SC bench order criticises CJI’s listing system

In a rare instance of open criticism of the Supreme Court’s new case listing method introduced by new CJI U U Lalit, a bench led by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul has in a judicial order said that the new listing system gave inadequate time to the judges to take up the matters. It said, “The new listing system is not giving an adequate time to take up matters fixed for hearing like the present case as there are a number of matters within the span of ‘Afternoon’ session.”

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Bail pleas must be decided as expeditiously as possible: SC

Disapproving the practice of high courts not giving early hearing in bail matters, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said pleas seeking pre-arrest or post-arrest bail must be decided by courts as expeditiously as possible as they involve the liberty of a person.

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Rajnath protests $450m package for Pak’s F-16s

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Gen Pande: Nepal must decide soon on Agnipath enlistment

India may be forced to withdraw vacancies for enlisting soldiers from Nepal under its new Agnipath scheme in the ongoing recruitment cycle if the landlocked country does not take a decision in time, Army chief Gen Manoj Pande said on Wednesday. Such a move by India, if it comes to that, could have adverse implications for the already delicately poised relationship with Nepal, where China has systematically made huge strategic inroads over the years.

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2 dalit sisters found hanging from tree in Lakhimpur Kheri

Bringing back chilling memories of the Budaun dalit sisters' death case in 2014, two minor sisters, also dalit and aged 14 and 17 years, were found hanging from a tree outside a village in Nighasan area of UP's Lakhimpur Kheri district on Wednesday evening.

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12 dead, 18 hurt in Poonch accident

As many as 12 people died while 18 others were injured after the minibus they were travelling in fell into a gorge at Sawjian Nallah in J&K’s Poonch district on Wednesday morning. Among the deceased were two minor boys, aged five and 14, as well as three women, two of them teenagers. “The accident took place near Barari Ballah Sawjian around 8.35am when the bus driver lost control of the vehicle near a bridge. The bus skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge,” said an official.

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Byju's fiscal 2021 loss swells to $574 million, pushes listing plans

Tiger Global-backed Byju's on Wednesday reported a loss of Rs 4,564 crore ($574.06 million) for the 2021 fiscal year as promotion and employee expenses rose, with the edtech startup pushing listing plans to next year due to uncertain global conditions.

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Amid drill with Japan, Indian ships also in Aus for war game

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Key cancer drugs, antibiotics set to become cheaper

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Karnataka brings in job quota in police for transgenders

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Vedanta, Foxconn to jointly invest 1.5L crore in Gujarat

Oil, gas and metals conglomerate Vedanta Limited, along with its joint-venture partner Foxconn, a Taiwan-based multinational contract electronics manufacturer, will jointly invest $20 billion (approximately Rs 1.5 lakh crore) in Gujarat. Vedanta-Foxconn signed an MoU with the Gujarat government on Tuesday to set up a semiconductor fabrication unit, a display fabrication unit, and a semiconductor assembling and testing unit in Ahmedabad district.

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J&K recruitment scam: CBI searches 36 locations

CBI sleuths on Tuesday conducted searches at 36 locations across the country, including in Jammu & Kashmir, in an ongoing investigation related to recruitment of sub-inspectors in J&K Police. According to police sources, searches were carried out in Jammu, Srinagar (both in J&K), Karnal, Mahendergarh, Rewari (in Haryana), Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Delhi, Ghaziabad (UP) and Bangalore (Karnataka), among other places.

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Foreign investors snap up bonds set for inclusion in global indexes

Foreign investors have stepped up purchases in a clutch of Indian government bonds that have no limits on foreign investments ahead of an anticipated inclusion of Indian debt in global bond indexes, analysts said.

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NIA targets narco-terror, searches 50 sites in 4 states

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Retail inflation up in August to 7%, IIP slows sharply

Retail inflation accelerated in August on the back of high food prices, reversing a three-month downward trend and remained above the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) upper tolerance level of 6% for the eighth consecutive month, which may prompt the central bank to raise interest rates again. The retail inflation data showed cereal and product prices rose 9.6% in August while vegetable prices shot up 13.2% during the month.

