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Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said the Centre has sanctioned the upgradation of 91 roads covering a length of 720.75 kilometres and 30 long-span bridges in Arunachal Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. In a statement, Rijiju, the minister of earth sciences, said the total estimated cost of these projects is Rs 757.58 crore.

Afsar Pasha masterminded the Mangaluru bomb blast that occurred in November last year and he provided training in making cooker bombs to the accused in the case, a police official said on Sunday. Pasha, who had earlier received training in making bombs in Bangladesh, provided training to the Mangaluru blast case accused during their stay in a jail in Karnataka, he said.

Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where an explosion at a gathering of an Islamic political party resulted in the loss of at least 40 lives, with many others sustaining injuries. The blast struck during the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) workers' convention in Khar, Bajaur, as reported by Geo News, with the police confirming the casualties. The injured individuals have been promptly transported to a nearby hospital, and law enforcement agencies have taken measures to cordon off the affected area.

Economic Times states that Dinesh Vijan has bought a luxury duplex in Mumbai's Pali Hill area for nearly ₹103 crore. The ET report further states that Dinesh Vijan's duplex is spread over 7,800 sq ft in a super-premium residential tower Rustomjee Parishram the suburban part of Bandra.

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), final resolution orders have been passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in 510 cases during the same period, according to data from the ministry. In order to make it easier for businesses seeking to exit, the government has set up a Center for Processing Accelerated Corporate Exit (CPACE), which centralizes and expedites voluntarily exit of companies under Section 248(2) of the Companies Act.

₹30,000 crore of support to state-run oil retailers and keeping all things constant, the government will be left with ₹9,000 crore to 10,000 crore after the rights issues of IOC and BPCL. The amount is expected to be used for HPCL which has a current market capitalization of ₹39,650 crore. The officials said that it will translate into a significant stake depending on the prices of the shares.

Quordle is a perfect online word puzzle to solve on a Sunday morning or afternoon. You can play it on a personal computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Today’s Quordle is #552 for the date July 30, 2023.

Sebi has barred five entities, including Excel Realty N Infra and its promoters, from the securities market for up to two years and levied a fine totalling Rs 1.75 crore on them for being involved in a fraudulent scheme of misrepresenting the company's financial statements. The barred entities are promoters of listed entity Excel Realty N Infra (Excel) — Lakhmendra Chamanlal Khurana (Chairman & MD of Excel), Ranjana Khurana Lakhmendra and Arpit Lakhmendra Khurana — and Pramod Yeshwant Kokate who was chief financial officer of Excel.

Vladimir Putin reviewed a parade of warships and nuclear submarines in his native St Petersburg on Sunday and announced that the Russian Navy would receive 30 new ships this year. Forty-five ships, submarines and other vessels took part in Russia's annual Navy Day event, a traditional show of military might which takes place in the Gulf of Finland and on the River Neva in St Petersburg.

Simon Abraham, who claimed to have received specialized massage training in India for two years, has been charged with sexually assaulting a female patient and has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by a UK court. The charges were brought against him when he contacted the woman after she had been treated for severe headaches at the Eastbourne District General Hospital in October 2020. The victim agreed to his visit, believing he could help her condition with his claimed massage expertise.

Getting a photo clicked with their favorite actor or cricketer is a dream for many people. A similar moment was shared by BCCI where fans of Virat Kohli gifted a bracelet to the former Indian cricket team captain. On Sunday, the BCCI posted a video of star batter Kohli, captain Rohit Sharma, and batter Suryakumar Yadav posing for a few photos and signing autographs.

Also read: World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2023: Date, history, significance, theme and more Jaipur City emerged as the top district in child trafficking, with four other districts in Delhi appeared in the top slots. The study draws from data collected by Games24x7's data science team, which collaborated with KSCF and its partners to analyse child trafficking cases across 262 districts in 21 states.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that Threads, the company's recently launched social media platform, has experienced a significant drop in users, losing more than half of its initial sign-ups. Despite achieving a remarkable milestone of registering 100 million users within just five days of its release, the app's retention rate has been lower than anticipated.

Five years after it exited the company, the government is set to get a significant stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) as it looks to infuse equity in fuel retailers that lost money on selling petrol and diesel at discounted rates last year, officials said.

Dudhwa Tiger Reserve area has risen to 135 from a previous population of 82 — a jump of more than 64 per cent between 2018 and 2022, an official said. According to the latest government data released on the International Tiger Day on Saturday, the number of tigers in India has increased from 2,967 in 2018 to 3,682 in 2022, an annual rise of 6 per cent. Dudhwa Tiger Reserve Deputy Director Rengaraju Tamilselvan said the number of tigers, including the ones outside the reserve, has also grown from 107 to 153, clocking a growth of around 43 per cent.

Also read: Video of couple romancing on bike goes viral, Delhi Traffic Police reacts The truck driver responsible for the collision fled the scene, leaving the truck behind, According to Delhi Police. Delhi Police reported that legal action is being taken and efforts to track down the driver involved in the accident are underway. In another tragic road accident that occurred on the morning of July 29 in Maharashtra's Buldhana district in which at least 6 people died and 21 were injured when two luxury travel buses collided on National Highway-6.

inspection of government schools by District Magistrates, the Bihar Education Department has requested all DMs to make the 'monitoring system' of schools in their respective areas a regular exercise now. Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Education Department, K K Pathak, in a letter dated July 26, 2023, to all DMs urged them to inspect government schools in their respective district at least twice a week and to make it 'a regular exercise' to improve the quality of education in the state.

IPO) refers to the process of offering shares of a private corporation to the public in a new stock issuance. Dalal Street is gearing up for another busy week in the primary market as five main board and small and medium enterprises (SME) IPOs to hit the primary market this week.SBFC FinanceThe initial public offer (IPO) of non-banking lender SBFC Finance will open for public subscription on August 3 and closes on August 7. The allocation to anchor investors will be done on August 2. It has fixed price band at Rs 54-57 per share for the issue. The initial share sale comprises fresh issuance of equity shares worth Rs 600 crore and an Offer for Sale (OFS) of Rs 425 crore. The company had filed preliminary IPO papers with Sebi in November last year. Under the OFS, selling shareholders include Arpwood Partners Investment Advisors who will offload equity worth Rs 306 crore, Arpwood Capital, Eight45 Services will sell up to Rs 75 and Rs 43 crore, respectively. The proceeds from the fresh issuance worth Rs 600 crore will be used to boost its capital base to meet future capital requirements.

The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana

The Netherlands' coast guard says that salvage crews dealing with a cargo ship loaded with cars that has been burning for more than two days off the northern Dutch coast boarded the vessel for the first time as heat, flames and smoke eased

Fireflies – alternatively known as lightning bugs in much of the United States – are neither flies nor bugs. They’re soft-winged beetles, related to click beetles and others. The most dramatic aspect of their biology is that they can produce light; this ability in a living organism, called bioluminescence, is relatively rare. I’m an entomologist who does research on, and teaches about, the ecology and biology of insects. Recently, I’ve been trying to understand the diversity and ecology of fireflies in my home state of North Carolina. Fireflies are found widely across North America, including many places in the west, but they are most abundant and diverse in the eastern half of the continent, from Florida to southern Canada.