CATEGORIES

SEBI official says discount broking is not future, requires transparent fee structure

HINTING discount broking is not the way forward and that investors have to pay for their services as there can be no free lunches in business, a senior Sebi official has called for adopting an explicit and transparent fee structure.

Shah Rukh Khan makes to Hurun rich list 2024

WITH as many as 334 dollar billionaires, the country has emerged as the new wealth creator in Asia, adding a new billionaire every fifth day in 2023, as per the Hurun rich list 2024, which saw actor Shah Rukh Khan making to the rich list with a wealth of 7,300 crore and Mukesh Ambani losing the long held crown as the richest Indian to Gautam Adani.

SEBI chief calls for better compliance to 'foster trust'

IN the first public address after the Hindenburg allegations of conflicts of interest in relation to the Adani group probe, SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch has called for a \"better compliance\" from market infrastructure participants and industry players to \"foster trust\".

Former B'desh speaker, trade minister held in murder case

FORMER Bangladesh speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and ex-commerce minister Tipu Munshi have been arrested over the killing of a goldsmith during the recent quota reform protests that led to the ouster of the Sheikh Hasinaled government, media reports said on Thursday.

US NSA Sullivan meets Xi as allies face trouble from China in SCS

TOP White House aide Jake Sullivan held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, after a senior military official warned the United States to stop \"collusion\" with Taiwan in a rare one-on-one meeting.

Turkiye hosts meet for transportation project

TRANSPORT ministers from Turkiye, Iraq, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are meeting in Istanbul on Thursday to discuss a multibillion-dollar regional transportation project designed to ease the movement of goods from Asia to Europe through Iraq.

Third Russian barrage of missiles, drones in 4 days

Authorities in Kyiv said debris of drones fell in 3 districts of the city

Telegram founder faces criminal activity charges

FRENCH authorities handed preliminary charges to Telegram CEO/founder Pavel Durov on Wednesday for allowing alleged criminal activity on his messaging app and barred him from leaving France pending further investigation.

Israel kills prominent militant in W Bank

THE Israeli military said it killed five more West Bank militants, including a local commander, as it pressed ahead Thursday with what appeared to be the deadliest operation in the occupied territory since the start of the war in Gaza.

Hong Kong outlet Stand News, two journalists convicted in sedition case

HONG Kong pro-democracy news outlet Stand News and its two former chief editors were found guilty of sedition on Thursday, the first conviction of its kind since the city came under Chinese rule in 1997.

Infiltration foiled, 3 terrorists killed in J&K

THREE militants were killed in two gunfights near Line of Control (LoC) in Tangdhar and Machil sectors of north Kashmir's Kupwara district while another gunfight erupted between militants and security forces in J&K's border district of Rajouri on Thursday.

6 GRP officials suspended for thrashing Dalit woman, grandkid in MP's Katni

GRP police station's woman incharge, in-charge head constable and four cops have been suspended after a 2023 video went viral.

Mamata softens, says 'malicious disinformation' against her govt

CM says never threatened’ protesting junior docs at RG Kar

Heavy rain continues to batter Saurashtra, Kutch; over 30 dead

HEAVY rains continued to batter Gujarat on Thursday, with most districts in Saurashtra and Kutch severely flooded over the past four days.

Sunni Waqf Board, villagers near Patna come to blows over ownership of land

THE Bihar Sunni Waqf Board and residents of Govindpur village in Patna district are heading for a showdown after the former claimed ownership of the entire village and issued notices asking villagers to vacate the land within 30 days.

'Most women docs feel unsafe on night shift in govt hosps'

OVER one-third of Indian doctors, primarily young women, working mainly in government hospitals feel unsafe while doing night duty in the absence of duty rooms without bathrooms, insufficient untrained security staff, inadequately lit corridors, no CCTV cameras and unrestricted entry of unauthorised individuals into patient areas, found the latest survey conducted by the Indian Medical Association (IMA).

Eminent lawyer AG Noorani passes away at 93

NOTED scholar and legal luminary Abdul Ghafoor Majeed Noorani passed away at the age of 93 in Mumbai on Thursday.

Now, Nitish joins Oppn chorus on caste census at parliamentary panel meeting

THE demand for a national caste census is gaining steam, with JD(U), a key ally of the NDA government, joining the chorus along with the Opposition INDIA bloc parties on Thursday.

NIA conducts raids across 7 states in Pak spy ring case

22 mobile phones, sensitive papers seized during 16-location raids

Spillover in India likely as once-banned outfit makes a comeback in Bangladesh

AMID the ongoing political turmoil and instability, Bangladesh is facing another challenge the rapidly increasing influence of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT), which is a fundamentalist political organisation that aspires to re-establish the Islamic Caliphate and implement Sharia globally.

Arighaat to strengthen N-triad: Singh

INDIA'S second nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine was commissioned into the Navy on Thursday in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who said this will further strengthen the country's nuclear triad and enhance nuclear deterrence.

Govt dragging feet on SC/ST sub-categorisation?

THE Centre seems to be dragging its feet on the recent Supreme Court order allowing the state governments to sub-classify Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST).

FORENSIC MISSTEP IS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

THE public outcry following the rape and murder of a trainee medico at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata has raised the issue of a delayed forensic examination.

THE ECONOMIC STRESS LEADING TO THE 36TH OF JULY

The economic reality that brought Bangladeshi students to the streets also made it a mass movement later on. The interim government must heed the spark that lit the fire

Scolded for harassing girl, minor kills man

IN a shocking incident, a minor boy slit the throat of a 30-yearold man, who had reprimanded him for harassing his niece, at Raghunath Nagar under Khandagiri police limits here on Wednesday night.

Cabinet to give rent allowance to landslide victims

THE Cabinet meeting has decided to announce wards 9,10,11 of Vanimel Panchayat and the third ward in Narippatta grama panchayat in Kozhikode district as disaster-affected areas.

Revnue officials put Revanth kin's assets on notice

A day after Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy declared that he would himself demolish structures belonging to his family members if they were found to be within the full tank level (FTL) and buffer zone of any water body, Revenue officials on Thursday issued notices to A Tirupati Reddy, the chief minister's brother, as his house and office were found to be within the FTL of Durgam Cheruvu.

4th semester BEd paper changed last minute after edu dept gets info on leak

THE Tamil Nadu Teachers' Education University (TNTEU) changed the question paper for the fourth-semester Bachelor in Education (BEd) exam at the last minute on Thursday after the paper got leaked.

Stalin gets grand welcome in San Francisco, to ink 1st deal with PayPal

DIGITAL payment solutions provider PayPal will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Guidance Tamil Nadu on the first day of Chief Minister MK Stalin's visit to the United States on Thursday in San Francisco at 3pm Pacific Daylight Time (Friday 3.30am IST).

23 mine owners yet to pay penalty of ₹2.7k cr, Odisha govt tells House

THE state government on Thursday informed the Assembly that 23 mine owners are yet to pay a penalty of 2,723 crore imposed on them by the Supreme Court for excess mining in violation of the mining plan and statutory clearances.