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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday claimed that the BJP is the «biggest enemy» of Maharashtra's farmers and asserted that the state has decided that farmers will benefit only by removing the double engine government from power. In a post in Hindi on X, Kharge slammed the BJP over farmer suicides in Maharashtra and said the promise of making the state drought-free is a «jumla» (rhetoric). «BJP is the biggest enemy of Maharashtra's farmers. 20,000 farmers committed suicide. Huge cut in funding in farming. Promise of Rs 20,000 crore water grid turned out to be false. Promise of making Maharashtra drought-free is a 'Jumla',» he said. Kharge also attacked the BJP over its «refusal to give compensation to the farmers» while insurance companies are being showered with Rs 8000 crore.

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), UPI is an instant real-time payment system for facilitating inter-bank transactions through mobile phones. Muizzu on Sunday set up a consortium to introduce UPI in the country and appointed TradeNet Maldives Corporation Limited as its leading agency, according to a press release by the President's Office. The president also suggested the participation of the country's banks, telecom companies, state-owned companies and fintech companies in the consortium.

U.S. military has rushed its advanced anti-missile system to Israel and it is now «in place», Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. THAAD, or the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, is a critical part of the U.S. military's layered air defense systems and adds to Israel's already formidable anti-missile defenses. «The THAAD system is in place,» Austin said, speaking to reporters before his arrival in Ukraine on Monday.

mutual funds attracted around Rs 30,350 crore inflows during April to September of the current financial year. The continuous inflows in these categories were mainly due to high returns offered by these categories. According to the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), mid and small cap funds received inflows of Rs 32,924 crore during the same time a year ago. “Investments in mid and small cap funds should be made based on one’s risk appetite. It is important for investors to note that mid and small cap segments are highly volatile. While they can give exceptionally high returns in up markets, they can fall equally hard in down markets. Therefore, investors should take exposure in these funds in line with their risk appetite and invest only with a long-term investment horizon,” said Melvyn Santarita, Analyst – Manager Research, Morningstar Investment Research India

Babri Masjid land dispute. Raj stated that if the Chief Justice had prayed for resolving other pressing concerns, such as ordinary citizens getting justice without financial burdens or the misuse of agencies like the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and Income Tax Department (IT), these issues might have also been addressed. This comes after CJI Chandrachud on Saturday had said that he sat before God (in his home) and asked him to find a solution to the vexed Ram Janmabhoomi- Babri Masjid dispute when the case came up before a bench led by Justice Ranjan Gogoi in which Chandrachud was one of the justices.

Sebi for an initial public offering of Rs 570 crore, a statement said on Monday. The initial public offering (IPO) comprises a fresh issue of shares worth up to Rs 170 crore and an Offer for Sale (OFS) of shares worth up to Rs 400 crore, Jaro Education said in the statement. Promoter Sanjay Namdeo Salunkhe is selling equity shares worth Rs 400 crore through the OFS route.

Elon Musk is pledging to give away $1 million a day to voters for signing his political action committee’s petition backing the Constitution

Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general, Naim Qassem, has reportedly fled crisis-stricken Lebanon and is now residing in Tehran, according to local media sources. The move, reportedly ordered by Iranian leaders, is seen as a precautionary measure amidst rising concerns for Qassem’s safety, as he is believed to be a potential target of an Israeli assassination.

Ekta Kapoor and her mother Shobha Kapoor have landed in legal trouble. A case has been filed against them under the POCSO Act for allegedly showing inappropriate scenes involving minor girls in an episode of the ALT Balaji's web series 'Gandi Baat'. The case is related to season 6 of the web series 'Gandi Baat' on the OTT platform 'Alt Balaji'. According to Mumbai Police, a case has been registered against Balaji Telefilm Limited, Ekta Kapoor and her mother Shobha Kapoor at MHB police station in Mumbai under section 295-A of IPC, IT Act and sections 13 and 15 of POCSO Act.

sovereign defaults has finally crested, with the likes of Ghana, Sri Lanka and Zambia concluding years of painful debt reworks. But the International Monetary Fund and others worry that a dangerous liquidity shortfall could take its place in many emerging economies — setting back development, stunting climate change mitigation and fuelling distrust in governments and Western institutions. The issue, and what to do about it when western countries are increasingly loath to send money overseas, is a key topic at the IMF World Bank autumn meetings taking place in Washington, D.C. this week.

mutual funds have turned Rs 10,000 monthly SIP to more than Rs 2 crore in the last 25 years. Only these three value and contra funds have completed 25 years in the market. SBI Contra Fund, the oldest and the largest contra fund, turned Rs 10,000 monthly SIP to Rs 7.15 crore in the last 25 years. The scheme gave an XIRR of 20.83% in the same period.

