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badminton player PV Sindhu. As per reports, she is gearing up to tie the knot on December 22 in Udaipur. The former world champion, who sought victory at the Syed Modi International in Lucknow on Sunday, is preparing to tie the knot with Hyderabad-based Venkata Datta Sai, an Executive Director at Posidex Technologies. In an interview with PTI, the shuttler’s father, PV Ramana shared that the two families knew each other but it was only a month ago that everything was finalised. He further added that this was the only possible window as her schedule would become hectic from January. Hence, the two families decided to have the marriage ceremony on December 22. The reception will be held in Hyderabad on December 24. As per reports, the wedding-related festivities will kickstart on December 20.

Just over a month after Ernst & Young resigned as its public accounting firm, Super Micro Computer says a review committee has found no evidence of fraud or misconduct among the server maker’s leadership

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Online payments major PhonePe has informed its merchants that its payments solutions will be offered to them through direct integrations, therebystopping all third-party partnerships with payment aggregators like SoftBank-backed Juspay. In a communication sent out to merchants, a copy of which was seen by ET, PhonePe said that it sees third party payment players receiving a payment aggregator licence (PA) of their own as a conflict of interest. This is a significant development in the merchant payments business where players like Juspay, which facilitates merchants to work with multiple payment gateways, might face loss of business. Juspay recently bagged the final approval from the Reserve Bank of India for a PA licence. What does this mean and what could be the potential impact of this move? ET explains.

A top aide to Ontario Premier Doug Ford is facing questions about how he manages sensitive government records after he traded in his cellphone without fully backing it up, Global News can reveal, meaning months of text messages related to official government business are now considered “missing.”

Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Navneet Singh Bittu shared the data of organic food products exported during the last five years and current year in a written reply to Lok Sabha. As per the data, 6,38,998 tonnes were exported in 2019-20 for USD 689.10 million; 8,88,179.68 tonnes for USD 1,040.95 million in 2020-21; 4,60,320.40 tonnes for USD 771.96 million in 2021-22; 3,12,800.51 tonnes for USD 708.33 million in 2022-23; and 2,61,029 tonnes for USD 494.80 million in 2023-24 financial year.

Parliament was informed on Monday. The government's aim is to have an installed power generation capacity of around 777.14 GW by 2029-30. India's overall power generation capacity was at 454.452 GW as of October 2024. The Ministry of Power, in consultation with states, has envisaged a plan to add thermal capacity of a minimum 80,000 MW by 2031-32, Union Minister Shripad Naik said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha. «Against this target, 29,200 MW thermal capacity is already under construction, while 51,520 MW is at various stages of planning & development,» the Minister of State (MoS) for Power said.

Aligarh died after suffering a heart attack while practicing for a school sports competition on Friday. Mohit Chaudhary, a Class 8 student, had completed two rounds of running with his friends before collapsing. His friends immediately informed his family, who rushed him to a nearby hospital. Unfortunately, doctors declared him dead upon arrival, a TOI report stated. Mohit’s neighbor, Virendra Singh, shared that the boy had been passionate about running and was preparing diligently for the competition scheduled for December 7. “The boy’s father had died in a road accident in August. Mohit and his mother were living with relatives. He was passionate about running and was eagerly preparing for the competition, hoping to make his mother proud. We often saw him practicing rigorously, determined to secure first place at the competition,” Singh said. This tragic incident follows another heart attack death in the region. On Saturday night, an 8-year-old girl named Diksha Kumari from Lodhi Nagar passed away after experiencing severe chest pain at home. Her family said that Diksha had been practicing for her school’s annual function, set for Sunday. “Diksha was excited about her dance performance at the annual function. She would often tell neighbors, ‘Please come to watch my performance,’” her uncle, Virendra Rajput, said. He added that Diksha was healthy and had no prior health issues.

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Patna-based educator and popular YouTuber Faisal Khan, known widely as Khan Sir, has sparked a wave of criticism after delivering an erroneous explanation about the roles of Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State, and Ministers of State (Independent Charge). His inaccurate breakdown of these positions led to backlash, with some accusing him of routinely spreading misinformation in his lessons. Critics labeled him a «scam,» asserting that his meteoric rise during the COVID-19 pandemic was fueled by a robust public relations campaign.

