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Very heavy rains in store for city; IMD issues orange alert

Residents advised to stay indoors and avoid unnecessary travel

Ready for narco test: Vaze

PAL TURNS FOE | Vaze has now suddenly become useful for the BJP in general and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis in particular to expose Anil Deshmukh

Lanka SC stays visa deal with VFS-Global

The Sri Lankan Supreme Court on Friday stayed the implementation of a cabinet decision to grant approval or online Visa Electronic Travel Authorization to three companies with an Indian link: VFS Global, a globally known company, and its two middlemen, GBS Technology Services and IVF Global.

Uddhav Thackeray trains political gun on Amit Shah

Shiv Sena chief calls the Home Minister the \"political successor of Ahmad Shah Abdali\" and charged BJP of waging \"Satta Jihad\"

Bakery of rape accused SP leader demolished

In a significant action on Saturday, a bakery belonging to Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Moeed Khan, accused of raping a minor girl, was demolished by Ayodhya district authorities. The bakery was allegedly constructed on encroached land in Bhadarsa.

Deshmukh's PA collected bribes: Vaze

Deshmukh reminded that a few days ago he had revealed how Fadnavis had given a proposal to him through an intermediary to implicate Uddhav Thackeray and Aditya Thackeray.

India is food surplus: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India had become a food surplus country and is also working to provide solutions for global food and nutritional security. He was addressing the 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists on Saturday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

'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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

Sen in semis

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

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.

Sen Beats Prannoy, In Quarterfinals

India's Lakshya Sen registered a comfortable straight-game win over compatriot HS Prannoy to become only the third male player ever from the country to reach the quarterfinals of the Olympics badminton competition here on Thursday.

Gone In 46 Seconds: A Boxing Gender-Bender

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who had previously been banned from competing, having been deemed a 'biological male', was accepted as a female at the Paris Olympics; 'she' made short work of an Italian woman boxer, Angela Carini, in one of the most controversial Olympic bouts ever.

Felt Like I Lost My Dad Again, Says Rahul Gandhi

The toll in the triple landslides that struck Mundakkai, Meppadi and Chooralmala in Kerala’s Wayanad went up to 282 on Thursday and now the focus will be on retrieving the bodies of 240-plus people reported missing.