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…
A Russian general was killed by a car bomb Friday, Russia’s top criminal investigation agency said, in the second such attack on a top Russian military officer in four months that Moscow blamed on Ukraine. The committee said Lt Gen Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the general staff of…
NEW DELHI: Over the past decade, India has significantly reduced poverty with extreme poverty declining from 16.2% in 2011-12 to 2.3% in 2022-23, lifting 171 million people above the poverty line, a World Bank report said on Friday.Rural extreme poverty dropped from 18.4% to 2.8% and urban from 10.7% to 1.1%, narrowing the rural-urban gap…
Players after the match in Chennai. (Pic credit: IPL) Sunrisers Hyderabad dealt a massive blow to Chennai Super Kings’ playoff hopes with a five-wicket win in a battle of strugglers at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Friday. The victory, SRH’s first-ever at Chepauk, was powered by Harshal Patel’s brilliant 4 for 28 on a sluggish…
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…
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NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki has decided to go slow on land acquisition for a planned Rs 35,000-crore second factory in Gujarat due to poor growth in car sales. This factory was aimed at taking the company’s production capacity to four million (40 lakh) units by 2030-31.When asked whether the company has gone slow on the…
Iran on Friday offered to mediate between India and Pakistan to ease growing hostilities in the aftermath of the deadly Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians, mostly tourists. On the same day, Saudi foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud spoke separately with his counterparts in New Delhi and Islamabad amid fears of military…
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,…
