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INDIA HOPING FOR A MIRACLE
After a 106-run lead, hosts will have to come up with something extraordinary on final day
OLA ELECTRIC UNDER FIRE FROM CUSTOMERS AND INVESTORS
There have been instances when angry consumers burnt down showroom
SPECTRUM ALLOCATION: MUSK'S WIN OVER AMBANI DEBUNKS 2G 'SCAM' CASE
It is significant that the Union government has backed Elon Musk's internet arm Starlink and Amazon over Mukesh Ambani Reliance and Sunil Mittal's Airtel by deciding to allot satellite spectrum administratively rather than take the auction route.
Kotak Bank reports muted Q2 earnings
THE rising stress in the personal loans, credit card and microfinance portfolios roiled the earnings for Kotak Mahindra Bank for Q2FY25.
‘Economic prospects help India-US ties’
COMMERCE and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said Indo-US business relations have strengthened over the past 10 years as lack of predictability and confidence in the future of the Indian economy has become a thing of history.
HDFC Bank net profit rises 5% to ₹16,820 crore in Q2
HDFC Bank on Saturday reported a 5% rise net income year-on-year to ₹16,821 crore, despite overall stressed assets inching up marginally.
Drone targets Netanyahu's house
Prime Minister and his wife safe as they were not at home in coastal town of Caesarea, says PMO
BRICS exploring use of digital currency for trade, Putin says
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has said the time has not come yet for a common BRICS currency but added that the 10-nation bloc is exploring the use of digital currencies in mutual trade and investments for which his country is working with India and other nations.
RJD's '2-minute noodle' swipe at INDIA seat deal
AS preparations for the Assembly polls intensify in the state, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Congress have announced their decision to contest 70 seats together. Meanwhile, the RJD and the left parties have been allocated 11 seats.
Maoists trigger IED blast, kill 2 ITBP jawans
TWO jawans of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were killed in a powerful explosion of improvised explosive device (IED) planted by the outlawed CPI (Maoist) close to forested terrain of Kodliyar village while the security forces were returning from the search operation in an edgy district of Narayanpur, south Bastar, on Saturday.
Marandi, Champai, Soren bahu in NDA nominee list
THE BJP on Saturday released the first list of 66 candidates, including 12 women candidates, for the Assembly elections scheduled for November 13 and 20 in Jharkhand.
No CM face, Maha Yuti decides to fight polls under PM's name
THE ruling Maha Yuti in Maharashtra will not project incumbent CM Eknath Shinde or anyone else as chief minister for the assembly polls due next month.
Mamata dials medics to break RG Kar deadlock
A day after junior doctors threatened to go for complete cease-work in all government and private hospitals in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday appealed to the protesting medics over the phone to withdraw their fast unto-death.
Cataract patients open eyes to be Gujarat BJP members, party retorts
A new controversy has surfaced in Gujarat over the BJP membership drive. A viral video shows patients at Rajkot's Ranchoddas Bapu Charitable Trust eye hospital being woken up in the middle of the night and enrolled as BJP members after cataract surgeries.
On Punjab paddy crisis, Mann says ready to deal with farmers' agitation
AMID farmers' protests over tardy procurement of paddy in the kharif marketing season, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday warned all stakeholders -- farmers, commission agents (arthias) and rice millers -- saying his government is ready with plan B and will not allow \"blackmailing\".
THE K-FACTOR AND INDIA-CANADA DIPLOMATIC CHILL
No one really knows what struck Hardeep Singh Nijjar and Gurpatwant Singh Pannun—both born in Punjab—to become \"wanted\" in India. Nijjar is no more; he was shot dead in June last year at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Punjabi-dominated Surrey of British Columbia province in Canada. Pannun runs Sikhs for Justice (SJF) outfit and is based in the US and possesses American and Canadian citizenship.
Canada says other Indian diplomats 'clearly on notice'
THE diplomatic row between India and Canada continues as the Canadian foreign minister Melaine Joly said that the remaining Indian diplomats in Canada are \"clearly on notice\", a statement that came after Ottawa expelled six Indian envoys earlier this week.
