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Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency Rajen Gohain has resigned from chairmanship Assam Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Limited alleging that the recent delimitation exercise of assemblies and parliamentary constituencies has rendered Nagaon seat un winnable for BJP candidate in the future also putting the people of Nagaon under threat because of the demography change. Gohain who handed over the resignation letter to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also gave up the cabinet rank.

Financial services secretary Vivek Joshi held a meeting with the heads of state-run banks on Friday to review their preparedness for the upcoming PM Vishwakarma Scheme and the progress made under PM SVANidhi. In a statement, the finance ministry noted that officials from the MSME ministry also attended the meeting.

National Commission for Women. "Pass a writ of mandamus under Article 32 or any other direction in the nature of writ and exercise its powers under 142 to decriminalize the law of statutory rape as applied to all cases of voluntary consensual sexual contact between any 16 to <18 adolescent with another similar age adolescent and with >18 adults...," the plea said.

national capital, bringing temperatures down in the city, which was witnessing sultry weather conditions. The showers brought much-needed relief from the intense heat. Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC), New Delhi has further predicted light to moderate intensity rainfall along with heavy intensity rain over some isolated places in the Delhi-NCR region.

ESGI Financial President and CIO Ed Siddell discusses the nation's consumer debt predicament and analyzes the gold trade on 'Varney & Co.'

National Association of Home Builders CEO Jim Tobin explains how local governments have tied up housing construction projects.

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alliance which read, “Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the United States are determined to align our collective efforts because we believe our trilateral partnership advances the security and prosperity of all our people, the region, and the world." The three nations expressed commitment to expanding cooperation trilaterally and raising shared ambition to a new horizon across domains and across the Indo-Pacific and beyond. CHINA'S 'DANGEROUS AND AGGRESSIVE' ACTIONS: They issued a sharply worded joint statement about Beijing's actions in the South China Sea.

India and the government will continue its capex push, finance secretary TV Somanathan said. On the fiscal deficit, he said the government will not exceed the budget estimate of 5.9% of GDP. «So far as China is concerned, the very fact that we have a huge trade deficit with China means that China's slowdown has very little negative effect on the Indian economy,» Somanathan told ET in an interview.

Apple, Intel, Google, Lenovo, Dell Technologies, HP, and others have called on the US government to «use every available forum» to push India to reconsider implementing the import restriction policy on IT hardware and launch a formal stakeholder consultation to solicit recommendations from the industry. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has placed electronics items such as laptops, tablets, all-in-one-personal computers, small form factor computers and servers under the restricted imports category, thereby requiring companies to seek an additional licence to bring these goods into the country.

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden will sign a strategic partnership agreement with Vietnam during a state visit to the Southeast Asian country in mid-September, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the deal's planning.

In a recent meeting, China's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission has emphasized the need for a systematic, legal, and source-based approach to combat overseas telecom network fraud and related criminal activities. The announcement was made on August 6, 2023, as reported by the Economic Daily.

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's securities regulator unveiled a package of measures on Friday aimed at reviving a sinking stock market, but investors said they would do little to boost confidence if the economy remains sluggish.

Black Sea Fleet, officials said Friday, the latest in a surge of attacks on the capital and the flashpoint waterway. The drone assaults came as a Russian-proxy official confirmed speculation that Ukrainian forces had breached the left bank of the Dnipro river, the de facto frontline in the south of the country. Russia's defence ministry said its air force downed a Ukrainian drone over the capital at about 04:00 (0100 GMT) on Friday.

BRICS Summit in South Africa between August 22-24 will see the largest gathering so far at an event of the bloc, with the hosts inviting more than 60 countries, enabling Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold a series of meetings including with some of the African leaders on the sidelines of the Summit. Prospective new members of BRICS have been invited to the summit that will focus on BRICS expansion among other issues, ET has learnt. The PM's presence will give a major push to India's Global South agenda and its African outreach.

Yasin Malik's wife, Mushaal Hussein Mullick, has been made part of the caretaker government in Pakistan, a development that observers described as a symbolic move by the country's military establishment to keep its "Kashmir agenda" alive. Mullick, who belongs to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), has been appointed special advisor to the caretaker Prime Minister, Anwaarul Haq Kakar, on human rights and women's empowerment.

India is following a holistic and inclusive approach towards health, providing affordable healthcare to all and promoting traditional systems of medicine along with expanding health infrastructure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. «The global celebration of the International Day of Yoga is testament to the universal desire for holistic health,» he said while addressing the G20 Health Ministers' Meet here via video message. Modi also pointed out that 2023 is being marked as the International Year of Millets.

Porsche AG's executive board member for sales and marketing Detlev von Platen and vice-president of region overseas and emerging markets Matthias Becker will be in India later this month, while senior executives from BMW's headquarters are scheduled to fly in during the festive season in October. Ola Kallenius, chairman of the board of management at Mercedes-Benz AG, Andre Konsbruck, VP for overseas sales at Audi AG; Nick Connor, head of Volvo Cars in Asia Pacific; and Francesco Scardaoni, region director, Automobili Lamborghini Asia Pacific, have already visited the country in the past few months.These are among about a dozen top executives of luxury-vehicle companies who have already visited India or will be here soon to review their growth strategies for this market.