RBI launches first pilot project for digital rupee

CBDC Test Drive Starts Today In Wholesale Market For Secondary Trade In Govt Bonds

Global Headwinds Hit Steel Major, Infra & Telcos Make Gains

Tata Steel’s Q2 profit dives 90% | L&T Sept qtr net rises 25% to ₹2,785 crore | Airtel Q2 net jumps 89%

Sensex at 10-month high, recovers 9k pts in 4 mths

Mumbai:The continuing rally in the US markets last week that boosted investor sentiment on Dalal Street and strong foreign fund buying on Monday lifted the sensex to a 10-month high level of nearly 61k points. The sensex has recovered over 9,000 points from its mid-June low of 51,360.

Sebi bans Mehul Choksi from market for 10 years

Mumbai: Markets regulator Sebi has banned fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, former promoter & chairman of Gitan jali Gems, from trading for 10 years for using front entities to trade in shares of the company to maintain its price from falling.

‘India to beat Germany as 4th largest eco by FY20’

Is 2nd-Biggest Contributor To Global Growth In 2022, To Pip Japan As 3rd Top Eco By ’27: RBI Dy Guv

Maha registered 37,000 nurses without scrutiny

SEEDS OF MISTRUST?

After losing big projects, Maharashtra gets ₹500cr electronics cluster

New Delhi: The Centre has approved a Rs 500 crore project to make Ranjangaon in Pune an electronics manufacturing cluster (EMC) in a move that is being seen as an apparent bid to make up for Maharashtra losing back-to-back big-ticket projects to Gujarat.

Those with less than 6 mths to retire can withdraw EPS-95 amount, says EPFO

Currently, EPFO subscribers with less than six months of service are allowed to withdraw the accumulations in their employees’ provident fund account only

Is law denying voting rights to prisoners valid? SC to examine

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine the constitutional validity of Section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which bars prisoners of their right to vote in polls, and sought response from the Centre and the EC.

SC: Two-finger test an affront to dignity of women

New Delhi: Seeking to put an end to the use of the invasive two-finger test, the Supreme Court directed the Centre and states to review the curriculum in medical schools to ensure that the test, also known as ‘per vaginum’ examination, is not prescribed as one of the procedures to be adopted while examining survivors of sexual assault and rape, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.

Quash law allowing Aadhaar-voter card linking, Says PIL

Issue May Need Some Clarification From Court, Says SC

Eye on China, Navy starts review of IOR op preparedness

New Delhi: Top Navy commanders on Monday kicked off a comprehensive review of India’s maritime security and operational preparedness, especially in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) where there is expanding China-Pakistan collusion, while also focusing on measures to enhance synergy with the Army and IAF.

List action taken after report on hospital fires, SC tells Guj govt

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Gujarat government to file an affidavit detailing the steps it has taken following the submission of the report of Justice DA Mehta-led Commission, which inquired into the 2020 hospital fires at Ahmedabad and Rajkot in which 13 Covid patients were charred to death.

Patel’s efforts to unify India not adequately acknowledged: Min

New Delhi: Jammu & Kashmir is an example of how one family’s claims of uniting India and leading India’s Independence struggle ring hollow, Union information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur stated on Monday.

Procession through runway today, Kerala airport to stay shut for 5 hrs

Thiruvananthapuram: The Thiruvananthapuram international airport will remain closed for five hours on Tuesday to facilitate the Alpasi Arattu procession of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple.

Patel as PM could have ensured many issues didn’t arise: Shah

‘Despite Efforts To Brush Off Memories, He Lives On In Many Hearts’

With 'grief-laden heart’, PM to visit Morbi today

Kevadia (Narmada):PM Narendra Modi said Monday that he was torn between the call of his “grief-laden heart” that wouldn’t leave the side of those touched by tragedy in Morbi the previous evening and the “path of karma and kartavya” that led him to Kevadia in Narmada district for a scheduled Rashtriya Ekta Diwas event.

IGP refuses to say why senior officials not named in FIR

Morbi: IGP (Rajkot range) Ashok Yadav said the arrests for Sunday's footbridge collapse were based on the known facts of the case so far, declining to say why nobody from the senior management of Oreva, makers of Ajanta clocks, had been mentioned in the FIR. “Whoever is found responsible will be named as the probe proceeds,” he said.

Rajkot BJP MP loses 12 relatives, jeweller’s family of 4 is gone

Morbi: Some families had to cope with the grief of multiple deaths. BJP Lok Sabha MP from Rajkot Mohan Kundariya said on Monday that 12 of his relatives were among those killed when the hanging bridge collapsed in Morbi on Sunday, while a jeweller and his entire family perished in the same tragedy.

Time stands still in Gujarat clock town as Morbi counts its dead

Morbi: The tragic end to Gujarati New Year festivities brought Morbi, famed as a clock manufacturing hub in India, to a deadly standstill.

Pvt co entrusted with upkeep, deal barred govt interference

Civic Body Inked 15-Year Deal Valid Till 2037

Woman who gave birth to girl found bound’ dead at Kolkata govt hosp

Kolkata: A 37-year-old woman who had given birth to a baby girl at CNMC Hospital on October 27 was found lying dead near a drain right outside the gynaecology block around 10am Monday.

Bitterness in Punjab over Dera chief’s parole e-satsangs

Jalandhar: With bitterness brewing in parts of Punjab over the grant of parole to rape and murder convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim, the head of Sirsaheadquartered Dera Sacha Sauda, political parties and their leaders are maintaining a stoic silence in the state, barring few exceptions.

Blr engg student gets 5-yr jail for celebrating Pulwama killings on FB

Bengaluru: A special court here on Monday held a 23-year-old engineering student guilty of celebrating on Facebook the Pulwama suicide bombing of 2019 and awarded him five years’ simple imprisonment, besides a fine of Rs 25,000.

SC sets the ball rolling, CAA hearing to start from Dec 6

52 Of 250 Pleas Specific To Assam, Tripura; States Get 3 Wks To Reply

PM pays tribute to Patel, attacks Cong; says enemies trying to break unity

Kevadiya/Tharad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday that India’s enemies were trying to break its unity and that the country should stand firm against them.

Heroin worth ₹69 crore seized at IGI Airport

New Delhi: A Belizean national was arrested after 9.95 kg of heroin valued at Rs 69.95 crore in the international market was found in his possession at Delhi airport. The contraband was concealed in the false bottom of his trolley bag, officials said.

‘The Wire’ editors’ homes searched, mobiles seized

New Delhi: Delhi Police's crime branch on Monday conducted raids at the office of the online portal, The Wire, and the residences of three of its editors -- Siddharth Varadrajan, MK Venu and Jahnavi Sen -- in connection with the FIR lodged against them on a complaint by BJP's IT cell chief Amit Malviya. He has accused the portal of cheating and forgery amongst other offences.

Utterence of words like ghotala’ not defamation: BJP MPs

New Delhi: Bhartiya Janta Party MPs, including Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, Manoj Tiwari and Hans Raj Hans, have told a Delhi court that utterance of words like “scam/ghotala” does not by itself constitute defamation, while requesting the court for discharge in a defamation case filed by deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.

Agency can take help to crack password: Court

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday held that an accused could not be forced to provide the password of his electronic gadgets after they are seized.