Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr declared a state of emergency on Thursday after Typhoon Kalmaegi left at least 241 people dead and missing in central provinces in the deadliest natural disaster to hit the country this year.

Kalmaegi left at least 114 people dead, mostly from drowning in flash floods, and 127 missing, many in the hard-hit central province of Cebu, before the tropical cyclone blew out of the archipelago on Wednesday into the South China Sea.

US President Donald Trump has said that India and Pakistan "made peace" in May after he threatened the two nuclear-armed neighbours to snap trade deals with them if they continued their military conflict, a claim he has repeated several times since then.

In eight months I ended eight wars, including Kosovo and Serbia, and Congo and Rwanda, that were going on for a long time... Pakistan and India, Trump said in his address at the America Business Forum in Miami on Wednesday.

Technology giant IBM is set to eliminate thousands of positions as it redirects attention towards its high-margin software division, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The layoffs are expected to take place this quarter as the company intensifies its focus on software and services.

“We routinely review our workforce through this lens and at times rebalance accordingly,” a company spokesperson was quoted as saying.

Bollywood actor Salman Khan has landed in legal trouble after a complaint was filed against him in the Kota Consumer Court, alleging that advertisements for a popular pan masala brand endorsed by him were "misleading."

The complaint, filed by senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Rajasthan High Court advocate Inder Mohan Singh Honey, seeks a ban on such advertisements.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is going to address a press conference at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday at 12 PM, where speculation is rife that he may make a major revelation, referred to earlier as a "hydrogen bomb" linked to his allegations of vote theft and irregularities in the electoral rolls.

The correction in the Indian stock market is over, believe analysts at Morgan Stanley, as the key factors driving India’s underperformance compared to emerging market (EM) peers are reversing.

In a bull-case scenario – to which they attach a 30 per cent probability – Morgan Stanley sees the Sensex hitting the 100,000 mark by June 2026.

Even as other telecom companies are also hopeful of getting a breather, the written order of the latest Supreme Court verdict, linked to adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues, suggests that the scope has not been broadened beyond Vodafone Idea (Vi).

In the written order copy uploaded on Tuesday, a two-judge Bench of Chief Justice of India Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran said that the October 27 order passed by it would only change to the extent that the Centre would be allowed to re-examine the entire AGR dues of Vodafone Idea up to financial year 2016-17, instead of just the additional demand.

Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani was elected the mayor of New York City on Tuesday (local time) after securing a decisive victory in the closely watched race, Associated Press reported. Mamdani emerged as the front-runner, defeating former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, who contested as an independent and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday announced that farmers would be given ₹300 per quintal of paddy and ₹400 for wheat as a bonus over MSP, if the INDIA bloc comes to power in Bihar.

Addressing a press conference here, Yadav, the chief ministerial candidate of the opposition bloc, also said heads of all Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) and Primary Marketing Cooperative Societies (Vyapar Mandals) will also be given the status of people's representatives' in the state.

A jatha of 1,796 Sikh pilgrims from India will visit Pakistan to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji on November 5, paying their respects at various historic gurudwaras on the occasion of 'Parkash Purb'.

The pilgrims will enter Pakistan through the Attari-Wagah border. Expressing their happiness, several members of the jatha thanked the government for granting them permission to undertake the pilgrimage.

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