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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that his government has taken big steps to boost infrastructure in the country in the last 10 years. Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 78th Independence Day, the prime minister said,«There has been tremendous progress in infrastructure in the last ten years. We have also given priority to ease of living.» He said four crore houses have been constructed by his government, and three crore more are on the way. «We have taken big steps to boost infrastructure in the country in the last ten years,» the prime minister said.

Dell Technologies, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting arguments that the payment was a windfall. The fee is one of the largest ever for U.S. shareholder litigation. A Delaware trial court is weighing two other requests for huge legal fees, both in cases involving Tesla, and the ruling contained language that might be seen as helpful for the carmaker's efforts to fight those fees.

RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Thursday morning, hours after unidentified miscreants vandalised a part of the medical establishment where a woman doctor was found dead last week, police said. The vandalism took place amid midnight protests by women in various parts of the state against the alleged rape and murder of the doctor in the seminar hall of the hospital. «The goons entered the campus and beat up agitating doctors. This was an attempt to break our morale so that we back out from the protest. But such incidents have only strengthened our resolve to fight till the end,» said one of the protesting doctors. According to the police, nearly 40 people, masquerading as protestors, entered the hospital premises, vandalized property, and pelted the police personnel present with stones, prompting the force to burst tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.

Team USA' gymnastics has spoken out about the troubled relations with her daughter and how she is looking forward to Biles' forgiveness and start their bonding afresh, forgetting the previous scars in their lives that led to a fallout. Biles has returned a champion from the Paris Olympics, winning back-to-back medals in gymnastics for Team USA and has become a top contributor for Team USA's medal haul in track and field events. Her mother, meanwhile, is elated at her feats at the global level and even thought the mother-daughter have a falling out, she expects that one day she would be able to asker her daughter for forgiveness.

Fishing regulators are instituting a new rule that lobster fishermen must abide by stricter minimum sizes for the crustaceans they harvest

Hedge fund Elliott Management is escalating its fight against the management of Southwest Airlines

Congress is capable of winning the Haryana assembly polls on its own and no talks have been held with any party for an alliance yet, former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said, indicating that his party may not have a tie-up with the AAP in the upcoming elections. In an interview with PTI, Hooda also stressed that winnability would be the criteria for ticket distribution for the assembly polls. Asked if there is a possibility of a tie-up with its INDIA bloc partner Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the state elections, the senior Congress leader said, «We have an alliance at the national level (with the AAP) but as far as state level is concerned, no talks have been held with any party.» «The Congress is capable (to win) on its own. No talks have been held yet,» the two-time chief minister said.

Imane Khelif earned a gold medal in Paris, the boxer who faced international scrutiny and misconceptions about her sex is likely to name Elon Musk and JK Rowling in her complaint against «cyber bullying», according to Variety. Khelif, who had been in the docks before over her gender eligibility, faced severe criticism after defeating Itanian boxer Angela Carini in an opening-round bout in just 46 seconds at the Olympics. After winning gold in the Olympics, Khelif filed a legal complaint in France. «JK Rowling and Elon Musk are named in the lawsuit, among others,» attorney Nabil Boudi told Variety on Tuesday. Boudi also said that former US President Donald Trump would be part of the probe. However, he said it wasn't clear if he would be named in the complaint.

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.

A wildfire burned northeast of Athens, darkening the sky as the smell of smoke and soot pervaded the Greek capital

TOKYO—Eight decades ago, when Japan’s kamikaze pilots were crashing their planes into American ships and its soldiers were dying from the Aleutian Islands to Guadalcanal, all were given the same promise: Upon death, their souls would be enshrined at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine. The shrine was the symbol of the religious-military state that sought to mobilize the population to fight in the name of a divine emperor.

FirstCry and Anand Mahindra's Mahindra Partners, which owned Baby Oye and Mom & Me, were almost rivals at time. However, almost eight years ago, that is in October 2016, Mahindra joined hands with FirstCry founder Supam Maheshwari, deciding to 'support' him rather than 'fight him'. On Tuesday, FirstCry, an e-commerce giant in baby care segment, made it's D-Street debut. It was listed at Rs 651 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), as against an offer price of Rs 465.

Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kremlin.

Sanjoy Roy, who was arrested for the rape and murder of a woman doctor in Kolkata. Roy, a 33-year-old civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, was found to have a troubling history of violent behaviour and disturbing addictions. According to the police, Roy was reportedly addicted to violent and disturbing pornography, as revealed by the content discovered on his mobile phone. «The pornography content in his mobile phone was quite disturbing and violent. We wonder about the state of his mind as watching such things is quite unnatural,» a police officer told PTI. Roy's background paints a picture of a man with a deeply troubled past. Since joining the Kolkata Police as a civic volunteer in 2019, Roy had been married at least four times, with a reputation as a womaniser. He had a history of physically abusing his wives, and neighbours often reported hearing fights from his home. His first wife was from Behala, his second from Park Circus, his third from Barrackpore, and his fourth from Alipore.

An attorney for former President Donald Trump has filed a legal notice announcing that his client plans to sue the Justice Department and the FBI for $115 million for alleged «malicious political prosecution» and «abuse of process.»

Patna Airport, where a snake faced off against three mongooses. The confrontation, captured on video, shows the snake initially engaging in a one-on-one battle with a mongoose. However, the situation escalates as two more mongooses join in, turning the fight into a three-on-one struggle.

Olympics athletes are stepping up their fight against advertisers indulging in unauthorised use of their name, image, or likeness for commercial purposes, following in the footsteps of their cricket counterparts. Sports marketing agencies Baseline Ventures and IOS Sports have issued legal notices to brands on behalf of PR Sreejesh and Manu Bhaker, respectively, for using their image or name in their marketing campaigns without prior permission of the athletes, or without having any official association with the international or Indian Olympic committees. Sreejesh was part of the Indian hockey team that won the bronze medal while Bhaker created history by winning two bronze medals, one alongside Sarabjot Singh, at the Paris Olympics that concluded on Sunday. «It's high time corporate firms understood the very basics of marketing and usage of IPs, especially firms that are already involved with sports. Our ask is very simple: pay and play,» Baseline Ventures managing director Tuhin Mishra said.

China as both a competitor and an adversary, Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J D Vance said on Sunday that his party wants to establish a robust international framework where the US can «check» Beijing. «I think they're both, right, and I think that what we want to do here is build the kind of international order where we can check China,» Vance told CBS in an interview when asked if he views Beijing as a competitor or an adversary. «We don't want to go to war with China, but certainly they're an adversary...for example, the Chinese know that they're manufacturing tons of fentanyl, they're letting them come into our country. (Vice president and Democratic presidential candidate) Kamala Harris has done nothing about this,» Vance said in «Face the Nation» programme. He said Harris should apply diplomatic and economic leverage on the Chinese to stop manufacturing fentanyl, which is smuggled into the Mexican drug cartels and subsequently shipped into the US.

Russia has announced increased security measures in the border region of Kursk

justice, 'gram nyayalayas' or village courts are today finding it difficult to live up to their purpose due to manpower shortage and financial crunch. So far 481 gram nyayalayas have been notified by 15 states, of which 309 have been made operational in 10 states, the law ministry told Parliament in the just-concluded Monsoon session. In 1986, the law commission had suggested setting up village courts to provide affordable and quick access to justice to citizens at their doorsteps. After years, The Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008 came into effect from Gandhi Jayanti the next year. The Act provides for the establishment of gram nyayalayas at the grassroots level to provide access to justice to the citizens at their doorsteps and to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to anyone due to social, economic or other disabilities.

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Canada’s Brooke Henderson stood by the side of the 14th green at Le Golf National on Saturday and practised her putting motion several times before walking to the next hole.She never did regain her touch on the greens after a 67 a day earlier gave her an outside shot at a medal.Henderson threatened midway through the final round after reeling off three straight birdies, but her putter didn’t co-operate when she needed it.“I gave myself a lot of good opportunities,” Henderson said. “I feel like if I had made two or three different putts throughout the round then I feel like the momentum would have been more in my favour.“It might be a different story standing here.