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S P Oswal, chairperson of the Vardhman Group and a Padma Bhushan awardee, fell victim to a cyber fraud scheme that cost him ₹7 crore. The Ludhiana Police reported that two suspects from Assam and Bengal were arrested after the incident, and ₹5.2 crore was recovered from them. This case marks one of the largest seizures in India's cybercrime history.

Tata Electronics plant in southern India that makes Apple iPhone components after a fire at the weekend, officials said on Monday as they acted to prevent further damage from the blaze. «We have stationed fire engines at the plant as there are chances of a follow-up fire incident or smoke coming off when the sheds that had fallen during the accident are removed,» M. Velu, a district fire officer, told Reuters by telephone. «We have not yet ascertained the cause of the fire.»

Family travel in India is increasingly guided by the preferences of Gen Alpha and Gen Z, revealed a new survey that found an overwhelming 93 per cent of young travellers are now actively contributing to their family's vacation planning. The findings, part of «Small Voices, Big Choices: Hilton 2025 Trends Report», suggest a significant shift in family travel planning with India's youngest generation taking the charge and shaping the future of the travel industry. «A striking 93 per cent of Generation Alpha and Generation Z in India actively shape family travel plans, now positioning them as key decision-makers in the travel process,» reads the report, adding that 76 per cent of Indian parents (compared to 70 per cent globally) choose vacation destinations based on their children's interests. Generation Alpha, aged 14 and younger, accounts for a quarter of India's population, while Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, represents 30 per cent.

Amit Shah on Monday described Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public meeting in Jammu and Kashmir as «absolutely distasteful and disgraceful». Shah said «in a bitter display of spite», Kharge unnecessarily dragged the prime minister into his personal health matters by saying that he would die only after removing Modi from power. At an election rally in Jasrota in Jammu on Sunday, Kharge felt dizzy and uneasy but resumed his speech after a brief pause, saying he won't die before PM Modi is removed from power. Shah hit out at Kharge over his remarks.

Vladimir Putin on Monday vowed that Moscow would accomplish all goals it has set for itself in Ukraine, in its third year of conflict. «The truth is on our side. All goals set will be achieved,» Putin said in a video message released to mark the second anniversary of what Russia calls «Reunification Day», when Moscow annexed four Ukrainian regions. After it sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, Russia annexed the regions of Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. It does not fully control all territory in these regions.

Yogi Adityanath on Monday highlighted the developmental initiatives by the BJP Government in Haryana including connectivity, IITs, IIMs, AIIMS, and establishment of medical colleges. Addressing a public meeting in Bhiwani, CM Yogi, while launching an attack on the Congress party said, «Bhagwan Shri Ram has once again come to Ayodhya. The whole nation is celebrating, but these people of the Congress even hate this. This is the difference between the culture of Ram and the culture of Rome». «On one hand Lord Ram has come to Ayodhya and on the other hand, those that have been brought up in Rome, who call themselves as „accidental Hindus', CM Yogi said.

Narendra Modi has appealed to the people to use ‘Made in India’ products during the ongoing festive season. Starting with Ganesh Chaturthi, the festive season will last nearly two months and include Navratri, Dussehra, Diwali and Chhath. This is the time when cheap Made-in-China goods flood Indian market. PM Modi has asked people to buy not just earthen lamps. «Merely buying earthen lamps is not ‘Vocal for Local'. You should promote local products made in your area more and more. Any such product, that has been made with the sweat of an Indian artisan, that is made on Indian soil, is our pride –– we always have to lend glory to this pride,” he said.

DY Chandrachud admonished a lawyer for using the informal term «yeah» while addressing the bench in a court session. The Chief Justice emphasized that such casual language is inappropriate in a courtroom setting. The incident occurred when the lawyer mentioned a 2018 petition in which former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi was named as a respondent. Chief Justice Chandrachud questioned the validity of filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against a judge. The lawyer responded, «Yeah, yeah, the then CJI Ranjan Gogoi… I was asked to file a curative...» However, he was interrupted by the Chief Justice, who said, «This is not a coffee shop! What is this yeah yeah. I am very allergic to this yeah yeah. This cannot be allowed.»

UST said on Monday that it is expanding its presence in India by adding over 3,000 new jobs at its upcoming Kochi campus in the next five years. The IT firm has set its target to have 6,000 employees, up from the current level of 2,800 in the next five years at its Kochi centre. The firm will inaugurate its second own campus in Kochi by December 2027, the company said in a statement. The company laid the foundation stone for the new Kochi campus that is coming up in a 9-acre land at Infopark Kochi Phase 2 and the new UST campus will be completed in three years. “When the Kochi campus goes on stream, it will become the second owned campus in India for UST after Thiruvananthapuram”, added the firm. While UST’s Trivandrum centre has about 7500 employees and is the largest centre globally, UST Bengaluru has over 6,500 employees. Across India, the IT firm has more than 20,000 employees.

