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SP MP Afzal Ansari, brother of slain gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, credited Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for BJP winning 30 Lok Sabha seats in the state. He said that “Modi’s magic remains limited to not more than three seats in the state,” reported TOI. «Had Yogi not camped in Varanasi, retaining his seat would have been difficult,” Ansari claimed.

Supreme Court that the decision to give grace marks to 1,563 candidates of NEET-UG 2024 by the National Testing Agency (NTA) has been cancelled. These 1,563 students will also be given an option to apply for a re-test. The top court was hearing petitions concerning the dispute over the NEET-UG, 2024 exam for entrance into MBBS, BDS, and similar programs.

Mint in an interview. “We have launched one product, particularly for background verification. The first few clients have been on the financial services side, the next set of clients would be on the commerce side, where conversations are happening." In a recent report, investors at venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, which has invested in Perfios, highlighted the increasing adoption of cloud-based SaaS platforms by banks and non-bank lenders for various use cases, including fraud detection, wealth management, customer engagement, and KYC, among others.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may snap ties with Ajit Pawar-led NCP and, instead, fight the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections with Chief Minister Ekanth Shinde-led Shiv Sena as its ally, according to a report in the New Indian Express. This after a write-up in an RSS mouthpiece said that the alliance with Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar-led NCP was one of the reasons for the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll setback in Maharashtra.The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) won 30 of the Maharasthra’s 48 seats in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha Elections 2024. The ruling Mahayuti, a part of the NDA, bagged just 17 seats.

Soundararajan and instructing her something while waging his finger. Tamilisai was the BJP's Lok Sabha Election candidate from South Chennai.

Washington was shot and killed by an off-duty security guard while he was attempting to return a faulty airsoft gun to a sporting goods store last week.Aaron Brown Myers, 51, was arrested for fatally shooting the teenager outside a Big 5 Sporting Goods store at a strip mall in Renton, Wash. on June 5.

Aliens might be living among us, Harvard academics are suggesting, perhaps residing in an advanced technological civilization deep underground or, maybe, in a base inside the moon.That’s right — a new paper by researchers at Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program posits that “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP), more commonly referred to as UFOs and extraterrestrial beings, could be living underground, on the moon or even walking among humans.And, yes, the authors are fully aware the report will raise eyebrows and likely be met with skepticism by the scientific community, but encourage “consideration in a spirit of epistemic humility and openness.”The new study, titled The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis: A case for scientific openness to a concealed earthly explanation for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, provides four possible explanations for the ongoing “concern regarding UAPs.”“Hypotheses for such phenomena tend to fall into two classes: a conventional terrestrial explanation (e.g., human-made technology), or an extraterrestrial explanation (i.e., advanced civilisations from elsewhere in the cosmos),” they said.“However, there is also a third minority class of hypothesis: an unconventional terrestrial explanation, outside the prevailing consensus view of the universe.”The authors, Tim Lomas (Harvard University), Brendan Case (Harvard University) and Michael Paul Masters (Montana Tech of the University of Montana), make the case for the possibility of so-called “cryptoterrestrials” to explain unidentified and unexplainable observations made around the world each year.They suggest a number of “cryptoterrestrial” hypotheses (CTH) to argue that aliens could walk among us, including:The authors, however, do

Shriram Finance Ltd. traded 1.41 per cent up in Thursday's trade at 10:40AM (IST). Around 7,303 shares changed hands on the counter. The counter opened at Rs 2575.6 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 2615.0 and Rs 2575.6, respectively, in the session so far. Shares of the company of Shriram Finance Ltd. quoted a 52-week high of Rs 2658.0 and a 52-week low of Rs 1390.2.

Vikhroli station caused major disruptions on the Main line of Mumbai's suburban train network on Thursday morning. The technical fault, which occurred around 7 am, led to significant delays and overcrowding at several stations during rush hours.

Kerala mourn the loss of their loved ones in the Kuwait fire incident that claimed several lives, many of them are yet to receive any official confirmation from the authorities. Television channels showed pictures of 14 persons from Kerala from across the state who lost their lives in the fire.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 0.7 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.47 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 0.44 per cent), State Bank of India(up 0.29 per cent) and IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 0.13 per cent) were among the top gainers.

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Get all the NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live Updates here on LiveMint!The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court Wednesday asked the National Testing Agency to produce the original records of a student who has alleged she is yet to get her NEET result.The bench has fixed June 18 as the next date of hearing in the matter.A vacation bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan passed the order on a writ petition filed by student Aayushi Patel. (PTI)The examination was held by the NTA on May 5 across 4,750 centres and around 24 lakh candidates took it.

Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, he sent in loyalists, including ex-boring company exec Steve Davis and cousin James Musk, to “examine whether existing employees were value for money," according to a report by The Telegraph. He soon slashed 6,000 workers or 80 per cent of then-Twitter, now X, in a move that shocked the industry.The report added that employees were reportedly asked to justify their roles and state which colleagues should be retained.

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Oracle, Casey’s General Stores rise; Vera Bradley, PetMed fall

The CEO of Southwest Airlines says he is not resigning in the face of pressure from a hedge fund that wants him fired

China's Premier Li Qiang has arrived in New Zealand at the start of a weeklong tour that also includes Australia and Malaysia

The United States has widened its sanctions against Russia as G7 leaders prepare to gather in Italy for a summit where top priorities will be boosting support for Ukraine and grinding down Russia’s war machine

Multimillion-dollar works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama and Alberto Giacometti went on the market as the Art Basel fair opened in Switzerland

Food authorities in Denmark have recalled three types of spicy instant noodle products imported from South Korea over possible risks for “acute poisoning.”

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories: The company has signed a licensing agreement with US-based Ingenus Pharmaceuticals to commercialise Cyclophosphamide injection, a cancer treatment. Under the agreement, Dr Reddy’s will commercialise the injection for the US market and pay Ingenus 50% of the calculated profit share.Torrent Pharmaceuticals: The company announced on Wednesday that it has received a Form 483 with five observations from the US FDA following an inspection of its manufacturing plant in Indrad, Gujarat.Whirlpool of India, Hindustan Unilever: The two companies announced a new marketing alliance for Surf Excel.