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University College London (UCL) has announced a new scholarship scheme to enable 100 of India's brightest students to study in the UK as well as its first-ever Summer School for pre-university students in the country. UCL, one of the UK's leading universities, said on Tuesday that its new India Excellence Scholarships will support Indian students with an outstanding academic record to pursue full-time Master's degree studies at the institution. Want to know if you qualify for immigration? Click here For the 2024-25 academic year, 33 scholarships will be available for exceptional students who have or are on track to achieve a first-class degree. A further 67 scholarships will be awarded during the following two years. “We are delighted to be able to offer these new and diverse opportunities that both illustrate our ongoing commitment to Indian students and strengthen our connection with India,” said Dr Michael Spence, President and Provost of UCL. “Indian students are vital members of UCL's global community and we are dedicated to providing more resources and support to help the very best of them share their knowledge and expertise with us in the UK,” he said.

Narendra Modi, took potshots at the Congress-led Rajasthan government over the law and order issues in the state. Speaking at an election rally in Barmer on November 15, PM Modi said that under the Congress rule, Rajasthan is leading in incidents of atrocities against women. As per the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) data, Rajasthan had emerged as the state which had reported the maximum number of rape cases in the year 2021.

Tata Technologies Ltd, Flair Writing Industries Ltd, Fedbank Financial Services Ltd, Gandhar Oil Refinery India Ltd, and Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. This has led to many questions about IPOs. Livemint answers questions like how to apply for an IPO, what to keep in mind while buying an IPO and more.

Delhi High Court has observed that a spouse who has a reasonable capacity to earn but chooses to remain unemployed and idle without sufficient explanation should not be permitted to saddle the other partner with the one-sided responsibility of meeting expenses by providing maintenance. The high court made the observation while reducing the amount of monthly maintenance from Rs 30,000 to Rs 21,000 to be paid by a man to his estranged wife under the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA). It said the woman claimed to have no independent source of income but has a reasonable educational background being a graduate from Delhi University. “She appears to have voluntarily undertaken social work as claimed despite there being no impediment to undertaking meaningful employment. «The spouse having a reasonable capacity of earning but who chooses to remain unemployed and idle without any sufficient explanation or indicating sincere efforts to gain employment should not be permitted to saddle the other party with one-sided responsibility of meeting out the expenses,” a bench of justices V Kameswar Rao and Anoop Kumar Mendiratta said. The bench said the maintenance does not have to be provided with mathematical precision but to give relief to the spouse who is unable to maintain and support during the pendency of proceedings and to ensure that the party should not suffer due to paucity of source of income. It said the provision for maintenance under the HMA is gender neutral and sections 24 and 25 of the Act provide for the rights, liabilities and obligations arising from marriage between the parties. The high court was hearing an appeal by the man challenging a trial court's order directing him to pay Rs 30,000 monthly maintenance to his

Shah Rukh Khan's "Jawan" has quickly soared to become Netflix's most-watched film in India within a mere two weeks. Netflix proudly announced the milestone on Twitter, stating, «Vikram Rathore has hijacked our hearts and records! 'Jawan' is now the most watched film in India in the first 2 weeks of launch, across all languages, on Netflix!» Released on September 7, «Jawan» has not only claimed the title of the highest-grossing Indian film of 2023 to date but has also amassed over Rs 1,100 crore in worldwide box office collections. The film set an array of records at the box office, securing the highest advance bookings and surpassing the $1 million ticket sales mark, a feat no other Bollywood movie has achieved. With an impressive Rs 75 crore collection on its opening day, «Jawan» even outperformed SRK's previous film «Pathaan» in terms of the highest opening day collection. On the fourth day of its release, «Jawan» continued its triumph, collecting Rs 80 crore, once again setting a new record.

Dengue has been on a rise in several states in the country. Bopal witnessed a 19 per cent positivity rate for dengue reported by the health department. According to district malaria office, as many as 13 patients were diagnosed with dengue and in the government laboratory 67 tests of suspected cases were undertaken.

IFGL Refractories surged almost 8 percent on Wednesday, extending gains for the fourth straight session to hit a new high on the back of robust September quarter (Q2FY24) earnings. The stock rose as much as 7.8 percent to its record high of ₹874 in intraday deals today. It has now soared 344 percent from its 52-week low of ₹196, hit on March 28, 2023.

Brett Blundy, the billionaire chairman of Lovisa, says he will not buckle to investor concerns over excessive remuneration, after shareholders voted against the jewellery chain’s pay report for a third year running.

British hedge fund Bell Rock Capital Management did not meet the disclosure standards required by Australian investment laws during its activist campaign against Whitehaven Coal, according to the Takeovers Panel.

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found an explosion that killed one worker at a pharmaceutical chemical plant in Massachusetts could have been prevented

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slumped in October to their slowest pace in more than 13 years, as surging mortgage rates and rising prices kept many prospective homebuyers on the sidelines

Millions of people are expected to hit airports and highways in record numbers over the Thanksgiving holiday

Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana and other northern states are making preparations to stop an invasion of wild pigs from Canada

Google seems to be pressing heavily on YouTube users to stop using an ad blocker for the video streaming service and instead subscribe to the company's premium subscription for an ad-free experience. The YouTube Premium subscription costs ₹1,290 for a 12-month subscription, ₹399 for a 3-month subscription and ₹139 for a one-month subscription.

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₹3,425.00 apiece on the BSE. Titan shares rose today after the company received approval from the Competition Commission of India to purchase an additional stake in its subsidiary CaratLane. On November 21, Titan share price rose over a percent and crossed the market capitalisation of ₹3 lakh crore for the first time.

US Federal Reserve meeting minutes. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, was flat at 103.58, near levels last seen in early September but off an overnight session low of 103.17. US Treasury yields slipped overnight to hover around 4.40%.

Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Group Chairman, Inditrade Capital, says both the dominant segments where Tata Technology is involved are supposed to be exploding at this stage. Tata Technology will benefit from a credible management, fantastic track record, and a great parentage. The valuation at which it is coming is also very reasonable compared with its peers. The Tata Tech IPO will open on November 22 after a hiatus of almost 18 to 19 years from the Tata stable. The IPO price band has been decided at Rs. 475-500. Despite that, the implied valuation turns out to be around Rs 20,000 odd crore. Tata Tech's valuations are around 25 to 30 times forward earnings and that compares with an L&T Tech which is upwards of 35 times. KPIT Tech which is trading at 60 times forward earnings. Tata Elxsi is close to 65-70 times. What is your view on Tata Tech? Well, I am extremely positive.

global smartphone market returned to growth in October after more than two years of slump, helped by a recovery in the emerging markets, according to data from Counterpoint Research. The data showed that global monthly smartphone sell-through volumes grew 5%, making October the first month to record year-on-year growth since June 2021, breaking the streak of 27 consecutive months of negative year-on-year growth.

Israel government concurred on November 22 to back a deal for Palestinian Hamas militants to release 50 women and children held as hostages in Gaza in exchange for a four-day pause in fighting, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as reported by Reuters. Approximately 20 more hostages will be released by Hamas if the first phase goes according to plan, according to a report by CBS News. Hamas was to prioritise releasing captive children, of whom around 40 are believed to be in Gaza.

US Federal Reserve officials at their latest policy meeting agreed to “proceed carefully" and only raise interest rates if progress in controlling inflation faltered. The minutes of the October 31 - November 1 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting release on Tuesday showed that the committee was emphasizing on how higher interest rates were starting to squeeze households and businesses.