Mars take shape, the dream of establishing a colony on the Red Planet faces formidable challenges. Experts warn that the planet’s extreme conditions could significantly affect human health and evolution. Biologist Dr. Scott Solomon from Rice University emphasizes that children born to settlers on Mars may undergo serious mutations, complicating their survival and well-being.

inventory overhang (the estimated time required to sell off unsold stock based on sales velocity) has dropped to 22 months in the June quarter, down from 34 months in the corresponding quarter last year. According to PropTiger.com report, NCR's Gurugram witnessed a substantial decline in inventory overhang from 72 months in Q2 2023 to 31 months in Q2 2024. Ahmedabad also showed strong performance, reducing its inventory overhang from 33 months to 18 months during the same period, reflecting the healthy demand dynamics in these markets. Regarding unsold inventory, the report said that despite a moderation in supply and absorption rates, India’s residential real estate market displayed resilience, achieving a 2% year-on-year decline, bringing the total to over 9.26 lakh units as of June 30.

Saudi citizens continued to decrease in the second quarter, falling to 7.1%, according to government data released on Monday, down from 7.6% in the previous quarter, and from 8.5% in the same period a year earlier. The overall rate of unemployment, which includes expatriate workers, fell to 3.3% in Q2, down from 4.1% in the prior year period, the General Authority for Statistics said. More than 60% of Saudi citizens are under the age of 30, and job creation — especially in the private sector — is a key focus of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's Vision 2030 programme, which seeks to stimulate the economy and diversify it away from oil.

Fintech company BharatPe on Monday said that it had settled the two-year-old legal dispute with cofounder Ashneer Grover. As part of the settlement, Grover will neither be associated with the company in any capacity nor be a part of its shareholding as part of a settlement agreement signed between them, BharatPe said in a statement. Part of the shares held by Grover will be transferred to the Resilient Growth Trust for the benefit of the company and remaining shares will be managed by his family trust.

diabetes patient using cell transplants, reports said on September 30. The landmark surgery, which marks a world's first, lasted just half an hour, news agency PTI reported citing The Paper, a Shanghai-based news outlet. The patient, a 25-year-old woman, began naturally regulating her blood sugar levels approximately two and a half months after the procedure, the reports said. Researchers from Tianjin First Central Hospital and Peking University were part of the team that published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Cell last week.

Israeli airstrikes have killed seven senior commanders from Hezbollah, including its leader Hassan Nasrallah. These targeted strikes followed Hezbollah's support for Hamas after its attack on southern Israel. The loss of key members, integral since Hezbollah's inception in the 1980s, poses a significant challenge for the militant group, which is a dominant force in Lebanon's military and political landscape.

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Congress leader Pawan Khera on Monday came out in defence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge over his comments on Narendra Modi in a rally in Jammu and Kashmir, saying that his «party does not hate PM Modi but loves the country.» This came after Union Home Minister Amit Shah attacked Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday, saying that the Congress leader had outperformed himself, the party leaders,, and the party in being «distasteful and disgraceful» during his speech on the last day of campaigning for the third and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls. Shah's remarks came against the backdrop of Kharge's speech, where he said that he would stay alive until Prime Minister Narendra Modi was removed from power after he felt unwell while addressing a rally in the Jasrota area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district on Sunday.

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Security forces on Monday extended the ongoing search operations to new areas in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and Rajouri districts to hunt down terrorists following recent encounters in the region, officials said. While a policeman and a terrorist were killed and two police officers injured in a fierce gunbattle in remote Kog-Mandli forest village in Billawar tehsil of Kathua district on Saturday evening, a brief exchange of fire took place between terrorists and security forces in Manial Gali in Thanamandi area of Rajouri district on Sunday evening. A massive search operation is going on for the third day in Kathua with cordon extending to over a dozen other villages near the scene of Saturday's encounter, the officials said. They said at least three more foreign terrorists of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) are believed to be hiding in the forest belt.

Atishi, along with other MLAs and members of the Aam aadmi party, including former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Delhi Minister Gopal Rai inspected the condition of roads in the national capital on Monday. She inspected the condition of roads in the Okhla area of the national capital. This is part of the Delhi government's road assessment and repair plan.