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R Hari Kumar retires from service. Tripathi who is currently serving as Vice Chief of the Naval Staff, will take charge on April 30, 2024. The defense ministry, in an official statement, said, “The government has appointed Vice Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, presently serving as Vice Chief of the Naval Staff as the next Chief of the Naval Staff with effect from the afternoon of April 30, 2024." 1) Vice Admiral Tripathi was born on May 15, 1964.

Nadir Godrej resigned from the board of Godrej & Boyce earlier this year, while Jamshyd Godrej relinquished his seat on boards of GCPL and Godrej Properties. The amicable separation is between two branches of the founding family with Adi Godrej and brother Nadir Godrej on one side and their cousins Jamshyd Godrej and Smita Godrej Crishna on the other. The latter two are brother and sister.

Mixed martial artist Renato Moicano explains his fascination with Austrian economics and shares his love for America on 'Making Money.'

here to register. The virtual fundraising event aims to provide a platform for NGOs working to address pressing social issues and make a meaningful impact in our communities. During the Fast Pitch event, a panel of judges consisting of social impact experts will assess these NGOs according to their potential for impact, scalability, sustainability, and overall feasibility.

technology sector particularly flourished, experiencing a 25% increase in deal values compared to the previous quarter, driven by five high-value deals (≥$50 million), constituting 59% of total deal activity, Grant Thornton Bharat's Q1 Technology Dealtracker said on Thursday. The report stated that despite a funding slowdown and economic uncertainty, India’s tech startup ecosystem secured the fourth-highest funding globally. Further, it said that Krutium AI emerged as one of the two unicorns in the quarter. Both M&A and PE activity witnessed increased deal activity over last two quarters.

The Supreme Court has made it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims under federal civil rights law, even when they are not demoted or docked pay

WBJEE Admit Card 2024 on April 18. Candidates preparing for the West Bengal Joint Entrance Exam 2024 can now access their hall tickets from the official website at wbjeeb.nic.in. The WBJEE 2024 examination is slated to occur on April 28, 2024 (Sunday). The exam comprises two papers: Paper-I, focusing on Mathematics, will run from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, followed by Paper-II, covering Physics and Chemistry, scheduled from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Candidates are advised to take note of these timings to ensure their presence for both segments of the exam.

GE (formerly General Electric) recently sold its iconic 60-acre Crotonville campus, established in 1956, for $22 million. This facility, once the heart of GE’s corporate culture, thrived during Jack Welch's tenure when managers yearned to network with top executives and immerse themselves in the company's culture. But following GE's recent segmentation, Crotonville's significance dwindled.

Lok Sabha elections will be held tomorrow in several states. In total, 102 Lok Sabha seats across 21 states and Union territories will go to the polls in the first phase on April 19. Polling will be held in all seats of Tamil Nadu (39), Uttarakhand (5), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Meghalaya (2), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Puducherry (1), Sikkim (1), and Lakshadweep (1). Besides, there will be voting in 12 seats in Rajasthan, 8 in Uttar Pradesh, 6 in Madhya Pradesh, 5 seats each in Assam and Maharashtra, 4 in Bihar, 3 in West Bengal, 2 in Manipur, and one seat each in Tripura, Jammu and Kashmir, and Chhattisgarh. In 2019, the UPA had won 45 of these 102 seats, and the NDA 41. Six of these seats have been redrawn as part of the delimitation exercise.

Sabyasachi Majumdar, Senior Director, CARE Ratings, the power sector is expected to have ample availability of electricity from thermal, gas, wind, and solar sources. The assurance lies in the willingness of distribution companies to pay for the power they receive. The current season is particularly favorable for wind and solar power generation. Unlike the supply constraints seen in CY21 and CY22, the upcoming year is anticipated to have a sufficient supply of electricity without absolute constraints. This positive outlook is a welcome change for the energy sector. Give us a sense as to what the overall outlook for the sector and the country as a whole given that we understand that peak power demand is expected to hit 260 megawatts this summer. Are we prepared for it? Sabyasachi Majumdar: We have a peak demand of 260 gigawatts. On the supply side, we have close to 250 gigawatts of thermal capacity which includes both coal as well as gas. In addition, we have about 17 gigawatts of capacity, about seven to eight gigawatts of nuclear and about 10 gigawatts of biomass and cogen and these are all capable of running as baseload stations.

