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Rahul Gandhi on Thursday shared glimpses of his recent visit to Ladakh through his motorcycle diary saying that it broke his heart to see a sense of betrayal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he lied about China not occupying our land. «Ladakh is one of India's crown jewels, and one of the world's most important strategic locations. It broke my heart to see a sense of betrayal in the eyes of the people of Ladakh.

dog-fox hybrid, affectionately termed the 'dogxim,' has been unveiled in Brazil, marking a remarkable moment in the annals of zoology.

KARACHI (Reuters) -Pakistan's central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at 22% on Thursday, surprising analysts who had been expecting it to try to tame inflation and support the rupee with an increase of at least 150 basis points.

Narendra Modi attacked the Opposition alliance – INDIA bloc – calling it “ghamandia [arrogant]", the Congress hit back at him accusing him of using a government function to abuse the opposition. “The PM is back to doing what he does best—insult. He repeated his abuse of INDIA parties as so-called Ghamandia parties," Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said on X (formerly Twitter).

Congress on Thursday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he dubbed the INDIA bloc parties as «ghamandia», accusing him of using a government function to abuse the opposition. «The PM is back to doing what he does best-insult.

cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur, were named by TIME magazine as the top 100 emerging leaders shaping the world. The '2023 TIME100 Next: the Emerging Leaders Shaping the World' list, released on Wednesday, featured three Indians, Kaur, Nandita Venkatesan and Vinu Daniel.

Sanatan Dharma.He was speaking after laying the foundation stone of a Rs 49,000 crore-worth petrochemicals complex at Bina refinery in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh along with 10 industrial projects in the state. «The 'ghamandia' (INDIA) alliance (leaders) met in Mumbai recently. They neither have any policies or issues nor a leader.

Picasso masterpiece, the late Spanish painter's "Femme a la montre" from 1932, is expected to fetch at least $120 million, Sotheby's announced Wednesday. The painting, which depicts Picasso's mistress wearing a watch, will be sold as part of a two-day auction of late New Yorker Emily Fisher Landau's prestigious collection. Other works up for sale include pieces by Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol. Fisher Landau, a longtime board member of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and a renowned art patron and collector, passed away in March at age 102. Sotheby's said in a statement that around 120 pieces from her collection would be for sale and «estimated to bring well over $400 million» in total, with «Femme a la montre» making up a significant portion.

AR Rahman’s Chennai concert has been making news and grabbing eyeballs for all the wrong reasons. After several fans complained about being kept out of the venue (despite paying an exorbitant amount for the tickets), due to lack of adequate seats. Many also accused the organisers of poor crowd management, as a stampede occurred, the fiasco took a more sinister turn when several women came out with horror stories of being molested in the stampede. Recently, Tamil playback singer Chinmayi Sripada came out in support of the victims. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the ‘Tere Bina’ singer penned an emotional post.

Weather update: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted very heavy rains in several parts of the country including Central, East India, West India are likely to witness very heavy rains in the coming days due to low-pressure condition building over the northwest and west-central Bay of Bengal. In Uttar Pradesh, IMD Lucknow has predicted rain, lightning thundershowers at some places on 14 September at many places in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Western Uttar Pradesh.

Dwarka Expressway corridor may soon boast of some of the tallest buildings in the National Capital Region, as the Haryana government is granting an extra floor area ratio (FAR) to promote real estate development along the under-construction expressway. The Haryana government is introducing a new metro line along the expressway, enabling developers to expand under the Transit-Oriented Development policy even as there are height restrictions for buildings elsewhere in the NCR. State government officials have also met with developers in Mumbai and Bengaluru to showcase the development opportunities along the Dwarka Expressway. «Due to the metro line and upcoming global city planned by the Haryana government, the developers on the Dwarka Expressway can plan vertical development, which is not possible in the majority of the NCR. In coming years, we will see the development of utilising the policy benefits for high-rises,» said Mudassir Zaidi, executive director, North at real estate consultancy Knight Frank India. Any building with a height of more than 150 metres meets the tall-building classification.

Indian startup ecosystem. The sector has witnessed one of the worst slowdowns in risk capital funding for startups that has stretched for over a year, drawing the moniker of a “funding winter”. The eleven jurors including top business leaders, startup entrepreneurs who have taken their companies public recently, marquee investors and other founders, would therefore display a razorsharp focus on business models built for the long term.

Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) have captured the ever-changing world of technology and Digital India as the sector has grown from infancy to the stage of spawning publicly-traded corporations. Having seen at least two cycles of the funding boom followed by a tech winter, the awards are a true testament to the way Indian entrepreneurship has matured in the past nine years amid many crests and troughs.

Westpac CEO Peter King and Australian Banking Association CEO Anna Bligh met Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Wednesday evening to ask the federal government to implement a new policy the banks are calling the “regulatory grid”.

Investing.com — U.S. tech stocks were rising after the annualized core inflation reading for August met expectations, stoking hopes the Federal Reserve is reaching the end of its interest rate increases.

By Kanishka Singh

The head of the United Nations says all countries, including Russia, must abide by resolutions that ban arms exports from North Korea

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden wants auto union UAW and major automakers to work around-the-clock to avoid a strike, White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein said Wednesday.

Edited excerpts: What is Infosys’ AI-first approach? We have been working on AI for some time, with a lot of our initial investments in technologies like machine learning and deep learning. So, while a lot of work or the building blocks for AI were already in place, last year, we saw the potential of the foundational models. The AI-first strategy simply means that we are reimagining everything that we do from a business standpoint to incorporate AI.

BJP headquarters on Wednesday evening following the successful G20 meeting under India's presidency, as he arrived there to attend the party's central election committee meeting. CEC members, including Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh and party president J P Nadda, lined up at the party office in the national capital to receive Modi who was showered with flower petals by the cheering supporters gathered there in large numbers. This was the prime minister's first visit to the BJP headquarters after the G20 Summit, which was largely seen as hugely successful with his leadership drawing praise from world leaders. The BJP has often highlighted the global recognition of Modi's leadership and India's enhanced stature at the international level in its political discourse, an issue which is likely to rise in salience following the G20 meeting as the party gears up for a string of state assembly polls followed by the Lok Sabha elections. The CEC will finalise the names of candidates for the polls in Madhya Pradesh. The CEC met last month and named candidates for 39 seats for the polls in Madhya Pradesh and 21 for Chhattisgarh. These were for the seats where the BJP does not have incumbent MLAs. In a departure from its practice, the BJP has this time begun naming its assembly poll candidates long before the dates for the elections are to be announced. Assembly polls are due in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram in November-December, the last round of state elections before the Lok Sabha contest in 2024. The BJP is in power in Madhya Pradesh while the Congress is in power in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.

Narendra Modi is to chair the central election committee (CEC) meeting of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) at party headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday to deliberate on its candidates for the upcoming state Assembly elections, PTI reported on Wednesday. This will be Modi's first visit to the party office after he chaired the G20 summit in the national capital last weekend. Apart from Prime Minister Modi, home minister Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, and BJP president JP Nadda are the members of the central election committee.