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In an interactive session at industry chamber ASSOCHAM, Jaishankar, at the same time, said he was not asking the Indian industry to not do business with that country. To a question on evolving relations with China, he said with that country accounting for 32-33 percent of global manufacturing, it is logical that several supply chains will have to go through China.

New York Military Academy has resurfaced on social media. The claim, originating from an alleged newspaper clipping, suggests that such a score would point to mental impairment. However, this viral information is based on a debunked piece of false reporting, which was first fact-checked by Snopes in 2019. Despite no public disclosure of Trump's actual IQ score, the former president has often ridiculed his political opponents, calling them «low-IQ» individuals.

Delhi court on Thursday sent AAP's Uttam Nagar MLA Naresh Balyan to one-day judicial custody in an alleged organised crime case. Special judge for lawmakers, Kaveri Baweja, sent Balyan to jail, considering that the arguments on Delhi police application seeking his 10-day custody for interrogation in the case under stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) would take more time. Special public prosecutor Akhand Pratap Singh, representing Delhi police, submitted that Balyan's interrogation was required to unearth the larger conspiracy in the case.

marital status being a significant determinant of labour force participation rate (LFPR) for both women and men, shows a working paper by the Economic Advisory Council to the PM (EAC-PM). “At the national level, rural female LFPR surged from 24.6% to 41.5% while urban LFPR rose modestly from 20.4% to 25.4% with significant interstate variations,” the paper, authored by Shamika Ravi, member, EAC-PM and Mudit Kapoor of Indian Statistical Institute, said. According to the paper, rural areas in states like Jharkhand (233% growth) and Bihar (6x growth) have seen significant growth while northeastern states like Nagaland have seen a jump to 71.1% from 15.7% during the period.

According to UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar, the new regulations will introduce greater flexibility, remove disciplinary rigidity, bring in inclusivity and multidisciplinary learning opportunities for students. «Irrespective of the disciplines taken by a student in level 4 or Class-12 schooling, a student is eligible for admission in any discipline of UG programme if the student qualifies the national-level or university-level entrance examination in the discipline of UG programme,» the draft norms said.

billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to lead NASA while marking a significant shift in the agency's leadership, reported Associated Press. According to Associated Press, Jared Isaacman who is aged 41 is actually known for his close ties to Tesla CEO Elon Musk and has gained prominence as a private astronaut while having commanded two commercial spaceflights with SpaceX. It should be also noted that he conducted the first private spacewalk during a recent mission which further solidified his role in the burgeoning commercial space industry. Also Read: College football transfer outs world's fourth richest man Larry Ellison's fifth wife, who is she? Here's all you need to know

IPO) in 2024, venture capitalists are betting big on the growing Indian ecosystem. Karnataka’s Vision Group chair and cofounder of Accel Partners India, Prashanth Prakash, said that while there is a need for unicorns and soonicorns, there is also an equal opportunity for small startups that are leading the intellectual property (IP)-driven growth for deep tech. «There was a time when, if you were not a large enough startup, you had no value. But I think that is changing. Startups going IPO today will buy smaller companies to expand their scope. It’s not bad anymore to build small,» Prakash said while speaking at Ramaiah Institute of Technology during the Ramaiah Evoluate Incubator's startup awards on Thursday. He added that India is moving beyond a focus on consumer startups and easy opportunities to deep technology, manufacturing, and engineering-led ventures. «By 2025, we could see another 30 to 40 companies from India going public, reflecting the maturing of our startup ecosystem,» the Co-founder of Accel claimed, adding that India stands to gain from the China Plus One strategy.

K Raheja Corp has acquired two prime properties including Bayside Mall, one of the early shopping malls of India, and Popular Press Building spread over more than half an acre in south Mumbai’s plush Tardeo locality for over Rs 355 crore. The company has bought these properties through its Ivory Property Trust from Jaydev Mody-led AAA Holding Trust. Ivory Property Trust has paid stamp duty of Rs 21.30 crore for the registration of the deal that took place on August 13. Bayside Mall has a basement, ground and two upper floors built over one-third of an acre. The mall, with a total built-up area of 17,345 sq ft, earlier had 105 units but now has 75 units following the amalgamation of certain units.

Hannah Kobayashi, a Maui-based artist known for her mandala and geometric designs, began her journey on 8 November, flying from Maui to Los Angeles International Airport. She was scheduled to catch a connecting flight to New York City but never boarded. Police reported that Kobayashi had expressed a desire to «step away from modern connectivity» before her trip. Lt. Douglas Oldfield of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) added, “Her social media posts suggested she wanted to disconnect from her phone.” After leaving the airport without her phone, Kobayashi visited several locations in Los Angeles, including The Grove shopping area and Union Station. She was last seen crossing the US-Mexico border on 12 November with her luggage.

Lobito Corridor Trans-Africa Summit in Angola. The summit, held with leaders from Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania’s vice-president Philip Mpango, saw Biden closing his eyes and resting his hand on his face during Mpango’s speech. Though wearing an earpiece for translations, all speeches were in English.

high court judges, the government told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. It also underlined that there is no mention of any «cooling off» period in the Constitution for post-retirement assignments for judges. SC judges retire at the age of 65, while HC judges demit office at 62. District judges retire at the age of 60. «There is no such proposal for increasing the retirement age of judges of the Supreme Court and high courts,» Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said.

