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Sensex plunges nearly 483 pts on sell-off in IT, banking stocks

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Benchmark BSE Sensex tumbled by nearly 483 points on Monday due to selling in IT, capital goods and banking shares following losses in global equities on worries over high-interest rates. The 30-share index tanked 482.61 points or 0.81 per cent to close at 58,964.57 with 23 of its constituents closing in the red. During the day, it tumbled 552.78 points or 0.92 per cent to 58,894.40. The 50-issue Nifty of the National Stock Exchange declined by 109.40 points or 0.62 per cent to finish at 17,674.95 as 29 of its…

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Shehbaz Sharif elected as new Prime Minister of Pakistan

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Shehbaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, was elected unopposed as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan by Parliament on Monday after rival candidate Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party will boycott the voting and staged a walkout. Shehbaz, 70, was the only candidate left in the race after Qureshi’s boycott of the election in the National Assembly. In the House of 342, the winning candidate should get support of at least 172 lawmakers. Shehbaz, the younger brother of former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, received…

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Violence on campus will not be tolerated, no bar on serving non-veg food: JNU administration

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The JNU administration on Monday warned students against indulging in any kind of violence on campus and said the clashes broke out on Sunday after some students objected to a ‘hawan’ conducted “peacefully” on the occasion of Ram Navami, an assertion also made by the RSS-affiliated ABVP. However, the JNU Students Union (JNUSU), which is led by Left-affiliated outfits, has alleged that ABVP members attacked the students while opposing the serving of non-vegetarian food in the Kaveri Hostel mess on the Hindu festival. In a statement, the university clarified there…

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Card-less cash withdrawal facility across all banks’ ATM network soon: RBI

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 In a bid to check fraud, the Reserve Bank on Friday decided to permit all banks to introduce card-less cash withdrawal through ATMs. Currently, card-less cash withdrawal through ATMs is a permitted mode of transaction offered by a few banks in the country on an on-us basis (for their customers at their own ATMs). “It is now proposed to make card-less cash withdrawal facility available across all banks and ATM networks using the UPI. In addition to enhancing ease of transactions, the absence of the need for physical card for…

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Hindi is not India’s national language, will never let it happen: Cong leader Siddaramaiah

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 Asserting that Hindi is not India’s national language, former Karnataka chief minister and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday accused the ruling BJP of trying to unleash its agenda of “cultural terrorism” against non-Hindi speaking states. Taking offence to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s comment regarding the official language, the Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka assembly accused him of betraying the former’s home state Gujarat and mother-tongue Gujarati for Hindi, for his political agenda. Shah on Thursday said Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not…

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LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

HC asks Centre to respond to plea for appointment of members in Settlement Commission

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The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought response of the Centre on a plea seeking appointment of members in various benches of the Settlement Commission as required under the Central Excise Act, observing that the situation is rather alarming . A bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla issued notice to the Centre, through Ministries of Finance and Law and Justice, on the petition and listed the matter for further hearing on May 2. In our view, the situation is rather alarming and the respondent should…

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Tata Motors bags order for 1,300 commercial vehicles from VRL Logistics

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 Tata Motors on Thursday said it has bagged an order for 1,300 commercial vehicles from VRL Logistics. The order comprises medium and heavy commercial vehicle and intermediate & light commercial vehicle range, suited for logistics operations of VRL Logistics, the Mumbai-based automaker said in a statement. The vehicles were selected basis the superior drivability, high fuel efficiency and low total cost of ownership, which will enable VRL Logistics to increase its fleet efficiency, it added. “We endeavour to engineer our vehicles to offer the lowest total cost of ownership and…

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Pak Supreme Court resumes hearing to decide fate of PM Imran Khan

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Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday resumed the crucial hearing on the dismissal of a no-confidence vote against embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan through a controversial ruling by the deputy speaker of the National Assembly and the subsequent dissolution of Parliament by the president. A five-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel, Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel took up the case in the morning. Bandial questioned President Arif Alvi’s lawyer, Senator Ali Zafar, where the constitutional…

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Ensure disaster alerts reach remote areas timely; engage all agencies: Shah

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Agencies involved in disaster management should ensure that alerts generated for calamities should timely reach the remotest panchayat location in the country and organisations like NCC, women groups and home guards should be brought on board for this task, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday He asked the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the federal agency to train and undertake operations during such emergencies, to take a leadership role in this context so that whenever such an emergency strikes, a trained personnel can work as a “stop gap…

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

Want to break the trend, do something different, challenge myself: Shahid Kapoor on his OTT debut

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Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor, who is set to make his digital debut with a series by The Family Man creators Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, says he wanted to challenge himself as an actor with his foray in streaming. Dubbed as a quirky crime drama series, the show is created and written by Nidimoru and DK for Prime Video. It is co-written by Sita R Menon, Suman Kumar and Hussain Dalal. “The choice to go on to the OTT platform was to break the trend, was to do something different…

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