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Stellantis is telling owners of more than 24,000 plug-in hybrid minivans to park them outdoors away from buildings, and to stop charging them due to the possibility of battery fires

CBI Friday arrested a first-year MBBS student of Ranchi's Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) for allegedly being part of a 'solver module' working with an engineer who had stolen the NEET-UG question papers, officials said. Surabhi Kumari was taken into custody after two days of detailed questioning by the CBI, the officials said. It is alleged that Kumari was the fifth member of the 'solver module' which was present in Hazaribagh in the morning of May 5, the NEET-UG examination day, to solve the paper stolen by Pankaj Kumar, they said. Pankaj Kumar alias Aditya, a 2017-batch civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), who allegedly stole the NEET-UG paper from the NTA trunk in Hazaribagh.

Axis Bank's sales manager was taken into custody on Thursday while authorities look into the circumstances surrounding the suicide death of his junior colleague on July 12, who was allegedly subjected to severe bullying at work for several months. In a statement left for her family, 27-year-old Shivani Tyagi described the difficult period she experienced in Axis House in Sector 128 after moving there in October 2023. The day she got her notice of termination, she ate poison. Police said on Thursday that the dismissal was a retaliatory action because Shivani had quit on July 10 following a contentious confrontation at work with a coworker, a woman of the same level, which had turned physical. The sales manager sent her a notice of termination rather than accepting her resignation.

Investigation (CBI) is questioning a first-year MBBS student from the 2023 batch of RIMS in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak case, an official said on Friday. The student, who stays at the girls' hostel of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), formerly known as Rajendra Medical College and Hospital (RMCH), an autonomous institute under the Jharkhand government, was approached by the CBI earlier this week for questioning. «The CBI team is questioning a first-year student. The team contacted the hospital management on Wednesday saying they wanted to question her in connection with the NEET paper leak. The management extended full cooperation to the team. On Thursday too, they grilled her and said she will be questioned further,» RIMS PRO Rajiv Ranjan told PTI. The official said parents of the student had contacted the management and were briefed about the situation.

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One of India’s largest crypto exchanges WazirX suffered a security breach that drained $234 million of users funds yesterday. The incident, which targeted the exchange’s multisig wallet on the Ethereum network, saw the theft of over 200 different crypto assets, including Shiba Inu, Ethereum, Polygon, and PEPE memecoin.

Israeli military is checking whether an explosion in central Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday was caused by a drone attack, the army said. Police said the body of a man was found in an apartment close to the explosion and said the circumstances were being investigated. «Earlier tonight (Friday), an explosion sounded in the area of central Tel Aviv. We are looking into the reports that it was an aerial target. The incident is under review,» the military said in a brief statement.

Joe Biden's son Hunter asked federal judges on Thursday to toss out gun and tax cases filed against him, citing a legal argument made by Donald Trump. Hunter Biden, 54, was convicted in Delaware in June on federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president. He also faces tax evasion charges in California and is scheduled to go on trial in September.

Atlantis, yet conversations concerning sunken cities are usually dominated by the fabled Atlantis. As per the reports of MSN, Geologist Folkion Negris discovered this city, known as Pavlopetri, off the coast of Greece in 1904. It is estimated to be approximately 5,000 years old. Even though Pavlopetri was found early, it was not thoroughly investigated until 1967. The site was discovered that year under the direction of Nicholas Flemming from the University of Southampton's Institute of Oceanography. Flemming and his colleagues, accompanied by University of Cambridge archaeologists, surveyed the underwater metropolis for six weeks.

NASA has cancelled its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission, initially worth $450 million, following a comprehensive internal review. The decision was made due to escalating costs, delays, and potential future cost increases. «NASA stated cost increases, delays to the launch date, and the risks of future cost growth as the reasons to stand down on the mission,» the agency explained in a statement. Commitment to Lunar Exploration Despite the cancellation, NASA remains committed to lunar exploration. Nicola Fox, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, emphasized, “We are committed to studying and exploring the Moon for the benefit of humanity through the CLPS program.”

Earlier today, WazirX, a prominent Indian cryptocurrency exchange, suffered a severe security breach resulting in the loss of approximately $235 million in crypto assets, with suspicions pointing towards North Korean hackers.

Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh Police has arrested one of the masterminds of a Rs 2,500-crore cryptocurrency scam, which was unearthed in the state in 2022, from Kolkata, officials said on Thursday. Accused Milan Garg (35), a resident of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, was apprehended on Wednesday night from the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata while he was trying to flee to Bangkok in Thailand, they said. Garg, who was allegedly involved in designing and marketing of a fake cryptocurrency, was later brought to Shimla, Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Northern Range, Abhishek Dhullar told. Garg, who earlier fled to Dubai after the scam came to light, had returned to India in June and was again leaving the country when he was detained at Kolkata airport. The accused has been arrested and brought to Shimla, said Dhullar, who is heading an SIT probing the case.

Manorama Khedkar, mother of trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar, was apprehended in a dramatic police operation at a lodge in Maharashtra's Raigad district. She used a fake Aadhaar card to rent a room and was accompanied by a cab driver posing as her son. This arrest follows a widely circulated video showing her brandishing a firearm during a heated altercation over a land dispute, sparking public outrage and legal action. Manorama Khedkar faces charges of attempted murder and other offenses. Acting on the viral video, Pune Rural Police swiftly located and arrested Manorama Khedkar from a lodge in Raigad. The incident, captured on CCTV, captured her in a confrontation where she allegedly threatened locals with a gun in Pune's Mulshi village. Police sources provided details on the arrest, highlighting the seriousness of the charges against her.

WASHINGTON—Police were suspicious of Donald Trump’s attempted assassin on Saturday more than an hour before the attack, according to private law enforcement briefings provided to House and Senate lawmakers. Wednesday’s briefings, given by top U.S. officials, offered some of the most detailed information to date on what happened in the run-up to the shooting at a campaign rally in western Pennsylvania.

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Quant Mutual Fund has decreased its cash holding in June to 7.17% from 12.41% in May 2024. The fund house was sitting on a cash pile of around Rs 5,861 crore in June. The total equity AUM of the fund house was Rs 75,846 crore as of June 2024. It has around 21 equity mutual fund schemes. Of these, three had over Rs 500 crore cash in their portfolios. Quant Flexi Cap Fund had the highest cash allocation of Rs 867.93 crore in its portfolio in June against Rs 1,411 crore cash allocation in May. The total equity AUM of the flexi cap fund was around Rs 6,017.25 crore. Also Read | This defence MF gave over 100% return in a year. Worth a look ahead of Budget?

Italy's antitrust agency said on Thursday it had launched an investigation into online search giant Google and its parent company Alphabet over alleged unfair commercial practices involving users' personal data. The request for consent that Google sends to its users to connect its multiple services «could constitute misleading and aggressive commercial practice», the watchdog said.

WazirX on Thursday temporarily suspended withdrawals after being hit by the security breach. «We're aware that one of our multisig wallets has experienced a security breach. Our team is actively investigating the incident. To ensure the safety of your assets, INR and crypto withdrawals will be temporarily paused,» WazirX said in a statement.

Bageshwar district administration in Uttarakhand has dispatched a team of officials to Sunderdhunga, located at a height of more than 12,000 feet, to inspect an unauthorised temple built in the eco-sensitive zone by a self-styled godman. This follows a complaint by the residents of nearby villages that the baba, who lives in the temple and introduces himself as Chaitanya Akash, bathes in Devi Kund, a sacred lake that flows below the structure. The villagers have called it an act of desecration as they bathe their deities in the lake once a year. Bageshwar District Magistrate (DM) Anuradha Pal said the 14-member team sent to Sunderdhunga comprises police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel and officials of revenue and forest departments. The baba bathes in the lake and also encourages tourists to do so, she said.

NEET-UG 2024 controversy said that re-examination can be done only if it is concrete that the entire test was affected, while noting that the case has social ramifications. «Re-examination has to be on concrete footing that the sanctity of the entire test was affected,» CJI DY Chandrachud said as the bench heard a clutch of pleas related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam NEET-UG 2024. On the issue of the ongoing probe, the bench said, «The CBI probe is on. If what the CBI has told us is revealed, it will affect the investigation and people will become wise.»

killed after a fire broke out at a shopping mall in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The incident occurred on Wednesday around 6 pm at the 14-story building, located in a high-tech zone in the city of Zigong, Sichuan province, according to Chinese state media. Dramatic images and videos showed a huge column of black smoke billowing from the building. Several people were also seen gathered on a balcony. The rescue operation was completed on Thursday. Around 75 people who were trapped inside the building were evacuated, the local fire department said.