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India calls out Lanka at UNHRC on Tamil issue

India called Sri Lanka out at UNHRC on Monday for lack of “measurable progress” on the latter’s commitments for a political solution to the ethnic Tamil minority issue through “full implementation of the 13th Amendment of the Constitution”. The government urged Sri Lanka to take immediate and credible action to fulfil its commitments.

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SC fast-tracks CAA hearing, to set up a 3-judge bench

As a clutch of petitions challenging constitutional validity of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act and subsequent Rules has been pending for over two-and-half years with no effective hearing, the Supreme Court on Monday decided to fast-track the proceedings and asked the counsel appearing for both the sides to come out with a “road map” for conducting the hearing on over 250 petitions.

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SC ill-equipped to determine hijab’s essentiality: Muslim side

The Muslim side on Monday said the Supreme Court, not being sufficiently proficient in Arabic, is ill-equipped to interpret the Quran. It argued that instead of determining the essentiality of hijab to Islam by attempting to interpret the holy book, the court should view hijab as an individual woman’s right to choose a piece of cloth to protect her privacy, dignity and identity.

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Retail inflation up in August to 7%, IIP slows sharply

Retail inflation accelerated in August on the back of high food prices, reversing a three-month downward trend and remained above the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) upper tolerance level of 6% for the eighth consecutive month, which may prompt the central bank to raise interest rates again. The retail inflation data showed cereal and product prices rose 9.6% in August while vegetable prices shot up 13.2% during the month.

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Shringar Gauri worship hearing to go on, Gyanvapi plea rejected

The court of the Varanasi district judge on Monday held as maintainable a suit filed by five Hindu women seeking the right to daily worship of the Goddess Shringar Gauri and other “visible and invisible” deities in the Gyanvapi mosque complex. It said the 1991 Places of Worship Act cited by the custodians of the shrine to challenge the plea wasn't a bar in this case as the plaintiffs never asked for the mosque to be converted into a temple.

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'Steps to check prices will be felt more significantly in coming months'

The finance ministry on Monday attributed the rise in inflation to base effect and increase in food and fuel prices, and stressed that initiatives taken by the government to curb price rise will be felt more significantly in the coming months.

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KCR, HDK agree on need for anti-BJP front for 2024 polls

Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao and former Karnataka CM and Janata Dal (Secular) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Sunday arrived at a consensus that an alternative political front at the national level should be stitched to achieve ‘BJP-Mukt Bharat’ in 2024 general elections. Kumaraswamy, who had come to Hyderabad on an invitation from KCR, pledged support to his plan.

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Kashmir’s gift for new Parl building

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'Granting EWS quota to upper castes mockery of reservation'

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NCP: Pawar not claimant to PM job, suited to act as oppn bridge

NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar has never been a prime ministerial aspirant but is best suited to serve as a bridge between opposition parties since he commands respect from all, his party said on Sunday even as the veteran Rajya Sabha MP told party leaders that NCP will never “surrender” before the “rulers in Delhi”. The assertion was made by party MP Praful Patel amid renewed activity within the opposition camp to unite all non-BJP outfits.

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Azad: J&K won’t get special status back

Political parties claiming to be fighting for restoration of J&K's special status are chasing votes rather than an achievable goal, former CM Ghulam Nabi Azad declared in north Kashmir's Baramulla on Sunday to set the tone for his second coming in the Valley's politics within weeks of quitting Congress. "I openly voted against the bill (to nullify articles 370 and 35A) in Parliament, but some people are creating a false narrative for vote politics," Azad said.

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New system of R&D allocation chokes flow of research funds

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, geneticist at IIT Kanpur, said, “No funds have come in so far since the new process was announced. There seems to be confusion all around about how to manage the zero-balance accounts."