Info Edge has filed a first information report (FIR) at Mumbai’s Bandra Police Station against Rahul Yadav and others in connection with a fraud involving funds from 4B Networks. In 2015, Yadav who cofounded real estate portal Housing.com was fired by the company’s board. «We would like to inform you that pursuant to a complaint filed by AIPL, an FIR has been registered by the Bandra Police Station (Mumbai Police) on November 29, 2024 against Rahul Yadav, Devesh Singh, Pratik Choudhary, Sanjay Saini (and unnamed others) in connection with 4B Networks, alleging inter alia commitment of certain fraudulent acts involving 4B Networks' funds,» the document read. In 2021-22, Info Edge invested Rs 295 crore in Housing.com founder Rahul Yadav’s new real estate startup, 4B Networks.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme—one of the ways in which this government was hoping to increase manufacturing in India—is going through a slowdown, with planned expansions to the programme being put on hold.

Kerala government to release the names of government employees found to have received social security pensions meant for the poor in the state. The opposition party warned that unless the names were disclosed, even honest officers would fall under suspicion. Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, V D Satheesan, sent a letter to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Finance Minister K N Balagopal, citing the demand. In the letter, Satheesan expressed «surprise» that the government had not taken action on the matter, despite findings by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) two years ago.

parliamentary committee scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill has sought details from various state governments about the veracity and updated details of Waqf properties which, according to the Sachar committee, they had occupied in an unauthorised manner, sources said. The parliamentary committee, whose tenure has been extended by Lok Sabha till the last day of the next Budget Session, has also sought from the states details of the properties claimed by Waqf boards exercising Section 40 of the Waqf Act. Section 40, an amendment effected during the Congress-led UPA government's tenure in 2013, is one of the most hotly contested features of the existing law as it has given Waqf boards the power to decide if any property belongs to the Waqf or not. The proposed law, which has faced flack from opposition parties and various Muslim groups for its alleged attempts to interfere in religious matters, has sought to curb this power while making a slew of other changes in the existing Act.

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) over the past two decades in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. The information was given at a meeting chaired by Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Amit Shukla here to conduct a comprehensive review of the implementation of the PMGSY in the Union territory. The review focused on expediting project completion, ensuring adherence to quality standards and enhancing rural connectivity across the region, the officials said. The PMGSY was launched in Jammu and Kashmir during 2001-02 with the aim to provide all-weather connectivity to unconnected habitations in rural areas with a population of more than 250 as per the 2001 Census.

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Rouse Avenue Court on Saturday was informed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that the sanction obtained in the CBI case is comprehensive/broad enough to cover offences not only under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, but also other potential offences arising from the same facts. The submission came in response to a plea filed by Delhi's former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who had claimed he had not received a copy of the sanction order in the ED case against him. In his plea, Kejriwal pointed to a recent Delhi High Court hearing, where the Solicitor General representing the ED had stated that the necessary sanction had been obtained when the chargesheet was filed. In its response, the ED's Special Counsel Zoheb Hossain clarified that the sanction obtained in the CBI case was broad enough to cover not just the Prevention of Corruption Act, but also other offences that could arise from the facts and circumstances presented, and was sufficient for the court to take cognizance of the case.

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Singh revealed that his captors fed him just once a day and frequently subjected him to physical abuse. His circumstances changed when a compassionate individual noticed his suffering and helped him escape, dropping him off in Ghaziabad. From there, with the assistance of local police, Singh was finally able to reconnect with his family. «When along with my sister, I was returning from school, some people kidnapped us and took us to Jaisalmer, Rajasthan… I used to rear sheep and goats in the village… They used to tie me to a tree and give me food only one time in the evening… They used to beat me… A person saw me in this condition and dropped me off in Ghaziabad… Then the police station offered me help and reunited me with my family..” he told ANI.

Italy's data protection watchdog has warned Italian publisher GEDI not to share its personal data archives with ChatGPT owner OpenAI, it said on Friday, citing concern over potential breaches of EU rules. GEDI, owned by the Agnelli family's holding company Exor, announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI in September to bring Italian-language content from the publisher's portfolio of news outlets to users of the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence startup. In Italy, GEDI publishes daily newspapers la Repubblica and La Stampa.