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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters In a major relief to Byju’s, the NCLAT on August 2 set aside insolvency proceedings against the troubled edtech major over a sponsorship deal and approved a ₹158 crore settlement with the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal…
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court ripped into police and city officials in equal measure Friday in a hearing on the deaths last week of three students in the flooded – by rainwater and sewage from a clogged drain – basement of an IAS exam tuition centre. “Some officer has to be liable. These people…
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The Fact Check Unit was notified on March 20 under the Information Technology Rules, 2021. New Delhi: The Centre is best suited to determine whether a particular fact related to it is correct or wrong, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday while making the government’s stand clear on the PIB’s Fact Check Unit. He…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has urged the BJP-led central government to withdraw GST on life and medical insurance premiums, saying that it adversely affects people’s ability to take care of their vital needs. The Trinamool Congress chief is the latest to criticise the move announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Budget….
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The rupee settled 2 paise lower at 83.75 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar in a range-bound trade on Friday as massive sell-offs in domestic as well as global equity markets negated gains from a weak American currency. The Indian currency resisted the fall due to…
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What is inflation? In simple terms, inflation refers to an increase in the price of goods and services over a period of time. To illustrate, if five chocolates cost Rs 10 in 2020 and if the price went up to Rs 15 in 2024, it simply means that the cost of chocolates has increased over…
Mutilated body parts of two persons were recovered yesterday. Shimla: Rescue operations were underway on Friday to trace over 45 people missing following flash floods triggered by cloudbursts in three districts of Himachal Pradesh, officials said on Friday. With the recovery of three more bodies, the death count due to the flash floods in the…
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US Vice-Presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s 2021 comment about “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made” has set the cat among the pigeons. Well, not so much among pigeons, but certainly among a lot of women who have come out breathing fire that he dared to make…
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This marks the latest strike in Hollywood after union writers and actors marched on the picket lines Striking video game voice actors and motion-capture performers held their first picket on Thursday in front of Warner Bros. Games and said artificial intelligence was a threat to their professions. “The models that they’re using have been trained…
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The Paris Olympic Games remain embroiled in a huge controversy ever since the ‘gender row’ erupted in women’s boxing. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has been categorised as a ‘biological male’, after her opponent Angela Carini, from Italy, decided to abandon the game after just 46 seconds. Several renowned personalities, including Elon Musk, have…
