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ED raids offices of sellers using Amazon, Flipkart platforms in FEMA probe

November 7, 2024 admin

File photo used for representative purpose only | Photo Credit: Reuters The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday (November 7, 2024) conducted searches against some sellers who do business on e-commerce giants like Amazon, Flipkart as part of a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) investigation, official sources said. Multiple locations in Delhi, Gurugram (Haryana), Hyderabad (Telangana) and…

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Fintech Progcap to digitise supply chains of MSMEs to make them part of formal economy

November 7, 2024 admin

Progcap, a fintech company which is into supply chain financing and catering to Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) has announced plans to digitise entire supply chains, developing user-friendly mobile apps and other technology solutions to help small businesses manage their transactions, check credit limits, and request disbursements on the go. “We are building a comprehensive ecosystem…

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Days Before Rajasthan Bypoll, Congress Suspends Rebel Leader Naresh Meena

November 7, 2024 admin

New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday suspended rebel Rajasthan leader Naresh Meena over a dispute about the party’s nominee for next week’s Deoli-Uniara Assembly by-poll. The party’s state in-charge, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, issued an order to that effect Thursday. Naresh Meena wanted to contest the seat but the party opted to field Kastor Chand Meena….

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Veterinarian Can Meet Monkey He Nursed To Health: Madras High Court

November 7, 2024 admin

The court has observed that the bonding between a human and an animal ought to be handled sensitively. Chennai: In a heartwarming decision, the Madras High Court has allowed a veterinarian to reunite with a partially paralysed baby monkey he treated for 10 months in Coimbatore. The animal, a survivor of multiple dog bites in…

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Iran Woman’s Stripping To Trump Re-Election, When Female Body Becomes A Battleground

November 7, 2024 admin

Dissent can take many forms. There are times when a single image can project dissent more powerfully than armed resistance. One such image went viral on social media last week. It was the video of a young woman at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University defiantly walking in her underwear. Her long hair is uncovered and she…

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AI Just Threw A Fake Halloween Parade And Ghosted The Crowd Thronging The Streets

November 7, 2024 admin

Dublin residents gathered on the street waiting in vain for the parade to show up. Artificial Intelligence can do a lot. But nobody – at least not the partygoers in Dublin, Ireland – realised that it would pull out a party trick on Halloween this year. Dublin residents hit the streets in anticipation of a…

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Court drops all charges against a Thai woman in a 2015 bombing at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20

November 7, 2024 admin

Wanna Suansan, who had been charged with involvement in a 2015 bombing, leaves the Bangkok South Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov. 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A court in Thailand on Thursday (November 7, 2024) acquitted a Thai woman who had been charged with involvement in a 2015 bombing at a shrine…

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Why A Soviet-Era Oil Rig City Is Floating On Earth’s Largest Lake

November 7, 2024 admin

Deep in the Caspian Sea, around 100 kilometres off the coast of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, lies Neft Daslari, the world’s oldest offshore oil platform. Also known as “Oil Rocks”, this vast, rusting city has been shrouded in mystery for decades. “The degree of mystery was enormously high,” filmmaker Marc Wolfensberger, who first discovered Neft Daslari…

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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year

November 7, 2024 admin

In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest lost 6,288 square kilometers (2,428 square miles), roughly the size of the U.S. state of Delaware. | Photo Credit: AP Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span,…

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