The Morning Standard - September 27, 2024

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September 27, 2024

37 kids among 46 drowned after holy dip across Bihar

The Jivitputrika festival is celebrated by mothers for the well-being of children

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Key panel poll postponed amid late-night drama

THE election to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Standing Committee was marred by day-long chaos and confusion.

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Death to ex-warden for raping 21 kids

A special POCSO court at Yupia in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday awarded death sentence to the former hostel warden of a residential school for sexually assaulting 21 children, including 15 minor girls.

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Khattar's absence in Haryana BJP rallies sparks row

THE trend of absenting oneself from party rallies has caught up with the saffron camp, too.

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Sena-TMC spat at Waqf Bill JPC's meeting in Mumbai

A meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, in Mumbai on Thursday witnessed tumultuous scenes after a verbal spat between TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee and Shiv Sena (Shinde)'s Naresh Maske.

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Polls on, but counting only after campus gets cleaned, says HC

THE Delhi High Court on Thursday allowed the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections to go ahead as planned on September 27, but ordered delay in vote count until all election-related posters and graffiti are removed from the campus.

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SC junks Guj plea to delete remarks in Bilkis verdict

THE Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a review plea filed by the Gujarat government seeking to expunge certain adverse remarks against it while quashing the premature release of the 11 men convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano and murdering seven of her family members in the 2002 riots.

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AN ETERNAL BLEND OF PAST AND PRESENT

Puducherry, the quaint town on the beach known for its French architecture, has emerged as India’s unmissable tourist hotspot

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All stalled works will be completed: Atishi, senior AAP leaders at varsity

AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal alongside Manish Sisodia and Chief Minister Atishi inspected the crumbling Delhi University road, vowing to fix not just this road, but every stalled project in the capital.

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Polls today, candidates take a nervous break

NSUI calls for fair election process, alleges several RSS-BJP-affiliated professors attempted to influence the polls

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Kejriwal targets BJP, says he was jailed to 'sabotage' development

AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, on Thursday, in his first speech in the Delhi Assembly after stepping down as chief minister, accused the BJP of stalling development in Delhi by imprisoning him.

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On Day 1, Assembly moves to restore bus marshal jobs

AFTER initially engaging in a heated discussion over the termination of about 10,000 bus marshals, the ruling AAP and the opposition finally supported a resolution in the Delhi Assembly to restore their jobs on the first day of a two-day session.

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High Court defers hearing in Rahul citizenship case

THE Delhi High Court on Thursday postponed the hearing of a plea by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking the revocation of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Indian citizenship.

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Over 150 mobile phones stolen from showroom

OVER 150 mobile phones worth about ₹26 lakhs were decamped from a showroom in southwest Delhi, police said on Thursday.

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Protocols for dog bites issued for city schools

THE Directorate of Education on Thursday issued Rabies and Dog bite protocols for the city schools.

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Festive season: BSES, Tata offer same-day connection

THE BSES and Tata PowerDDL have launched a 'Tatkal' scheme for providing same-day temporary electricity connections ahead of the festival season to enhance the festivities and reduce pollution.

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Boy thrashed, forced to lick shoes, sexually assaulted

All four accused held, tell police they wanted to humiliate 17-yr-old

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Female follower borrows Youtuber's gold jewellery for clicking pictures, flees

A 32-year-old social media influencer was cheated by a 21year-old woman follower, who stole his 100 grams of gold jewellery under the pretext of clicking pictures and fled the city with her husband, an official said on Thursday.

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Wanted robbers arrested after bike chase, gunfight in Punjabi Bagh area

TWO policemen on a bike chasing suspected motorcycle-borne robbers, crashing their motorcycle into them and catching the criminals following a gunfight.

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Karnataka withdraws general consent to CBI to probe cases

THE Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday withdrew the general consent allowing the CBI to probe cases in the state, citing bias in favour of the Centre to target leaders from certain parties.

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Mastermind of GTB hospital shootout case arrested: Police

DELHI Police has arrested the mastermind of the shootout at the Guru Teg Bahadur hospital where a 32-year-old man was shot dead by four shooters, already held, an official said on Thursday.

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SC grants bail to ex-TN minister Senthil Balaji

THE Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail with stringent conditions to former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji in a money laundering case after 15 months, noting that there is no possibility of the completion of trial in the near future.

