PATNA: Bihar Police‘s special task force, in a joint operation with the economic offences unit (EOU), arrested Sanjeev Mukhia, the alleged mastermind behind the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak, from an apartment in Danapur in Patna late Thursday.Mukhia had been absconding since the medical entrance exam was held in May last year. The police headquarters had…
MUMBAI: India-Pakistan border tensions spooked Dalal Street investors on Friday, with the sensex closing 589 points down at 79,213 points, while Nifty on the NSE lost 207 points to 24,039 points. Some profit-taking after a seven-session gain that added about 8.5% to each of the indices also led to the slide in the indices, market…
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel‘s about Rs 41,000-crore of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues will not be converted into equity automatically as the telco’s application for such conversion will go through a scrutiny at the Department of Telecom (DoT), an official source said on Friday.Bharti Airtel has sought conversion of its AGR dues of around Rs…
NEW DELHI: In a significant step towards river-sensitive urban development, the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) – a central nodal agency for river rejuvenation – has approved an action plan for 145 cities, located along different rivers across the country, which is to be implemented in 2025 for keeping stretches of the respective rivers…
HYDERABAD: India’s mid-market GCCs (global capability centres) are experiencing a surge, outshining their peers by unlocking new opportunities. This growth is creating a flywheel effect, allowing them to leverage a diverse talent pool. India has over 480 mid-market GCCs, with 2.1 lakh employees, as shown in a Nasscom-Zinnov report. Mid-market GCCs are capability centres set…
The National Commission for Women-led committee inquiring into the communal violence in West Bengal’s Murshidabad has observed that the strife had a particularly “devastating impact” on women and girls. It also said there was “a complete breakdown of administrative machinery and governance” in Murshidabad. “Despite prior intelligence and visible tensions in the area, state govt…
NEW DELHI: Gross direct tax collections rose 15.6% to top Rs 27 lakh crore during the last fiscal year, while refunds went up 26% to an all-time high of a little under Rs 4.8 lakh crore, provisional data released by the finance ministry showed.The provisional net direct tax collection, which was up 13.6% to just…
Hours after restaurant worker Gulfam Ali, 27, was shot dead and his co-worker injured in Agra, a self-proclaimed ‘gau rakshak’ who identified himself as Manoj Chaudhary and said he was a member of ‘Kshatriya Gau Raksha Dal‘, took to social media on Friday to announce the murder was “retribution” for the Pahalgam attack in which…
BENGALURU: The $500 million Infosys Innovation Fund invested in Bengaluru-based VC fund Yali Capital to expand its reach in India’s burgeoning deep tech ecosystem to cocreate solutions for its customers. “Our objective is to bring the power of the Infosys ecosystem and the innovation ecosystem together; to drive insights that feed into our strategic direction,…
NEW DELHI: Taking serious objection to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi‘s remarks against V D Savarkar, Supreme Court virtually gagged him on Friday, warning him of suo motu action if he derided the freedom fighter and Hindutva proponent in the future. “…This is not the way you treat our freedom fighters,” Justice Dipankar Datta said.A bench…
