Lok Sabha Speaker sets up the Business Advisory Committee for the new session. The Committee includes members such as Sudip Bandhyopadhyay, Gaurav Gogoi, Dayanidhi Maran, PP Chaudhary, and Anurag Thakur, among others.
India's No.2 IT services firm Infosys beat quarterly revenue estimates on Thursday, helped by a recovery in demand from clients in its financial services and manufacturing verticals. Consolidated revenue in the first quarter rose 3.6% to Rs 39,315 crore ($4.70 billion), beating analysts' average estimate of Rs 38,915 crore, as per LSEG data.
Several coaches of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express have derailed near Jhilahi Railway Station in UP, with several people feared trapped.
India has issued an advisory to its nationals in Bangladesh and urged them to avoid moving outside their premises. This development comes in the wake of the ongoing clashes across parts of the country on the issue of reservation in government jobs. Calling for a nationwide shutdown following deadly clashes this week, student protesters in Bangladesh have demanded an end to quotas for government jobs.
The top court is hearing a batch of pleas alleging paper leakage and malpractices in the NEET-UG 2024 examination conducted on May 5 this year. A Bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is hearing the case today. The Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) have argued against cancelling NEET-UG 2024.
The mother of controversial probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar, has been arrested by Pune police. An FIR had been registered Manorama Khedkar, Dilip Khedkar, the parents of the trainee IAS officer, and five others based on a complaint by a farmer who claimed that he was threatened by Manorama.
Two security personnel died and four were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast by Naxalites in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh on Thursday. The explosion took place on Wednesday night in the forests of Mandimarka in the Tarrem police station area. The State Task Force's Chief Constable Bharat Lal Sahu and Constable Sater Singh l were returning from an anti-naxal operation when the IED exploded. Additional security forces have been sent to the area, and the requisite measures are being taken for the proper treatment of the injured STF soldiers.
The president of this year's UN climate summit has said that political direction is required to resolve disagreements on a new financial target to support developing countries' climate actions post-2025. Climate finance will be at the centre of the UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the world will reach the deadline to agree on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) -- the new amount developed nations must mobilise every year starting in 2025 to support climate action in developing countries.
A fresh gunfight broke out between security forces and terrorists in a forest village in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir early Thursday, officials said. The encounter took place in Jaddan Bata village in Kastigarh area around 2 am when terrorists opened fire on the security search parties, the officials said. A massive search operation was launched in Desa and adjoining forest areas following the killing of four army personnel, including a captain, by terrorists in a firefight on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday.
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