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Rajasthan's Kota witnessed yet another death by suicide on Sunday in a 16-year-old National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) aspirant. Further on 28 August, two teenagers preparing for NEET exam died by suicide in Kota. The grim tally of students suicide in Kota reached 23 for the year.

By Maggie Fick

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said that the «double engine» government of Uttar Pradesh has won the trust of half of Uttar Pradesh's population on the issue of security. Addressing the 'UP Rising 10 Saal 10 Changes' event held at Hotel Taj, CM Yogi Adityanath said that Uttar Pradesh has experienced a significant reduction in crime, «with not even a single riot occurring in the past six and a half years». «Today, the state enjoys a secure environment, reinforced by official figures from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) confirming the decline in various crime categories», CM Yogi said. He further highlighted that during the 2022 elections, his government's track record in maintaining law and order in the state played an important role in securing a resounding two-thirds majority. «It is a big achievement which reflects the increased sense of security in a sizeable section of the population of the state today. Today, women can confidently travel alone throughout the state without any fear, signifying the success of our government in gaining the trust of a substantial portion of the population», he added. CM Yogi Adityanath said that the state has undergone significant transformation since 2017, adding that there was a widespread belief that the UP faced challenges that adversely impacted both the state and the nation. «However, over the past six and a half years, our government has successfully changed this perception, both within India and globally.

The Omaxe Group, a leading real estate company, claims to have amicably resolved the brother’s legal dispute in NCLT Chandigarh and Delhi. Pursuant to an amicable settlement, Sunil Goel has unconditionally withdrawn all his complaints and cases, which were pending before various courts, tribunals, regulators and authorities.

IndiGo Airlines board of directors have approved an additional purchase of 10 A320 NEO family aircraft from French aircraft maker Airbus. The order for ten more aircrafts adds to the already placed order for 300 aircraft, as per the company filing. IndiGo in 2019 had placed a record order of over 300 Airbus A320 NEO family aircraft worth around $33 billion at notional catalogue prices with France's Airbus.

WSB Real Estate Partners has raised over Rs 850 crore through its residential property debt fund WSB Real Estate Debt Fund II (WSBREDF II) surpassing its initial target commitment of Rs 500 crore The total commitment includes the fund and an option to its investors to co-invest in specific transactions. The fund will focus on investing, through structured debt, in residential real estate projects serving the mid-income and affordable housing segment across select tier I cities and look to partner with developers with robust execution and delivery track record. The fundraise has witnessed active participation from including large family offices, corporates, offshore investors, and high networth individuals (HNIs). “This is a testament to the investors’ confidence in our ability to identify and execute real estate opportunities for providing attractive risk-adjusted returns. In the current fund,WSBREDF II, over two-thirds of the fund is deployed across 12 transactions, securing two exits with a 23% gross internal rate of return (IRR),” said Kaushik Desai, managing partner and investment committee member of WSB. The fund has partnered with developers including Bollineni Group, Shapoorji Pallonji and Jain Housing. According to Desai, over 12,000 homes have been developed and delivered through its portfolio projects in the last 4-5 years across over 40 projects. Since its inception in 2013, WSB Real Estate Partners has managed and committed over Rs 2,000 crore of debt capital to the residential real estate space.

Kolkata is emerging one of the major real estate market in the country with growth across segments like Industrial and logistics and office space amongst others. The city has emerged among top three cities for I&L leasing activity in April-June of this year accounting for 8-12% industrial leasing in the country. “The city's strategic location, transportation infrastructure, economic trends, and demand for warehousing contribute to this leasing trend.

WABetaInfo, the recent updates for WhatsApp beta on iOS (version 23.18.1.70) and Android (version 2.23.18.21) have introduced a new toggle option for the instant video messaging feature. This toggle allows users to manually enable or disable the feature within the app's settings. When turned off, users can switch to sending voice messages instead.

