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Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday lashed out at the BJP, alleging the party is busy campaigning in other states while "Manipur is burning". Addressing Mahila Congress members and workers at the Talkatora Stadium here, Kharge said the women leaders of the party will work hard and oust the BJP government in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. «If Rahul Gandhi can go to Manipur, why can't the prime minister visit? What protection has the BJP provided to the women there? They are fleeing homes, getting raped, and killed.

SK Ghosh, Group Chief Economic Adviser, SBI, says analysing I-T data showed that “close to 14% of the overall tax filers have left the income group of less than Rs 5 lakh and moved on to a higher income group. The threshold income, which means the weighted income across all income classes, whereby we can define a middle income class in India, has moved up from Rs 4 lakh to Rs 13 lakh. The number of taxpayers is three times more than what it was 10 years back.”How did you slice the Income-Tax data to make the inference on the growing Indian middle class and jump in per capita income?The data put out by the Income Tax department for the last 10 years has a plethora of information and that busts a lot of myths.

reality for the Kremlin: Russia’s economy has reached its speed limit. The government has flooded the Russian economy with money to keep its troops in Ukraine supplied and insulate its businesses and citizens from the war. Thanks to the state’s largess, demand in the economy is rising, helping it recover from last year’s sanctions-induced recession.

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Chandrayaan-3 on Thursday achieved a significant milestone as the Vikram lander detached from the spacecraft's propulsion module. The spacecraft will remain in orbit for a few more days before the lander and rover, Pragyaan, attempt to land on the Moon on August 23. If successful, this achievement will significantly bolster India's space ambitions.

Big banks such as Axis Bank, Bank of India, PNB, IndusInd have also cut FD rates on select tenures in the last two months. DCB Bank is offering the highest FD interest rate of 7.75% to general customers and 8.50% for senior citizens, after the revision.

The State Bank of India (SBI) has once again extended the last date for investing in its special Amrit Kalash fixed deposits. The scheme provides the highest interest rate offered by SBI to senior and general citizens across all tenors.

housing crisis turns three this month, if measured by the introduction of the government’s “three red lines" policy, which sought to limit leverage. Throughout, officials have struggled to manage confidence and expectations. At the start, few observers believed Evergrande could collapse, and that the government might fail to put a stop to the pain.

NDRF) on Thursday said a total of 13 bodies, among 21 people who went missing after a massive landslide struck the Summer Hill area of Shimla earlier this week, have been recovered. Speaking to ANI, NDRF Inspector Naseef Khan said, «The rescue and search operation has been underway for 4 days. The Army, SDRF and the police are engaged in the ongoing rescue operations here.

Choppers belonging to the Western Air Command carried out over 50 sorties over the last 48 hours, rescuing over 780 citizens in the flood-affected areas of Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh, Indian Air Force officials informed on Wednesday. Speaking on the ongoing relief and rescue operations in Fatehpur sub-division of Kangra district, Deputy Commissioner, Kangra, Nipun Jindal, told ANI, «A total of 800 trapped civilians were rescued on August 15. Further rescue operations are underway with the help of NDRF, the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force.

₹7,500 crore. Let's delve into the key updates stemming from these distressing events. In a devastating turn of events, at least 71 lives have been tragically claimed by rain-related incidents over the past three days in Himachal Pradesh, as revealed by state officials to PTI.

Vikram lander is expected to separate from the spacecraft's propulsion module on Thursday. The lander and rover, Pragyaan, are scheduled to land on the Moon on August 23, a moment, which if successful, will boost India's space ambitions. Chandrayaan-3 is the gritty India's fightback after failures and heartbreaks.

Pakistan's Faisalabad, Geo News reported on Wednesday citing the Punjab interim government's spokesperson. Multiple churches have been vandalised in the Jaranwala district of Pakistan's Faisalabad on Wednesday over blasphemy allegations, Pakistan-based Dawn reported citing officials. In a statement, a Punjab government spokesperson said that the provincial government has also ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident.

A federal judge has ruled California-based company will pay just under $5 million in fines for discharging wastewater into a publicly owned sewage treatment plant in Mississippi without obtaining a valid state permit

Switzerland’s government has lined up with the European Union’s 11th round of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine

AP. Police chief Rizwan Khan said this had angered the local Muslims. A mob gathered and began attacking multiple churches and several Christian homes, burning furniture and other household items.

marital rape would still not be a crime, unless the wife is below 18, the age of consent. The archaic assumption that a married woman is the property of her husband, and that marriage equals irrevocable lifelong consent to sex on demand, therefore looks set for another lease of life, leaving women little control over their sexual and reproductive rights. This, despite India’s tightening of laws on violence against women and the Supreme Court’s taking up of petitions that seek to outlaw wedlock rape.

CJI) D Y Chandrachud has said the real strength of the judicial system is granting access to justice to the citizens and a sense of confidence that an arbitrary arrest or threatened demolition «must find solace and a voice in judges of the Supreme Court.» Speaking at the Independence Day celebrations organised on Tuesday by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) at the apex court lawns, the CJI stressed the greatest challenge before the Indian judiciary is to eliminate barriers to accessing justice and make sure that the judiciary is inclusive and accessible to the last person in the line. "...Because irrespective of an outcome of the case, I believe the real strength of our system is granting access to justice to our citizens, that sense of confidence of the individual that an arbitrary arrest, a threatened demolition… must find solace and a voice in judges of the Supreme Court," he said. Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation on Independence Day lauded the apex court's move to translate operative parts of judgements in regional languages, Justice Chandrachud said till now, 9,423 judgements of the top court have been translated into regional languages. The CJI also talked about the efforts of the apex court to make all its 35,000 judgements available to citizens in regional languages.

grievances have been redressed by different states in July, with Sikkim being the topper in disposing maximum number of complaints in the north east, an official statement issued on Wednesday said. Sikkim is followed by Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, it said. The ranking has been released by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) in its 12th monthly report of Centralised Public Grievance Redressal and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) for states for July, 2023.

Setbacks securing the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and other Americans held in Russia through a trade for high-profile Russians locked up in other countries have forced U.S. officials to refocus on a deal involving Russian prisoners in U.S. custody.

Akshay Kumar, the renowned actor, has taken a significant step towards cementing his ties with India. In a move that reflects his dedication to the nation, Akshay has officially become an Indian citizen, relinquishing his previous Canadian nationality. This decision was announced by Akshay on the 76th Independence Day through his social media platforms.