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Actors Mrunal Thakur and Priyanshu Painyuli have boarded the cast of war drama 'Pippa', starring Ishaan Khatter in the lead. To be directed by Raja Krishna Menon of 'Airlift' fame, the film will be produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur.

Telecom equipment maker Nokia cut its fullyear profit and margin forecasts on Thursday, sending its shares tumbling 13% as the Finnish company's new chief executive overhauled its strategy to win the 5G race.

Volkswagen AG returned to profit in the third quarter as surging Chinese demand for luxury cars helped offset a 1.1% drop in vehicle deliveries due to the ongoing global COVID19 crisis.

Austrian oil and gas group OMV on Thursday said its thirdquarter operating profit fell by two thirds as weak oil prices hit its exploration and production business, but a strong performance from its refineries meant it beat expectations.

Malaysia's AirAsia X Bhd plans to drop a local airport operator from its $15.3 billion debt restructuring plan to expedite discussions with creditors as its cash is running out fast, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Smith+Nephew said on Thursday revenue recovered strongly in the third quarter from the second, as hospitals managed to carry out more elective surgeries after the initial wave of coronavirus infections.

Telecoms operator Orange posted on Thursday a 0.4% decline in its thirdquarter core operating profit, beating market expectations thanks to continued proceeds from French peers that are cofinancing its broadband fibre network.

In a brief order, the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not rehear arguments over whether Qualcomm had engaged in anticompetitive patent-licensing practices

Japanese automakers saw a 2.1% drop in global vehicles sales in September compared with a year earlier, the seventh straight month of declines, as the coronavirus pandemic continued to hurt demand even as factories and dealerships reopen.

This judgment settles the controversy after almost 30 years when a two-judge bench had allowed confessions recorded under Section 67 into evidence.

Weakening winds on Wednesday enabled firefighters in Southern California to begin to corral two raging wildfires that critically injured two frontline crew members and had threatened tens of thousands of homes, authorities said.

The Bank of Japan is set to maintain its massive stimulus programme on Thursday and vow to take further action if the economic fallout from the coronavirus shock threatens a return to deflation.

The trailer of Netflix's The White Tiger is out, with the spotlight on Adarsh Gourav's onscreen rise from a mere driver to becoming the master of his own fate.

The governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, on Wednesday warned residents in the path of the fastmoving Hurricane Zeta to take shelter as the storm bore down on the state.

Stocks sank across the globe on Wednesday on concerns that rising COVID19 cases in Europe, the United States and elsewhere will get in the way of fragile economic recoveries, while the U.S. dollar rose on safehaven bids.

U.S. jeweler Tiffany & Co has agreed with LVMH to slightly lower the price of its acquisition by the French luxury goods group, in a move set to end a legal dispute between the two, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.