Month: December 2024

Vodafone Group clears about ₹11,650 crore dues to lenders raised against VIL shares

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Vodafone Group clears about ₹11,650 crore dues to lenders raised against VIL shares

A man uses an umbrella as he walks past a Vodafone mobile phone store in Liverpool, Britain, October 8, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.K.-based Vodafone Group has cleared dues of around ₹11,650 crore or about 109 million pound that it raised against shares of Vodafone Idea, according to a regulatory filing. Vodafone Group had…

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Business

China, Iran FMs agree West Asia is ‘not a battleground for big powers’

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China, Iran FMs agree West Asia is ‘not a battleground for big powers’

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The top diplomats of China and Iran agreed on Saturday (December 28, 2024) that West Asia is “not a battleground for the big powers” and should not be an arena of geopolitical competition between countries outside the region. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Chinese…

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World

On Congress Attacks Over Manmohan Singh Funeral, JP Nadda’s ‘Super PM’ Swipe

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On Congress Attacks Over Manmohan Singh Funeral, JP Nadda’s ‘Super PM’ Swipe

New Delhi: In a significant escalation of the row over the choice of Dr Manmohan Singh’s cremation site, senior Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the BJP-ruled government at the Centre and accused it of “insulting” the memory of the two-term Prime Minister and not thinking beyond “politics and narrow-mindedness”.  Leading a…

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Nation

Elon Musk backs AfD party in German newspaper opinion piece

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Elon Musk backs AfD party in German newspaper opinion piece

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. billionaire Elon Musk backed Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a guest opinion piece for Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper published online on Saturday (December 28, 2024) that prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest. In the commentary, published in German…

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World

Maharashtra Man Sets Wife On Fire For Giving Birth To Girl For 3rd Time

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Maharashtra Man Sets Wife On Fire For Giving Birth To Girl For 3rd Time

Mumbai: A man allegedly poured petrol and set his wife ablaze in Maharashtra’s Parbhani district after she gave birth to the couple’s third daughter, a police official said on Saturday. Kundlik Uttam Kale (32) killed his wife Maina in Gangakhed Naka, some 520 kilometres from here, on Thursday night, the official said. As per the…

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Bengaluru Man Drives Cab After Driver Falls Asleep, Video Goes Viral

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Bengaluru Man Drives Cab After Driver Falls Asleep, Video Goes Viral

A Bengaluru man has gone viral on social media after he posted a video of driving a cab after his driver fell asleep. Milind Chandwani, a startup founder and an IIM graduate, was returning home late at night from Bengaluru Airport when he booked the cab. Taking to Instagram, Mr Chandwani wrote that the driver…

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5 Workers Injured In Transmission Tower Collapse In UP’s Prayagraj

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5 Workers Injured In Transmission Tower Collapse In UP’s Prayagraj

Prayagraj: Five workers were injured when a 400-kilowatt transmission line tower collapsed here on Saturday, officials said. ACP (Tharwai) Chandrapal Singh said that on Saturday, some electric work was underway on a 400-kilowatt transmission line connecting Bengal to Delhi in the Sahason area under Tharwai police station. In the same sequence, while pulling the wire,…

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Days After Pak Air Strikes, Soldier Killed In Clashes With Afghan Troops

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Days After Pak Air Strikes, Soldier Killed In Clashes With Afghan Troops

Peshawar: A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan’s forces, a security source said Saturday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes. Sporadic fighting, including with heavy weaponry, erupted overnight between border forces on the frontier between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…

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World

Inspired By Mohammed Siraj, Now Babar Azam Takes Up ‘Bail-Switching’ Trend

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Inspired By Mohammed Siraj, Now Babar Azam Takes Up ‘Bail-Switching’ Trend

A new phenomenon seems to have taken over the world of cricket. Once started by Stuart Broad, the act of switching bails as a form of superstition to change the luck towards yourself has been a tactic now employed by both India and Australia during the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25. Now, it seems…

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