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Infosys Foundation announced the winners of the third edition of its Aarohan Social Innovation Awards on Wednesday. The eight winners across Education, Healthcare and Women empowerment categories, shortlisted over a pool of 2,400 entries, received Rs 50 lakh each in prize money.Infosys Foundation founder Sudha Murthy said compassion is the basis of the foundation's work.

The Fellowship is designed for leaders with work experience in peace and development. It is awarded to 50 fellowships for master’s degrees and up to 40 for certificate studies at premier universities. The grant is offered to professionals and graduates studying abroad in one of Rotary’s six areas of focus — the promotion of peace, providing sanitation, hygiene and clean water, saving children and mothers, fighting disease, growing local economies and supporting education.Eligibility

Bar and Bench report, the Division Bank of Justices Yashwant Varma and Dharmesh Sharma will hear the case tomorrow (Thursday). Last month, the Delhi High Court upheld the validity of the arbitral award against the low-cost airline. The dispute between Maran and SpiceJet dates back to 2015 when chairman Ajay, who used to own SpiceJet before Maran, bought it back from him.

IPO) of Vishnu Prakash R Punglia will open for subscription on Thursday. The issue, which closes on August 28, is entirely fresh equity up to 3.12 crore shares. Ahead of the IPO opening, the company's shares are trading at a premium of Rs 44 in the unlisted market. Jodhpur-based Vishnu Prakash R Punglia is an integrated engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, which specialises in water supply projects. It owns a fleet of about 484 construction equipment assets which includes crushers, excavators, loaders, dozers, paver machines, ready mix concrete plants, concrete mixtures, cranes, tractors and transportation vehicles from some of the leading suppliers. The company has fixed a price band of Rs 94-99 per share and investors can bid for a minimum of 150 shares in one lot and in multiples thereafter. About 50% of the offer is set aside for qualified institutional buyers, 15% for non-institutional investors and 35% for retail investors. As on July 15, 2023, the company has 51 ongoing projects with total work awarded amounting to Rs 6,183 crore, of which Rs 2,384 crore worth of work has been executed and the remaining work amounting to Rs 3,799 crore constitutes the order book. As on March 31, 2023, their equipment fleet comprised about 499 construction equipment and vehicles.

Finra arbitrators ordered Morgan Stanley to pay a senior investor $1.8 million for weighting too much of her portfolio in a single stock — WisdomTree Investments Inc.

Lauryn Hill will soon embark on a world tour. It will be a 25thanniversary tour for her debut solo album, 1998’s ‘Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.’

Streamy Awards 2023, happening in less than a week, have unveiled their list of performers and presenters. The details were shared by Dick Clark Productions and Tubefilter on Tuesday, August 22.Armani White is lined up to appear on stage, delivering a mix of his popular track «Billie Eilish» and «Silver Tooth.» Following that, Icona Pop will take the spotlight, performing their latest single «Fall in Love,» alongside their well-known 2013 hit «I Love It» featuring Charli XCX. This year's presenters will include several social media personalities, such as Anna Sitar, Brianna Chickenfry, Chris Olsen, Colin and Samir, Delaney Rowe, Dream, Drew Afualo, Druski, Dylan Mulvaney, Happy Kelli, Jay Shetty, Kris Collins, Lizzy McAlpine, Michelle Khare, Pinkydoll, Rhett & Link, Ryan Trahan, Smosh, Supercar Blondie, Tana Mongeau, along with WWE figures Austin Creed and Zelina Vega, and xQc.

Gamescom 2023 is currently being held in Germany. Consequently, a new event of Opening Night Live keynote is underway. Geoff Keighley, known for hosting Game Awards and Summer Game Fest is hosting this event. If reports are to be believed, the show will focus on the games that have been announced. It may include ‘Sonic Superstars’, ‘Mortal Combat 1’, ‘Assassins Creed Mirage’, ‘Zaneless Zone Zero’, ‘Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’, ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’. It may also release a trailer for Zack Snyder’s sci-fi film ‘Rebel Moon’.