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Main Omicron subvariant now mutating further: Insacog

BA.2.75 has spawned what has been designated as BA.2.75.2, which recently drew the attention of experts tracking mutations in SARS-CoV-2. Yunlong Richard Cao, an immunologist at Peking University, tweeted, “BA.2.75.2 is currently the most immune evasive strain we have tested so far.”

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Rahul out to unite country in a foreign T-shirt: Shah

Amit Shah said: “I want to remind Rahul baba and other Congress members about his speech given in Parliament. Rahul baba had said India is not a nation. Rahul baba, in which book have you read this? This is the nation for which lakhs and lakhs of people have sacrificed their lives.”

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Now, governor also mum on EC letter on Soren brother

The second letter refuelled a political joust between BJP and the JMM-led coalition government on Saturday, although a Raj Bhavan source said the EC letter came on Friday in a “sealed envelope” and “it is still to be opened”.

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BJP slams Rahul Gandhi meet with ‘hate speech’ pastor

In the video which went viral, pastor P George Ponnaiah is seen responding to the Congress leader’s question about whether Jesus was a form of God, saying, “Jesus is the real God. God reveals him(self) as a man, a real person...not like Shakti...so we see a human person.”

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22% rise in number of mentally ill jail inmates: NCRB

Last year, 7,524 inmates were reported to be suffering from mental illness. Percentage wise, those suffering from mental illness accounted for 1.5% of the 4.88 lakh inmates lodged in various prisons as on December 2020.

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38% of superbug-infected ICU patients die in 14 days: Study

Most doctors know that ICU patients in India who stay for longer periods get infected by gram-negative micro-organisms, which are more difficult to treat than gram-positive organisms found in western world ICUs.

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36% surge in direct tax collections to nearly Rs 6.5 lakh crore

“Refunds amounting to Rs 1.19 lakh crore have been issued during 1st April, 2022 to 8th September, 2022, which are 65.3% higher than refunds issued during the same period in the preceding year,” the Central Board of Direct Taxes said in a statement.

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File Bilkis Bano case remission docus in 2 weeks, Gujarat told

In the Bilkis Bano case, the bench of Justices Rastogi and Nagarathna while seeking response from the convicts, asked Malhotra to take instruction whether he would represent all of them before the SC.

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India stays out of Indo-Pacific trade pillar

Piyush Goyal said after the IPEF ministerial meeting, “We were very comfortable with the final outcome and text and I've joined the ministerial declarations on three pillars related to supply chains, tax and anti corruption and clean energy. On trade, a broader consensus is yet to emerge among nations. "

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UP youth turns thela into mobile cyber cafe

Shivam and his cafe on wheels — an out-of-the-box idea appreciated by many — can be spotted near the regional transport office (RTO) in the Naini area of Prayagraj. It’s a go-to point for people who go to the RTO for their driving licence and need printouts of documents.

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Tatas in talks with Wistron for iPhones

The discussions with Wistron are aimed at making Tatas a force in technology manufacturing, and the Indian salt-to-software conglomerate wants to tap the Taiwanese company’s expertise in product development, supply chain and assembly, people with knowledge of the matter said.

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Why India opted out of joining trade pillar of IPEF for now

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National interest: India remains out of IPEF trade pillar for now

India has for now opted to remain out of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework’s (IPEF) trade pillar. Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal had on Thursday said all decisions will be taken keeping “national interest” in mind.

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Mamata names Nitish, Soren, Akhilesh as 2024 poll allies

“Nitishji, Akhilesh and Hemant...We are together. Politics is a battlefield. We have fought for 34 years,” Mamata declared at a Trinamool preparatory meeting for the 2023 rural polls. Much of the CM’s speech pitted BJP’s alleged use of central agencies to go after rivals .

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Pradhan calls upon US institutions to partner India in boosting education

Dharmendra Pradhan also called for strengthening collaboration in the areas of research and skill development between the two countries. “India is taking great efforts in skilling, re-skilling and up skilling its youth.

