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ALSO READ: Solar Eclipse 2023 on October 14: Will the ‘Ring of Fire’ be visible in India? All you need to know The annual solar eclipse will not be visible in India, despite it will begin at 11.29 pm IST and end at 11.34 pm IST. It will last for about five minutes. The solar eclipse will be visible in major parts of North America, covering the United States, Mexico, and several countries in Central America and South America.

ALSO READ: Govt’s mental health helpline helped over 350,000 people He said strengthening medical, nursing, and pharmacy education in the country is an endeavour of the BJP-led Centre for the holistic development and expansion of the country's health sector. "The aim is to ensure that each citizen of India can get access to affordable and accessible healthcare across the country," the minister said.

Amid the growing criticism by the Congress on the GST imposed on ‘Gangajal’, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs on Thursday issued a clarification saying that this important part of ‘pooja samagri’ is exempted from any kind of taxation. Earlier in the day, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge took to X (formerly Twitter) over GST on Gangajal. In his post, Kharge claimed that the Narendra Modi government has imposed 18 per cent GST on Gangajal. In his post in Hindi, he said that the decision to impose GST on Gangajal was sheer ‘loot’ by the Modi government. Hours later, the CBIC issued a statement and said that there was no GST on Gangajal.

Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday inaugurated Nagaland's first medical college — the Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (NIMSR). Mandaviya unveiled the monolith marking the inauguration, in the presence of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, Deputy CM TR Zeliang, state ministers, MLAs and bureaucrats. The college has 100 seats — 85 for students of Nagaland and 15 for other states. Addressing the function, Mandaviya said that the first medical college of the state will not only impart medical education but it will also be a research centre. The central government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to set up healthcare facilities in every part of the country, he said. Medical and nursing education needs to be strengthened considering the need of the hour, he added. There were about 64,000 MBBS seats in the country in 2014, and it has increased manifold, Mandaviya said. «Similarly PG seats have also doubled in the last nine years,» he said. He asked the Nagaland government to start Jan Aushadi Kendras in every health facility of the state, and assured full support of the Centre. CM Rio said it was a historic day for the people of Nagaland as their dream of a medical college was fulfilled. The state has a severe shortage of doctors, and there are shortcomings in the delivery of secondary and tertiary levels of healthcare, he said. He said that he hoped the new facility would grow into a centre of excellence. Rio urged the people to ensure special care and love for the students coming from other states to study at NIMSR, so that they become the ambassadors of the state.

Prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asserted that India will leave «no stone unturned» in its efforts to organise the 2036 Olympics as the government expressed a strong desire to host the biggest sporting event in the world. Modi declared open the 141st Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), where India will present its roadmap for hosting the quadrennial extravaganza. The IOC session is being held in the country after a gap of 40 years. The last Olympic Session was held in India in 1983 in New Delhi. PM Modi also said that India wishes to host the 2029 Youth Olympics. «Indians are very excited about hosting the Olympics Games.

PMLA) court's order which granted custody of four arrested Vivo Group executives by the the Enforcement Directorate, the Delhi High Court (HC) dismissed a plea filed by one of the accused. Earlier this week, ED arrested four executives of Vivo including the petitioner, Guangwen Kuang alias Andrew over allegations of money laundering. The ED contested that those arrested helped in the incorporation of a mesh of 18-19 companies in India having Chinese nationals as their directors and that despite them operating in India, their data was not maintained in India, rather maintained in the servers in China.

the Louvre Museum in Paris was evacuated and shut down due to “security reasons". Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! The Louvre is frequented by 30,000-40,000 tourists from across the world, as it features masterpieces like the iconic Mona Lisa.

Also Read: Global oil market sensitive to Israel-Hamas war; Russia ready to boost supplies to Saudi Arabia: Novak Brent futures settled up $4.89, or 5.7 per cent, at $90.89 per barrel. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude gained $4.78, or 5.8 per cent, to $87.69 a barrel. Both benchmarks posted their highest daily percentage gains since April.

