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holy month of Ramadan, significant for Muslims, usually sees heightened tensions in the region. Clashes have historically erupted during this time, particularly in Jerusalem's Old City, a site sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Buy or sell stocks: Despite strong global cues on a possible US Fed rate cut buzz, the Indian stock market remained range-bound on Thursday last week. The Nifty 50 index added 19 points and closed at the 22,493 level, the BSE-sensitive index Sensex went up 33 points and ended at the 74,119 mark whereas the Bank Nifty index finished 129 points lower at 47,865 level.

assets were joint holdings. He had also named nominees in all investments and even made a detailed will. I was devastated when he died in 2021, but the steps he had taken during his lifetime ensured that his family inherited his assets without any hassles. However, the financial issues don’t end with the distribution of the assets of the deceased. The tax liability of the individual cannot be ignored, and has to be borne by his legal heirs. As a first step, a legal representative might have to file the tax return on behalf of the dead person for the year in which he died. Filing the tax return is mandatory if the gross total income from all sources is above Rs.2.5 lakh for individuals below 60 years, Rs.3 lakh for those between 60 and 80 years and Rs.5 lakh for super senior citizens above 80 years.

Trinamool Congress announced candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal striking a fine balance by fielding 12 women, 10 SCs, 3 STs, 2 OBCs while 16 candidates, including MPs and MLAs, have been repeated. Around 11 new faces have been brought in. Sons of the soil, adivasis, gorkhas, Rajbonshi, Matuas, minority community and women have been given representation. The biggest surprise was Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan. Party chief Mamata Banerjee walked up the platform with all the 42 Lok Sabha candidates at the Brigade Ground rally on Sunday. Abhishek Banerjee, who will be contesting from the Diamond Harbour constituency, announced the name of former cricketer and IPL player Yusuf Pathan who will be contesting from Baharampur. Trinamool Congress has made it tough for Congress state president Adhir Ranjan by fielding the former cricketer against Adhir Ranjan in Baharampur. Trinamool usually puts up strong candidates in Malda and Murshidabad, both Congress strongholds. Former IPS officer from West Bengal cadre, Prasun Banerjee whose last posting was as DIG Raiganj Range (as IGP), will contest from Malda North.

The script at China’s National People’s Congress is pre-determined months before the event, but there had been speculation this week that Beijing might name a new foreign minister. Instead, it seems senior diplomat Wang Yi will continue in the role. The world’s second-largest economy has missed a trick.

Federal regulators are putting off a decision on Eli Lilly’s potential Alzheimer’s treatment with an unusual request to have an advisory committee examine the drug

President Joe Biden is all-in on calling out “shrinkflation.”

President Joe Biden has signed into law a package of spending bills passed by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies

An oil and gas trade group in North Dakota has ended a workforce recruitment program that brought Ukrainians from their war-torn country to North Dakota's oil fields to fill jobs

Private sector investment in clean energy, especially in countries like India, is pivotal for the course of energy transition, said Riccardo Puliti, regional vice president, Asia and the Pacific, at International Finance Corporation. India continues to be the key destination for IFC, including in energy transition, and the World Bank Group member is looking to push up its investment in the country in the ongoing fiscal, which runs from July through June. In FY23 (July-June), IFC committed $3 billion across 30 projects, more than doubling its lending year-on-year. «This year we will do substantively more than that [FY23]. India is a country willing to move the needle on the energy mix,» he said. Financing that brings in private sector investment is vital to scaling India's climate solutions, he said. «The rule of the game is really to mobilise the private sector,» he added. India is IFC's largest investment destination with 10.4% of its global portfolio. It will help expand and diversify capital sources for critical power infrastructure, as done through its investment in IndiGrid, he said. IFC is also looking at sustainability-linked finance, enabling issuers to build a strong pipeline of green projects, Puliti said. IFC's focus is to leverage private capital to up support for sustainable infrastructure, industrial decarbonization, and green finance.

Congress leaders of Rajasthan, including former ministers Rajendra Yadav and Lal Chand Kataria, joined BJP on Sunday ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Former Congress MLAs Ricchpal Mirdha, Vijaypal Mirdha and Khiladi Bairwa, former independent MLA Alok Beniwal, former state Congress chief Seva Dal Suresh Chaudhary, Rampal Sharma and Riju Jhunjhunwala, among other leaders, also joined BJP, which recently came to power in Rajasthan. Alok Beniwal is the son of the former governor of Gujarat Kamla Beniwal. Rajasthan CM Bhajanlal Sharma, state BJP president CP Joshi and Union minister Bhupendra Yadav welcomed them into the party at their state headquarters in Jaipur. Addressing a gathering, Kataria said he joined BJP because the party understands the pain and suffering of farmers, the poor and the common man. It was CM Shama who worked to resolve the issue of the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project, he said.

