Month: March 2024

SBI Sends All Electoral Bonds Data To Election Commission Day After Supreme Court Rap

March 12, 2024 admin

SBI is India’s largest banking institution (File). New Delhi: The State Bank of India on Tuesday evening submitted data about electoral bonds to the Election Commission of India, in line with a stern order from the Supreme Court. The data will be collated and released by the poll panel by 5 pm Friday, as the court…

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Top Court Bar Body Chief Seeks President Intervention Over Electoral Bonds

March 12, 2024 admin

New Delhi: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) chief Adish C Aggarwala on Tuesday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu urging her to seek presidential reference of the top court judgement in the electoral bonds scheme case and not to give effect to it unless the top court has reheard the matter. Mr Aggarwala, in his letter…

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Industrial output growth slows to 3.8% in January

March 12, 2024 admin

The production of capital goods picked up pace in January. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The industrial output growth slowed to 3.8% in January, from an upgraded uptick of 4.24% in December. The manufacturing sector’s growth slowed to 3.2% from 4.5% a month ago, even as the uptick in mining and electricity generation accelerated to…

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Ravichandran Ashwin’s Cryptic Post On Ajinkya Rahane’s Batting During Ranji Trophy Final Goes Viral

March 12, 2024 admin

Ravichandran Ashwin’s social media post on Ajinkya Rahane© Instagram Indian cricket team spinner Ravichandran Ashwin‘s social media post on Ajinkya Rahane‘s batting during the ongoing Ranji Trophy final between Mumbai and Vidarbha has gone viral. Rahane survived an extremely close LBW appeal as a delivery from Umesh Yadav seamed back and crashed into his pads….

Sports

Frenchman Sold Fake Luxury Watches Worth $3.3 Million

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Frenchman Sold Fake Luxury Watches Worth .3 Million

Real Rolexes cost from around 5,000 euros to upwards of 70,000 euros. (Representational) Paris: The trial of a Frenchman accused of making millions selling fake luxury watches is putting the spotlight on an elaborate commerce of lucrative replicas spanning the globe. Nicknamed “the prince of fake,” Julien V. has freely admitted to running a network…

World

Joe Biden says he never meant to keep classified documents; Hur stands by report on President’s memory

March 12, 2024 admin

Over five hours of interviews, President Joe Biden repeatedly told a special counsel that he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency, but it shows he was at times fuzzy about dates and said he was unfamiliar with the paper trail for some of the sensitive documents he handled. The…

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Retail inflation eases marginally to 5.09% in February

March 12, 2024 admin

Prices of food remained elevated. File | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA India’s retail inflation remained virtually unchanged at 5.09% in February from 5.10% in January, even as food prices paid by consumers rose from 8.3% to 8.66%, the National Statistical Office said on March 12. The industrial output growth slowed to 3.8% in January,…

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Could tardigrades have colonised the Moon?

March 12, 2024 admin

Just over five years ago, on 22 February 2019, an unmanned space probe was placed in orbit around the Moon. Named Beresheet and built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, it was intended to be the first private spacecraft to perform a soft landing. Among the probe’s payload were tardigrades, renowed for their ability to survive…

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Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed on takeoff, officials say

March 12, 2024 admin

A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed on March 12 while taking off from an air base in western Russia, the Defence Ministry said. The Ministry said the Il-76 aircraft with eight crew and seven passengers on board crashed in the Ivanovo region. It didn’t say whether there were any survivors….

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Uncle’s Betrayal Dig At Dushyant Chautala As BJP Revamps Haryana Cabinet

March 12, 2024 admin

Abhay Singh Chautala is the uncle of JJP leader Dushyant Singh Chautala Chandigarh: As the BJP revamped its government in Haryana and ended the alliance with the Dushyant Chautala-led Jananyak Janata Party (JJP), his uncle and Indian National Lok Dal leader Abhay Singh Chautala took a veiled swipe at the nephew who lost his Deputy…

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