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Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has been awarded the highest number of police gallantry medals — 52 — on the occasion of the 78th Independence Day. The Union Home Ministry declared the names of the awardees on Wednesday. Out of the total medals, 25 decorations have been awarded for action during operations in Jammu and Kashmir while 27 are for operations in the anti-Maoist operations in various Left Wing Extremism affected states, a senior CRPF officer said. Among the awardees is Sub-Inspector Raushan Kumar who has been honoured with the bravery medal posthumously for his gallant action against Maoists in Bihar in February 2019.

financial incentives for development of critical minerals, including lithium. Speaking during the Budget Seminar on National Critical Minerals Mission, Mines Joint Secretary Veena Kumari Dermal said there will also be an emphasis on securing loans from multilateral financial institutions for the development of the sector. The government, she said, will focus on global R&D collaboration across the critical minerals value chain. To encourage the participation of Indian public and private sector companies in the acquisition of assets abroad, the government will provide targeted subsidies for mining, and for setting up evacuation infrastructure.

Poland has tightened its visa rules for international students. This action comes after Poland's «student visa scandal» that broke out in May. Poland's Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, announced a significant change in the country's visa policy, declaring that student visas will no longer be issued to foreigners without high school diplomas. The decision aims to prevent misuse of student visas by individuals seeking to work in the European Union illegally. This move comes after a scandal exposed by the Polish daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna revealed that some foreign nationals were obtaining student visas despite not meeting university admission requirements in their home countries. These individuals often failed to attend the universities they were registered at, instead using their student visas to work within the Schengen Area.

Standard Chartered Bank on Wednesday announced the appointment of Aditya Mandloi as the new Head of Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) for India and South Asia, effective from August 1, 2024. In his new role, Mandloi will oversee the bank's WRB operations in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, working from the bank's Mumbai office. With 27 years of experience at Standard Chartered, Mandloi has held various positions in Product Management, Collections, and Sales, including leading the WRB business in Bangladesh.

LONDON—As Britain’s oil and gas giants scale back their global green-energy ambitions, the U.K.’s newly elected government is launching a multibillion-dollar effort to regain the country’s place as a global pacesetter for clean energy. A new state-backed company, funded by increased taxes on oil and gas production, will invest in many renewable-energy projects around the country. Industry executives are split on whether the plan can meet the government’s ambitious goals.

SEOUL—For most of 2020, Kim Yong-min and So Sung-uk enjoyed joint family coverage with the nation’s public health insurer. Then an abrupt call severed their government benefits. A mistake had been made, an insurance representative explained to Kim.

Hindu family with no political affiliation in northwest Bangladesh, a media report said on Wednesday, in the latest incident of targeted attacks on the minority community after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government. The incident in Farabari Mandirpara village in Akcha union under Thakurgaon Sadar upazila took place on Tuesday evening, hours after Chief Advisor to the interim government Yunus Muhammad assured the distressed minority community that his government would punish the perpetrators. The targeted arson incident also came on the same day when the Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance claimed that the minority community faced attacks and threats in 278 locations across 48 districts since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5 and termed it as an «assault on the Hindu religion.» Unidentified individuals set fire to Kaleshwar Barman's house around 7:30 pm on Tuesday in Farabari Mandirpara village in Akcha union under Thakurgaon Sadar upazila, Subrata Kumar Barman, chairman of Akcha Union Parishad (UP), told newspaper The Daily Star.

The other day, I was sitting withtwo of myfriends—one a consultant and the other an employee—when the conversation turned to taxes. My colleague, an employee, was surprised to learn that he had been paying a professional tax of ₹200 every month, automatically deducted from his salary by his employer. The consultant, on the other hand, was fully aware of this tax, as he had to handle the payments himself.

India Independence Day: Partition of India, which marked the end of the British Raj, was a hasty, if not botched, affair, so it may sound strange to know Lord Mountbatten, who literally took Partition through, said he wanted an unified India. He said he tried everything to stop the partition. He even said that he regretted it but had no choice. Speaking to veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar, the last British Viceroy and Governor-General of India accepted that he could not «hold» the country and had to hasten the Independence process, leading to a massacre that killed nearly two million people. Also Read: How a multinational company captured a whole country

The UK’s image as a multicultural country is the obvious loser from the far-right violence of the past fortnight, but in time these tragic events may have wider implications for the policing of social media everywhere. The role of X in disseminating often-false information and lionizing rabble-rousers, as well as X owner Elon Musk’s provocative tweets and irresponsible retweets, are all under the microscope.

