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BJP leader Pankaja Munde while addressing a Dussehra rally in Maharashtra's Beed district, her hometown. She also called upon the backwards to show their strength. Around the same time, Union minister Kiren Rijiju was holding meetings with Buddhist Dalit community leaders in the state. The meetings signify BJP's ploy to consolidate and expand its standing among the backwards and Dalits in Maharashtra. Munde shared the stage with her estranged cousin Dhananjay Munde after more than a decade in Beed, which was the epicentre of Maratha protests led by activist Manoj Jarange Patil. While Pankaja Munde is seen as BJP's OBC face in Marathwada, the party has deployed Rijiju to make inroads among Buddhist Dalits, especially in Vidarbha region. Dalit Buddhists constitute over 50% of the total SC voters in the state. This segment has usually sided with Congress or Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi.

Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani recently shared memories of his first meeting with his wife, Rohini, during a quiz competition in 1977 at Mumbai's Elphinstone College. In a podcast with Nikhil Kamath, he recalled, “We had a quiz competition, I was representing IIT and the quiz was (hosted) at Elphinstone College. That's how I met her.” Nilekani humorously noted that IIT had «obviously» won the competition, adding, “Obviously, we won the quiz… That’s how I met her way back in 1977."

Bengal Chief Secretary on Monday urged the agitating junior doctors to withdraw their hunger strike stating that seven of their ten demands have been met, and expressed concern over their health condition. However, the protest continued even after Chief Secretary Manoj Pant held a meeting with different senior doctors' associations, including the Indian Medical Association (IMA), on Monday. Meanwhile, the West Bengal Junior Doctor's Front (WBJDF) held a Raj Bhawan 'abhijaan' (march) on Monday and submitted a deputation to Governor CV Ananda Bose, seeking justice for the deceased doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital on August 9. At least 12 doctors' organisations met the state administration, led by the chief secretary, home secretary and other senior health officials, at the Health Department Swasthya Bhawan. WBJDF members were not present at the meeting even as the fast-unto-death protest taken up by WBJDF at Esplanade entered the tenth day on Monday.

Iran said Monday it currently sees «no grounds» for its indirect talks with the United States via intermediary Oman, citing the crisis in the Middle East. In June, Tehran said it had engaged in indirect talks with Washington via Muscat, despite the two countries having no diplomatic relations. US news website Axios reported at the time that officials from Iran and the United States held indirect talks in Oman «on how to avoid escalating regional attacks».

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Zakir Naik to Pakistan is disappointing and condemnable but not surprising, the Ministry of External Affairs has said. Naik is wanted by Indian authorities for alleged money laundering and inciting extremism through hate speeches. He left India in 2016. The radical preacher is currently on a high-profile visit to Pakistan, where he has met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and is delivering lectures as part of a month-long programme. «It is not surprising for us that the fugitive from Indian law has received a high-level welcome in Pakistan. It is something which is disappointing, that we say (is) condemnable. But at the same time, it's not surprising,» MEA spokesperson Randheer Jaiswal said.

junior doctors demanding justice for the RG Kar medic on Friday evening called off their 'total cease work' at state-run medical colleges and hospitals but threatened to launch a hunger strike till death if their demands were not met by the West Bengal government within 24 hours. «We are calling off our 'total cease work' and returning to duties. But we will continue our sit-in protest. We will give the state administration 24 hours to fulfill our demands or else we will start a hunger strike till death,» an agitating doctor, Debasish Halder of Kolkata Medical College and Hospital, said. Braving the incessant drizzle, junior doctors holding one big clock in their hands reiterated their demands including the directive to form a central inquiry committee for disciplinary proceedings against alleged perpetrators involved in «threat culture» in all medical colleges of West Bengal, among others. «But the state government must not think that we are calling off our agitation as we are scared. If they think there is nobody with us, they are wrong. We have full support of the common people,» he said.

India-Sri Lanka ties" with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and assured continued support to the island nation's economic rebuilding. During his day-long visit, less than a fortnight after President Dissanayake was sworn in, Jaishankar also met Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, his counterpart Vijitha Herath, Sajith Premadasa, Sri Lanka's leader of the opposition from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya party and former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe. Jaishankar is the first foreign dignitary to visit Sri Lanka since the National People's Power (NPP) government led by Dissanayake came to power on September 23. Sri Lanka is India's key maritime neighbour in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and occupies a special place in its initiatives such as 'SAGAR' (Security and Growth for All in the Region) and the 'Neighbourhood First Policy.'

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On a muggy August afternoon, the entrance to the iconic Regal theatre in Mumbai is clogged. A hand-painted poster of Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay (1975) is mounted on the scaffolding, and a crowd has gathered to watch the film.

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In a stock exchange notice today (3 October), the board said the trust will enter into a voluntary liquidation once the sale is completed, with cash to shareholders set to be distributed «as soon as reasonably practicable». As the disposal falls outside the trust's current investment objective and policy, shareholder approval for an amendment will be sought at a general meeting on 22 October. Once this condition is met, the deal is expected to complete in early to mid-November. The liquidators will be in a position to make an initial distribution of «substantially all of the net as...

Microsoft plans to invest 4.3 billion euros ($4.8 billion) over the next two years to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud infrastructure in northern Italy, it said on Wednesday. Microsoft said in a statement the investment would be the U.S. company's largest in Italy to date. It will make the cloud region ItalyNorth one of the biggest Microsoft data centres in Europe, working as a data hub also for the Mediterranean and north Africa. Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith met Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Wednesday, the PM's office said in a note, adding the government welcomed an investment that would strengthen Italy's digital role in the Mediterranean.

Piyush Goyal met US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Thursday on the sidelines of the India-US CEO Forum. Goyal said that they discussed on prospects of tech and research and development collaboration in various sectors. In a post on X, he said, «Held a productive meeting with the US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, over lunch on the sidelines of the India-US CEO Forum. Our discussions focused on prospects of tech and R&D collaboration in critical sectors such as defence, space, semiconductors, telecom, AI and clean energy. We also discussed opportunities for US investments in upcoming 20 industrial cities in India to foster mutual growth.»

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Piyush Goyal discussed the potential investment opportunities in India’s electronics manufacturing, data infrastructure and logistics sectors and new areas of collaboration particularly in advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, and sustainable technologies with American companies during his ongoing visit to the US, commerce and industry ministry said in a statement Tuesday. “He invited American companies to leverage India’s unmatched scale and take advantage of the Make in India initiative, particularly in high-tech manufacturing and quality production,” the ministry said. During his meeting with Blackstone, Goyal said that the company has already invested about $50 billion in India and is one of the largest commercial and real estate investors in the country.

bilateral meeting with Jamaican counterpart Andrew Holness in New Delhi. The bilateral meeting was followed by delegation-level talks between the two leaders. Visiting Prime Minister of Jamaica met PM Modi at Hyderabad House here in the national capital earlier today.

Carmaker Stellantis has slashed its earnings forecast, citing investments to turn around its U.S. operations as the wider automobile industry faces a slump and increased Chinese competition

Terry Eagleton has just called Fredric Jameson, who passed Sunday before last, at 90, «the greatest cultural critic of his time, though the term 'cultural critic' is a mere place holder for a kind of intellectual work spanning aesthetics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, political theory and the like, for which we have as yet no adequate name. There was nothing in the field of humanities which didn't claim his attention...

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., says possible port strikes across America could really 'exacerbate' supply chain problems on 'The Evening Edit.'