For the first time since the global financial crisis of 2008, global household wealth in 2022 (in US dollars) decreased on aggregate as well as on a per-adult basis, both in nominal and real terms. Wealth per adult also recorded the second-largest reduction since 2000. This was revealed in a recent Credit Suisse-UBS report by the Swiss Bank’s Family Office and UHNW (ultra-high net worth) division.

In 2009-10, India’s civil aviation sector, including both scheduled and non-scheduled airlines, recorded just under 44 billion revenue passenger kilometre (RPK) - the total distance flown multiplied by the total number of fare-paying passengers. In 2022-23, Indigo airlines alone recorded more than double that figure, a staggering 93.9 billion RPK. That is a telling statistic that underlines the radical transformation of India’s civil aviation industry.

Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is nearing its conclusion. The Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday said that the Vikram lander successfully made the soft landing on the lunar surface. It informed that all systems performed nominally and are healthy.

Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk has launched its weight-loss injection Wegovy in Britain in a bid to expand its presence in the region and keep up with rising demand. The company said that Wegovy will be available in the UK ‘through a controlled and limited launch’. Wegovy has been shown to help patients reduce their body weight by around 15 percent when paired with exercise and lifestyle changes.

blockchain technology known for powering cryptocurrency, the Financial Times reported. The company had been examining the potential for a blockchain-powered trading venue for around a year and reached an «inflection point» where it decided to take plans forward, Murray Roos, head of capital markets at the LSE Group, told FT in an interview.

India's edible oil imports in August rose 5% to a record 1.85 million metric tons as refiners purchased more than 1 million tons of palm oil for the second consecutive month to build stocks for upcoming festivals, four dealers told Reuters. Higher purchases by the world's biggest importer of vegetable oils could help to lower palm oil stocks in Indonesia and Malaysia and support benchmark futures. The buying has helped strengthen soybean oil futures and could reduce inventories in sunflower oil-producing Black Sea countries. India's average monthly edible oil imports in the 2021/22 marketing year were 1.17 million tons, trade body Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) said.

Bonus shares 2023: Sunrise Efficient Marketing shares are one of the multibagger stocks that Indian stock market has delivered in last one year. This stock has risen from around ₹88 (19th August 2022) to ₹326 apiece levels during Monday deals, logging around 170 per cent rise in this near one year. However, for a long term investor, this is not the end of good news.

₹600 crore globally. The film's successful theatrical run is set to continue without interruption until Shah Rukh Khan's 'Jawan' hits theaters on September 7. On its fourth Sunday, September 4, the movie achieved a notable net collection of ₹3 crore in India, which is a substantial performance for a film in its fourth week.

Also read: Chandrayaan-3 countdown was her last! N Valarmathi, the voice behind ISRO mission launches, dies ISRO added that all ystems performed nominally and are healthy. Deployed Ramp, ChaSTE and ILSA were folded back and redeployed successfully after the experiment. Last week, after transversing over 100 meters on the lunar surface from the Shiv Shakti Point, the touchdown spot of the Vikram lander, the Pragyan Rover has been safely parked and set into sleep mode, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Saturday.

Tyro Payments has launched a Supreme Court legal action against Kounta alleging the Canadian-owned company has been attempting to steal Tyro’s payment terminal clients in the hospitality sector.

artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT may revolutionise the way both the public and private sector use data to ferret out risks and opportunities in the $32 trillion global trading system. During the pandemic, government agencies and industries like financial services and telecommunications accelerated their adoption of machine-learning tools. But many involved in trade were caught in analog, paper-laden transactions playing catch-up. Now, after three years of historic trade disruptions, generative AI and language-learning models have emerged just when governments and companies need them to better manage the world’s convoluted supply lines. “On the longer time horizon, we’ll see highly accurate predictive analytics and forecasting driven by integrated data from each step in the supply chain,” said Julie Gerdeman, chief executive officer of supply-chain risk assessment firm Everstream Analytics.