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WHY CASA DEPOSITS AREN'T AS CHEAP AS ASSUMED TO BE

RADITIONALLY, current and savings bank deposits or CASA is considered to be low-cost deposits in Indian banks.

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WHO'S AFRAID OF MARXISTS NEXT DOOR?

The worry about the new Lankan govt's leftist tilt may be overblown. It's likely to be guided by those offering a friendly hand out of its economic morass

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TMC to pick Kirti Azad, Dola Sen as nominees to head Parliament panels

THE Trinamool Congress (TMC) will nominate Lok Sabha MP Kirti Azad and Rajya Sabha MP Dola Sen as chairpersons of parliamentary standing committees as the government is set to announce the panels soon.

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Lawmakers slam second instance of BAPS temple desecration in California

A second Hindu temple has been vandalised in the US within a span of 10 day.

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Come '26, 'sound walls' on bullet train route

THE high-speed rail corridor, being developed between Mumbai and Ahmedabad for running India's first bullet train at a speed of 260-300 kmph, is getting ready to mitigate noise impact on residential colonies located along the tracks, officials said.

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Domestic Violence Act caters to women of all religions: SC

THE Supreme Court has said that the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, is a civil code that is applicable to every woman in India irrespective of her religious affiliation or social background.

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Centre asks states to take strict measures to control spread of mpox infection

THE Centre on Tuesday issued fresh advisory to states and Union Territories and asked them to isolate suspected cases of mpox, previously known as monkeypox, and implement strict infection prevention and control measures.

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'Unlawful': Pressure on Yunus to free journalist jailed in Bangladesh

WHILE the chairperson of the Interim government in Bangladesh Mohammad Yunus interacted with various world leaders in New York, 30 human rights activists from across the globe urged him to release human rights activist/journalist Shahriar Kabir who has been unlawfully held in Bangladesh.

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Mountaineers scale new Arunachal peak, name it after 6th Dalai Lama

AT a time when the Chinese has been renaming places along the Line of Actual Control, India on Wednesday named a mountain peak in the name of Dalai Lama, the religious head of 60 lakh Tibetan Buddhists.

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India asks citizens to leave Lebanon as tension mounts

AMID escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon, the Indian embassy in Lebanon has issued an advisory for Indian nationals to leave the country immediately.

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after 3 Maoists killed 5-day-long ops in C'garh

IN a major success, the security forces after five days of toiling operation neutralised three high-ranking Maoist leaders in Paradi forests of Abujhmad, in Narayanpur district, about 400 km south of Raipur.

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Shah says only Modi can restore statehood to J&K

HOME Minister Amit Shah and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed poll rallies in Jammu on Thursday where Shah said J&K will definitely get statehood, but only \"Modi can restore it\" and promised to make J&K-terror free if voted to power.

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Gujarat Cong chief slams CM's silence in rape-murder case

THE Gujarat Congress held a protest on Thursday against chief minister Bhupendra Patel's silence over the murder of a six-year-old girl in Dahod by her school principal after she resisted his rape attempt.

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RG Kar docs threaten to intensify protest if their demands not met

DAYS after partially resuming duties at government hospitals in West Bengal following a 42-day cease-work over the RG Kar rape-murder, junior doctors on Thursday threatened to intensify their protest from Friday if their demands are not fulfilled.

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After talks deadlock, team to visit Joshimath in Oct

A high-level disaster management team will visit Joshimath in October to assess the situation after the land submergence and create a tentative Detailed Project Report (DPR) to expedite rehabilitation efforts.

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Glacier burst concern over safety of hydro projects

THE hydroelectric projects will not be affected in the event of a glacier lake burst in future.

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No lathis, arms Navami rallies in Bengal in Ram

THE West Bengal Police will not allow weapons to be carried during the Ram Navami rally scheduled next Thursday.

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Rahul: Storm coming, Cong will form govt in Haryana

RECOUNTING his conversations with a Haryana youth who migrated to the US via \"donkey route\" and sharing his experiences, the leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi rapped BJP over unemployment in the state, saying the Haryana government has destroyed the employment system in the state.

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Few takers as 5.5K govt schools have zero student enrollment for Class I

THE government's primary education system seems to be having few takers in Madhya Pradesh.

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Trump raps Ukraine refusal for truce

FORMER President Donald Trump described Ukraine in bleak and mournful terms on Wednesday, referring to its people as 'dead' and the country itself as 'demolished\", and further raising questions about how much the former president would be willing if elected again to concede in a negotiation over the country's future.

