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Surya shines as India off to winning start in T20 series

Skipper's blistering knock helps hosts chase 209 against Australia in opener

DGFT inks MoU with Amazon for e-comm exports

The government has drafted multinational e-commerce giant Amazon to help Indian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) sell their products across the globe through online platform - a unique public-private partnership, which, according to the industry, has incremental export potential of at least $450 billion over a four-five year period.

Government may fund HPCL's $1.9 bn green projects via ONGC rights issue

The government plans to ask state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) to consider launching a rights issue to help fund green projects at refining arm Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL), two people aware about the development said, an exercise that could raise about $1.9 billion.

NCLT gives 90 days extension to Go First

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Thursday extended the moratorium period for Go First airline by an additional 90 days till February 4 under the insolvency resolution process and wants the process to be completed within this period.

Decriminalisation fires up RoC action

Near-fivefold jump in orders eases load on judicial system, aids businesses

S Korea court orders Japan to compensate 'comfort women'

A South Korean court on Thursday ordered Japan to compensate 16 women over wartime forced sexual slavery, overturning a lower-court ruling that had dismissed the case.

Pak: Khan's party directed to hold leadership polls

Pakistan's election commission on Thursday ordered jailed ex-premier Imran Khan's party to hold leadership polls to retain its voting symbol in next year's general election. Since being ousted in 2022, Khan has been tangled in a slew of legal cases he says are designed to stop him from contesting polls due in February, while his party has faced a massive crackdown.

Far-right Wilders seeks partners after poll win

DUTCH ELECTIONS - TRYING TO FORM A COALITION GOVERNMENT

Udupi stalker planned murder for days: Probe

Praveen Chowgule (31), an airline crew member who is accused of murdering his colleague and three of her family members, including her 12-year-old brother, in Udupi district of Karnataka was planning for days after she rejected his advances, police said on Thursday.

'BJP nod to CBI inquiry against DKS not in accordance with law'

The Karnataka government on Thursday announced that the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government's sanction accorded to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe a disproportionate assets case against deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar was \"not in accordance with law\".

'We ran towards India': Fear grips Myanmar border areas

The roofs are damaged, the streets are littered with splinters, and tin sheets that served as walls have holes pierced by bombs. Many of the houses are locked but some are just bolted, and most of the windowpanes are shattered. The scenes are almost similar in Tiao D and Tiao Khawmami, two villages about 4km from Mizoram across the international border in Myanmar.

3 Ms that may help secure Cong return

\"You have never visited us after winning. You don't even take our calls,\" said an angry elderly woman at Achalpur village of Dausa district to Rajasthan women and child development minister Mamta Bhupesh, who was canvassing for votes as she walked through a newly-cemented village road.

BJP's 'golden triangle' strategy for Rajasthan

The Delhi-Agra-Jaipur circuit is often referred to as the \"golden triangle\" for tourists in India. There is good reason to believe that the BJP is hoping to create a golden triangle of politics involving Delhi, Agra (Uttar Pradesh) and Jaipur (Rajasthan) in these Rajasthan elections. This triangle includes Narendra Modi at the Centre (Delhi), Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), and the Rajasthan version of Yogi Adityanath, Mahanth Balaknath, a Lok Sabha MP from Alwar, who is contesting the 2023 elections from Tijara assembly constituency (AC).

Campaigning for crucial Raj polls ends; voting tomorrow

A high-decibel campaign for the upcoming assembly elections in Rajasthan closed on Thursday with the BJP criticising the state's law and order situation and the Congress focussing on its welfare outreach. All 200 seats in the desert state will go to the polls on November 25 and the votes will be counted on December 3. The BJP is hoping to dislodge the Congress in a state that usually votes out the incumbent.

After row, Centre clears advocate as Bombay HC judge

Ten months after the collegium reiterated its recommendation, first made in early 2022, the Union government, on Thursday notified the appointment of advocate Somasekhar Sundaresan as a judge in the Bombay High Court. Sundaresan's appointment as a judge was earlier stalled by the Union government, which cited his \"selectively critical\" views on social media against governmental policies and initiatives.