In August, Aviva Investors announced that Saldanha was set to leave the firm after a 17-year tenure, with Francois de Bruin and Matt Kirby also making the switch to RLAM after the trio's stint managing nearly £2bn in assets for Aviva.   At the time, Aviva said the group were leaving the firm to pursue «other opportunities in the market», but on 11 November, RLAM welcomed the trio, with Saldanha due to become the lead manager of the Royal London Global Equity Income fund, a £1.1bn strategy, and a manger on the Global Equity Select fund.  Trio of global equity fund managers to exit Aviv...

On the BSE, Ganga Pharmaceutical(down 11.11 per cent), Navoday Enterprises(down 10.46 per cent), Ashiana Ispat(down 10.41 per cent), KK Shah Hospitals(down 10.02 per cent) and IO System Ltd(down 9.99 per cent) stood among the top losers in today's trade.

Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) recently clarified that under exceptional circumstances, a stock broker can upload the same mobile number or email address for more than one client if the clients belong to the same family. A retail investor can use his number or email ID to operate his family members’ demat accounts under certain conditions. Family for this purpose would mean self, spouse, dependent children and dependent parents. SEBI said that this is possible only under certain circumstances and on the client's written request. This rule will come into force with immediate effect. According to a SEBI circular on December 3, 2024, “Master circular states the following regarding uploading of mobile number and e-mail by stock brokers: Stock Brokers shall ensure that separate mobile number/email address is uploaded for each client. However, under exceptional circumstances, the stock broker may, at the specific written request of a client, upload the same mobile number / email address for more than one client provided such clients belong to one family. Family for this purpose would mean self, spouse, dependent children and dependent parents.”

S Jaishankar on Thursday, reiterated India's support for a two-state solution in the long-standing Israel-Palestine conflict, while also asserting that issues of terrorism and hostage-taking cannot be underplayed or ignored. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha today, Jaishankar explained India's decision to abstain from voting in some of the resolutions regarding the Gaza conflict in the United Nations General Assembly. In response to TMC MP Saket Gokhale's question on India's stance on a two-state solution to Palestine, Jaishankar said, «We support the two-state solution and we have been public and unambiguous about that. So, there should be no cause for confusion regarding the two-state solution.»

The launch took place at 4:04 PM IST from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota after a smooth countdown. On Wednesday, space agency had rescheduled it's launch to today following an anomaly detected in the satellite propulsion system. The Proba-3 mission consists of two satellites, Coronagraph (310 kg) and Occulter (240 kg), designed to study the Sun’s corona, the outermost layer of its atmosphere.

When asked the reason for India's abstention from a resolution in the UN General Assembly on October 27, 2023, regarding the protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations, Jaishankar said there were many resolutions in the UN General Assembly and in some India abstained and in some, it voted in favour. According to him, there are several reasons to abstain such as a resolution is not balanced, it is more divisive, it can set a precedence which has consequences for India or it has larger implications.

finished steel imports from China reached an all-time high during the first seven months of the current financial year from April, according to provisional government data reviewed by Reuters, rattling hundreds of small Indian steel producers. China, the world's biggest steel producer, shipped 1.7 million metric tons of finished steel to India during April-October, a 35.4% increase year-on-year, the data showed. This has exacerbated the deteriorating financial health of Indian steel producers struggling with cheap Chinese imports and falling domestic prices despite robust demand driven by rapid economic growth and rising infrastructure spending in the world's fastest growing major economy.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. At the start of the year, Vipul Kumar started focussing on one particular race—the IAU (International Association of Ultrarunners) 100km World Championships that will be held in Bengaluru on 7 December. It’s a distance he’s been most comfortable running over the last few years, where he holds the national record time of 7 hours 4 minutes 52 seconds.

ITC is expanding its network of FPOs, further aiming to connect one crore farmers in the next 4-5 years and scaling up sourcing of fruits and vegetables through this platform, said its Agri Business Division CEO S Ganesh. ITC, present in around 22 states through FPOs (Farmer Producer Organizations) and working on 20 crops, has plans to expand and deepen it further in states including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Bihar. Besides, ITC is working on expanding the reach of its super app MAARS — a 'phygital' initiative with FPOs through which it is providing personalised advisories to farmers from weather forecast to sales of crops at mandi prices, supply of seeds and fertiliser and services as soil testing to helping them get credit from banks. Through MAARS (Metamarket for Advanced Agriculture Rural Services), ITC is also enhancing agricultural practices to small farmers through technology aggregation, AI-enabled solutions, AgTech and an e-marketplace for commodities and inputs.

recently issued a «full and unconditional» pardon to his son Hunter Biden for gun crime and tax convictions, a decision that was widely criticised by Republicans and Democrats alike. Biden, who earlier said he would not interfere with the proceedings, said his son was “unfairly prosecuted" by political opponents. This has brought renewed attention to the US Constitution's provision granting the president the authority to offer clemency, a power wielded by every president since George Washington. Biden's senior aides in the White House are now actively considering whether to issue 'preemptive pardons' to certain current and former public officials in the government as fears grow over the possibility of politically motivated prosecutions under Donald Trump’s return to the presidency.