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Putin's N-coercion to pressure Ukraine

THE Kremlin said Thursday that an updated nuclear doctrine that will allow Moscow to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states should be seen as a warning to the West.

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Reform pain after IMF's $7 bn relief package to Pak

ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN said on Thursday it would have to go through \"transitional pain\" after the International Monetary Fund agreed to a new relief package of $7 billion to bolster its economy.

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NY mayor charged for bribery, seeking illegal funds from foreigners

NEW YORK City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Thursday on charges that he took illegal campaign contributions and bribes from foreign nationals in exchange for favours that included helping Turkish officials get fire safety approvals for a new diplomatic building in the city.

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Israeli strike kills drone commander of Hezbollah

At least 11 killed, 22 others injured in attack in school shelter in Gaza

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Undersea CO, vault to fight climate change opens

NORWAY inaugurated on Thursday the gateway to a massive undersea vault for carbon dioxide, a crucial step before opening what its operator calls the first commercial service offering CO₂ transport and storage.

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OMCs can reduce petrol, diesel prices by ₹2-3: ICRA

OIL marketing companies (OMCs) could reduce petrol and diesel prices by ₹2-3 per litre if the international crude prices remain stable, according to a report by ICRA.

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Govt to borrow ₹6.61L cr in H2, maintains target

The Centre has retained its borrowing target for the current financial year as it announced its ₹6.61 lakh crore borrowing plan for the second half of the financial year.

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Nifty rises 20%, Sensex gains 19% in CY24

Rally is primarily driven by unprecedented surge in liquidity from domestic investors - both institutional and retail

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Hurun's under-35 list: Isha Ambani, Parekh yongest women entrepreneurs

Reliance Retail Ventures’ executive director Isha Ambani, 32, and Toddle co-founder Parita Parekh, 32, are the youngest women entrepreneurs in the 2024 hurun India Under-35 list.

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Asset quality problems to lift MFIs credit cost

RISING credit cost stemming from asset quality challenges that have begun to surface since many months now will crimp the profitability of microfinance institutions due to the higher credit cost which will halve their return on managed assets to 2-2.5% this fiscal from a high of 4% last fiscal.

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SpiceJet starts clearing salaries of employees

AVIATION DAYS after raising 3,000 crore through a Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP), budget carrier SpiceJet has started crediting the pending salaries of its employees for the months of June, July and August.

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Swiggy to raise ₹3,750 cr through public offer

FOOD tech firm Swiggy said on Thursday it aims to raise ₹3,750 core ($449 million) in its initial public offering (IPO). existing shareholders such as Accel India and Tencent europe will sell about ₹185.3 million shares, Swiggy said in its draft prospectus.

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Sebi eases reporting norms for trading, clearing members

MARKET watchdog Sebi has done away with as many as 90% of the reporting requirements for market makers like trading members, clearing members, and depository participants.

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Byju's insolvency case: SC halts creditors meeting

THE Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict and directed the Insolvency Resolution Professional (IRP) of edtech firm Byju's to maintain status quo and not hold any meeting of the Committee of Creditors.

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Focus on Sindhu's positioning & movement on court: Sridhar

SINCE the beginning of the month, Anup Sridhar has helped put the basics in place for PV Sindhu's comeback to the circuit after a below-par Paris Games.

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Fanai stars in Mohammeden win against Chennaiyin FC

RIDING on Lalremsanga Fanai's goal in the 39th minute Mohammedan Sporting Club defeated hosts Chennaiyin FC 1-0 and secured their first win in the Indian Super League at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Thursday.

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Inside story of how all-rounder revealed plans on India arrival

FORMER Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan on Thursday announced that the Mirpur Test against visiting South Africa will be his last in the format if he is assured of his safety in the country and also a safe exit after the match.

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Cloud over Green Park & combination

With two strips prepared, conditions could determine whether Kuldeep will play at his home ground or not

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Kanpur game may be Shakib's last Test match

ONE look at his cricketing profile and it can be known clearly how valuable he has been as a cricketer.

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Unmasking the silent killer

The recent death of a 26-year-old CA, linked to work-related stress, has reignited debates on toxic corporate culture. Experts and professionals call for systemic changes to prioritise employee well-being and challenge outdated work norms.

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