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MARRAKECH, Morocco (Reuters) — The International Monetary Fund has met its fundraising target to increase concessional trust fund resources for the world's poorest countries by $3 billion, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Saturday.

Antony Blinken called on Saturday for protection for civilians in both the Gaza Strip and Israel as the Israeli military ordered half of the Palestinian territory's population to evacuate in advance of an expected ground assault. Blinken met his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, in Riyadh as he began a third day of intense Middle East diplomacy aimed at preventing the Israel-Hamas war from expanding into a regional conflict and fuelling a humanitarian crisis.

International Monetary Fund has met its fundraising target to increase concessional trust fund resources for the world's poorest countries by $3 billion, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Saturday. Georgieva said in a statement that the contributions completed during IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Morocco «will allow the IMF to continue to support low-income countries with zero-interest rate financing to meet their evolving needs.» She said that PRGT lending has increased five-fold to $30 billion since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with about 30 countries still with loan programs. Demand for the trust's resources is expected to reach $40 billion through 2024, about five times the historical average. The IMF had urged member countries to fill a $1.2 billion gap in the $3 billion subsidy account endorsed by the membership in 2021.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after he targeted party leaders Kamal Nath and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over poll promises. Speaking to reporters, Congress spokesman Charan Singh Sapra termed the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh a «sinking ship». He said the Congress would win more than 145 seats out of 230 in the November 17 assembly elections in the central state. «Even PM Modi cannot salvage the sinking ship of the BJP in the state,» Sapra said. He alleged Chouhan has become frustrated sensing the imminent defeat of the BJP and is issuing «foolish» statements forgetting the «political standards». «Chouhan has spoken against the Gandhis forgetting that the family has made sacrifices and is ready for it for the country's sake,» the AICC spokesman said.

Sitharaman on Saturday made a case for a strong, quota-based and adequately resourced IMF at the centre of the global financial safety net and climate action. The 16th General Review of Quotas (GRQ) is expected to provide greater say to developing economies in the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Delta Corp's arm Deltatech Gaming Ltd has received a goods and service tax (GST) shortfall notice worth Rs 6,384 crore from the Directorate General of GST Intelligence, Kolkata, on October 13, 2023, the company said in a stock exchange filing on Saturday. Deltatech got a tax payment shortfall notice worth Rs 6,237 crore for the period January 2018 to November 2022 and shortfall of Rs 148 crore between July 2017 to October 2022, the statement read.

(Reuters) -A Reuters video journalist was killed and six other journalists injured in southern Lebanon on Friday when missiles fired from the direction of Israel struck them, according to a Reuters videographer who was at the scene.

AFP report, Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem said, "We, as Hezbollah, are contributing to the confrontation and will (continue) to contribute to it within our vision and plan," Qassem told a pro-Palestinian rally in Beirut's southern suburbs. "We are fully prepared, and when the time comes for action, we will take it," he said.

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posted the image of a dismissed Tendulkar with the caption: "Kal agar asa kuch kerna hai, toh #ThandRakh". Which roughly translates to: "If you want this result tomorrow, then #KeepCool". Twitter users were however quick to troll Akhtar with his own tag line of #ThandRakh (#KeepCool) by remining him that India has never lost an ODI to Pakistan in the World Cup.

ANI, Rawat expressed that such a reception is only possible in Gujarat, and he went on to suggest that the BJP, which formed its government in Maharashtra in the name of Balasaheb Thackeray, is not imbibing the lessons from his legacy. “The Pakistan team can come and get a grand welcome in Gujarat. This can happen only in Gujarat in the country.

National Party led by Christopher Luxon held a strong lead in New Zealand's general election on Saturday, with 20% of the vote counted. The National Party, which is currently in opposition, had 41.4% of the votes to 26% for the current governing party Labour, according to the Electoral Commission. The conservative National Party's preferred coalition partner, the ACT party, had 9.2%. New Zealand's Electoral Commission said that National and ACT would have 63 of the usual 120 seats in parliament, sufficient for them to form a government without the help of a third minor party. However, the number of seats in New Zealand's parliament can go above 120 if a party wins more electorate seats than is proportional to its share of the party vote.