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The incident — which took place on July 30 — came to light this week and hundreds of shocked citizens on Friday trooped out in a silent procession in protest against the crime.Taking strong note of the incident, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde called up the victim girl’s family and consoled them while assuring that the culprit would not be spared.Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, making a statement in the Assembly this morning said that the accused — Swapnil V. Patil, alias Sonya, of Gondgaon village — has been arrested and he would be liable for stringent punishment.According to Police, on…

“We have almost 800 daily appointments through the end of September 2023. These include 22 groups,” the mission said in a statement released on Thursday. Asserting that people-to-people contact is at the core of Swiss-Indian relationship, the Embassy said that it has processed more visa applications in the current year than it did in 2019. “We have surpassed our pre-pandemic times processing level. From January until June, we handled 129,446 applications, as against 120,071 during the same period in 2019 — a 7.8 per cent increase.” In addition, it said various measures have been implemented since the beginning of 2023…

The protesters holding placards and raising slogans were stopped by police as they managed to reach close to the building. Police arrested the protesters and shifted them to a nearby police station.The protesters were demanding that the state government pay Rs 50 lakh compensation each to the families of those killed in recent floods. They also demanded Rs 20 lakh compensation each for those whose houses were damaged.More than 40 people were killed in the recent heavy rain and floods, which wreaked havoc in the north Telangana region.The Congress party workers tried to lay siege to the Assembly for a…

“The contractors are being told to shell out commissions for Ministers. I got the tip off during my tour of Europe. The contractors are asked to shell out commission in Bengaluru. The ministers and their stooges are asking for the commission from contractors,” Kumarswamy told reported following his return late Thursday night. Levelling a serious allegation, Kumaraswamy said that “officers of the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) have been told to collect Rs 250 crore. They have been also told on how to reach the money to New Delhi as well. The officers in BDA have shared this information with me”.…

Bengaluru, Aug 4 (IANS) Andy Flower has been appointed as the head coach of the men’s team of Royal Challengers Bangalore ahead of next year’s edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Flower will take over from Sanjay Bangar, who was the franchise’s head coach till the 2023 IPL, where the team was unable to enter playoffs for the first time in four seasons.The franchise also confirmed that apart from Bangar, they are not renewing the contract of Mike Hesson, who was Director of Cricket Operations, as part of the internal review that the team had taken post the end…

Mumbai, Aug 4 (IANS) The 17-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh won two games in his second-round match with GM Misratdin Iskandarov in the first round of the FIDE World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan to surge past Viswanathan Anand in Live Rating and become the highest-ranked Indian chess player in the World.The win in the first round on Thursday evening against Iskandarov (Elo 2559) helped him rise to 2755.9 in the live rating, taking him past Anand’s rating of 2754, making him the second Indian player after Pentala Harikrishna in March 2016 to overtake Anand in live rating as India’s No.1 chess player,…

San Francisco, Aug 4 (IANS) Amazon posted strong financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, with net sales increasing 11 per cent to $134.4 billion and net income at $6.7 billion, compared with a net loss of $2 billion in the year-ago quarter.Its Cloud arm AWS segment sales increased 12 per cent year-over-year to $22.1 billion.AWS segment’s operating income was $5.4 billion, compared with operating income of $5.7 billion in the second quarter of 2022.“It was another strong quarter of progress for Amazon. Our AWS growth stabilised as customers started shifting from cost optimisation to new workload deployment,…

This weekend’s episode will start with action master and host Rohit Shetty picking two contestants to take on a daring challenge. Just like a relay race, these two contestants will then get to choose one contestant each to join their team and the chosen contestants shall compete against each other.The team with the maximum fear ‘fandas’ will go for the elimination stunt.The competition will intensify with the ‘Underwater Body Bag Escape’ stunt where the chosen contestants will be in a transparent and claustrophobic bag, and they must free themselves from the bag as it submerges into water.Followed by this, in…

Last week, Ciplahad clarified that the company is not aware of any event that requires disclosure under Listing Regulations.“The company will make appropriate disclosure in compliance with the Listing Regulations as and when any such requirement arises.” it said in a filing.The clarification came regarding reports thatCiplapromoters are looking to sell a part stake in the promoter shareholding to private equity investors.Cipla is up 3.62 cent in trade on Thursday at Rs 1,207 on BSE.Param Desai, Research Analyst ar Prabhudas Lilladher, said Cipla’s Q1FY24 EBITDA was 13 per cent above our estimates, aided by higher GMs (64.3 per cent) and…

The question pops up as the Rs 910 crore equity company has said in its annual report 2021-22 — the latest available — that it is the country’s first private satellite operator in India!In the Chairman’s speech published in the annual report D. Radhakrishnan, Chairman and Managing Director referring to the transfer of 10 satellites to the company by the Government of India he said: “With this, NSIL has emerged as the 1stPrivate Satellite Operator in India.”During FY22, the company had earned a revenue of about Rs 1,674.76 crore and a net profit of about Rs 342.98 crore.In a different…