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11% of Class 3 kids lack basic maths skills: NCERT study

More than a quarter of class III students in Tamil Nadu and Jammu & Kashmir lack foundational numeracy skills. Overall, compared to the global benchmark proficiency level, 11% of Indian kids in Class III lack basic mathematics skills.

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Queen Elizabeth II passes away: Life & times of UK's longest-serving monarch

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Must move quickly to save small businesses and jobs, says US commerce secretary

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Angela Kelly: The woman who dressed late Queen Elizabeth II

Mary Angela Kelly, a British fashion designer, dressmaker, and milliner, served as Personal Assistant and Senior Dresser to Queen Elizabeth II since 2002. Her official title was that of a Personal Assistant, Adviser and Curator to Her Majesty The Queen and she took care of her majesty's jewellery, insignias and wardrobe).

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Centre-Delhi dispute to be SC’s 1st green case

On May 10, 2017, then Chief Justice J S Khehar had set July 3, 2017, deadline for making the Supreme Court paperless by restricting the filing of petitions and appeals to soft copies. “It will save tons of paper used in filing of appeals and greatly help the environment,” he had said.

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Setback for Yediyurappa as Karnataka HC restores graft complaint

A special court for cases pertaining to elected representatives had rejected Abraham’s complaint on the ground that the governor had refused to sanction Yediyurappa’s prosecution on an application filed by the complainant. Abraham challenged the said order.

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Cabinet OKs Rs 27,000 crore scheme for 14,500 PM-SHRI schools

Under the scheme, over 14,500 schools, including Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas as well as those run by state governments and local bodies, will be strengthened to emerge as PM-SHRI Schools, Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Anurag Thakur told reporters after the Cabinet meeting.

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Framework to regulate social media coming: Government

The Centre said this before Justice Yashwant Varma, who was hearing petitions against the suspension of accounts of several social media users, including those using Twitter. Counsel for the government assured the court that an amendment to the law will be made at some point in time.

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Study impact of deficient rains in UP districts: Yogi

UP CM Yogi Adityanath said monsoon deficiency has impacted the sowing of the kharif crop. To assess the loss and understand the impact of the deficiency on agriculture, he has said one team should be constituted for every district.

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Apple has introduced its most expensive iPhones of 2022

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Govt to offload about 50k tonnes of onions from buffer stock

The government will offload about 50,000 tonnes of onions from its buffer stocks to a few cities like Delhi and Guwahati, where retail prices are a little higher than the all-India average rates.

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Nitish, Mamata, Akhilesh to star in opposition Haryana rally

The decision to invite all Opposition leaders from across the country on Devi Lal’s birth anniversary was taken during an hour-long meeting between Nitish and INLD chief and former Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala at the latter’s residence in Gurugram on Tuesday, JD(U) national secretary general KC Tyagi told TOI.

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Must jointly fight forces out to wreck ties, PM Narendra Modi tells Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh assured India it remained committed to ensuring security for its minority communities and the two sides also agreed to remain mindful of each other's security concerns and “strategic priorities”. PM Modi said in his remarks after the meeting that the two countries will soon start discussions for a free trade agreement.

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Ex-NSE CEO Ravi Narain arrested in laundering case

Ravi Narain is being investigated in the NSE co-location scam and the alleged illegal phone tapping case in which former bourse head Chitra Ramakrishnan, former group operating officer Anand Subramanian, and former Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey have already been arrested.

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ED chief’s tenure extended for probe continuity: Govt

It said a newly appointed director would take considerable time to take stock and acclimatise to the new office and the working of the ED and could find it difficult to operate at an optimal level of efficiency. The Centre said the amendment has not tinkered with the minimum tenure of two years.

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Withdraw Section 66A cases in 3 weeks: SC

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Booker Prize 2022 shortlist announced

A shortlist of six books for the Booker Prize 2022 was announced in the wee hours of September 7, 2022 (India time). Read more details about the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist here.

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IT firms resort to work-from-home amid Bengaluru rain fury

India's best-known IT firms and startups have asked staff to work from home as torrential rains brought chaos to the streets of the technology hub, marooning roads and snapping water and electricity supplies.

