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Israel in a resolution passed Friday that aims to help prevent rights violations against Palestinians amid Israel's blistering military campaign in Gaza. The 47-member-country Human Rights Council voted 28-6 in favor of the resolution, with 13 abstentions. The sweeping measure takes aim at an array of Israeli actions such as impeding access to water and limiting shipments of humanitarian aid into Palestinian areas. It also calls on U.N.-backed independent investigators to report on shipments of weapons, munitions and «dual use» items — that have both civilian and military applications — that could be used by Israel against Palestinians.

United Nations, India on Friday abstained in the UN Human Rights Council on a resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and also demanded that Israel immediately lift its illegal blockade on the strip. The draft resolution on the 'Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice' was adopted by the Geneva-based Council with a vote of 28 in favour, 6 against and 13 abstentions. India abstained on the resolution, along with France, Japan, Netherlands, and Romania among others. Those voting against the resolution included Argentina, Bulgaria, Germany and the US.

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Rajnath Singh said that it will always remain India’s and that the time has come to remove Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Jammu & Kashmir. “PoK was, is and will always remain an integral part of India. “Be assured that the people of Pakistan will themselves demand that they be with India. You must have seen that there were a few demonstrations there since they want to merge with India. After the abrogation of Article 370, normalcy has returned to Kashmir and development has been fast-tracked,” he said in an interview to Network 18 aired on Friday.

Legislation that would authorize a lottery and other types of gambling in Alabama is headed to a conference committee

If you purchased some weighted groceries or bagged fruit at Walmart in recent years, you may be eligible for a cash payment from a class action settlement with the retailer

There’s a funny thing that happens in a nation’s thoughts. At some point everyone knows something is true, and talks about it with each other. The truth becomes a cliché before it becomes actionable.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce chief executive Victor Dodig doesn’t expect a flurry of interest-rate cuts any time soon.

The two app developers based in China and Hong Kong were accused by Google for uploading 87 false apps and tricking over 100,000 people to download them since 2019. Google estimates that victims lost between $100 to tens of thousands of dollars each.

Read RBI Monetary Policy 2024 LIVE Updates here Under these circumstances, monetary policy must continue to be actively disinflationary to ensure anchoring of inflation expectations and fuller transmission of the past actions, he added. Economists believe that the RBI now seems to remain more confident of growth conditions than that with inflation trajectory.

NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court has consolidated multiple pleas challenging the 28% GST on online gaming companies, ordering the transfer of 27 writ petitions to be heard together. During a hearing led by a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud on Friday, the Supreme Court ordered the transfer of 27 writ petitions pending in 11 high courts across the country.

exchange-rate moves were undesirable, reiterating the government's resolve to take appropriate actions against sharp yen falls. «It's important for currency rates to move stably reflecting fundamentals. Excessive volatility is undesirable. We're looking at market moves with a high sense of urgency,» Suzuki told reporters when asked about the yen's recent declines.

Joe Biden threatened on Thursday to condition support for Israel's offensive in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians, seeking for the first time to leverage U.S. aid to influence Israeli military behavior. Biden's warning, relayed in a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, followed a deadly Israeli attack on World Central Kitchen aid workers that spurred new calls from Biden's fellow Democrats to place conditions on U.S. aid to Israel. Israel said the attack was a mistake.

Buy or sell stocks: After showing a range-bound action in the last three sessions, the Indian stock market showed high volatility of up and down swings near new all-time highs on Thursday. The Nifty 50 index gained 80 points and ended at 22,514 level, the BSE Sensex shot up 350 points and finished at 74,227 mark whereas the Bank Nifty index surged 436 points and closed at 48,060 level.

Floki (FLOKI) bulls are growing nervous as a Floki price pullback accelerates, with the token having now dropped over 25% from last week’s highs in the $0.000267 area to around $0.00020.

Some Canadian high school girls want to take their “pink tax” fight to the House of Commons, calling on the federal government to scrap an “unfair pricing practice” that research suggests discriminates against women.

smartphone manufacturer BBK Group, which was using Oppo Mobiles India as the sales and distribution company for three brands such as Oppo, Realme and OnePlus, is breaking this sales structure to de-risk the business which is under increased government scrutiny. The plan is to let individual brands have its own sales and marketing team so that all brands are not clubbed together in case of further government action. Realme Mobile Telecommunications (India) has started wholesale sales of Realme smartphones and other tech products through this entity, as per the company's latest regulatory filings to the Registrar of Companies (RoC) sourced from business intelligence platform Tofler.

The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 was up 0.36% to 22,515, while the S&P BSE Sensex added 0.47% to 74,227.

West Bengal Governor C. V. Ananda Bose directed the state government to take action against the Bratya Basu, Education Minister including his removal from the Cabinet, said Raj Bhavan in an official statement. The order to Mamata Banerjee's government comes after a political meeting that was held in Gour Banga University under the leadership and presence of Bratya Basu, Minister of Education of West Bengal with other Ministers, MPs, MLAs and political leaders on March 30. «The Chancellor and Governor of West Bengal has directed the state government to take action against the erring Minister who has deliberately violated the election code of conduct, including his removal from the Cabinet,» the statement of Raj Bhavan read.

Ajith Kumar are going wild after videos of the ‘Valimai’ actor performing daredevil stunts on the sets of his upcoming release ‘Vidaa Muyarchi’ went viral on social media. Taking to X on Thursday, Lyca Productions, the production house backing this action extravaganza, shared some video clips from the set and wrote, “Bravery knows no bounds! Witness Ajith Kumar's fearless dedication as he takes on a daring stunt sequence in #VidaaMuyarchi without any stunt double." The clips went viral on the microblogging site, gaining more than 23K likes and 4.6 million views. Reacting to the videos, one X user wrote, “Imagine the atmosphere in the theatre when Thala storms the road in Hummer while Ani does his work in the background ..”

Lok Sabha polls if work on the construction of a long-awaited road project linking the village to district headquarters does not begin immediately. The villagers staged a rally in Joshimath on Wednesday holding banners which read «Don't embarrass us by asking for votes,» «Enter village only after making a road,» and «No road, No vote.» Elections to the five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand are slated to be held in the first phase on April 19. «We are firm on continuing with our movement till the work starts. If the construction work does not start before April 19, we will boycott the polls,» said Prem Singh Sanwal, the convenor of the committee spearheading the protest.