NEW DELHI : Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra & Hyundai Motor India are among automakers that have offered initially at least a dozen vehicle models for testing under India’s first crash-test safety rating programme, which is modelled after the Global NCAP, according to industry officials. The government’s Bharat New Car Assessment Programme (BNCAP) will award a star rating out of five for adult and child occupant protection respectively to passenger vehicles based on their performance in a crash test at a speed of 64 kmph. The test, which is completely voluntary for automobile companies, will begin from October.

Women's World Cup champions during an audience at the presidential palace on Tuesday and later slammed the head of the Spanish soccer federation for kissing a team member on the lips without her consent. «You have achieved something very important.

India should have included Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal as spinners for the Asia Cup in the lead-up to the World Cup, feel former players Madan Lal and Karsan Ghavri. While Kuldeep Yadav was picked as the frontline spinner for the Asia Cup, the other spin options in the squad are all-rounders Ravindra Jadeja and Akshar Patel. "Australia have played Kuldeep Yadav very well.

Bihar cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to allow in-service doctors of different government medical colleges to opt for Diplomate of National Board (DNB) courses run by the Centre's National Board of Examination (NBE) on successful completion of their postgraduate residency. In-service doctors, who will take admission in DNB courses, will have to mandatorily serve in Bihar as per rules.

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Childcare giant G8 Education had to turn away parents from its centres because it was unable to find enough staff to care for their children, stifling earnings growth.

Twitter) on Tuesday announced that it has fixed the bug that prevented the platform from displaying images tweeted before 2014. «Over the weekend we had a bug that prevented us from displaying images from before 2014. No images or data were lost.

Women's World Cup kicked off in Australia and New Zealand a month ago with some doubts it could deliver on lofty ambitions. Those concerns eased well before Sunday's final where Spain were crowned first-time champions by beating England 1-0 at a packed Stadium Australia in Sydney. Less than a year after a player revolt tore the Spanish squad apart, La Roja's triumph was only one of the surprises for record crowds and TV audiences through the month-long festival of women's football. Fears the first 32-team Women's World Cup might suffer for its size proved groundless, as did predictions of another processional victory for the United States. Sunday's final was the first without either the U.S. or Germany involved, the four-times champion Americans dumped out of the round-of-16 by Sweden and the Germans exiting before the knockout phase. The U.S.'s exit via penalty shootout ended a dynasty after back-to-back titles in 2015 and 2019. U.S.

NEW DELHI : The civil aviation ministry will soon start a detailed evaluation of routes awarded under the government’s regional connectivity initiative, known as the Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik (UDAN) scheme, which offers flight subsidies to underserved or unserved destinations. The assessment will aim to determine the reasons behind airlines’ failure to launch flights or continue flying them despite the subsidy offer, two officials familiar with the development said on condition of anonymity.

United Auto Workers (UAW) union Vice President, Rich Boyer revealed Sunday that Dodge-Chrysler parent Stellantis NV (NYSE:STLA) threatened to relocate production of their Ram 1500 pickup trucks from its location in metro Detroit to a facility in Mexico.

Metallic credit cards are a novelty where plastic abounds. So far though, banks and credit card companies have come up with very few metallic ones. But these are exclusively premium cards laden with prohibitively expensive annual fees. So, when fintech startup FPL Technologies launched a lifetime-free (LTF) metal credit card, OneCard, in 2020, it grabbed eyeballs.

Covid-19 pandemic. Dhankhar said that our doctors, nurses and paramedical staff vindicated our civilizational ethos and came to our rescue even while risking their own lives.

Cauvery water from KRS reservoir to Tamil Nadu to «help the DMK regime perform well in the upcoming Lok Sabha election.» The DMK and Congress are part of the anti-NDA political grouping INDIA. The BJP accused the State's Congress regime of first releasing the water for political gains and was now enacting a drama of convening an all-party meet on Cauvery.