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From 2014 to 2023, the education sector in India has witnessed notable strides in student enrolment and retention, with the gross enrolment ratio (GER) for secondary education increasing from 75.7% to 79.2%, and for higher secondary from 46.3% to 56.8%. Retention rates at the elementary level rose from 67.4% to 75.8%, and at the secondary level from 57.2% to 65.5%, signalling advances in educational engagement and policy efficacy.

IT Services providers have been experiencing low demand amid macroeconomic uncertainty, with not many stocks in the sector offering near-term upside to consensus figures. Against this backdrop, analysts at Guggenheim shared in a note this week a list of the Best IT Services stocks to own for 2024.

By Pavel Polityuk and Gleb Garanich

Congress has fielded Akshay Bam, a newbie in the poll arena from Indore Lok Sabha constituency, an unbreached BJP citadel for 35 years, against sitting MP Shankar Lalwani, who had won the 2019 contest by a huge margin of over 5.47 lakh votes. Bam (45), a businessman from the Jain community, has to shoulder a big responsibility of keeping the Congress cadre motivated in view of three former MLAs and several workers of the party joining the ruling BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Prominent among Congress defectors are Pankaj Sanghvi, Sanjay Shukla, and Vishal Patel. He faces sitting BJP MP Shankar Lalwani, 62, who had won the last contest against his Congress challenger Pankaj Sanghvi by possibly the highest vote margin in Madhya Pradesh.

military said it hit two large Russian landing ships in attacks on the annexed Crimean peninsula early on Sunday, as well as a communications centre and other infrastructure used by the Russian navy in the Black Sea. The statement did not say how it hit the targets, but a Moscow-installed official in the region reported a major Ukrainian air attack and said air defences had shot down more than 10 missiles over the Crimean port of Sevastopol. «The defence forces of Ukraine successfully hit the Azov and Yamal large landing ships, a communications centre and also several infrastructure facilities of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in temporarily occupied Crimea,» Ukraine's military said.

Interfax reported. Islamist groups have targeted Russia in the past citing what they call anti-Muslim policies by the Kremlin. The seizure of a school in Beslan in the south of the country led to more than 330 fatalities, many of them children, in 2004.

The United States and its liberal democratic allies may be facing off with authoritarian powers Russia, Iran and China as wars in Ukraine and Gaza inflame global rivalries. But to Islamic State, they’re all enemies of the Muslim faith that should be annihilated.

Investing.com — Here are the biggest analyst moves in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) for this week.

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₹35,011 cr and ₹31,195 cr dated 19th March. Furthermore, buying activity has persisted throughout this week, suggesting that institutional investors do not perceive any significant concerns regarding the fallout of domestic momentum. This trend may be linked to the fact that most corrections have targeted Mid & Smallcaps.

IPOs this week: One mainboard, 12 SME public issues to open for subscription; check full list here The IPO of Bharti Hexacom comprises exclusively of an offer-for-sale (OFS) segment, devoid of any issuance of new shares. Telecommunications Consultants India, the singular public shareholder in the firm, intends to sell 7.5 crore equity shares, equating to a 15% stake in the OFS. Bharti Airtel, led by Sunil Mittal, owns a 70% stake, equivalent to 35 crore shares, while the remaining 30% ownership, comprising 15 crore equity shares, is held by non-promoter TCIL.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and said he was making statements with the intention of fostering communal division. BJP state chief K Surendran, while addressing the media here, said the decision to withdraw cases registered against the anti-CAA protestors was taken to appease a particular community. He said the chief minister was violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) by withdrawing the cases and his party will approach the Election Commission of India (ECI).

Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar said the TMC government will not complete its full term till 2026 if the saffron party gets even one more seat than the Mamata Banerjee-led party. Claiming that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is an ideological issue for Bengal BJP akin to the Ram Mandir issue for the central unit, Majumdar said the Act will help the party sweep the elections in the state. In an interview with PTI, Majumdar said the people of the state have decided to defeat the corrupt and anarchic TMC in the LS polls. «We have set a target of winning 35 seats from Bengal. We are confident about it. If we get even one more seat than that of the TMC, which we will get, the Mamata Banerjee government will not complete its full term till 2026. Its government would collapse,» he said.

Vedanta Ltd will invest USD 6 billion across businesses that span from aluminium and zinc to iron ore, steel and oil and gas as it looks to add at least USD 2.5 billion to annual EBITDA, its executives said in an investor meeting. It has a pipeline of more than 50 active projects and expansions to drive growth, which is expected to generate incremental revenue of over USD 6 billion and boost EBITDA from an expected USD 5 billion in the current fiscal ending March 31 to USD 6 billion in the next and up to USD 7.5 billion by FY27, they added. Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal, according to a presentation made at the investor meeting, said the company «will get to a different level in the next 25 years». His brother and vice chairman Naveen Agarwal gave details of the plans.

Lok Sabha polls, with the Samajwadi Party targeting the BJP over the law and order situation while the saffron party asserting that «rapid police action» resulted in the death of the main accused. Located in western Uttar Pradesh, Budaun is considered the gateway to the Braj region from Rohailkhand. Samajwadi Party, which is eyeing to reclaim the seat that it lost in 2019, has fielded Shivpal Singh Yadav as its candidate. The BJP is yet to declare sitting MP Sanghamitra Maurya as its candidate for the Lok Sabha polls.

BJP and the TMC in West Bengal with several leaders of both camps expressing displeasure over the selection of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Several TMC leaders aspiring for tickets have openly voiced their unhappiness over not being nominated for the seats they eyed. The BJP has witnessed similar dissatisfaction among some influential leaders over candidate selection. At least five senior TMC leaders, including Rajya Sabha MP Mausam Benazir Noor and party spokesperson Santanu Sen, who were seeking nomination from Malda North and Dum Dum seats respectively, have expressed dissatisfaction after being denied tickets. Even Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's younger brother, Babun Banerjee, voiced his displeasure after not being nominated for the Howrah seat, in which the TMC gave its ticket to sitting MP Prasun Banerjee. The CM disowned her brother following his outburst.

Yemen Saturday by ballistic missiles fired by H0uthi rebels, who have intensified strikes on Red Sea shipping, the US military said. The Panamanian-flagged, Chinese-owned and operated Huang Pu issued a distress call but did not request assistance, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on social media platform X early on Sunday.

Dharmesh Shah, Head-Technical, ICICI Direct, says “any correction in the PSUs from the current level should not be constructed as negative, but should be looked upon as a buying opportunity because we believe most of the negative news seems to be getting priced in there. Any dip from the current level is a buying opportunity. So, stocks like HAL or BEL, Bharat Electronics in the defence space and also Cochin Shipyard, one should definitely consider at the current levels.” Do you expect the Nifty momentum that we have been seeing on Thursday and Friday to sustain for the benchmark? Dharmesh Shah: Yes, definitely, I think so. If you see the recovery push after the Fed event, the sentiment seems to be slightly bullish. I would not say major bullish, but yes, it seems to be getting better and better going forward. We believe a target of 22,400 for the Nifty in the coming week. At the same time, we see 21,700 remaining as a strong support in the current trading session.

By Foo Yun Chee and Supantha Mukherjee

Islamic State group has taken responsibility for a devastating assault on a concert hall in suburban Moscow, resulting in the deaths of at least 133 individuals, marking one of the deadliest incidents in Russia in recent years. Despite assertions from the US regarding evidence supporting the jihadists' involvement, both Moscow and Kyiv engaged in mutual accusations on Saturday amidst the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. As reported by The Spectator Index, ISIS released bodycam footage of the Moscow terrorist attack.In the comment section, few replied with the videos.