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Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the ongoing delimitation of Assam's 14 Lok Sabha and 126 assembly seats by the Election Commission and sought the response of the Centre and the poll panel on a batch of petitions on the issue. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, however, agreed to examine the constitutional validity of Section 8A of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 empowering the Election Commission to undertake the delimitation of constituencies. «At this stage when delimitation has commenced, having due regard to issuance of the draft proposal on June 20, 2023, it would not be proper to interdict the process at this stage. Hence while reserving the constitutional challenge, we are not issuing any orders restraining the Election Commission to take any further steps,» the bench said in its order. The top court sought the replies of the Centre, the Election Commission and the Assam government on three petitions in three weeks and said the petitioners can file their rejoinders in two weeks after that. The bench took note of the submissions of senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who was appearing for the political parties which have filed the petitions, that now all states will follow suit and take steps since the way has been cleared for the delimitation exercise for states like Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland. «We will list this immediately after the Delhi services ordinance case,» the CJI said.

Funding in the Indian fintech sector dropped 67% on year during the first half of 2023, an industry report released on Monday by market intelligence platform Tracxn said. In the first six months of 2023, Indian fintechs raised $1.4 billion, a significant drop from $4.3 billion in the same period last year. This trend has continued from the second half of 2022 when funding in the space hovered around $1.5 billion only.

China got their campaign up and running at swimming's world championships on Monday, claiming two gold medals to banish the memory of a forgettable showing at last year's competition. China won only one individual gold in the pool last year in Budapest but they doubled that tally in the evening's first two races in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka.Qin Haiyang got things started with victory in the men's 100m breaststroke, taking advantage of dominant Olympic champion Adam Peaty's absence from the competition.Zhang Yufei followed that up with gold in the women's 100m butterfly, beating Olympic champion Maggie MacNeil into second place in a field chock-full of talent. «Last year the whole team didn't perform very well, and we worked hard and tried to be ready for these championships,» Zhang said.

Elon Musk founded Space X's Falcon 9 rocket has punched a hole in the Ionosphere, a part of the 10,000 kilometres Atmosphere. One Falcon 9 Rocket launched 22 Starlink satellites to orbit 23 July, Sunday, and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea, according to reports.  Elon Musk founded Space X's Falcon 9 Rocket is a reusable, two-stage rocket for ‘reliable and safe transport’ of people and payloads into Earth orbit and beyond,  as explained in the company website. The Falcon 9 rocket has conducted 240 launches and 198 landings.

Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) has been seeing an increase in transactions across the board, says ONDC Chief Business Officer, Shireesh Joshi. He added that while the exact numbers couldn't be revealed, the volume of orders for the brands that have joined the network has been increasing since January. ET recently reported that a study done by the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICCI) services financial firm showed that daily transactions in the network would scale up to 200,000 from the present 80,000 by December.

Solana has endured a rough two years of price action after bleeding-out -90% since the previous all-time high (ATH) in November 2021, but as SOL's 2023 recovery rally heads south, could all be over for the major layer-1 blockchain? Find out in this Solana price analysis.

Pilibhit-Haridwar National Highway, police said. The accident took place in the Amaria area here when the duo's motorbike collided with another motorbike, Circle Officer Prateek Dahiya said.

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Supreme Court Monday warned the states, which are yet to submit their response to the Centre on forming a uniform national policy on menstrual hygiene for girls studying in schools, it will take recourse to the «coercive arm of law» if they failed to do so by August 31. The warning came after the Centre informed the apex court it has so far received the response of only four states. A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud directed the states and Union Territories (UTs), which have failed to submit their responses, to do so positively by August 31. «The states which are in default are placed on notice that should there be any further default, this court will be constrained to take recourse to the coercive arm of law,» said the bench, also comprising Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra. Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Centre, told the bench the central government has so far received inputs from only four states — Haryana, Delhi, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. The apex court had on April 10 asked the Centre to prepare a Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) and formulate a national model to be adopted by all states and UTs for managing the menstrual hygiene of girls studying in schools.

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Parliament logjam over the Manipur on the third day of the ongoing Monsoon Session, Uddhav Thackeray faction leader Sanjay Raut on Monday reiterated that the opposition demands Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make a detailed statement on the ongoing violence in noth eastern state. Reacting to the video of two women being stripped, molested and paraded naked on May 4, a day after violence broke out in Manipur, Raut said, «Can't we raise our voice and question the government in the Parliament after women in Manipur are being murdered, raped and paraded naked?» «We want to know what the govt has done and what is the role of the Prime Minister?» he added.

Punit Balan Group, with interests in real estate, entertainment, and sports, is planning to buy franchises in the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) and Caribbean Premier League (CPL), according to sources close to the development. «The group is in the advanced stages of negotiations to buy a team in PKL. It is also eyeing a franchise in the CPL,» one of the sources said.

BANGKOK (Reuters) — Thailand's industrial sentiment rose for the first time in three months in June, bolstered by higher domestic demand, but sluggish exports and uncertainty over the formation of a new government remained a worry, an industries group said on Monday.

Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com, says “this quarter all banks and NBFCs combined are likely to have a profit of Rs 1,40,000-1,50,000 crore which is a huge change over what was there five years back when the banking industry was in losses. This is the biggest positive for the Indian economy, a healthy banking sector and that will continue to support growth of the economy.”What are your thoughts on the banking space?A lot of banking heavyweights have come out with their earnings. Any key takeaways?The biggest takeaway from all the banking sectors results is that the net NPAs seem to be under control.

Rutgers University in central New Jersey is equipped to make more than 1 billion prescription pills a year. Its manufacturing process is faster, cheaper and more precise than traditional methods, potentially reducing reliance on factories abroad. The technology also can be used to make drugs currently in shortage, including cancer treatments.

International Cricket Council (ICC) has imposed a fine on Harmanpreet Kaur for her behaviour during the third and final ODI against Bangladesh. The ICC has deducted 75 percent of her match fee and added 3 demerit points to her record. During the match, the captain of India's women's cricket team expressed her displeasure with the umpire's decision by hitting the stumps with her bat after being given out.

«I think clearly the biggest driver is the fact that inflation and interest rates have clearly peaked. You have seen the RBI pausing and this was one of the biggest headwinds for the market over the last many-many months,» says Ashi Anand, Valcreate Investment.Just wanted to understand your overall thought on the market right now. While FII inflows have been intact for us, a lot of sectoral churn at play but a lot of overvalued pockets as well?Broadly in terms of the markets, we have seen a fairly good rally in the midst of kind of a fair amount of concerns globally.

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