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August 03, 2024

One more draft notification on Western Ghats: Kite-flying?

Clearly shocked at the scale of the Wayanad tragedy, the Centre has issued a draft notification to declare around 57,000 sq km of Western Ghats as an ‘ecologically-sensitive area’.

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India stun Aussies, win after 52 years

Skipper Harmanpreet Singh scored a brace as the India men's hockey team registered a famous 3-2 win over Tokyo Games silver medallist and nemesis Australia in its final Pool B match here on Friday.

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BSF DG, dy shunted

As part of the new security paradigm which the government is putting in place to check infiltration across the border, the home ministry has shunted the Border Security Force Director General Nitin Agrawal and his deputy Special DG (West) Y B Khurania to their respective state cadres with immediate effect.

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STUNTS LAND YOUTUBER IN RPF NET

The Railway Protection Force has apprehended a YouTuber for endangering public safety by criminally tampering with railway tracks for publicity.

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'Charcha' over Rahul waiting for ED with 'chai & biscuits'

Several members of Parliament on Friday commented on the probability of another raid by the Enforcement Directorate on Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after he expressed his apprehension over a tweet that he may be raided as the top central leadership probably did not like his “Chakravyuh” speech in the House earlier this week.

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SC no to SIT probe

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the demand for a probe into the sale and purchase of electoral bonds under the scheme struck down by a Constitution Bench in February this year.

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Sen in semis

Lakshya Sen – a 22-year-old lad from Almora - has scripted a historic first in Indian badminton.

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Women better even at flying aircraft than men: Ajit Pawar

“Many are asking me why we have come out with special financial schemes for women in Maharashtra, we have realised that we have to focus on farmers and women if basic poverty eradication has to happen and women have skills which are not utilised, we will help them to get professional skills, my personal experience is that women are even better at flying aircraft compared to men,” Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said amidst huge applause at a rally in tribal tehsil of Surgana in North Maharashtra on Friday.

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HC demands action on elder care law abidance

The Bombay High Court has expressed displeasure that the mandates of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, which has been in force since 2010, “still remain unfulfilled.”

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Citizens urge court to reopen Wilson College ground amid lease dispute

Even as the Bombay High Court is hearing pleas against the cancellation of the Wilson College’s lease on its Marine Drive gymkhana, citizens have questioned the rationale behind closing the ground to the public after the dispute.

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Learn from Delhi case: Aspirants to authorities

After the recent incident in Delhi's Rajinder Nagar, where three Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) aspirants died in a flooding incident at an IAS coaching centre, students in Pune are now voicing their concerns about hazardous living and studying conditions in the city, especially in the Peth areas.

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Markets snap five-day rally; Sensex tumbles over 850 pts

Halting its five-day winning run, benchmark BSE Sensex plunged 885 points on Friday due to profit-taking in metal, auto and IT stocks in line with a global selloff triggered by weak US macro data.

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'Sebi working on templatised offer document for firms to 'fill in the blanks' to get nods'

Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch on Friday said the capital markets regulator is working on a mechanism to expedite IPO approvals, where companies can simply fill in the blanks in a template to get the go-ahead.

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Titan profit drops 5.4% to ₹715 cr in Apr-Jun quarter; sales rise 12%

Leading jewellery retailer and watchmaker Titan on Friday reported a 5.42 per cent decline in its consolidated net profit to Rs 715 crore for the quarter ended on June 2024.

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NCLAT approves Byju's settlement with BCCI, sets aside insolvency plea

In a major relief to Byju's, the NCLAT on Friday set aside insolvency proceedings against the troubled edtech major over a sponsorship deal and approved a Rs 158 crore settlement with the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

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Terrible tragedy, needs urgent response: Rahul

Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday described the landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad as a “terrible tragedy” of such magnitude that the state has not seen till now in a single area, and said it “demands a unique and urgent response”.

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14 deaths at Delhi shelter home in Jul

Delhi Revenue Minister Atishi said on Friday that out of the 14 inmates who died in July at the Asha Kiran shelter home, many had comorbidities, and said, guilty will not be spared if any negligence is found.

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Minister highlights development plans

Chhattisgarh Finance Minister O P Chaudhary reiterated the government's commitment to transforming Chhattisgarh into a developed state by 2047, aligning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for a developed India.

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I know Trump's type: Harris

Taking a jibe at Donald Trump a day after he questioned her racial identity for the second day, US VicePresident and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris said she has taken on \"perpetrators of all kinds,\" during her previous roles as Attorney General, District Attorney and courtroom prosecutor.

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Biden, Harris greet freed US prisoners with hugs

President Joe Biden and VicePresident Kamala Harris greeted journalist Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans Thursday as they arrived back on US soil after being freed by Russia in a huge prisoner swap.

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Les alle historiene fra The Free Press Journal - Mumbai

The Free Press Journal - Mumbai Newspaper Description:

The Free Press Journal is one of the oldest English Daily newspapers from Mumbai with a heritage of more than 90 years. And yet, The Free Press Journal is a contemporary paper and rooted in current urban realities.

In keeping with the international trend, it has reinvented itself in terms of design, get up and content. It means different thing to different people – a platform for the articulate, a trendsetter for the young and a chronicle for the old.

It was at the forefront of freedom struggle against the British and continues with the free and fearless journalism till date. Indeed, the history of The Free Press Journalism mirrors that of Indian independence.

Swaminath Sadanand, a 30-year-old idealist from Madras trudged his way to Bombay and with a vision that was to prove uncomfortably ahead of his day, brought out a newspaper as unorthodox in character as it was innovative in concept. For Swaminath Sadanand, the Free Press Journal was not so much a business venture as a cause.

The spirit with which he launched the paper and ran it for almost three decades helped it make it an integral part of two great Indian movements — the struggle for independence and the evolution of Indian publishing.