Govt to raise over ₹4k cr via Axis stake sale

Mumbai: The government through the Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India (SUUTI) has said that it will sell its 1.6% stake in Axis Bank.

Meta cuts Ilk jobs in 1st big layoff in co's history

Zuckerberg Says Sorry To Employees Even As Co Bets Billions On Metaverse Amid Revenue Slide

Govt unveils sovereign green bonds framework

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday released the sovereign green bonds framework with the funds raised through the instrument to be used for projects including renewable energy, supporting electric vehicles and promotion of public transport through its electrification and transport subsidies, biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.

Sebi panel moots steps to boost exchange governance

Mumbai: In the backdrop of lapses at NSE by two of its former managing directors, a Sebi panel has proposed drastic measures to the board, governance, and operational structure of market infrastructure institutions (MIIs) like stock exchanges, depositories, and clearing corporations.

'If Republicans control Congress, it will be good for America, for chances of negotiations on Ukraine, and for India'

US midterm polls are going down to the wire with the Democrats performing better than expected even as the Republicans pick up crucial seats. With the final composition of the Senate and the House yet to be determined, the fate of the Biden presidency and, by extension, of Washington’s policies for the world hangs in the balance. Patrick Basham, director at Democracy Institute, Washington, spoke with Rudroneel Ghosh about the impact of the election on American democracy, politics and foreign policy:

Ukraine: Peacemaker India?

Jaishankar’s Moscow visit was crucial. New Delhi seems more ready to facilitate dialogue

Cheesa peeza nights

Streetside Ahmedagoodies get crazier and curiouser

Concurrent Failure

Litigation over Centre vs state control of education glosses over all-round failure to improve quality

Trump, Kinda Trumped

US midterms show that ideological extremism doesn’t always pay, and jobs are as important as inflation

US basketball star on way to Russian penal colony: Lawyers

The two-time Olympic gold medallist was arrested on February 17 — a week before Russia invaded Ukraine — at a Moscow airport, where she was found to have vape cartridges containing cannabis oil, which is banned in Russia, in her luggage.

Withdrawing from key Ukraine city of Kherson, says Russia

Move Serious Blow To Putin’ s War Effort; Kyiv Is Wary

PM Sunak under pressure as his minister resigns amid bullying row

London: British PM Rishi Sunak was under pressure from the opposition on Wednesday as he expressed regret on appointing one of his close allies and embattled ministers who was forced to resign pending an investigation into allegations of bullying against him.

GOP rushes to DeSanctum Sanctorum to escape Trump

Washington: Political bloodletting has erupted in the Republican Party following its underwhelming performance in the midterm polls.

Samosa caucus gets 5th member

Karnataka-Born Shri Thanedar Wins From Michigan; Andhra-Born Aruna Miller Elected Lt Guv Of Maryland

Dems under Biden likely to lose less than a dozen House seats

Washington: US President Joe Biden could well have bragging rights for one of the best performances by an incumbent in a midterm poll.

10% of aspirants from many states get IIT seats: Data

Mumbai: One in six IIT aspirants from Rajasthan who registered for JEE(A) will go on to join the premier engineering colleges this year.

How digital minimalism can help break your social media addiction

Minimalists don’t unplug from the internet, but they believe its use should be intentional, not compulsive

PM to greet world leaders at upcoming G20 meeting with Himachali presents

New Delhi: The art and culture of poll-bound Himachal Pradesh will have a significant representation at the upcoming G20 as PM Modi will greet the world leaders with various gifts from the state with an aim to give a boost to the spread of Himachal’s art and culture globally.

BJP can't fool people with its jumlas: Kharge

Banuti (Shimla): Addressing his first public meeting ahead of the Himachal Pradesh elections, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said BJP may have fooled people across the country with its “jumlas” but cannot do so in the hill state.

Two more MLAs quit Cong, 1 joins BJP: 19th exit since '17

Rajkot: A day after 10-time Congress MLA Mohansinh Rathwa joined BJP, two more Gujarat MLAs quit the grand old party on Wednesday, with one of them joining the saffron party, just a day ahead of the governing party declaring its first list of candidates for the assembly polls.

Won't allow CAA as long as I am alive: Mamata

Krishnanagar: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she wouldn’t allow Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to be enforced in her state “as long as I am alive”.

Cong is guarantee of scams instability, corruption: Modi

PM Urges People In Himachal To Change Pattern

India moves closer to fugitive arms dealer Bhandari

New Delhi: The success of Indian investigative agencies in British courts can serve as a precedent in all other cases of economic offenders who are fugitives from law and whose extradition has been sought as well as a deterrent for those who might be planning to follow in their footsteps.

No features of psychotic illness in Nirav: Judges

London: After his appeal against extradition to India was turned down by the UK high court, diamantaire Nirav Modi’s hope is either being allowed to appeal in the Supreme Court or a Rule 39 injunction from the European Court of Human Rights.

Right man, at right time, at right place'

Mumbai: Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud’s “blazing journey”—from getting his senior gown before turning 40, becoming one of the youngest Bombay HC judges at 40 to now heading the Indian judiciary—promises adoption of more technology in the judiciary, said many lawyers.

His heroes: Domestic help, yoga teacher, college prof, US judge

Childhood domestic help Bhimbai Ghamat, an illiterate woman from Devihasol village in Rajapur taluka of Ratnagiri, “is the biggest inspiration for me and probably played a pivotal role in shaping my pro-women’s rights approach,” says India’s 50th Chief Justice, D Y Chandrachud.

CJI bats for collegium system, tells executive to avoid 'grandstanding'

‘It Ensures Judicial Independence, But Support More Transparency’

'A Judge Must Not Become Judgemental'

He studied economics at St Stephen’s College and became the subject topper at Delhi University. His next stop was not the Civil Services, but law, a subject that had fascinated him as a child. After all, his father, Justice Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, was the 16th Chief Justice of India and the country’s longest-serving CJI. In a free-wheeling chat with TOI’s Dhananjay Mahapatra, Justice D Y Chandrachud, who took over as the country’s 50th CJI on Wednesday, spoke about the different influences on his life from what his father taught him to how their domestic help when he was growing up made him a staunch protector of rights, especially women’s rights. He also outlined the changes he plans to bring about in the next two years. Excerpts:

CBI arrests 2 former directors of J&K co in 87cr bank fraud

Jammu: The CBI on Wednesday said that it arrested two former directors of a Kathua-based private company in a case related to bank fraud amounting to Rs87.88 crore from 2006 to 2019, reports Sanjay Khajuria.

ED issues fresh summons to l'khand CM for Nov 17

New Delhi: In a fresh summons issued to Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren by the ED, he has been asked to appear for questioning at the agency’s Ranchi office on November 17.