Donald Trump has largely avoided interviews where he will be fact-checked in real time. But on Sunday, he sat for an interview on Fox News, where he was challenged directly on some of his most glaring falsehoods of the campaign. The exchanges that resulted provided a case study in the tactics the former president uses when confronted with facts that contradict his statements. Trump repeatedly denied knowledge of information that has long been publicly available, questioned the sources and then pivoted away to an unrelated topic.

hybrid funds. Because of the uncertainties regarding the global economy and ever rising Indian stock market, advisors have been advising investors to move cautiously. In such a scenario they believe that investing in hybrid mutual funds — schemes that invest in equity and debt — may serve investors, especially new and inexperienced investors, better. Conservative hybrid mutual funds are the entry to the world of hybrid funds. These schemes invest mostly in debt and a small percent in equity. As per the Sebi norms, conservative hybrid schemes must invest 75-90% in debt instruments and 10-25% in stocks. These schemes are ideal for investors looking to invest a small part of their corpus in equity to earn some extra returns. Also Read |Jio Financial, Tata Power among top 10 largecaps bought by mutual funds in September

Donald Trump's references to her father's genitalia “a poor choice of approaches" to honoring his memory, adding that she wasn't upset by the remarks, as per AP report. “There’s nothing much to say. I’m not really upset,” Peg Palmer Wears, 68, told The Associated Press in an interview on Sunday. «I think it was a poor choice of approaches to remembering my father, but what are you going to do?” On Saturday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania — the city where Palmer was born in 1929 and learned to golf from his father — Trump kicked off his rally in the campaign's closing weeks with a detailed, 12-minute story about Palmer that included an anecdote about what Palmer looked like in the showers, AP reported.

Ganderbal district on Sunday, officials said. The terrorists opened fire on a camp housing labourers of a private company working on the construction of a tunnel in the Gund area of the district, they said. Two labourers died on the spot while two others sustained injuries, the officials said, adding that further details are awaited.

lathicharge by police on members of Hindu organisations protesting against the desecration of a temple idol here, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Sunday accused Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of an "anti-Hindu attitude". Addressing a press conference, he said some youth were holding a protest peacefully on Saturday against the idol desecration at Muthyalamma temple in Secunderabad. The police «brutally» beat them up, which was not seen in Hyderabad in recent times, he alleged. Even during the Telangana statehood movement, the police did not behave in that way, Kishan Reddy, who is also Telangana BJP president, said. «Why did the chief minister order lathicharge against them yesterday? This is totally anti-Hindu way. This is nothing but pacifying the other sections. Several people were injured. Are they terrorists?,» Kishan Reddy asked.

An investigation revealed traces of low explosives near the blast site, prompting a thorough inquiry by the Delhi Police, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), and the National Security Guard (NSG). Officials at the scene told that traces of low explosives and other materials commonly used in crude bombs were found.

Prashant Vihar area after the blast happened near a CRPF school. «It wasn't like a firecracker, the sound was incredibly loud. And for 15-20 minutes, there was just smoke everywhere,» said Kiran Sachdeva, a resident of the locality. Sachdeva, in her 60s, described the blast as an «earthquake-like» shock, and said her house was about 200-250 meters away from the site.

retail distributors has asked the antitrust authority to investigate three quick commerce companies — Zomato's Blinkit, Swiggy and Zepto — for alleged predatory pricing, a letter showed on Sunday. Quick commerce is a new shopping rage in India, with companies promising deliveries of anything from groceries to electronics within 10 minutes, reshaping how Indians shop and challenging ecommerce giants such as Amazon. In a letter dated Oct. 18, All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation (AICPDF), which represents 400,000 retail distributors of major companies including Nestle and Hindustan Unilever, told the antitrust body quick commerce firms were practising predatory pricing — or offering deep discounts and selling below cost to lure customers.

Mehta may have perfected this recipe in his global travels, in countries where coconut milk was rare but canned shrimps were common. Today, packaged coconut milk is easily available but shrimps are more likely to be fresh or frozen. Faster and refrigerated supply chains mean less use for canned foods. In India, we rarely use them, with a few exceptions like condensed milk.