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people with disabilities employed in the top listed retail and QSR sector is still less than 1% of their total workforce. This is despite the number doubling over last year with most companies seeing a rise in the percentage of people employed with disabilities in FY23.

By Byron Kaye

Congress chose the first day of 'Navratri' on Sunday to release its first lists of party candidates for the assembly polls in Chhattisgarh (30 of 90), Madhya Pradesh (144 of 230) and Telangana (55 of 119). While the Congress high command has been projecting OBC politics and caste survey as election topics this season, the party state units and the AICC poll point persons mostly stuck to the traditional yardsticks in picking candidates, based on winnability, social demography, unity considerations besides the traditional accommodation of entrenched leaders' family members and loyalists while throwing in women and youth representation also in the mix. Chattisgarh: Seven MLAs are out in the first list while CM Bhupesh Baghel and his 12 ministers have padded up again to retain (barring one who moved to a new seat) their seats with Baghel contesting from Patan, Deputy CM TS Singh Deo from Ambikapur, senior minister Tamradhwaj Sahu from Durg Rural and speaker Charan Das Mahant from Sakti.

SpiceJet. A total of four flights have been operated under Operation Ajay, which was launched by the government to facilitate the return of Indians who wish to come back from Israel, where an intense conflict is going on with militant group Hamas. External affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi on Sunday said the third flight with 197 passengers landed at the Delhi airport in the morning.

NEW DELHI : An attempt by online travel agent MakeMyTrip to cash in on the excitement around Saturday’s India-Pakistan cricket match attracted criticism, with many users calling its print advertisement insensitive and in poor taste. The ad for MakeMyTrip’s homestays and villas business ‘invited’ travellers from Pakistan to use its services with discount codes if Pakistan lost by a certain number of runs on its ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup clash with India in Ahmedabad. What was perhaps intended as a joke prompted many users on social media platforms like LinkedIn and ‘X’ to call it insensitive and full of racial tonalities.  The ad gave an ‘open invitation’ to Pakistani fans.

Navi’s privacy policy Navi offers a variety of mutual fund schemes, with focus on passive investing. Its index funds are some of the cheapest in India—its equity funds have performed well in recent years. The firm also offers products like cash loans, home loans, and insurance.

Israel continues to retaliate against Hamas, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that Hamas thought Israel would break, but «We will break Hamas,» reported The Times of Israel. During the weekly cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister along with ministers stood in silence for a minute and paid tribute to those who lost their lives in the deadly Hamas attack. «Hamas thought we would break; we will break Hamas,» Netanyahu said. He further stressed that Israel is working in unity and it conveys a clear message to Hamas and to the world.

Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh on Sunday dismissed the claims saying that he will be his party till his 'last breath'. Speaking to ANI, Singh also hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that the ruling party of Madhya Pradesh indulges in 'fake works'. «BJP indulges in fake works. I entered Congress in 1971 and I will be with the party till my last breath,» Singh said. Notably, soon after the Congress Party released its first list of candidates for the MP assembly polls, a social media post went viral purportedly showing Digvijay Singh's resignation letter from the party. The purported letter, addressed to party President Mallikarjun Kharge reads, «In my political journey of five decades, I had many experiences while being in Congress… But for the last few months, I have been hurt to see the disappointment of the top leadership towards the dedicated workers, and indifference in policy and leadership.

Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president G Kishan Reddy, in a scathing attack against Chief Minister K Chandrasekar Rao (KCR), said that KCR «thinks only of his children» and «loots» money for them. The Union Minister further said that KCR believes in money but not the people of Telangana and added that he only thinks of his children. «Modi works for social justice but KCR works for justice for family. KCR, always in a farmhouse, thinks about how to make KTR the CM or his daughter a Union Minister.

Congress filed a police complaint on Sunday, claiming that a fake letter was made viral on social media to create the impression that its senior leader Digvijaya Singh resigned after the party released the first list of its candidates for the upcoming assembly polls. Earlier, the opposition party in MP released the first list of its 144 candidates, including Singh's son and sitting legislator Jaivardhan Singh, for elections to the 230-member assembly scheduled on November 17. «The BJP is good at speaking lies.

DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin on Sunday condemned Indian crowd's behaviour for booing and chanting 'Jai Shree Ram' as players from the Pakistan team got out in the match. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the DMK leader and son of Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin said, “India is renowned for its sportsmanship and hospitality.

Hamas gunmen are marshalling their own resources to get their loved ones home. Israel's military said Sunday it had confirmed that 126 people have been held captive since Hamas militants from the blockaded Gaza Strip attacked southern Israel on October 7. They gunned down civilians and dragged dozens of others, Israelis and foreigners, back to Gaza. Among them were children, including nine-month-old Kfir and four-year-old Arial Bibes, snatched along with their mother Shiri.

Hindustan Times quoted the Congress veteran as saying. Chowdhury, who represents the Berhampore constituency in West Bengal, was seen in a clip riding a Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle.

“war crimes" and attempting “genocide". This criticism comes even as world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, among others, have backed Israel's "right to self defence". “As a Jew, I do not accept that what Israel is doing to Gaza fits the category of self-defence.

Trading in the stock market just isn’t much fun anymore. Individual investors are dialing back how much risk they are taking across markets. Some are accumulating cash or stashing it in funds tracking bonds or money markets to take advantage of yields that have soared to 16-year highs.

ALSO READ: India vs Pakistan match: How Pakistani media reacted, ‘We came, we saw and we collapsed’ DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin said on social media platform X and wrote, “India is renowned for its sportsmanship and hospitality. However, the treatment meted out to Pakistan players at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad is unacceptable and a new low. Sports should be a unifying force between countries, fostering true brotherhood.

Adani-Hindenburg Case: Supreme Court defers hearing till October 20; stocks trade lower Despite acknowledging the irreparable nature of their marriage, the Supreme Court, after two decades, denied Nirmal's divorce petition, it added. According to the court's ruling, the institution of marriage retains its sacred and emotional significance as a vital bond between husband and wife in Indian society. The judgement argued that allowing the dissolution would be unjust to Paramjit.

Russian attacks on Ukraine in the past 24 hours, local officials reported Sunday. Two people were killed and three more injured in the Kherson area after more than 100 shells bombarded the region over the weekend, local governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on social media.

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new AC 1 coach concept design, which is aimed to offer comfort at par with business class of an aircraft. The concept design will be to the Railway Board. The concept is a big departure from the current design.

India vs Pakistan match, India's star batsman Virat Kohli gifted his signed jersey to Pakistan skipper Babar Azam, a gesture which was praised by many netizens on social media. «That sounds like an incredible fanboy moment! Meeting your cricket idol and getting a signed item from them is a dream come true for many fans. Babar Azam must be thrilled to have received a signed item from Virat Kohli,» posted an user on X.