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₹51,000 crore for FY24 is lower than the previous year’s original target. The estimates for FY23 had been revised to ₹50,000 crore from an earlier target of ₹65,000 crore. As of September 2023, the government has been able to garner ₹5,600 crore, primarily from offers to sell a 3% stake in Coal India Ltd and 5.36% in Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd.

Narendra Modi over not sharing its agenda for the upcoming special Parliament Session beginning September 18-22, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi' said that the Opposition is unnecessarily politicising the issue, adding that it will inform the public what is going to happen during the session. The Centre has called for a special session of Parliament for five days between September 18 and 22.

Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation, media reports said on Tuesday, quoting Home Secretary Suella Braverman. The UK was set to make the Wagner Group a «proscribed» organisation under anti-terror laws, putting it on a par with Islamic State and al-Qaeda, a report in the Daily Mail said. «Wagner is a violent and destructive organisation which has acted as a military tool of Vladimir Putin's Russia overseas,» the newspaper quoted Braverman as saying. «While Putin's regime decides what to do with the monster it created, Wagner's continuing destabilising activities only continue to serve the Kremlin's political goals.» Under the Terrorism Act 2000 the home secretary has the power to proscribe an organisation if they believe it is involved in terrorism. A proscription order makes it a criminal offence to support the group. «They are terrorists, plain and simple — and this proscription order makes that clear in UK law,» a BBC report added, quoting the minister. «Wagner has been involved in looting, torture and barbarous murders,» Braverman added in the Daily Mail. The group's operations in Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa «are a threat to global security,» she said. «That is why we are proscribing this terrorist organisation and continuing to aid Ukraine wherever we can in its fight against Russia.» Draft measures to ban the Wagner Group under the act will be laid in Parliament on Wednesday, the reports said. In July, Britain announced sanctions against 13 individuals and businesses it said had links to the Russian group in Africa, accusing it of crimes there including killings and torture. The people and entities targeted — which are no longer able to deal with UK citizens, companies and banks, and have any UK assets

Prince Harry recently made a solo appearance at a star-studded football match in Los Angeles. While other celebrities had their professional titles cited, the prince, alongside his wife Meghan Markle, had none mentioned. This has left many intrigued about the couple's current roles beyond their previous royal responsibilities.

Information theft is on the rise

Blackstone, Carlyle, PAG, CVC Capital, BPEA EQT, Brookfield Asset Management and Apax Partners, have evinced interest in acquiring Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company Sai Life Sciences, said multiple people aware of the development. At present, private equity investors TPG Capital holds about 43.3% stake and Swiss-healthcare fund HBM Private Equity India holds 6% stake, while promoter Kanumuri family owns the rest of the stake in Sai Life. The promoter is looking for a valuation of $800 million (₹6,500 crore) for the company, said sources. However, the company is likely to be valued in the range of $500 million (₹4,000 crore), said a PE fund manager who is keen on the buyout.

Australian crypto exchange Swyftx has launched a ‘Learn and Earn’ education platform with an aim to better equip Aussies with “crypto knowledge until such time as the industry is fully regulated.”

Australia Post is seeking a 25 per cent increase in the price of basic stamps to $1.50 but unions, the electoral council and former chief executive Christine Holgate suggest it is part of a calculated plot to kill off letters.

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Royal biographer Andrew Morton has recently suggested that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are unlikely to return to the UK due to the prospect of Meghan having to curtsy to Kate Middleton, when and if Prince William takes the throne. Morton, who has been a close collaborator with Princess Diana, appeared on Sky News' "Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips" to share his insights on the matter. Meghan and Harry, who distanced themselves as senior royals in 2020, are now leading independent lives in California.

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racist email to a former Indian tenant in which said she hoped migrants would not turn Australia into «the filth that is India». Bronwyn Pollitt, a Perth-based real estate director, wrote to Sandeep Kumar in May 2021 after he disputed a cleaning bill deduction from his security deposit, news.com.aureported on Saturday. The email was submitted to The State Administrative Tribunal in Western Australia, which heard that Pollitt compared Australian living standards and quality of life to the «overcrowded, overpopulated, dirty squaller (sic) of many countries, including India». The Tribunal deemed Pollitt unfit to hold a real estate and business agents licence for eight months beginning September 1. It heard that after Kumar vacated the home in December 2020, Pollitt told him that the house owner did not agree that the security deposit should be released in full. Following discussions regarding the full return of the deposit in May 2021, Pollitt sent the mail which said: «Our living standards, our quality of life and expectations are very different to the overcrowded, overpopulated, dirty squaller (sic) of many other countries including India». «Therefore, it is impossible to have a discussion about what is clean and when I and most Australians have an expectation of what is clean and you are talking from what you are used to,» the email read. Calling herself a «white Australian», Pollitt further said that she hoped that «the massive influx of Indian people will not turn our beautiful country into the filth that is India where bodies are on the street, half burnt bodies are in the river and people climb over each other for medical help while living in absolute slums». «It all starts with cleaning the rental properties though

By Nandita Bose

Aggarwal who leads India investments at global infrastructure fund -Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), has stepped down. He has put in his papers this week and details about his future plans are not yet known, said sources. Based in Singapore, Aggarwal leads GIP India’s investments in Power, Renewables and Waste/Water sectors.

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Sensitive details about FTX customers were compromised during the security breach at FTX’s bankruptcy claims agent Kroll earlier this month, despite Kroll initially claiming only “non-sensitive” was leaked.

BookMyShow's website and application, the pre-sale of tickets were sold and were out in a matter of minutes, leaving the fans disheartened. ALSO READ: Cricket fans ‘deserve better’: Frustration over failure to book ODI World Cup 2023 tickets; booking app crashes However, with excitement for the match on Mount Everest, fans may not need to loose hope, as the the general sale of tickets will begin on 3 September at 8:00 PM IST on BookMyShow. The site said that it may likely open the sales around 8:00 pm IST, whose price would begin at ₹2,000 and the the maximum price for one ticket may reach ₹1,00,000, reported Sportkeeda. This will be the final round of online sales and the chance for an offline sale for the tickets after the online ticket sales will be small.

Qantas says getting money back to customers “is an expensive task” but that it is “not shy” about doing so, although it refused to commit to sending physical mail to people in credit for flights not taken.

₹60 lakh home loan from a private sector bank for buying an under-construction flat in 2017. The interest rate on the loan was 8% at that time. He took possession of the flat in August 2019 and made a prepayment of about ₹10 lakh.

Mark Ridley Thomas has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison. He has also been ordered to pay a fine of $30,000. The court has asked him to surrender to the law enforcement agency on November 13. He was accused of voting in support of the county contracts favoring the University of South Carolina and it would have benefitted his son.

bomb threat received by the Rajiv Gandhi International (RGIA) Airport here by e-mail turned out to be a hoax, police said on Tuesday.