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Blessed by cake

We are the only country in the world where people smear cake on the host. It is the dumbest thing ever and I love to express my disgust.

Green Thyself

COP27 began in Egypt with the inclusion of climate compensation in the formal agenda. The compensation rests on the principle that today’s developed countries – the biggest sation in the formal agenda.

EWS Survives

SC rightly okays economic criteria for quotas. But questions remain on ‘breaching’ 50% quota cap

Musk walks back on job cuts, blue ticks delayed too

Twitter after laying off roughly half thecompany (or about 3,700 staffers) on Fri-day following Elon Musk’s $44-billion acquisition, is now reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs and asking them to return.

Meta to lay off thousands of employees: WSJ

Meta Platforms (Facebook) is planning to begin layoffs that will affect thousands of workers from this week, Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

Rural bet helps Wipro FMCG arm beat slowdown

Mumbai: At a time when the FMCG sector was reeling under a slowdown in rural markets, Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting (WCCL) took a call to expand its reach in rural areas and smaller towns.

Flipkart's FY22 loss widens to over ₹7.8k cr

Flipkart India and B2C e-commerce unit

FM to meet investors from US to pitch India

New Delhi: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will court at least two set of investors over the next few days to pitch India as an attractive investment destination and also seek inputs to improve the overall climate.

New microfin norms will bring down credit risk: RBI

KEEP RATES LOWER TOO

Govt eyes tighter audit to boost GST mop-up

Centre Looks To Make Monthly Collection Of Over ₹1.5 Lakh Crore The New Normal

At ₹59,000cr, Indian banks post highest profit in a qtr

57% Jump From 37,567Cr Recorded In Sept Qtr Of Last Fiscal

IT graduates look for Plan B as cos delay onboarding

Freshers’ Wait Stretches Beyond 6 Mths Even As Tech Cos Say They Will Honour Offer Letters

'First step towards eradicating caste-based quotas'

New Delhi: Monday’s Supreme Court order upholding the EWS quota clears the way for more attempts by governments to provide above 50% quota in government jobs and educational institutions on grounds of social and educational backwardness as well as economic deprivation.

Victory for PM in social justice mission: BJP

New Delhi: BJP on Monday hailed the Supreme Court verdict upholding the Centre’s EWS quota saying that it is a victory for PM Narendra Modi in his “mission” to provide social justice to the country’s poor.

Why EWS quota became such a tangled legal debate

Monday’s verdict was a split one, with three judges ruling for the quota and two against. What made the quota such a contested issue?

Excluding poor from reserved classes discriminatory: Minority judgment

New Delhi: In their minority verdict, Chief Justice U U Lalit and Justice Ravindra Bhat held that the 103rd constitutional amendment was discriminatory in not allowing the poor from the reserved classes to get the benefits of reservation while giving benefits to only general classes and cited official data which showed that more than 80% of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families belonged to SCs/STs/OBCs.

'Kill indicator they are adapting to new environment'

Bhopal: Cheetah siblings Elton and Freddie, who made their first kill at Kuno, seem to have “eaten well”, said Project Cheetah staff, reports P Naveen.

Can't punish accused on suspicion alone: SC

Acquitting three men in the Chhawla rape-murder case

'Dark clouds hovering over us, we have lost'

TRIO ON DEATH ROW FOR RAPE-MURDER ACQUITTED

HC junks Sisodia plea to quash defamation case by Assam CM

Guwahati: The Gauhati HC on Monday dismissed Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia’s plea seeking quashing of proceedings in a criminal defamation case filed by Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.

Want action in bridge tragedy, HC tells Guj

The Morbi bridge collapsed on October 30, killing 135

Allegations vague, not substantiated: SC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court quashed the proceedings against chief minister Hemant Soren in the Jharkhand high court on a PIL seeking probe against him for allegedly laundering money through shell firms.

Order puts focus back on 'payoffs' in UPA deals

New Delhi: UK court’s order allowing Enforcement Directorate plea for extradition of fugitive arms dealer has come as boost to the investigating agencies while putting the spotlight again on the alleged payoffs in the defence deals under UPA.

UK court allows defence middleman Sanjay Bhandari's extradition to India

Case Sent To Home Secy Braverman For Final Decision

Block Cong Twitter handles: Court

Bengaluru: A court in Bengaluru passed an ex-parte interim order on Monday, directing Twitter to block the handles of Congress and its Bharat Jodo Yatra over alleged unauthorised use of music of the movie ‘KGF: Chapter 2’.

Rahul's entry in state lit by mashaal march

Rahul arrived in Deglur, Nanded, around 9pm on Monday

Hardik, Alpesh lead Congress turncoats seeking BJP tickets

Gandhinagar: Hardik Patel, 29, former working president of Gujarat Congress who shot to fame by spearheading the Patidar reservation stir, is likely to debut in electoral politics by contesting the assembly poll from the Viramgam seat on a BJP ticket.

India & Russia seek just, equal polycentric world, says Moscow

-Focus On War, Trade At EAM Talks Today

CM: Not afraid of polls; oppn's unable to stop attrition of their leaders

Thane: Chief minister Eknath Shinde has dismissed Uddhav Thackeray’s recent statement about the state facing mid-term polls, claiming it to be a feeble attempt by the opposition to plug attrition of leaders from their camp.

Poor Marathas can keep using EWS quota: Dy CM

Marathas Gung-Ho Over 50% Cap Breach, Bahujan Grim