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Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi's statement that he will be waiting for ED with «open arms,» Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Friday said that it is the country's «misfortune» that Rahul Gandhi is LoP, adding that the latter is «spreading disinformation.» Congress MP Rahul Gandhi claimed on Friday that the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) was planning a raid on him following his 'Chakravtyuh' speech in the parliament on July 29. «I believe that it is the country's misfortune that Rahul Gandhi is LoP. Along with lying inside the Parliament, he is also spreading disinformation outside...he is ashamed, he asks about the caste of the whole world,» Giriraj Singh told ANI.

ANI, NMC Secretary B Srinivas said, "As per the schedule, we are starting the counselling (for NEET UG) on August 14. We may advance the registration process for the students.

Tata Motors on Thursday said its British arm Jaguar Land Rover has no plans at present to leverage India's new electric vehicle policy that offers import duty concessions to firms setting up manufacturing units in the country, as it is not suitable for the company. In March this year, the government announced the new electric vehicle policy to attract major global players like Tesla, allowing them to import a limited number of cars at lower customs/import duty of 15 per cent on vehicles costing USD 35,000 and above for a period of five years from the date of issuance of the approval letter by the government. «At this point in time that specific policy is not something that is suitable for us. So, we don't intend to leverage it at this point in time,» Tata Motors Group CFO PB Balaji said at the earnings conference.

Apple on Friday reported yet another quarterly revenue record in India for the third quarter ending June 29, 2024, continuing the high pace of growth in the world’s second largest smartphone market where consumers are continuing to buy premium products. Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook told analysts in its third quarter earnings call that Apple has set “quarterly revenue records in more than two dozen countries and regions, including Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, the UK, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand.” The bullish performance by the iPhone maker is when smartphone shipments in India fell 2% year-on-year in the June quarter as per market tracker Counterpoint Research which attributed the decline to the heatwave, seasonal slump, and a sequential slowdown in demand from the March quarter before.

Mint in the week gone by. Top executives and early investors in Ola Electric Mobility are poised to reap significant gains as the company prepares to be listed on the stock exchanges. Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is concerned about the rapid growth in derivatives trading.

Security forces have fired gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests across Nigeria as thousands, mostly young people, poured onto the streets to rally against the country’s spiraling economy

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi claimed on Friday that the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) was planning a raid on him following his 'Chakravtyuh' speech in the parliament on July 29. The Congress MP said that he was 'waiting with open arms' after ED 'insiders' told him that a raid was being planned. In a post on X, Rahul Gandhi said, «Apparently, 2 in 1 didn't like my Chakravyuh speech. ED 'insiders' tell me a raid is being planned. Waiting with open arms, @dir_ed. Chai and biscuits on me.»

Can Bitcoin really have value despite lacking any cash flows? In a Twitter post on Thursday, Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan argued why it can.

Ohio’s historical society has struck a deal that will allow it to take control of ancient ceremonial and burial earthworks located on a golf course east of Columbus

The Environmental Protection Agency is issuing an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate shortages in four states whose gasoline supplies have been impacted by the shutdown of an ExxonMobil refinery in Illinois

Crippling drought from a nearly rainless year, along with record-high temperatures, is stressing farmers on the Italian island of Sicily

A Montenegrin appeals court has upheld a ruling by a lower court to hand over a South Korean mogul known as “the cryptocurrency king” to his native country

India has offered Vietnam a $300 million loan to build up the Southeast Asian country's maritime security, as the two sides say they want to double their trade and investment within five years

silver medal at the Paris Olympics 2024, in the mixed 10m Air Pistol shooting, where India’s Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh won the bronze medal.

Nicolas Maduro of committing a “major election fraud,” and labeling him a “dictator”, billionaire businessman Elon Musk has accepted his challenge to fight him on X. He also predicted that the Latin American leader will “chicken out” of the fight. Earlier, the reelected president of the oil-rich country said that the social media creates a virtual reality. He called the Tesla CEO his «new archenemy» and challenged him to fight him on television. Maduro said, “Do you want to fight? Let’s do it. Elon Musk, I’m ready. I’m not afraid of you, Elon Musk. Let’s fight, wherever you want.”

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter in al-Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has agreed to plead guilty, the Defense Department said Wednesday, pointing to a long-delayed resolution in an attack that altered the course of the United States and much of the Middle East.

Moscow released Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in a multinational deal, according to officials in Turkey, where the exchange took place. The Journal confirmed that Gershkovich had been freed. It's the latest exchange between Washington and Moscow in the past two years, following a December 2022 trade that brought WNBA star Brittney Griner back to the US in exchange for notorious arms trafficker Viktor Bout.

PARIS—No country has ever dominated an Olympic sport the way that China rules table tennis. Since it made its debut at the Games in 1988, the Chinese have won 33 of a possible 38 gold medals. They came to Paris fully expecting to extend their reign atop the podium.

₹49.92 lakh. This re-entry marks the vehicle's return after nearly ten years.

When Bangladesh makes international news, it’s usually for tragedies: devastating cyclones, massive industrial accidents, grisly terrorist attacks. Even by those dismal benchmarks, the latest story from Bangladesh stands out—the deaths this month of more than 200 people during a government crackdown on student protests. The violence may signal the beginning of the end for 76-year-old Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, under whose increasingly autocratic rule the country has turned into a de facto one-party state.

India, President of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly Dennis Francis told a global audience in Rome that the country has lifted millions of people out of poverty through digitalisation. Referring to the need to provide a basis to support rapid development, such as through digitalisation, Francis cited and lauded India's example and said: «Take for example the case of India… India has been able to lift 800 million people out of poverty over the last five or six years simply by the use of smartphones.» Francis was delivering a lecture at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations headquartered in Rome on «Accelerating progress towards Zero Hunger for the current and future generations.»