As we celebrate Independence Day, let’s look back at the distance we have traversed in 77 years. This was India in 1947: Life expectancy was 32 years. Literacy was 18%.

Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate, strongly denounced the targeted violence against Hindus in Bangladesh following the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from office. Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate, strongly condemned the violence targeting Hindus in Bangladesh that occurred after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from office. In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Ramaswamy expressed his concern about the current situation, stating that «a quota conflict created to rectify the wrongs of rape and violence in 1971 is now leading to more rape and violence in 2024.»

Independence Day celebrations, security has been beefed up across the country. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hoist the Tricolour at the Red Fort and address the nation on Thursday, Delhi police have deployed personnel around the Red Fort, and bomb disposal staff have been carrying out checking of the nearby vicinity of Red Fort with dogs. The Delhi Police have been taking advantage of artificial intelligence. Many CCTV cameras have also been installed. Special cameras were installed on the Door Frame Metal Detector (DFMD), which will be connected to the facial recognition system to keep a check on invitees coming to Red Fort on the occasion of Independence Day.

Instead, he was tossed from a car and into a muddy ditch on Dhaka's outskirts — alive, at liberty, and with no knowledge of the national upheaval that had prompted his abrupt release. «That's the first time I got fresh air in eight years,» Quasem, 40, told AFP. «I thought they were going to kill me.»

Roznov pod Radhostem was best known for its rum-drizzled sweet pies and an open-air museum showing off historical wooden houses. Then came an announcement that stirred the sleepy backwater. US chipmaker ON Semiconductor Corp. picked Roznov for a new $2 billion manufacturing hub in June. The past few weeks have seen a flurry of visits by property developers, the head of a local university and government officials followed around by television crews. The interest isn’t surprising given the investment will be the biggest by a foreign company in the Czech Republic for three decades. But it also reflects how there’s more riding on the plan to make a new generation of microchips than the prospects of a corner of central Europe.

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) will audit a range of companies in the next month and a half to ensure they follow standard operating procedures and recycle electronic goods, and impose penalties on those found lacking, two government officials said. The penalties collected as environmental compensation (EC) will be used to finance environment protection efforts, the officials cited above said on the condition of anonymity. The E-waste (Management) Rules, 2024 issued in March empower the CPCB to monitor and fine violators.

Narendra Modi will be the chief guest at The Economic Times World Leaders Forum, which will take place on August 31 in New Delhi. Bringing together global investors, policy makers, business leaders and entrepreneurs from across the globe, the inaugural edition of ET World Leaders Forum, with its theme of 'Leadership for Global Prosperity,' offers a platform for intersectional dialogue on the opportunities that arise from India's rapid economic progress. That progress has come even as the global economy overall is stagnating, with geopolitical and climate crises adding to concerns. India's economy grew 8.2% in FY24, as the macroeconomic stability and policy support catalysed investments.

iPhone manufacturing and domestic sales of MacBooks, iMacs, iPads, Watches and AirPods lifted the value of Apple’s India operations to over Rs 2 lakh crore ($23.5 billion) in FY24, top officials said, up from Rs 1.15 lakh crore in the year before. They told ET that Apple has likely exhibited the fastest growth in production and exports by any company in the last 50 years in India, making the Cupertino-based tech giant the largest global value chain (GVC) operating domestically. Apple is also the first GVC in India that is rapidly shifting in part of its supply chain from China. According to the recent Economic Survey, India contributes around 14% to the US tech giant’s overall production, emerging as a key hub for its global exports. In FY23, India’s contribution was about 7%. iPhones dominate the numbers. Of the Rs 2-lakh crore valuation, iPhones worth a market value of around Rs 1.35 lakh crore ($15 billion) were exported last fiscal year, show calculations based on official data.

Paris Olympics 2024 is one of the biggest sporting events this year around, and there have been some amazing contest and competition this time, with some some superb medal hauls for Team USA and other countries, who are perched right on top of the Paris Olympics medal tally. This Olympics has been riddled with a lot of controversy but it has been superseded by the amount of competitive intensity that has enthralled fans and followers of the Paris Olympics 2024.

currency exports. It has also said that Russia has received $2.3 billion worth of dollar and euro notes since March 2022, after its army crossed the border and entered Ukraine.

While Fire Country has already been renewed for a third season, the question on many viewers' minds is whether Season 2 will make its way to Netflix and how they can watch it online.