Egypt was in contact with senior Hamas and Israeli figures as well as other mediators on Sunday in an effort to restart negotiations for a truce in the Gaza Strip during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins on Monday or Tuesday, two Egyptian security sources said. Egypt's contacts with Hamas and Israeli intelligence agency Mossad on Sunday were carried out under a mandate from the Egyptian presidency in an effort to bring the two sides' divergent positions together, the sources said, without providing further details.

Congress leaders including former ministers Rajendra Yadav and Lal Chand Kataria joined the BJP Sunday, days before the expected announcement of the Lok Sabha elections. Former Congress MLAs Ricchpal Mirdha, his son Vijaypal Mirdha and Khiladi Bairwa; former independent MLA Alok Beniwal, former state chief of Congress Seva Dal Suresh Chaudhary, Rampal Sharma and Riju Jhunjhunwala among other leaders also joined the state's ruling party. Former chief minister Ashok Gehlot hit out these leaders, saying «people are saying they have pressure from central agencies therefore they are leaving the Congress and joining the BJP». It is a second major jolt to the Congress within a few days as former minister Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya recently joined the BJP which fielded him from Basnwara in the LS elections.

Thackeray faction a MLA and close aide of Uddhav Thackeray has joined the Shiv Sena (shinde). Ravindra Waikar the Jogeshwari MLA was welcomed on Sunday by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde at his official residence ‘Varsha’. The development was in the offing for a while with the UBT camp claiming earlier in February that its MLAs like Waikar were under pressure to switch sides to the Shinde camp due to the probes by the central agencies. Waikar’s entry into the Shiv Sena would hurt the UBT faction as he was not just close to Uddhav but also had business interests with the Thackeray family. Waikar had entered into buying several land parcels with the Thackerays which BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had been raising. Waikar was also being probed by the Enforcement Directorate for constructing a hotel on a plot of land that was reserved by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for a garden. Significantly while Waikar’s entry into the Shiv Sena was being talked about for a while, the Jogeshwari MLA on Sunday surprised many as he was present to welcome Uddhav

National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from Maharashtra, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana, and Bihar are likely to discuss seat sharing with the BJP's top leadership tomorrow. Meanwhile, four leaders from Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and one from Congress joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday in the presence of party's General Secretary Tarun Chugh in New Delhi.

US Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza was on its way to the Mediterranean on Sunday, three days after US President Joe Biden announced plans to increase aid deliveries by sea to the besieged enclave where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are going hungry. The new push for aid came in the final hours before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which could start as early as Sunday evening, depending on the sighting of a crescent moon. Hopes for a new cease-fire by Ramadan faded days ago with negotiations apparently stalled. The opening of the sea corridor, along with airdrops by the US, Jordan and others, showed growing alarm over Gaza's deadly humanitarian crisis and a new willingness to bypass Israeli control over land shipments. Israel said that it welcomed the sea deliveries and would inspect Gaza-bound cargo before it leaves a staging area in nearby Cyprus.

coalition of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples Party is set to finalise the federal cabinet soon with the PML-N deciding to request its prime supporter PPP to join the Cabinet, according to a media report on Sunday. A meeting chaired by the PML-N supremo and three-time former premier Nawaz Sharif and attended by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif besides other leaders decided that the PPP should be approached again with the request to join the federal cabinet. «Shehbaz Sharif told the meeting, which was held prior to the presidential election on Saturday, he would talk to Asif Ali Zardari after his election as the president,» The News International said on Sunday.

Himachal Pradesh news: Amid an ongoing rebellion within the Himachal Pradesh unit of Congress, the party's high command has formed a six-member committee for better coordination between the government and Congress organisation in the hill state. The committee formation came two days after 11 MLAs from Himachal Pradesh including six from Congress and three independents reached BJP-ruled Uttarakhand and vowed to remain in the neighbouring state until Supreme Court hears their disqualification plea.

₹35,000 at an auction held at a private temple at a village near Erode in Tamil Nadu, said the temple authorities. As per custom, the lemon and other items including fruits offered to Lord Shiva during the Mahashivratri festivities observed on Friday night at the Pazhapoosaian temple near Sivagiri village, 35 km from Erode, were auctioned. According to the temple authorities, as many as 15 devotees participated in the auction and a lemon was sold to a devotee from Erode for ₹35,000.

ANI. Chautala, commenting on Singh's move to the Congress said, "For one year he was not able to take any decision and finally, he took it. This is his thinking.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders, including two former MPs, and a Congress leader from Telangana joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday as the ruling party looks to boost its Lok Sabha tally in the southern state. Those who joined the party are Godam Nagesh and Sitaram Nayak, both former MPs, former BRS MLAs Saidy Reddy and Jalagam Venkat Rao, and Srinivas Gomase, who was in the Congress. The leaders praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership. BJP leader and party parliamentary board member K Laxman welcomed them and said while the leaders of other parties are working for the future for their sons and daughters, Modi is working for the country.