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6-airbag feature in fewer than 10% of cars on Indian roads

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7 in 10 Indians in rear seats do not wear seat belts: Poll

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Service sector activity gains steam, job growth rise max in 14 years

Activity in the country’s crucial services sector remained robust in August on the back of new business while employment witnessed the sharpest rise in 14 years, a survey showed on Monday.

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Tories one family, time to unite behind PM Truss, says Sunak

Rishi Sunak on Monday asked Tory members to unite behind newly appointed British Prime Minister Liz Truss, minutes after she defeated him in the leadership contest to succeed Boris Johnson, to steer the country through difficult times.

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Jharkhand CM Soren wins trust vote 48-0 amid BJP walkout

Staring at the prospect of disqualification as an MLA in the office-of-profit case for almost two weeks, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren Monday sought and won a cakewalk 48-0 trust vote in the 81-member assembly amid a BJP walkout and the forced absence of three Congress MLAs barred from leaving Bengal since their arrest there with a pile of cash.

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Rishi loses Truss vote, Liz wins Tory leadership race 57.4-42.6% to become next UK prime minister

Liz Truss has won the Conservative leadership race and will become the next UK prime minister on Tuesday after defeating Narayana Murthy’s son-in-law, Rishi Sunak, in the contest.

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India's coal output remains below estimate at 58 MT in August

India produced 58.33 million tonnes of coal in August, missing its target of 67.94 MT for the month, according to the government data. The coal production target for August was 67.94 million tonnes (MT), according to the government's monthly statistics (provisional).

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Individuals borrow more, corporates deleverage

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Rahul's speech 'immature, full of hate & anger': BJP

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UP move to bypass HC order on quotas

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No one except MSD messaged me after I quit Test captaincy: Kohli

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Winners of Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

The state government of Tamil Nadu on September 2 announced the list of winners under various categories for the State Film Awards for the year 2009 to 2014. The event for the same is held today, September 4 in Chennai at 5 pm. The statement issued by the government has the list of three selected movies, actors, actresses, musicians, and lyricists for every year from 2009 to 2014.

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Live: Germany pledges $199 million in aid for displaced people in Ukraine

Germany will provide Ukraine with an additional 200 million euros ($199.02 million) to fund aid programmes for those internally displaced as a result of Russia's invasion, Development Minister Svenja Schulze told Funke Media group. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal will visit Berlin on Monday where he will meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Stay with TOI for latest updates:

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Shabana, Javed, Naseer part of 'tukde tukde' gang sleeper cell: MP minister

Madhya Pradesh home minister Narottam Mishra on Friday called actor Shabana Azmi, her husband and lyricist Javed Akhtar and actor Naseeruddin Shah "sleeper cells of the tukde-tukde gang". He was responding to a query on Shabana breaking down during a TV interview on 11 convicts walking free in the Bilkis Bano rape case.

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BJP backs FM on Modi picture at PDS shop, takes dig at Congress

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Gujarat HC orders return of confiscated passport

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Security forces arrest Pakistani spy in J&K's Kishtwar

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In 75th year of freedom, India overtakes UK as 5th largest economy

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In 75th year of freedom, India overtakes UK as 5th largest economy

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Sweet September: Delhi slum dwellers due to shift to Kathputli, Kalkaji

The Delhi Development Authority plans to hand over the first batch of flats built under in situ slum redevelopment projects at Kalkaji Extension and Kathputli Colony this month.

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'60-day maternity leave for stillbirth or loss of newborn'

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Karnataka seer remanded to custody, then cops take him to hospital

The chief pontiff of Murugha Mutt in Karnataka's Chitradurga, Shivamurthy Swami, accused of sexually assaulting two schoolgirls, was Friday remanded in police custody till September 5 amid high drama. He was initially sent to 14-day judicial custody and lodged in Chitradurga prison, where he developed health complications.

