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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Sunday declared a «rebellion» against «feudal forces», asserting that the opposition INDIA bloc will drive out the BJP from across the country. Soren, addressing a rally here on the occasion of 'Hul Diwas', also claimed that the saffron party has turned «jittery» after his release from jail and its leaders are «conspiring» against him again.

Pankaj Tripathi recently reacted to Panchayat star Pankaj Jha’s allegations that he romanticized being an outsider and attempted to whitewash his struggles. The Mirzapur actor had always been open about struggling to get acting projects and steady work in Bollywood, and how his wife decided to be the bread winner for the time being while he hustled in the city of dreams.

Port Blair to being at the helm of building rockets to put satellites in orbit, it has been a formidable learning curve for Saraniya Periaswamy, a young engineer at the Chennai-based space start-up Agnikul Cosmos. The 30-year-old Saraniya is in charge of development of the 3-D printed launch vehicle — Agnibaan Sub-Orbital Technology Demonstrator (SOrTeD) — that had its first flight on May 30, overcoming a series of challenges over more than a two-month period.

The nation is yet to recover from the shock of how the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) has crumbled under the weight of its own contradictions, discommoding over 2.3 million aspirants who took the centralized examination for admission to undergraduate medical courses. Its collapse shows all that is wrong with the government’s education policy, highlights biases in its people selection policy and also underscores its centralization tendencies. The NEET’s introduction was not such a bad idea, considering the systemic malaise that existed earlier.

₹4 lakh.) Since that May two years ago, Sabharwal has only scouted for and carried secondhand luxury bags. She has spent from ₹1-15 lakh on a pre-loved luxury bag. “I buy one, carry it for two-three months and then sell it (on a pre-loved website, with a profit of 10-15%, and sometimes even at a loss, depending on the bag’s condition)." Sabharwal recently sold a small Bottega Veneta Jodie for around ₹3 lakh; she had bought it from a secondhand luxury platform for ₹3.2 lakh.

The challenge of creating economic opportunities for hundreds of millions of young people has come to the fore this year. As I wrote in my previous column, on the employment front, India must create 20 million jobs per year. The ongoing public outcry over the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) mismanagement of NEET-UG, NEET-PG and UGC-NET examinations highlights a related concern: of meeting the career aspirations of tens of millions of young people seeking quality higher education.

did not endorse the campaign and dismissed it in his typical unflappable style.“I don't really believe in this 'Do it for somebody'. I love that quote about somebody asking somebody else, 'Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?' and he says, 'I want to climb Mount Everest because it's there'.

Mint above and four in line with their five-year average trend. In the month prior, 10 indicators were better or in line with the trend. These are the findings of the latest Mint macro tracker, which provides a monthly comprehensive report on the state of the economy, based on trends in 16 high-frequency indicators.

Mint ahead of the upcoming full-year budget for 2024-25. Simplifying the taxes and promoting Indian tourism in overseas markets more aggressively would revive interest in India among foreign travellers, said Kalra, also the founder-mentor of online travel platform MakeMyTrip. Edited excerpts from the interview: The country’s tourism sector has moved beyond the pandemic, and we expect inbound, domestic and outbound tourism to surpass 2019 levels by the end of 2024, but maintaining economic stability and controlling inflation will be crucial for sustaining India’s tourism growth.

Most of my life, I didn’t need tourism. The first time I went on a vacation was when I was 27, and it was just about 20km across the bay from Mumbai, where I lived. But, finally, I was on this famous thing called a vacation.

₹1.73 trillion. The average in the early phase was about ₹ 0.9 trillion, which today hovers at upwards of ₹ 1.5 trillion. The relevant data reveals a widening of the tax base, increased compliance, plugged leakages and better enforcement.

chai paired with assorted fritters makes the perfect combo on rainy days. But, if a monsoon wine party is on the cards, consider serving bhajias with an acid-rich vino that cuts through the fat in fried foods. Wine professional Sonal Holland says she would swap her chai for a classic Riesling from Germany’s Mosel region.

Sharad Pawar on Sunday expressed his delight and congratulated Indian cricket team on their stellar performance in the T20 World Cup.

Sattva Group is bullish on India's housing market and will launch many projects to achieve 85 per cent growth in sales of residential properties to around Rs 6,500 crore this fiscal, a top company official said. In the 2023-24, Bengaluru-based Sattva Group achieved sales bookings of Rs 3,500 crore.

Delhi, including four citizens who drowned in submerged underpasses, the Times of India reported, while flight operations stuttered in the Indian capital.

Venkaiah Naidu, as his true comrade, tested in the fire of the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975.

A post shared by ICC (@icc)After posing for the camera, Hardik carried the trophy on his shoulder and did the “swag walk". Then, he danced bhangra as he moved on with the trophy.Netizens showered praises on Pandya and spoke about his tough days ahead of the World Cup tournament. Many of them claimed that they were not among the people who had trolled Pandya.“It was fun, you have given this entertainment to whole India," wrote one user while another wrote, “And, one day the noise of abuses turns into the echo of applause."“I never trolled him and I know mature cricket fans didn’t troll him during his tough times but anyways he deserves all the love and respect," wrote another.After the victory, Hardik spoke about his tough six months.

AAP MP Sanjay Singh made serious allegations against the Central Government, claiming that Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi's Chief Minister, was arrested by the CBI on the orders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Akasa Air spreads its wings on domestic and international routes, the less-than-two-year-old airline's chief Vinay Dube has said he does not think about competition in encouraging or discouraging terms, as the aviation market is «big enough for us to succeed». The carrier, which took to the skies in August 2022, currently has a fleet of 24 Boeing 737 MAX planes and operates more than 900 flights weekly.

₹25,000 crore, its initial public offering (IPO) is slated to be the biggest-ever IPO to hit the Indian markets. Its core investment premise is the fundamental shift that has unfolded in the Indian passenger vehicle market and Hyundai’s place in it. By revenue, Hyundai Motor is the third-largest passenger vehicle company in India, behind Maruti Suzuki and Mahindra and Mahindra, with revenues of ₹60,310 crore in 2022-23 and ₹52,158 crore for the 9-month period ended December 2023.

A post shared by ICC (@icc)Virat Kohli, Arshdeep Singh, Axar Patel, Mohammed Siraj and Rinku Singh were seen grooving to Daler Mehendi's iconic Punjabi number 'Tunak Tunak Tun' in the centre of the ground. For most, it was joyous to see Kohli break a leg after a tough T20 campaign.It was more emotional because Kohli announced his retirement from the T20 internationals after being awarded the "Player of the Match" for his crucial 76 runs off 59 balls.In the videos, Kohli was also seen hugging a teary-eyed Rohit Sharma, who also later announced his retirement from the format.In a press conference, Sharma said, "This has to be the greatest time I can say that.