another Indonesian city: Bandung, which ranks sixth on the worldwide Twitter charts, beating Paris and Los Angeles, despite having a population of only around 2.5 million people. Indonesia, as a whole, has the 5th largest number of Twitter users globally.The country's online sociability isn't restricted to Twitter. It also boasts the fourth highest number of Facebook users in the world. And this despite the

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Europe is beset. Banks are sinking, governments are falling and people are taking to the streets in anger as high unemployment, stagnant growth and ballooning deficits make for a gloomy start to 2012. The region needs cash and is devising ever more desperate schemes to get some, from lending to the International Monetary Fund to borrow it back, to extending its begging bowl to forex-rich Beijing.

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They're among hundreds of military and civilian offenders who've been pressed into Russian penal units

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Despite the S&P BSE 500 Index dipping nearly a per cent in August, the ADR was at 1.11 amid a strong rally in midcap and smallcap stocks

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China's best-selling car brand came within a whisker of toppling Tesla last quarter after factory downtime led to the US automaker's first delivery decline in more than a year

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Development came as tug-of-war between Centre and Bengal govt over release of funds to state intensified with TMC holding protests in the national capital for the second consecutive day

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The run-up in the markets in these last few months, analysts at HSBC said, has made investors nervous about the markets amid multiple headwinds

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India has told Canada that if any of these diplomats stay after October 10, their diplomatic immunity will be revoked

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What the data suggests, however, is that India's numbers are unsustainable. They're driven by debt-fueled household consumption and government investment

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Asian Games 2023 Day 10 Highlights: India's athletics contingent kept the medals coming as they won 6 medals including 2 Golds. India's medals tally reached a total of 69 medals at the end of Day 10

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Closing Bell on October 3, 2023: In the broader markets, the key indices outperformed the frontline indices with the BSE MidCap index gaining 0.09%, and the BSE SmallCap index advancing 0.6%

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Asian Games 2023 Highlights, Day 8: India won three gold and a total of 15 medals to record their best-ever single-day medal haul to finish in 4th place in the medals tally in Hangzhou, China

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On a visit to the state earlier, Rahul launched a blistering attack on the BJP, saying its government in Madhya Pradesh was "epicentre of corruption" and was not paying the proper price to farmers

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The last Krishi Kumbh was organised in 2018

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The summit, also known as Parliament 20 (P20) is expected to be held between October 12 and 14 in the new Parliament building

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On the brink of a federal government shutdown, the House on Saturday swiftly approved 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open as Speaker Kevin McCarthy dropped demands for steep spending cuts and relied on Democratic votes for passage to send the package to the Senate.
The new approach would leave behind aid to Ukraine, a White House priority opposed by a growing number of GOP lawmakers, but the plan would increase federal disaster assistance by $16 billion, meeting President Joe Biden's full request. The House vote was 335-91.
With hours to go for the midnight deadline to fund the government, the Senate was also in for a rare weekend session and prepared to act next.
We're going to do our job, McCarthy said ahead of voting. We're going to be adults in the room. And we're going to keep government open.
With no deal in place before Sunday, federal workers will face furloughs, more than 2 million active-duty and reserve military troops will work without pay and programmes a

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The combined market valuation of five of the top 10 most valued firms declined by Rs 62,586.88 crore last week, with IT majors Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys taking the biggest hit, amid an overall bearish trends in equities.
Last week, the BSE benchmark fell 180.74 points or 0.27 per cent, and the Nifty declined 35.95 points or 0.18 per cent.
The market valuation of TCS plunged Rs 26,308.58 crore to Rs 12,91,919.56 crore.
Infosys witnessed an erosion of Rs 25,296.43 crore from its valuation which was at Rs 5,95,597.10 crore.
The market valuation of Reliance Industries fell by Rs 5,108.05 crore to Rs 15,87,553.37 crore and that of Hindustan Unilever declined by Rs 3,865.08 crore to Rs 5,79,373.96 crore.
The market capitalisation (mcap) of HDFC Bank dipped Rs 2,008.74 crore to Rs 11,57,145.86 crore.
However, the mcap of Bajaj Finance jumped Rs 20,413.41 crore to Rs 4,73,186.41 crore.
Bharti Airtel added Rs 8,520.13 crore to Rs 5,19,279.14 crore in its valuation while

Even if generative artificial intelligence has been overhyped, it's safe to assume that ChatGPT-type bots will only get better at routine tasks like writing computer software

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Half of India's population between the age of 30-55 years believes 59 years should be the age of retirement and thirty-two years is when one should ideally start retirement planning,

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As the festival season approaches, followed by elections, state and national, there will be pressure on liquidity since cash with the public will rise

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Bidhuri may be a small fry in the larger calculus of the party. Yet, in his blundering and uncultured way, he was voicing in Parliament what has already been normalised on the streets

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