West Bengal government on Thursday preponed the summer vacation of state-run and aided schools from April 22 in view of the prevailing heatwave conditions. A notification issued by the School Education Department on Thursday said apart from pupils, the teaching and non-teaching staff of the schools will be on leave during the period but subject to the direction of election authorities concerned in view of ensuing Lok Sabha elections. «Considering the prevailing heatwave situation, the competent authority has decided to prepone the summer vacation in the schools under your administrative jurisdiction with effect from April 22 except for schools in hill areas of Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts, wherein the existing academic schedule may continue until further order,» the notice issued by School Education Secretary to the presidents of primary education and secondary boards said. Earlier in view of the ensuing elections and keeping in mind many schools in northern parts of Bengal have already been turned into camps of security forces as also booths, the summer vacation had been scheduled from May 6.

Uniqus Consultech, a tech-enabled global platform that offers ESG and accounting & reporting consulting, raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Sorin Investments. Within a year of launch, the firm has expanded to eight cities in the US, India, and the Middle East, with over 350 professionals led by 40 partners and directors.

Delhi-based Numax Realcon Consortium has been granted the licence by the Muzaffarnagar Development Authority to develop an integrated township on 77 acres of land in Muzaffarnagar.

BJP has hatred towards minorities, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said the saffron party even refused to mention the word «minorities» in its manifesto, instead saying it as «marginalised». Owaisis said AIMIM's alliance in Uttar Pradesh with Anupriya Patel's Apna Dal (K) will continue even in the Assembly polls and the party will support Prakash Ambedkar in Akola and Anand Ambedkar in Amaravati in Maharashtra. «I have seen the BJP's advertisement on April 17 in various newspapers. Please see when they talk about giving loans or help to start a business from the government, it says ST and OBC. The BJP is even refusing to mention word minorities forget about Muslims. The word minorities is mentioned in the Constitution of India and the BJP has a great hatred for the word M,» Owaisi told PTI videos on Wednesday. «They have not mentioned the word minorities. They say scholarships will be given to marginalised communities,» he said.

Securities and Exchange Board of India in 2021, but not all companies are reporting all such incidents, said experts. Besides, injury reporting is more robust regarding white-collar employees than the blue-collar workforce, they said.

state-run WAM news agency termed the rainfall as “a historic weather event" ." The widespread rainfall observed across the UAE is attributed to various factors, including cloud seeding. Here are 10 points to know on Dubai floods 1. The rain caused chaos for residents as water entered the city’s expensive homes and underground car parks with some buildings were also left without power.

VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of online news aggregator Dailyhunt and short-video platform Josh, on Wednesday said it has acquired New York-based digital magazine store Magzter. Founded in 2011, homegrown Magzter is a cross-platform, self-service, global digital newsstand with a library of over 8,500 premium magazines and newspapers. The deal, financials of which went undisclosed, marks Dailyhunt’s foray into premium content.

RBI) draft norms around stricter Know Your Customer (KYC) rules for payment aggregators could slow the onboarding of online merchants by as much as 90%, industry insiders said. The new rules will be applicable to existing players across online payment platforms, such as Razorpay, Cashfree, and PayU, card payment companies, such as Pine Labs, Innoviti Payments, and MSwipe, and QR code deployers, such as PhonePe, BharatPe and Google Pay.

commission on sales, besides shelling out on advertising and discounting on the apps. This is in stark contrast to the 10-20% commission that large, more established, FMCG companies pay quick-commerce companies like Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart, reflecting the intense competition for visibility on these platforms.

Kaynes Technology will manufacture 3,000 indigenously designed RUDRA high-performance computing (HPC) servers for government-owned Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC). ET has learnt that CDAC, a research and development organisation under the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY), has already awarded the contract to Kaynes, a listed company.

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange that was banned by the government in January, is poised to return to India by paying a penalty of about $2 million, people aware of the developments told ET. The crypto exchange will come back as an entity registered with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the finance ministry, they added. FIU is tasked with oversight of trade in virtual digital assets (VDA). Binance will comply with all applicable laws, including the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as well as the VDA taxation framework, “which it had been sloppily flouting until now”, said one person cited above.