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body scanners will be deployed at airports in a phased manner and the process is expected to start at major airports within a year, BCAS chief Zulfiquar Hasan said on Monday and stressed that there will not be any privacy issues as those have already been sorted out worldwide. He also said that there will be options for passengers who have health issues in case they cannot use such scanners. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has set a deadline for the end of next year for the deployment of full body scanners at airports.

₹800 crore. The revenue collection this month saw a 6 percent decrease from June 2023 while a 3 percent decline from last year in July 2022.

ONDC, in line with the Centre's direction, will extend its initiative of selling tomatoes at ₹70 per kilogram for at least one more week, with zero delivery fees. Within six days of offering this discounted price, ONDC has facilitated the purchase of 10,000 kilograms of tomatoes in Delhi, according to a Moneycontrol report. Furthermore, the network has achieved significant milestones, with over 1.1 million retail orders and 5.4 million mobility transactions since its inception last year.

₹3,950 crore as of March 2019. This debt was incurred to finance the company’s expansion, which included the construction of new hotels and the acquisition of other properties.

icai.org. Currently, there is no official confirmation from the institute, however, some media reports state that the date and time of CA foundation results will likely be declared today. The ICAI June session exams were held on 24, 26, 28 and 30 June 2023 in 290 centres across India.

Mumbai: In a recent incident, a man jumped into the sea from Mumbai's Bandra Worli Sea Link on Monday. Search operation has begun to rescue the person.

Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable named Chetan Kumar Choudhary fired his automatic weapon, killing four individuals on board a running train. Among the victims were an RPF Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) and three other passengers of the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Express, PTI reported. As reported by ANI reported, DRM Neeraj Verma noted, "At around 6 am we got to know that an RPF constable, who was on escorting duty opened fire...Four people have been shot dead...Our railway officer reached the spot.

RPF) jawan has been accused of shooting four people to death on a train near the Palghar railway station in Maharashtra, according to a report by PTI. The reason for the incident remains unclear. The firing took place around 7 am according to reports.

Railway Ministry has received over 170 requests from leaders across parties for launching the Vande Bharat trains in their constituency. Apart from ruling BJP, many major opposition leaders have also requested the introduction of Vande Bharat trains in their constituencies including Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge and TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu.

Pernod Ricard, world's second biggest distiller, is evaluating options to launch India-made premium spirits including whisky, rum and gin, to cash in on the surging demand for pricier and craft liquor products across segments. The French firm has already launched an Indian single malt currently being test-marketed in Mumbai and Goa, joining the league of companies such as Diageo and Radico Khaitan that launched high-end local brands such as Epitome Reserve and Rampur. Kartik Mohindra, chief marketing officer and head global business development, at Pernod Ricard India, said the Indian single malt, christened Seagram's Longitude 77, is going to be targeted at matured whisky consumers.

MUMBAI : DOMS Industries, India’s second-largest pencil maker, is set to file draft papers for a ₹1,200 crore initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) in the second week of August, two investment bankers aware of the development said. Italy’s F.I.L.A. Group, which owns a 51% stake in DOMS, plans to offer shares worth ₹800 crore in the issue.

MUMBAI : National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India Ltd is considering gradually extending trade timings, currently set at 6 hours and 15 minutes of the regular market, in consultation with its broker members, a top official of India’s largest stock exchange said. The proposal must be approved by the capital markets regulator and could be extended to derivatives contracts, said Ashishkumar Chauhan, managing director and chief executive, NSE.

MUMBAI : Go Airlines India Ltd, the operator of bankrupt Go First airline, aims to secure higher interim financing of ₹600-700 crore from banks and start with fewer flights than earlier planned in its revised strategy to resume operations, two people directly aware of the plan said. “We have revised our original plan.

KKR, has acquired four road assets from Macquarie India in a deal worth ₹3,000 crore. Earlier, Adani Road Transport had agreed to acquire these road assets for ₹3,100 crore, but terminated the deal last month citing «unsatisfactory conditions». Highways Infrastructure Trust (HIT) will acquire Gujarat Road & Infrastructure (GRICL) and Swarna Tollway (STPL), the InvIT said in a filing with stock exchanges.

ethnic violence in Manipur has brought down the state's exports of handwoven textiles, medicinal plants and food items by almost 80%, according to M Chandrakeshore Singh Pallel, vice-president (Manipur) of North East Federation of International Trade (NEFIT). Manipur is famous for fabrics like moiraingphee, leirum, lasingphee and phanek, which have good demand in the US, Europe and Singapore. Media reports say that 142 people have been killed and thousands displaced since violence broke out in the state between the Meiteis and Kukis in early May, following a court order for granting scheduled tribe status to the Meities.

green technology, disaster management, health services and port infrastructure facilities," reported PTI quoting Shinde. Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also attended the World Bank meeting, said the government is planning to make Maharashtra drought-free by linking rivers. "The government is planning to divert water from rivers flowing Westward to Godavari Valley and linking rivers in Vidarbha will help in removing drought," Fadnavis said.

Economic Times states that Dinesh Vijan has bought a luxury duplex in Mumbai's Pali Hill area for nearly ₹103 crore. The ET report further states that Dinesh Vijan's duplex is spread over 7,800 sq ft in a super-premium residential tower Rustomjee Parishram the suburban part of Bandra.

Go First airline, which has been grounded since early May, has announced a further extension of flight cancellations till July 31. «We regret to inform that due to operational reasons, Go First flights scheduled till 31st July 2023 have been cancelled. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by the flight cancellations,» it wrote on Twitter on Friday.

Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay have complained of food discrimination after some posters discouraging non-vegetarians from sitting in the canteen were put up on the walls of one of the hostels in Mumbai. The posters read "vegetarians only are allowed to sit here." The incident came to light when the posters emerged on social media.

PTI, Superintendent of Police (SP) Shahaji Umap said, “Several persons have been detained in connection with the incident which took place on Saturday evening and the situation has been brought under control." The march was organised by the Eklavya Adivasi Sanghatana, a few other tribal organisations and the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi to condemn the incident in Manipur where two women were paraded naked and sexually assaulted by a mob on May 3. Thousands of young men, some of them with their torsos bare as a mark of protest, took part in the march, a local police official said. He further said that when the march, which started from the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar statue, reached near the tehsil office, some participants started a sit-in agitation in front of the Satana police station, demanding that local BJP MLA Dilip Borse accept their memorandum.

New supply of office space fell 25 per cent to 11.30 million square feet during April-June across seven major cities amid subdued demand and high base effect, according to Vestian.