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Uttar Pradesh government has suspended six officials of civic agencies for gross negligence following road cave-ins and waterlogging at several sections of the newly-built Ram Path in Ayodhya. About 15 bylanes and streets along the Ram Path were flooded after rain on June 23 and June 25. Even homes along the road went under water. Portions of the 14-kilometre road stretch also caved in at more than a dozen places. The suspended officials are Dhruv Aggarwal (executive engineer), Anuj Deshwal (assistant engineer) and Prabhat Pandey (junior engineer) of the Public Works Department (PWD) and Anand Kumar Dubey (executive engineer), Rajendra Kumar Yadav (assistant engineer) and Mohammad Shahid (junior engineer) of the Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam.

Delhi on Saturday, a day after the monsoon arrived in the national capital with the heaviest rainfall in 88 years. Rohini and Burari were among the areas that received rainfall this morning. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast generally cloudy skies with heavy rain during the day. Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 28 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 32 degrees Celsius, the IMD said.

Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway, also known as Samruddhi Expressway, in Jalna district of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred around 11 pm on Friday near Kadvanchi village, they said. The victims were residents of Malad (East) in Mumbai and Buldhana district, the police said. «A multi-utility vehicle (MUV) going from Nagpur to Mumbai and a car heading in the opposite direction collided head-on, resulting in the death of six persons on the spot. One more person succumbed to injuries at a hospital later,» a police official said. The impact of the collision was so severe that the MUV broke through the crash barrier and fell off on the left side of the road. Local villagers and police rushed to the scene to rescue the persons trapped in mangled remains of the vehicles, he said.

BJP headquarters on Saturday, the Delhi Police said the party had not taken its permission to hold the demonstration. AAP called for a gherao of the BJP headquarters at 11.30 am against the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the liquor policy-linked money-laundering case. A senior police officer said arrangements were being made to stop the protesters as no permission had been taken for any protest at the BJP headquarters at DDU Marg in central Delhi. Barricades have been put up and paramilitary personnel deployed at the site, the officer said.

Saeed Jalili ahead Saturday, followed by reformist Masoud Pezeshkian. The early results, reported by Iranian state television, did not initially put Jalili in a position to win Friday's election outright, potentially setting the stage for a runoff election. It also did not offer any turnout figures for the race yet — a crucial component of whether Iran's electorate backs its Shiite theocracy.

labourer was recovered early Saturday from under the debris of a wall that collapsed at a construction site in the Vasant Vihar area here amid heavy rain, officials said. Two more labourers are feared trapped beneath the rubble, they said. The incident occurred on Friday and it was reported to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) around 5:30 am. The deceased has been identified as Santosh Kumar Yadav, 19, the Delhi Fire Services officials said and added that his body was recovered around 6.10 am on Saturday.

MUMBAI: The US-based Fidelity Investments’ funds have offloaded shares in HCL Technologies worth 1,788.27 crore in a block deal on NSE Friday. More than 1.24 crore shares were sold at 1,440.5 each, amounting to 0.46% of the total shares of the company. ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund was the single largest buyer at 1,001 crore, followed by Morgan Stanley Asia Singapore PTE and Citigroup Global Markets Mauritius fund. Shares of HCL Technologies closed 0.42% up on NSE at 1,461 Friday.

interest rate sensitivity of a major trading portfolio for state-owned public sector banks and foreign banks increased from September 2023 to March this year, implying greater exposure to the impact that volatility in bond yields can have on profits and capital. «The AFS (available for sale) portfolio's sensitivity (PV01) increased for PSBs (public sector banks) and FBs (foreign banks) since September 2023, while it declined for PVBs (private banks),» the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its June 2024 Financial Stability Report.

ITC Ltd has overtaken Britannia Industries for the first time to become the second largest listed packaged foods company by sales in India, behind Nestle. ITC's foods business posted consolidated sales of Rs 17,194.5 crore for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, the company that owns brands such as Aashirvaad atta, Bingo potato chips and Sunfeast biscuits in the segment said in its latest annual report. This comprised both domestic sales and exports. At Britannia, consolidated sales were ?16,769.2 crore, while total income, including from outside its core foods business, was Rs 16,983.4 crore.

influential couple in the UK. They are not the most powerful people at least according to Tatler’s 2024 Social Power Index. Newly married Duke and Duchess of Westminster, who tied the knot in a lavish ceremony, have replaced the King and the Queen in this year's list. There are many other people on the list, and most of them are unexpected.

