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Japanese government officials sought understanding from fisheries groups for the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea and pledged to support their livelihoods throughout a process that will tak...

More hearings this month and in September are set for Summit Carbon Solutions' proposed $5.5 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline network

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Amid an escalating discourse surrounding lineage and religious heritage, has responded to a social media claim that Hindu Brahmin Tulsiramdas was his great-grandfather. The assertion of such lineage by the claim was met with a pointed remark from Owaisi. He expressed wry amusement at the persistent trend among some quarters to ascribe a Brahmin ancestry to him even in fabricated genealogies.

The a2 Milk Company has met its lower end of guidance for double-digit revenue and earnings growth, but warns the key China market will be more challenging this year with fewer children born.

₹51,000 crore. However, the government expects higher non-tax revenues, including higher dividends from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and public sector banks to offset any revenue shortfall and maintain the fiscal deficit target of 5.9% (of the GDP), despite not meeting the divestment target. “The divestment of IDBI bank is unlikely to happen this fiscal.

Hungary has struck a deal with Serbia that could bring increased shipments of Russian natural gas through the Balkan country if Ukraine ends a gas transit agreement with Moscow

Rutte on Sunday told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the Netherlands and Denmark will give F-16 warplanes to Ukraine. Rutte, meeting with Zelenskyy at a Dutch air base, said the planes would be delivered once unspecified conditions are met. The announcement came minutes after Rutte and Zelenskyy inspected two gray F-16 jets parked in a hangar at the base.

Rajinikanth's 'Jailer' has notched up two records on its way to grossing Rs 500 crore at the box office. Trade analyst Manobala Vijayabalan in a post on social media platform X said 'Jailer' has grossed Rs 500 crore on the 10th day of the release, making it third film from Kollywood to enter this club after 2.0 and Ponniyin Selvan. 'Jailer' is the second fastest film of Kollywood to enter this club after 2.0.

A senior officer working in the Delhi government’s Woman and Child Development (WCD) Department has been accused of raping his friend’s 16-year-old daughter for several months and impregnating her, police said, as reported by The Indian Express. The accused’s wife allegedly gave the minor girl abortion pills to terminate her pregnancy.

India has racked up 108 ‘unicorns’—the third-most in the world, after the US and China. Private investment in the form of venture capital and private equity has been to the tune of $246 billion from 2018 to 2022. Over this period, Indian firms accounted for $1 out of every $4.40 of Asian venture capital.

leadership of N K Singh. It had kept the tax devolution ratio at 42 per cent -- at the same level suggested by the 14th Commission. The central government had accepted the report of the commission, and accordingly, the states were provided with 42 per cent of the divisible tax pool of the Centre during the period 2021-22 to 2025-26.

Finance Commission, that gives suggestions on Centre-state financial relations, may be constituted by November end this year, PTI reported on Saturday citing Finance Secretary T V Somanathan. As part of its many functions, the commission suggests the ratio in which tax is to be divided between the Centre and states for five years, beginning April 1, 2026. «The Finance Commission is expected to be constituted by end of November because that's the statutory requirement,» he told PTI in an interview.

Fumio Kishida made a brief visit to the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant on Sunday to highlight the safety of an impending release of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, a divisive plan that his government wants to start soon despite protests at home and abroad. His trip comes hours after he returned home Saturday from a summit with U.S.

Women’s sport will get a $200 million funding injection from the federal government, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese moves to capitalise on Matildas fever stemming from the World Cup.

₹15 crore to the disaster relief fund. This contribution will play a crucial role in mitigating the extensive damage inflicted by heavy rains, floods, cloudbursts, landslides, and slope failures in the state. The death toll from rain-related incidents in Himachal Pradesh has climbed to 78 over the past week with the recovery of another body from the debris of a collapsed temple, PTI reported.

New Delhi: G20 ministers responsible for the digital economy met in Bengaluru on Saturday and agreed that the Global South and other countries should adopt digital public infrastructure to digitalise their economies. “There were three major priority areas for the G20 meeting. First was DPI, second was information security or cybersecurity, and the third was skilling.

Also read: Rahul Gandhi takes a KTM bike ride to Pangong Tso lake to celebrate father Rajiv Gandhi's birthday He pursued his education at prestigious institutions, including Welham Prep in Dehra Dun, the Doon School, Trinity College in Cambridge, and Imperial College in London. Although he initially enrolled for a course in mechanical engineering, he did not complete it. Rajiv Gandhi met Sonia Gandhi while studying at Cambridge.

Canada's western province of British Columbia intensified further on Saturday, doubling the number of people under an evacuation order to 35,000 from a day earlier, as authorities warned of difficult days ahead. The province declared a state of emergency on Friday, to access temporary authoritative powers to tackle fire-related risks, as out-of-control fires ripped through interior British Columbia and partially shut down some sections of a key transit route between the Pacific coast and the rest of western Canada, and destroyed many properties. «The current situation is grim,» Premier Daniel Eby told reporters on Saturday, saying some 35,000 people are under an evacuation order, and a further 30,000 were under evacuation alert.

Also read: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand reeling from devastating monsoon, massive damage and loss of life. 10 updates Since the onset of the monsoon season in Himachal Pradesh on June 24, 338 people have lost their lives in rain-related incidents and road accidents, with 38 individuals still missing, according to the state's emergency operation centre. Of these, 221 people have perished directly due to rain-related incidents.

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Chernihiv killed seven people and wounded more than 100 on Saturday, in what the UN called a «heinous» attack hours after President Vladimir Putin met Moscow's top army commanders. «It is heinous to attack the main square of a large city, in the morning, while people are out walking, some going to church to celebrate a religious day for many Ukrainians,» said Denise Brown, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine. She was referring to the Orthodox holiday of the Transfiguration of the Lord which saw some in Chernihiv attending church services in the morning. «I condemn this repeated pattern of Russian strikes on populated areas of Ukraine… Attacks directed against civilians or civilian objects are strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law,» she added. Chernihiv, 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Kyiv towards Belarus, has been largely spared from major attacks since the first months of Russia's invasion as fierce fighting rages in the east and south.