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Khongsang railway station in Manipur's Tamenglong district from Guwahati on Monday. Following the announcements of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who visited Manipur for four days on May 29 to June 1, the railway authority in association with the state's transport department on Sunday dispatched the first goods trains carrying food grains and essential commodities to Manipur. Manipur Chief Minister N.

DLF has acquired a controlling 51% stake in a special purpose vehicle (SPV) responsible for a development project spanning around 3.5 million square feet in Mumbai’s Andheri area for approximately Rs 400 crore. “This is part of a bigger slum rehab scheme, where we anticipate that once the entire process is complete, the total saleable area should be in the range of 3 to 3.5 million square feet,” DLF chief executive Ashok Kumar Tyagi said during the real estate developer first quarter earnings call on Monday.

grizzly bear on a trail located west of Yellowstone National Park. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks reported the incident in a statement on Sunday, revealing that the woman's body was found on a trail near West Yellowstone, a town situated in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, just to the west of Yellowstone National Park. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks reported that a woman was found deceased in what appeared to be a bear encounter, based on investigators' discovery of grizzly bear tracks at the scene.

The U.N. chief has urged Russia to resume the internationally brokered deal so that grain can be shipped from Ukraine's Black Sea ports during the war

New Delhi: Over the past few years, financing for disaster risk reduction has been completely transformed in India and a predictable mechanism is in place for financing, not just for disaster response but also disaster mitigation, preparedness and recovery, said Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, P. K.

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Reuters reports Monday, citing a person with direct knowledge of the matter, that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) representatives are set to meet India’s commerce minister this month.

New Delhi: India and the UK concluded the eleventh round of talks for a proposed free trade agreement last week, and the next round of negotiations is due to take place in the coming month, the ministry of commerce & industry said on Monday. The negotiations for the agreement were launched on 13 January 2021.

edtech startup's $1.2 billion term loan, have agreed to work towards amending that loan by Aug. 3, the steering committee of the creditors group said on Monday.

₹119 crore year-on-year against a loss of ₹220 crore during the corresponding quarter last fiscal year. The net interest income (NII) of the company touched 102% and the assets under management (AUM) grew 60% to ₹8,848 crore during the period under review.

Rishi Sunak said on Monday that the government's net zero targets were important to him, but he did not want to do anything that will add to people's bills at a time of high inflation. Britain in 2019 became the first member of the Group of Seven wealthy nations to set a net zero target, but some in Sunak's Conservative Party have criticised the net zero agenda for being too expensive.

college is unaffordable. Or does it? The consensus view is that America has a college-affordability crisis and things are getting worse. According to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, “college costs are out of control".

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Working Group commenced here on Monday with Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, P K Mishra emphasising the importance of structured mechanism to finance disaster risk reduction. Over the last few years, India has completely transformed the way disaster risk reduction is financed, he said.

Rajesh Chadha is senior fellow and Ganesh Sivamani is research associate at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), New Delhi. The views expressed are their own.

China, state media reported Monday. The gym at the No. 34 Middle School in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province collapsed just before 3 pm (0700 GMT) on Sunday, state news agency Xinhua said. «A total of 11 people died in the accident,» state broadcaster CCTV said, adding that an investigation of the accident was in progress. Nineteen people were at the gym when the accident took place, local newspaper Heilongjiang Daily said. Four escaped and four others survived after being pulled from the rubble. Footage aired by CCTV showed the entire roof collapsed onto the gym and rescue workers picking through the debris.

Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien tells ‘Your World with Neil Cavuto’ UPS may be delaying reporting its profits to have a better negotiating position with the union.

By Sabrina Valle

BRICS bloc and its five countries comprising the grouping are deeply connected in terms of values, India's culture minister Meenakshi Lekhi has said. Lekhi, the Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture, met culture ministers of BRICS countries in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa on Friday ahead of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg next month.

By David Randall

Covid-19 pandemic changed the work module outlook for almost every industry. Several technological advancement and progressive undertakings could not have prepared companies to change what they viewed as workplace.  The gargantuan change happened for one particular sex- Women! Surveys and reports have suggested that in an integrally patriarchal society, it has been difficult for women to go back to Working from Office, when they have adapted to working from home.  This preference was evident when Tata Consultancy Services in their annual report noted that a larger chunk of their attrition came from women working in the company after they had been asked to work form office.  Mint had earlier reported, that TCS said more women employees have left India’s top software services company than men in the fiscal year ended 31 March 2023 as its return-to-office policy has led to a “reset of domestic arrangements".