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12:08 AM

Discontent in Delhi BJP over minority community members from Shaheen Bagh joining party

12:08 AM

Anand Mahindra, Shantanu Narayen to receive 2020 Leadership Awards from USISPF

11:05 PM

Cabinet secretary led panel interviews eight candidates for RBI deputy governor's post

10:38 PM

Ashwani Bhatia appointed the Managing Director of State Bank of India

10:23 PM

Rahul attacks govt on state of economy, unemployment

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday again attacked the government over the state of the economy and unemployment, accusing it of spending public money on "image correction".

 

Citing a news report which claimed the government is seeking to plan a media blitz for its 'image correction' to help improve India's rankings on various indices, Gandhi tweeted, "Economic slump, unemployment, Chinese aggression ail our country. GOI: Let's spend taxpayers' money on 'image correction'."

10:23 PM

China must restore status quo ante in eastern Ladakh to resolve border standoff: Report

9:55 PM

Indiabulls HFC posts 66 per cent decline in Q1 net profit on higher provisioning

9:31 PM

Disconnect between stock market and real economy, correction in store: RBI governor

9:31 PM

DoT files affidavit in NCLT to exclude RCom, RTL spectrum from resolution plan

9:16 PM

SP, BSP stage walkout from UP Legislative Council over law and order issue

9:02 PM

SC agrees to hear Nagaland's plea raising questions over functioning of Lokayukta

The Supreme Court Friday agreed to hear a plea filed by Nagaland government which has raised questions over the functioning of Lokayukta in the state.
 

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde issued notice on the plea filed by the state government.
 

Issue notice returnable two weeks, the bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, said in its order.

8:57 PM

NDMC, DMRC join hands to build multi-level parking facility above metro station

A commercial block and a fully-automated multi-level parking facility will be constructed above an underground metro station that will be built as an interchange facility between two corridors of the phase four project of the DMRC, officials said.
 

The station Nabi Karim will be an integrated complex connecting Janakpuri WestR K Ashram Marg corridor and the proposed InderlokIndraprastha corridor of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
 

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed for the project on Friday between DMRC's Managing Director Mangu Singh and NDMC Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti.

8:40 PM

DGCA decides to undertake airlines safety, 12 airports affected by the monsoon

8:22 PM

Dutee Chand to be conferred with Arjuna Award, Odisha CM congratulates her

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday congratulated ace sprinter Dutee Chand for getting recommended to receive the Arjuna Award.
 

Sprinter Dutee, Shutler Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy, cricketer Ishant Sharma and shooter Manu Bhaker are among the 27 athletes who will be conferred with Arjuna Award on August 29 at the National Sports Awards ceremony.
 

The Chief Minister said that Odisha is proud of Dutee's achievement.
 

"Congratulate ace sprinter from #Odisha, Dutee Chand on being recommended to receive prestigious Arjuna Award. Odisha is proud of your achievement," the chief minister tweeted.

8:11 PM

Start-ups to soon start getting capital from Uttar Pradesh Startup Fund

The Uttar Pradesh Startup Fund is fast gaining traction and will soon start disbursing growth capital to the state-based entities.
 

The fund has garnered interests from the country's leading alternative investment funds, including venture funds, a government spokesman said here on Friday.
 

The spokesman added that SIDBI, the designated fund manager for the fund, has so far received four applications from AIFs for an aggregate amount of Rs 285 crore to create the initial corpus.
 

The decision on these applications will soon be taken by SIDBI and the Startup Nodal Agency in its first Venture Capital Investment Committee (VCIC) meeting scheduled to be held this month, he said.