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Supertech: Will build homes on twin towers land

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Rahul may relent, take part in poll for Congress chief's post

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20 years, no remission: Delhi HC enhances punishment in rape-murder

Saying the accused showed a "depraved and evil" mentality, Delhi HC enhanced the punishment of two men, who had challenged the trial court verdict in a brutal 2012 gang rape and murder case, to a minimum of 20 years in jail without remission.

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We believe in a free, open & inclusive Indo-Pacific... Vikrant will be key: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inducted into the Navy its first fully made-in-India aircraft carrier INS Vikrant — also the largest warship to be built in country — and unveiled a new Shivaji-inspired Naval Ensign to go with it, terming the first “a tribute to the rising spirits of India on the global horizon” and the second a symbolic shedding of “the burden of slavery”.

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Cost of cervical cancer vaccine set to be Rs 200-400

Cervavac, India's first indigenously developed vaccine for preventing cervical cancer caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), is likely to be priced between Rs 200-400 per dose, Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawala said on Thursday.

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Dirty Yamuna: NGT pulls up Delhi, UP, Haryana

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought an explanation from the chief secretaries of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana on the worsening condition of the Yamuna flowing through the capital.

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Uttarakhand HC: No resorts in jumbo corridor near Corbett

The Uttarakhand high court has directed the state government to provide an "eco-sensitive zone" status to the elephant corridor adjoining Corbett Tiger Reserve and disallow "construction of any hotels, resorts, or restaurants there". The court sought adequate arrangements for night guards so that "jumbos can move freely in the dark".

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Jharkhand governor will clear air on Soren’s status in 4 days: JMM

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Not everyone in RSS is bad, says West Bengal CM Mamata; draws criticism

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‘Rishimania’ takes hold in London’s Wembley at final hustings of hopefuls

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Govt puts in place stringent testing, checking norms for EV batteries

The road transport ministry has put in place stringent testing and checking norms for cells, battery packs and the battery management system (BMS) to prevent fires in electric vehicles.

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Three PSU blue chips get interim heads in one day

For the first time, reins of three public sector blue chip companies passed on to interim heads in a day on Thursday, underlining the lack of timely succession planning and the lengthy appointment process for state-run entities.

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Gyanvapi case of national importance: Allahabad HC

Emphasising that the Gyanvapi-Kashi Vishwanath dispute was a "matter of national importance", the Allahabad HC on Tuesday directed the Archeological Survey of India DG and UP's additional chief secretary (home) to file their personal affidavits in the case within 10 days.

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Sonia bereaved; Prez Murmu, PM & others offer condolences

Congress president Sonia Gandhi's mother Paola Maino died on Saturday, the party said on Wednesday. She was in her 90s and living in her home in Italy. When the Gandhi family left for travel abroad last week, Congress announced that it was for Sonia's annual medical check-up, and that the family will also visit her home town to see her ailing mother.

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Muslim wrestler gave Baroda 1st public Ganesha celebration

One of the earliest public celebrations of Ganeshotsav was initiated by a 107-year-old Muslim wrestler some 120 years ago. Jumma Dada, a famed wrestler in the erstwhile princely state of Baroda, started Sarvajanik Ganesh Mahotsav at his akhada in 1901 to instil a sense of patriotism and brotherhood in the youth.

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India Inc's foreign investment declines over 50% in July

As per the RBI data, on Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI), the domestic companies had invested over $2.56 billion in July 2021 in the form of equity, loan and issuances of guarantees.

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Economy likely to grow at 7-7.4% in FY23, says finance secretary

The government is expecting the economy to grow at 7-7.5 per cent in 2022-23, in line with its projections made at the beginning of this financial year. India registered a growth of 8.7 per cent in 2021-22.

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Unemployment rate dips to 7.6% in April-June 2022: NSO survey

The unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and above in urban areas dipped to 7.6 per cent during April-June 2022 from 12.6 per cent a year ago, the National Statistical Office (NSO) said on Wednesday.

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