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American Airlines is putting employees on leave after they were involved in an incident in which several Black passengers were removed from a flight earlier this year

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits slipped last week

Spanish rescuers say that a cruise ship has rescued 68 migrants and found five bodies in a wooden dinghy that was drifting off the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean

CBI registered case against 'unknown accused persons' on the basis of complaint by Secretary of Education Departement. «It has been alleged in the complaint that on 19.06.2024 University Grants Commission (UGC) recieved inputs from National Cyber Crime Threat Analysis Unit of Indian Cyber Crime Co-ordination Centre(I4C) under Union Ministry of Home Affairs that integrity of UGC Net -2024 Examination, conducted by National Testing Agency(NTA) in two shifts across different cities in the country, may have been compromised,» said CBI's statement. The Education Ministry on Wednesday ordered the cancellations of UGC-NET conducted by the National Testing Agency following inputs that the integrity of the examination may have been compromised and the matter has been handed over to the CBI for a thorough investigation, officials said. The decision by the Ministry comes amid a massive row on the medical entrance exam NEET over alleged irregularities, with the issue now before the Supreme Court.

Wifi penetration in India continues to lag behind despite several efforts by the government and telecom operators, a top official of the Department of Science and Technology said on Thursday. While speaking at a Broadband India Forum (BIF) event on World Wifi day, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Secretary Abhay Karandikar said the absence of an ubiquitous backend telecom infrastructure is restricting the growth of wifi penetration in India despite advancement in the technology and availability of spectrum. «Wifi is a key to providing affordable connectivity and in India we still continue to lag behind in public wifi penetration in a significant manner despite several efforts made by the government and the operators,» he said.

New York is launching a program offering homeowners up to $14,000 in total rebates for energy-efficiency upgrades to their property, and more states are expected to follow suit by summer's end.

tickets and destination were allegedly altered by Air India without their prior knowledge. Dushyant Arora took to X to explain what happened to his partner's parents, both of whom are heart patients. The elderly couple was set to fly to Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday. Arora stated that when they attempted to check in the previous night, they discovered that Air India had «unilaterally» changed their tickets. Arora said that his partner’s parents were put on different flights. «One flight will depart on one day and the second on another,» he claimed, adding that Air India had modified the father's destination to New York rather than Newark. The mother's destination remained Newark.

NEW DELHI : Now is the right time to start filing your income tax return (ITR) for fiscal year 2023-24 (assessment year 2024-25), for which the window will remain open till 31 July. This is because your Annual Information Statement (AIS), which captures your income and TDS (tax deducted at source) details, must have been updated by now. You can verify these details by tallying them with Form 26AS and Form 16 provided by your employer.

Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has closed a probe into Worldcoin, the controversial crypto project suspended in the country last year.

monsoon in many parts of the country has raised concern over the cultivation of kharif crops such as paddy, pulses and soyabean, even though experts still believe any shortfall can be largely mitigated if rainfall picks up by the first week of July. Soyabean Processors Association (SOPA) said only 10% of the area in Madhya Pradesh – the largest producer of the crop – has been sown for soyabean cultivation this year as compared to 50%-60% by this time last year while in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, a majority of farmers are waiting for rains to sow paddy. The pulses trade is worried about the impact of delayed monsoon on tur and urad crops, whose prices have gone up in the last two years due to less production and increased imports. Among pulses, tur, urad and moong are cultivated during the kharif season.

More than 3,000 nurses at six Oregon hospitals have spent a second day on the picket lines as they continued to demand fair wages and better nurse-to-patient ratios

Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil rights agency

Gold prices edged higher on Thursday as lacklustre U.S. economic activity fuelled expectations that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates this year. FUNDAMENTALS

₹6.78 per unit, up 23% from ₹5.51 a month earlier. Further, the duration of power price hitting the cap of ₹10 per unit rose to 12 hours a day, up from four hours a month earlier. "During daytime, prices have been around ₹3.5 per unit and market participants have been leveraging RTM (real-time market) segment to optimize their power procurement costs.

cabinet on Wednesday set the ball rolling on the 100-day agenda of the new government with a slew of decisions, including a 5-11% increase in minimum support price (MSP) for kharif crops, a ₹76,220-crore port in Vadhavan, Maharashtra, and a ₹2,870-crore revamp of the Varanasi international airport. The cabinet — meeting for the first time since the allocation of ministerial portfolios — under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also approved viability gap funding (VGF) for offshore wind energy projects. In the run-up to the general election, all ministries and departments had readied a plan for the first 100 days of new government.

Families of some of the people who died in two Boeing 737 Max crashes are asking the government to impose a fine of nearly $25 billion on the company

SpiceJet on Wednesday said the air conditioning in its Delhi to Darbhanga flight «experienced slight inefficiency» during boarding at Delhi Airport even as media reports suggested that passengers had to wait inside the aircraft for an hour without air-conditioning. The air-conditioning, however, kept working normally throughout the journey and the flight also departed on time, SpiceJet said. «SpiceJet flight SG 476 from Delhi to Darbhanga on June 19, scheduled to depart at 11 am, departed on time without any delays. During the boarding in Delhi, the air conditioning initially experienced slight inefficiency due to extreme weather conditions and both doors of the aircraft being open, as boarding was not via the aerobridge,» the Gurugram-based domestic carrier said in a statement. The airline's statement came amid media reports that passengers of SpiceJet's Darbhanga flight from Delhi had to wait inside the aircraft without air-conditioning for an hour.

business community regarding notices served under GST, Assam government will hold regional consultation. Assam Cabinet has requested Ministers Ajanta Neog and Ashok Singhal to hold six Regional Consultations. The consultations will be held in Tinsukia, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Guwahati, Tezpur and Silchar anda report will be submitted within one month. To encourage upcoming sporting talent and to carry forward the success of the Khel Maharan movement, Cabinet has accorded approval to an SOP for providing assistance to one Youth Club/Sports Association in each of the 126

Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a viability gap funding (VGF) scheme for offshore wind energy projects with a total outlay of Rs 7,453 crore, including Rs 6,853 crore for installation and commissioning of 1 GW of such projects. The 1 GW offshore wind energy projects will be of 500 MW each off the coast of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. The outlay also includes a grant of Rs 600 crore for upgradation of two ports to meet logistics requirements for offshore wind energy projects.

ease of doing business, Jan Vishwas 2.0, World Bank’s upcoming B-READY index, and the national single window system, were discussed at a meeting chaired by department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh on Wednesday. Officials said that this is the first of such interactions with industry and other stakeholders. “We have taken inputs on many issues like reducing compliances and ease of doing business forward,” said an official.

Kalahandi, there are 5 patients with cough and cold, out of which, 2 may be suffering from Diphtheria... The total number of suspected cases was 21, but it has come down to 18...