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₹20,000 crore, or 23%, according to data from the rural development ministry released recently. The revised FY24 estimate for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was ₹86,000 crore, and the actual spending has come to ₹1.06 trillion. However, compared to the ₹1.01 trillion spent on rural jobs in FY23, the increase is only about ₹5,000 crore.

Actor Johnny Wactor of General Hospital was shot and killed in Los Angeles early Saturday during a suspected car robbery. He was 37.

Oil prices perked up in muted trade owing to public holidays in Britain and United States after a downbeat week characterised by the outlook for U.S. interest rates in the face of sticky inflation. The Brent crude July contract was up 76 cents at $82.88 a barrel by 1411 GMT. The more active August contract rose 80 cents to $82.64. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 78 cents at $78.50.

Cinepolis has partnered with Star Sports to screen all Team India matches during the ICC T20 Men's World Cup, which will be held in the US and West Indies from June 1–29. The company has secured cinema screening rights for the T20 World Cup, allowing Indian cricket fans to watch matches on the big screen at 40 Cinepolis locations nationwide. It will broadcast all India games, including semi-finals and finals, live from June 5 to June 29, starting at 8 pm IST.

The Chief of Staff to Ontario Premier Doug Ford routinely relied on a personal email address to facilitate government-related communications, Global News has learned, despite his assertions to Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner that government work is always conducted using an official email address.

Click here to read more Mukesh Ambani is set to enter Africa with a telecoms venture, seeking to win mobile broadband customers in a high-growth market, Bloomberg reported.Radisys Corp., a unit of Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries Ltd., will provide key network infrastructure, applications and smartphones for Ghana-based Next-Gen InfraCo., according to Harkirit Singh, the executive director of NGIC. He described the plans ahead of NGIC’s launch announcement on Monday in Mumbai, India’s financial hub.

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commercial complex Godrej One to Godrej Industries for Rs 157 crore. Along with the office space spread over 8th and 9th floor of the North wing of the commercial tower, Godrej Industries will also get exclusive access to a total 75 car parking slots in the building. The buyer has paid stamp duty of Rs 9.42 crore for the registration of the transaction. The office space on the 9th floor has already been leased to managed flexible workspace provider Simpliwork Offices for a period of 60 months until March 31, 2026. This lease will also be transferred to Godrej industries as the new landlord, showed the documents accessed through Propstack.

Young Sheldon" have eagerly anticipated a sequel series that explores Sheldon's years at Caltech. However, recent comments from executive producer Steve Molaro have dampened those hopes, providing a disappointing update on the potential project.

HCLTech on Monday said it has partnered with British semiconductor and software design company Arm to work on custom silicon chips that support AI-driven business operations. A semiconductor designed for a specific task is referred as custom silicon chip. The partnership will enable semiconductor manufacturers, system OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and cloud services providers to enhance the computing efficiency of their data centre environments, HCLTech said in a statement.

Pakistan's security forces were conducting several raids in the country's volatile northwest, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, when shootouts ensued leaving seven soldiers and 23 militants dead, the army said Monday. The first exchange of fire occurred overnight on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing six militants and two army officers who «embraced martyrdom,» according to a statement by Pakistan's military. A second shootout happened during another security operation on Monday in the district of Tank, leaving 10 militants dead, the statement said, adding that five soldiers and seven militants were also killed during a separate fire exchange in the district of Khyber.

₹153-161 a share. The Aimtron Electronics IPO will become available for subscription to investors om Thursday , 30 May, 2024 and will close on Monday 3 June 2024.Aimtron Electronics Initial public offering (IPO) is a fresh issue of 54.05 lakh shares and Aimtron Electronics plans to raise ₹87.02 crore through the issue.

health cooperation, India and Japan have agreed to advance their collaborative efforts during a meeting on the sidelines of the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, officials on Monday said. The two nations emphasised their commitment to building on the Memorandum of Cooperation signed in 2018, they said. The key areas of focus included expanding cooperation into new domains such as digital health, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, elderly care, and tackling non-communicable diseases. This initiative aims to leverage technological advancements to improve health outcomes and address the growing challenges posed by an ageing population and lifestyle-related diseases, the officials said.

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Nazara Technologies share price rallied over 11.50 per cent on Monday to ₹685 per share, hitting 52-week high after the company said that the promoter Mitter Infotech sold 6.38 percent stake to Plutus Wealth Management through a block deal, on May 27. Plutus Wealth Management has been a pre-IPO investor in Nazara Technologies since 2020.“The Block Trade will provide liquidity for the promoters who have dedicated 25 years to the Company’s growth.

₹366. The BLS E-Services share price made an impressive start on February 6, 2024 where it opened at ₹305 on the NSE, 125.93% more than the ₹135 issue price.

NEW DELHI:New Delhi: A high-ranking British delegation has cancelled its visit to New Delhi ahead of general elections in the UK, two persons aware of the development said, throwing talks on a planned free trade agreement into uncertainty.British prime minister Rishi Sunak has called elections on 4 July.Also read | The team was scheduled to arrive on Tuesday (28 May) to finalize terms on contentious issues such as work visas for Indians, duty relaxations, and imports of British-made electric vehicle, they said.New Delhi had been hopeful of progress on the trade agreement with the UK, frequently sending out teams of Indian officials to London for talks.The most recent was in the second week of May, during which the Indian deputy chief negotiator returned with reports of significant advances on mobility—an Indian demand—and electric vehicles.“The British officials have cancelled their visit without providing a 'specific reason. It is assumed that the announcement of elections may have led to the cancellation of their trip," one of those cited above said.“The deal was progressing very positively.