Role of Supreme Court as people's court must be preserved, says CJI
CHIEF Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday said the Supreme Court's role as a people's court must be preserved for the future, but this does not mean it has to fulfill the Opposition's role in Parliament.
IIM-Lucknow's 'Mind lab' to study students' stress
THIS happiness centre at IIM-Lucknow has not only rolled out courses on wellness and mindfulness but will soon set up a Mind Lab to measure and understand the stress and anxiety levels among students and help them lead a better academic life and a more balanced lifestyle.
In major bureaucratic reshuffle, MORTH, coal, MoEF get new secretaries
THE government on Saturday commenced a major reshuffle of senior bureaucrats.
Transparency matters: MHA amends guidelines on enemy properties
THE Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has amended the guidelines of Enemy Property Disposal Order- 2018 to bring in more transparency and clarity.
Punitive law against hoax bomb threats likely soon
Initial proposals include five-year imprisonment, inclusion in no-fly list
OMAR MUST JUGGLE DNA TO RESTORE PARADISE
OU can take the Kashmir out of Abdullah but you cannot take the Abdullah out of Kashmir. Last week, J&K's new Chief Minister Omar Abdullah posted on X: \"I am back\" - a Kashmiri Schwarzenegger acting as The Terminator who incinerated his political enemies. With 3.2 million followers, the 54-year-old, British-born, third-generation Abdullah's post was a deadly DNA denouement. During his swearing-in ceremony, he followed the family tradition of donning a sherwani and pajama which signaled locality, heredity and continuity. His political pedigree mandates he favors both more power for the UT (read himself) and dialogue with Pakistan and that Jammu and Kashmir is different from other states. Omar, too, is different now. He is J&K's first CM to swear by the Indian Constitution after Article 370 was flung into the trashcan of turbulent history.
TACKLING THE SOURCE OF PROBLEMS
OME elections, and newspaper front pages and social media timelines are full of new hospitals being launched or their foundation stones being laid, mostly in poll-bound states. Thousands of crores are being spent on these planned hospitals. On the face of it, it seems like a noble thing to do, much needed in society.
BJP fields Navya against Priyanka
The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Navya Haridas, Mahila Morcha state general secretary against Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi in the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency by election. The party national leadership on Saturday also announced the decision to field its state general secretary C Krishna Kumar as candidate in Palakkad assembly constituency and K Balakrishnan in Chelakkara reservation constituency by elections.
Residents strike back at litterers, tie rope with slippers and broom
IN a bid to stop miscreants from dumping waste in the open, residents of Gandhipuram tied a rope with old slippers and brooms across the littering space. They also placed a signboard stating that those who dump waste in the open would be handed over to the police.
Group I aspirants on protest; cops detain union minister, candidates
T'gana protesters say GO 29 unconstitutional, violates reservation rights of SC, ST and BC students
Corporation says Tambaram rain-ready, residents doubtful
OFFICIALS of the Tambaram City Municipal Corporation (TCMC) have claimed that most flood mitigation projects are complete and the city is prepared for heavy rains. However, many residents remain sceptical.
Corpn worker falls into open drain, dies
A 54-year-old contract sanitation worker of Vellore Corporation died on Friday after accidentally falling into an open sewage drain near Makkan Signal on Bengaluru Road. The deceased, M Murugan, a resident of Perumal Nagar in Keelmonavoor had been working in the corporation for last 15 years.
Don't overstep, centre can take action: Raja warns govt in Tamil anthem spat
\"THE Tamil Nadu government is overstepping its boundaries. If the state government violates the law, the central government has the authority to take action against the state government,\" said BJP leader and the party's state coordination committee chief, H Raja, while speaking to reporters in Vellore. He made these remarks regarding the Tamil Thai Vaazhthu controversy that erupted on Friday between Governor R N Ravi and CM M K Stalin after singers missed the line \"Thekkanamum Adhir Sirantha Dravida Nal Thirunaadum\" from the 'Tamizh Thaai Vaazhthu' performed at Doordarshan (DD) Kendra Chennai's Hindi month valedictory function. Doordarshan had apologised for the \"inadvertent mistake.\"