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Today's News Headlines.

1.New Delhi: With the global tourism industry seeing recovery as the pandemic recedes, Germany hopes to gain on the back of improving travel sentiment from India. The country plans to invest 5 lakh euros in India to promote tourism.-livemint.com

2.According to the latest UK Immigration Statistics, nearly 118,000 Indian students received a Student visa in the year ending June 2022 – an 89% increase from the previous year. India has now overtaken China as the largest nationality being issued sponsored study visas in the UK.-livemint.com

3.The death toll from the devastating floods in Pakistan neared 1,100 Monday, as international aid began to trickle in following Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led cash-strapped government's desperate appeal for aid to deal with the crisis that has displaced 33 million or one-seventh of the country's population.-businessstandard.com

4.Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in Saturday as India’s 49th Chief Justice of India, following N.V. Ramana to the top judicial post. While Lalit will have a short tenure of only 74 days as a CJI, he has already set out his priorities.-theprint.com

5.Indian rupee fell sharply today after the US Fed chief indicated high interest rates will continue for some time to curb inflation. The rupee fell to record low of 80.11 vs USD, compared with the previous session's close of 79.87. On Friday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the Jackson Hole meet of central bankers signalled that restrictive policy would be kept longer to bring down inflation.-livemint.com

6.Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Monday announced the 5G standalone services, adding that the launch will take place in select Indian cities by Diwali this year. He announced a slew of partnerships for speedy rollout of the 5G plan.-hindustantimes.com

7.The state of the Line of Actual Control will determine the state of the relationship between India and China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday, squarely blaming the XI Jinping-led country for strained ties.-dnaindia.com

8.Gautam Adani Now World's 3rd Richest, First Asian In Top 3.-It's the first time an Asian person has broken into the top three of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index -- fellow citizen Mukesh Ambani and China's Jack Ma never made it that far. With a $137.4 billion fortune, Mr Adani has overtaken France's Bernard Arnault and now trails just Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos of the US in the ranking.-ndtv.com

9.The Bombay Milk Producers Association has raised the wholesale price of fresh milk from Rs 73 per litre to Rs 78. An additional transportation charge of Rs 2 per litre brings the rate to Rs 80, said association chairman C K Singh. Retail rates are expected to rise from Rs 82-84 to Rs 87-89 per litre.-indiatimes.com

10.Luxury hotel chain Oberoi Group has come forward to invest INR 1,500 crore in various projects in Andhra Pradesh thereby creating .direct employment to 1,500 people, an official release said on Monday. President.and Chief Operating Officer Rajaraman Shankar called on Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy at his camp office here and expressed interest to invest about INR 1,500 crore in AP, it said.-hospitalityworld.com

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