Biman Bandyopadhyay has sought the intervention of Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar to resolve the stand-off over the oath-taking ceremony of the two newly-elected Trinamool MLAs. Meanwhile, Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday hit out at CM Mamata Banerjee, saying, «It is expected of public representatives to abide by the Constitution and not generate erroneous and slanderous impressions, obliquely adverse to the Governor, in public mind». Bose's statement comes a day after Banerjee said that women were scared to go to the Raj Bhawan and the oath-taking ceremony of the two Trinamool MLAs could not be held after they got elected almost a month back. «The alibis floated in public domain are untenable,» Bose posted on X. Bose is now following the X Handle route like former Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, to give his statements.

NSA) Vikram Misri was on Friday named as the next foreign secretary, according to an official order. From the highest decision-making office in the country -PMO to External Affairs Minister's office and ambassadorial posting in Beijing, Misri has handled India's most challenging foreign relations in the past. A 1989-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, Misri, who has served in Washington DC in the past, is often known as someone who takes a «360-degree view of things». Being in Beijing during the Galwan crisis and thereafter, he has handled the toughest period in the Sino-Indian ties in recent times. Later as the Deputy NSA, he worked closely with the NSA on various issues, including India's strategic ties with Eurasia and the Gulf, besides groundbreaking iCET with the USA.

coal import from 2014-15 to 2023-24 stood at 2.49 per cent only, the coal ministry said in a statement. «Moreover, CAGR of imported coal share stood at 13.94 per cent during the period from fiscal year 2004-05 to 2013-14 while the same figure plummeted to around -2.29 per cent» during the last decade, it said. With strategic focus on optimising indigenous coal resources and leveraging innovative technological solutions, India continues its journey towards self-reliance in energy security of the nation, the statement said.

Risk-adjusted return (RAR) of a scheme portfolio represents a more holistic measure of the scheme's performance because it quantifies the amount of return generated by a mutual fund scheme for each unit of risk taken to achieve that return. The current regulatory framework does not mandate the disclosure of RAR along with the returns of an MF scheme.

astronomical event will occur on Saturday when Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune and Saturn, align in the sky, all eyes are set on how to grab this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and watch it. Earlier NASA said that this event can be seen with the naked eye from the Earth. But, later Preston Dyches, a public engagement specialist for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, made it amply clear that it would not be so simple. He told USA Today that it wouldn't be the best time to enjoy the astrological spectacle. He along with Andrew Fazekas, the communications manager for Astronomers Without Borders, also advised people to be patient and wait until later in the month.

Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has signed a contract valued at Rs 3,172 crore with Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited (AVNL) on Friday at AVNL Headquarters in Chennai. According to an official statement, BEL, which is headquartered in Bengaluru, stated the project entails the supply and installation of an advanced, indigenously designed and developed Sighting and Fire Control System (FCS) for the upgrade of BMP 2/2K tanks of the Indian Army, along with a comprehensive engineering support package.

Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia should start producing short and intermediate-range missiles that were previously banned under a now-defunct arms treaty with the United States. Putin was referring to missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometres (300-3,400 miles) that were banned under the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Washington withdrew from the deal in 2019, citing Russia's failure to comply. The Kremlin said at the time that it would abide by a moratorium on production if the US did not deploy missiles within striking distance of Russia.

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said he was forced to step in the Well of the House as Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar did not allow him an opportunity to speak even as he raised his hand for a long time. Blaming the Rajya Sabha Chairman for the incident, Kharge said that he went to the Well to get his attention. The remarks came as in a rare occurrence, Kharge, the Congress president, stepped in the Well of the House along with other opposition MPs as they were demanding a discussion on the NEET issue. Kharge told reporters outside the Parliament that he raised his hand for a long time and waited for the Chairman to notice him, but his focus was on the treasury benches.

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Reserve Bank of India on Friday upwardly revised the aggregate Ways and Means Advances (WMA) limit of state governments and Union Territories to Rs 60,118 crore effective July 1, 2024. The existing limit is Rs 47,010 crore. The WMA are temporary advances given by the RBI to the central, state governments and UTs to tide over any mismatch in receipts and payments. The limits have been revised based on the recommendations made by the group constituted by the central bank, consisting of select state finance secretaries to take account of the expenditure data of states for recent years.

GAIL (India) Ltd on Friday said it has advanced the target to achieve net zero carbon emission by five years to 2035 as it takes multi-prolonged approach to reaching the goal. The company was previously targeting net zero carbon emissions by 2040. «GAIL Board accorded approval to advance its net zero target for Scope-I and 2 emissions by five years, from the year 2040 to year 2035,» the company said in a statement. Scope 1 covers emissions from sources that an organisation owns or controls directly — for example from burning fuel in factories or even in its fleet of vehicles.