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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said OBCs need not have any apprehension about the state government’s notification in connection with activist Manoj Jarange’s Maratha quota stir and also schooled his cabinet colleague Chhagan Bhujbal on issuance of Kunbi certificates.

The Express Tribune newspaper reported. According to the report, in a letter to Chinese Premier Li Qiang, caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has requested his counterpart to roll over the debt as soon as the deposit time for the loan from China is completed on March 23.

Macrotech Developers Q3 Results: Macrotech Developers announced its October-December quarter results for fiscal 2023-24 (Q3FY24) on Saturday, reporting a rise of 25 per cent in consolidated net profit at ₹505 crore, compared to ₹405 crore in the year-ago period. The real estate developer's revenue from operations in the third quarter of current fiscal rose 65.2 per cent at ₹2,930.6 crore, compared to ₹1,774 crore in the corresponding period last year. The Mumbai-based company's total income in the December quarter rose to ₹2,958.7 crore from ₹1,902.4 crore in the year-ago period.

ASI survey report has «reconfirmed» that the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi was constructed after demolishing a «magnificent temple» at the site and demanded that the structure be declared 'a Hindu temple and handed over to the community. It also demanded that Hindus be permitted to offer «sewa puja» to the 'Shivlinga' found in the «so-called Wazukhana area» at the disputed site. «The evidence collected and the conclusions provided by the ASI do prove that the religious character of this place of worship existed on the 15th day of August, 1947, and as at present is of a Hindu Temple,» VHP working president Alok Kumar said in a statement.

According to data from Layoffs.fyi, a layoff-tracking website, a total of 2,62,595 employees were laid off last year by 1,187 tech companies. So far in January, 91 tech companies have already fired 24,564 employees.

SiriSummarization private framework within the code has been making calls to OpenAI's ChatGPT API. This integration plays a pivotal role in Apple's internal testing of evolving AI capabilities, as evident from system prompts like "please summarize," "please answer this question," and "please summarize the given text," as reported by 9to5Mac. Moreover, these system prompts suggest an integration of AI features within the Messages app, aligning with earlier reports from Bloomberg that hinted at Apple's efforts to integrate a Message app capable of handling queries and auto-completing sentences.

Indian Navy, the oil tanker has 22 Indian, and 1 Bangladeshi crew onboard. Indian Navy's INS Visakhapatnam, a guided missile destroyer, deployed in the Gulf of Aden deployed a team to help fire-fighting on the United Kingdom's merchant vessel. According to Navy provided information the distress call was made on the night of 26 January, Friday.

semiconductor companies including Intel, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co in the coming weeks to help build new factories in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. The forthcoming announcements are aimed at kick-starting manufacturing of advanced semiconductors that power smartphones, artificial intelligence and weapons systems, the WSJ reported, citing industry executives familiar with the negotiations.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar making another switch to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Manoj Jha has said that Lalu Prasad Yadav, the chief of the party has been authorised to take all the decisions. Speaking to the reporters here, Manoj Jha said that the meeting held on Saturday in Patna deliberated on all state and national issues. «A positive meeting was held. Discussion on several things was done.

Pakistan has sought financial assistance of USD 2 billion from its close ally China for a year, according to a media report on Saturday. Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar, in a letter, has requested his Chinese Premier Li Qiang to roll over the debt as soon as the deposit time for the loan from China is completed on March 23. In his letter, Kakar expressed gratitude to China for its financial assistance to Pakistan during its economic crisis as the cash-strapped country has secured a safe deposit of a total of USD 4 billion in loans from China, reducing the country's mounting pressure on external debt payments and stabilising its foreign exchange reserves, The Express Tribune newspaper reported.

retail lending is increasingly posing concerns for the banking industry, arising from a potential systemic risk. The non-mortgage lending growth of banks and NBFCs has been growing at 25-30% YoY, mainly led by credit cards, durables, autos, personal loans, education loans, and others. A recent RBI research delves into the empirics of retail credit growth and concludes that the quality of retail loan portfolio is healthy across banks, product categories, and borrower risk classes, even as growth continues to surge. But it warns that some subcategories, mainly credit cards and vehicle loan portfolios, show signs of weakness, and need close monitoring. The broader message of this study is that there are incipient concerns about rising credit risks from rampant retail lending by banks and NBFCs. However, the fact that the RBI’s research recommends further regulatory tightening to contain the spillover effect aligns with our fervent alerts on exuberant retail lending. Considering RBI’s latest study, the announced and prospective regulatory tightening, and our assessment of the economic cycle, the headwinds for the Indian banks and lending industry will likely intensify.

there was a bomb under his seat, after which the authorities conducted a thorough check of the aircraft. A team of Mumbai Police also rushed to the spot soon after the incident was reported. "No suspicious object was found during the investigation," Mumbai police said.

Arif Mohammed Khan informed Kerala Raj Bhavan. The move comes after Kerala's governor faced protest from activists, allegedly belonging to Student Federation of India (SFI) in Kollam on Saturday.

What a day for the United Nations. Its International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a preliminary ruling Friday in South Africa’s case against Israel that managed to be both outrageous and meaningless. At the same time, its special forever-refugee agency for the Palestinians, Unrwa, had to fire staff accused of involvement in Hamas’s Oct.

Mallikarjun Kharge is “trying to speak with the Bihar chief minister". Ramesh said Kharge made several attempts to speak with Nitish Kumar, but as both of them are very busy, no conversation could be held between them. Follow Bihar politics LIVE Updates here “There will be a time…they have called back but no conversation could be held between them so far…this happens sometimes," Ramesh said.

reported Business Standard. Actively-managed debt funds were managing ₹6.73 lakh crore at the end of April 2019. Last month, their assets grew by 9 per cent to ₹7.3 trillion.

'PDA' strategy will change history." Akhilesh Yadav's 'PDA' strategy refers to targeting the "Pichada (backward), Dalit (oppressed), and Alpsankhyak (minority)" communities. ALSO READ: ‘Want Nitish Kumar to stay’: Akhilesh Yadav blames Congress for Bihar political turmoil Uttar Pradesh sends 80 members to the Lower House of Parliament. The SP chief's statement came as the Lok Sabha Elections are due in April-May this year.

Mississippi has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after her 42-year-old son was found dead in a wooden box behind a false wall in his mother’s home.Police in Gulfport, Miss. learned throughout the course of their investigation that Jerri Lynn Roby, who also goes by the last name Isreal, was previously “convicted of murder in Florida around 1995,” the Gulfport Police Department wrote in a statement.The investigation began in late Dec 2023 after out-of-state relatives of the family called 911 to report Isreal’s son, John Allen Gaither, missing, Gulfport police spokesperson Jason DuCré told CNN.

(Reuters) — MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) billionaire Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, sold 65.3 million shares in the ecommerce giant last year, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.

BEIJING (Reuters) — China's major southern city of Guangzhou fully relaxed home purchase limits for some people on Saturday and said it would increase affordable housing supply, in a move to support the local property market.

By Jonathan Allen