Guvs can't keep bills pending indefinitely, rules SC

Governors \"cannot be at liberty to keep bills pending indefinitely\", the Supreme Court has ruled in a judgment, emphasising that the exercise of unbridled discretion in areas not entrusted to the discretion of the governor risks walking roughshod over the working of a democratically elected government in the state.

India has finally come out of slave mentality, says PM

India has come out of the mentality of slavery and is moving ahead with the feeling of pride for its heritage for the first time in the 'Amrit Kaal' of its independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday.

After brutal killing, Welcome murderer bragged about crime

The teenager who brutally stabbed to death a 17-year-old boy in a frenzied attack in north-east Delhi's Welcome on Tuesday night, then bragged about the murder and brandished the blood-soaked knife he used to commit the crime, residents of the area said on Thursday.

DJB's biggest sewage plant is all set to miss fourth deadline

IN A REPORT, DJB SAID THE LIQUID LINE IN THE PLANT, THAT KEEPS THE FLOW RUNNING, IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY DEC, AND THE REVISED TIMELINE IS MARCH NEXT YR

MCD plans to set up school of gardening

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is in the process of developing a school of gardening at Roshanara Bagh in north Delhi that will offer certificate courses in various gardening subjects including sapling propagation, landscaping and waste-to-art resources, senior officials aware of the matter said.

Police probe baby's death after surgery at sham GK hospital

Even as police investigate the alarming case of a fake hospital being run out of a medical centre in the heart of south Delhi, a man has alleged that his 15-month-old son died after a botched surgery at the clinic more than four years ago, an incident that has underlined the ordeal of countless such victims who fell prey to the racket.

Delhi anti-pollution agency battling severe staff crunch

Delhi's pollution watchdog which is responsible for implementing and coordinating the majority of efforts to check air, water and noise pollution in the national Capital is battling a severe manpower crunch, according to an official report.

LG restores Delhi school recognition

Lieutenant governor (LG) VK Saxena has directed the Delhi government's education department to restore the recognition of JD Tytler School in New Rajinder Nagar, against which the action was taken last year for refusing to admit students belonging to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS).

Preyed on by school principal, minor girls fight back

The modest two-room home is old, weathered, and eerily quiet. The only background sound is from a persistently creaking fan. She sits on a chair, thin and frail, her eyes barely leaving the floor, her voice struggling to escape her tears.

Working with US and India: Trudeau on Pannun report

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not directly address the matter of an apparent threat to the life of US-Canadian dual citizen and general counsel of the secessionist group Sikhs for Justice or SFJ, Gurpatwant Pannun, but his office said he raised the issue of upholding the “rule of law” when he attended the virtual G20 summit hosted by Indian PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday.

Just four days after WC final, India take on Australia again

Distraught India have had no time to process the defeat while the Aussies will have to postpone celebrations at home

What do top emitters want from the global stocktake at Cop28?

The first Global Stocktake (GST) since the Paris Agreement that is scheduled to take place in Dubai this December will influence climate action this decade including the likelihood of checking climate devastation. As per the United Nations Environment Programme’s Emissons Gap report 2023 titled “Broken Record” released on Monday, since 2020, the top five greenhouse gas emitters are China followed by US, India, the EU and the Russian Federation. Based on historical emissions (1850 to 2021), the order changes with the US responsible for 19% emissions; China 13%; EU 13%; Russia 5%; and India only 4%.

Israel-Hamas agree on short truce to free hostages in swap

Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire in Gaza for at least four days, to let in aid and free at least 50 hostages held by militants in the Palestinian enclave in exchange for at least 150 Palestinians jailed in Israel.

Extreme weather, global factors raise risks of food inflation: Das

India is vulnerable to food-price shocks from extreme weather events and global factors despite a recent moderation in prices, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Shaktikanta Das, said on Wednesday.

J&K encounter: 1 more soldier, 2 terrorists die

A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander — believed to be the mastermind behind two major terrorist attacks this year — was gunned down by security forces in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir along with his associate on Thursday, even as one more soldier lost his life, culminating a 31-hour-long joint operation which had already led to the deaths of two army Captains and two soldiers a day earlier.