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One female student was found dead at a UPSC coaching centre basement in Rajendra Nagar, after a nearby drain burst, triggering the flooding after heavy rains on Saturday. Police, fire services and NDRF are rescuing the remaining students from the building. Delhi Minister Atishi posted on X, "There is news of an accident due to heavy rain in Delhi in the evening  There is news of water filling in the basement of a coaching institute in Rajendra Nagar  Delhi Fire Department and NDRF are on the spot. Delhi Mayor and local MLA are also there. I am taking updates on the incident every minute. A magistrate has been ordered to investigate how this incident happened. Whoever is responsible for this incident will not be spared.'


After the NITI Aayog meeting, CEO BVR Subrahmanyam says, "...We had 10 absentees and 26 participants. We had absentees from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Bihar, Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Puducherry. The chief minister of West Bengal was present. The chief minister of West Bengal had made a request to be given a turn before lunchtime. I'm just putting facts on the ground, no interpretations. It was a very clear request from their side because normally we would have gone alphabetically. So it begins with Andhra Pradesh, then Arunachal Pradesh...We actually adjusted and the Defence Minister actually called her in just before Gujarat. So she made her statement. Every chief minister is allotted seven minutes and there's just a clock on top of the screen which tells you the time that is remaining. So it goes from seven to six to five to four to three. At the end of that, it shows zero. Zero.Nothing else. Nothing else has happened other than that...Then she said look, I would have liked to speak for more time, but I'll not speak anymore. That was it. There was nothing more. We all heard. She made her points and we respectfully heard and noted points, which will be reflected in a minute...Just to mention the fact the chief secretary continued to attend and he was in the room even after she left because she had to catch a flight to Calcutta..."

The Congress on Saturday said the treatment meted out to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at a NITI Aayog meeting here was "unacceptable". The opposition party's scathing criticism of the government think tank came after Banerjee walked out of the 9th Governing Council meeting of the NITI Aayog, claiming she was unfairly stopped midway through her speech. The government rejected Banerjee's charges, saying the time allotted to her for speaking at the meeting was over. The Congress alleged the Niti Aayog has functioned as a "drumbeater" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was chairing the meeting, since it was set up 10 years ago. The meeting was boycotted by Congress party chief ministers over alleged discrimination against non-NDA-ruled states in the Union Budget.

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Saturday made a pitch for setting up a Gujarat State Institution for Transformation (GRIT) on the lines of the NITI Aayog, which serves as a public policy think-tank for the central government. Speaking at the governing council meeting of the NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attended by chief ministers of various states, Patel also said that Gujarat was committed to realising the prime minister's vision of making India a developed nation by 2047.

The state Congress, on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s presence at the NITI Aayog meeting, said that Banerjee went to the meeting without consulting other Opposition parties. Congress spokesperson Soumya Aich told news agency PTI, “We have nothing to say on this issue. We had boycotted the meeting and she did not. She did not consult us and went on her own.” Banerjee walked out of the meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming that she was unfairly stopped midway through her speech, despite being the sole representative of the opposition. 

ICICI Bank on Saturday reported 9.96 per cent increase in June quarter consolidated net profit at Rs 11,695.84 crore.

The company had logged a profit of Rs 10,636.12 crore in the same period of 2023-24. On a standalone basis, the country's second-largest private sector lender reported 14.62 per cent rise in profit at Rs 11,059 crore as against Rs 9,648.2 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 45,998 crore in April-June FY25 from Rs 38,763 crore a year a go, as per an exchange filing by the lender. Expenses jumped to Rs 29,973 crore from Rs 24,624 crore. Overall provisions came in at Rs 1,332.18 crore as against Rs 1,292.44 crore for the year-ago period, and Rs 718.49 crore in the March quarter. Gross non-performing assets ratio was stable at 2.36 per cent as on June 30, 2024.

At the 9th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "Viksit Bharat @ 2047 is ambition of every Indian. States can play an active role to achieve this aim as they are directly connected with the people. We are moving in the right direction. We have defeated once in hundred years pandemic. Our people are full of enthusiasm and confidence. We can fulfil our dreams of Viksit Bharat @ 2047 with combined effort of all States. Viksit States will make Viksit Bharat. This decade is of changes, technological & geo-political, and also of opportunities. India should grab these opportunities and make our policies conducive for international investments. This is the stepping stone for progress to make India a developed nation."

Making India a developed country by 2047 is an ambition of every Indian, and states can play an active role to achieve this aim as they are directly connected with the people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee walked out of the NITI Aayog meeting here on Saturday as she said she was stopped from speaking "after just five minutes". She alleged that there was discrimination in the amount of time given to different leader. She said Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu spoke for twenty minutes.

NITI Aayog's ninth Governing Council meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun. The meeting focuses on making India a developed nation by 2047, aiming to foster participative governance and collaboration between the Centre and state governments, enhancing the quality of life for both rural and urban populations by strengthening the delivery mechanisms of government interventions. Opposition leaders have decided to boycott the meeting.

Three Army personnel were injured in an exchange of fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district on Saturday, officials said. "Some exchange of fire took place near Kumkadi post in Trehgam sector of the north Kashmir district," one of the officials said.

Leaders of all parties have been invited to attend the NITI Aayog meeting today. The meet will discuss the road map to make India a 'developed economy'. However, led by Congress, most opposition leaders are likely to remain absent from the meet.
Leaders from BJP-ruled states have started reaching the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre where the meeting is scheduled to take place. Union Home Minister Amith Shah and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh have also reached the venue to take part in the meeting.