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19-years in prison on charges like creating an extremist community, financing extremist activities, etc. The opposition leader has suffered from dire illness in prison and even an assassination attempt allegedly by the agents of the Vladimir Putin-led Russian government. Vladimir Putin has denied all such allegations and claimed that Russia “would have finished" the job if they wanted to kill Alexei Navalny.

Article 370 granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Meanwhile on the Rajya Sabha on Monday passed unanimously the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023, and Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to microblogging site ‘X’ to call the Supreme Court's verdict ‘historic’.

Parliamentary panel on Monday said there was a dire need to enact a new law and give wider powers to the federal agency so that it can probe cases without a «state's consent and interference». At the same time, the panel said that some safeguards should also be laid down to ensure objectivity and impartiality in the functioning of CBI so that the states also don't feel discriminated against.

The national conservatives who have ruled Poland for eight years are finally expected to start relinquishing power to a centrist bloc led by political veteran Donald Tusk

Narendra Modi on Monday virtually addressed the 'Viksit Bharat @ 2047: Voice of Youth' workshop. He told the nation to take a pledge, “Whatever I do should be for a developed India". Addressing the event today, PM Modi said, “Today is a very important day regarding the resolutions of a developed India.

The Russian government wants to fast-track the launch of the digital ruble – and now claims that all citizens will be able to use the CBDC in 2024.

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has announced a significant breakthrough in a complex financial fraud investigation involving Patricia Technologies Limited. On November 23, 2023, the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, detailed the arrest of politician Wilfred Bonse in connection with a security breach and financial fraud at Patricia Technologies.

ARY News. The shortage has caused serious concern among patients and citizens as the life-saving drugs are now being at higher prices in the black market. Last month, the Drug Regulatory Authority also launched a crackdown against an artificial shortage of essential medicines.

Karachi, is currently facing a severe shortage of essential medicines, including life-saving drugs, which has worried patients and citizens in the city, as reported by ARY News. ARY News is a Pakistan news channel.

Narendra Modi asserted on Saturday that the priority given to policy, good governance and citizens' welfare in the past decade has resulted in India becoming a robust economy with a GDP growing 7.7% in the last six months. Thanks to his regime's transformative reforms, the world is looking at India with hope and as a strong contender to lead the Global South. In a virtual address to the second edition of the Infinity Forum, a global thought leadership platform on fintech, the Prime Minister said India is a symbol of resilience and progress at a juncture when the world is facing geopolitical tensions, high inflation and growing debt levels. «India's growth story has shown to the world that when policy is accorded top priority, when all strength is put behind good governance and when welfare of the country and its people is the sole basis of economic policies, then what will be the outcome can be seen from the 7.7% growth in the first six months of this fiscal year,» Modi said. He recalled the IMF statement in September that global growth in 2023 will be due in some measure to India. In July, the World Bank had said that India gave hope amid global challenges.

presidential election in which Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is poised to win a third term in power as the country grapples with an economic crisis and a war on its border with Gaza. Victory would hand Sisi a six-year term in which immediate priorities would be taming near-record inflation, managing a chronic foreign currency shortage and preventing spillover from the conflict between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers.

Marine Drive to Worli, will be operational by the end of January 2024, said Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday. Speaking at an event here, Shinde called Maharashtra a growth engine which has the most number of infrastructure projects in the country.

fake toll plaza on the Bamanbore-Kutch national highway in Gujarat's Morbi district, according to a report published by NDTV. The deceptive toll collection point was being operated on private land.

Russian opposition figures vow they will still put up a fight against President Vladimir Putin as he seeks yet another term in office in an election in March. Although they believe Putin will be declared the winner no matter how voters cast their ballots, they say they hope to undermine the widespread public support he enjoys, turn popular opinion against the devastating war he unleashed on Ukraine, and show those who oppose it already that they are not alone.

Sanctions were imposed on Russia as soon as an Ukraine conflict broke out and it impacted common citizens and industrialists alike. Russian citizens can no longer use Visa and Mastercard cards abroad. Industrial companies that had been supplying raw materials to neighboring Europe for years redirected their sales to China, India and rest of Asia. Foreign assets of many Russian companies were blocked, including nearly half of Russia's gold and currency reserves, totaling $ 300 billion.

London bankers may be struggling to pay their bills, even on managing director salaries, but they're not the only people in financial services who are finding the lifestyle they'd imagined is out of reach.

Ethics Panel Committee report on ‘cash-for-query’ on Friday. Calling out BJP for its “vindictive politics", West Bengal Chief Minister condemned the expulsion of TMC MP from the Lok Sabha. Mahua Moitra expulsion LIVE Updates She also extended her support for the expelled MP and said that the party along with others of the INDIA alliance are with Mahua Moitra.

banking sector by 2047 with substantial Indian ownership, universal access to banking and other financial services for all our citizens at the lowest intermediation costs, financial services secretary Vivek Joshi said. Speaking on the NextGen Reforms at the CII Global Economic Policy Forum 2023, Joshi said cybersecurity and digital data protections will be an area of concern and emphasised on a need for continuous review of financial reforms to identify regulatory gaps and overlaps and benchmark them with the best global practices. “The expenditure on cyber security arrangements needs to be enhanced by all stakeholders.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin will be donating one-month's salary to the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund to help Tamil Nadu's recovery from Cyclone Michaung havoc. The Chief Minister has also called on all MPs and MLAs to do the same.

A federal judge in Seattle has ruled that Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance, must remain in the United States while awaiting sentencing on money laundering charges.

While banks had raised their fixed deposit (FD) rates, the increases have not been close to the repo rate’s 2.5% rise. The RBI had raised its concerns about a shortfall in transmission in the interest rates. Banks have been facing tighter liquidity conditions and higher credit growth, which have also been pushing the rates up in the short term.