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Sitharaman, who attended the Plenary Meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) in Marrakech, Morocco to discuss the priorities identified in IMF MD’s Global Policy Agenda, said this during her intervention.She noted that the 2023 has been a year of continued uncertainties and expressed concern about the weak medium term growth and policy trade-offs confronting policymakers worldwide.Sitharaman reiterated the importance of IMF quota reforms to ensure an adequately resourced IMF at the centre of Global Financial Safety Net, bolstering IMF’s lending capacity, and support to members through IMF’s lending toolkit to prevent debt crises.She also highlighted the need…

As per its new training system for very young athletes, under the age of 14, the AFI has introduced a new plastic javelin that helps refine the players’ throwing technique while also developing their shoulder muscles, AFI president Adille Sumariwalla told IANS on Saturday.The AFI has also discontinued competitions for sub-junior and youth levels as it wants youngsters at that level to enjoy sports and not get into specialisation in the race for medals.”We have conducted some studies which have shown that only 3 percent of athletes from those winning medals at sub-junior and youth level go on to excel…

The accused have been booked under Section 376D (gang rape) of the IPC, and sections of the Pocso Act, and the SC/ST act in women police station of the district. The incident occurred on Friday when the victim went for some work in a nearby market. She was intercepted by the four persons on bikes and kidnapped. They had taken to a deserted place and gang raped her one by one. After committing the crime, they left the victim at the spot and fled. The victim, somehow, reached home and narrated her ordeal to her parents. “The victim approached Murliganj…

Participating at the virtual inauguration of the festival edition of ‘Jago Bangla (Wake up Bengal)’, hher Trinamool Congress’s party organ in Bengali on Saturday, the Chief Minister said that since Durga Puja is not just a religious festival and that spirit should be followed during the forthcoming days of festival season.”There should be no divisive attempts during those days. While religion is to individuals, the festival is for all. So there should be no discord over it. Everyone should be united in celebrating the festival. Everyone should keep that in mind and not get trapped into any kind of provocation…

According to Entrackr, citing sources, about 100 to 150 employees were laid off from StudyIQ, a UPSC-focused edtech platform acquired by the company for about $20 million in December 2021.About 150 employees were laid off in major verticals, including sales and content. It is the first layoff in a few years at the company.As per the report, the laid-off workers were asked to resign without any prior notice.In October last year, Adda247 raised $35 million in a round led by WestBridge Capital. The round saw Google as a new investor.The funding round also saw participation from the existing investors, including…

He said no guard of honour was accorded and even an army ambulance was not provided to bring the body of the martyr back home in Punjab. The party demanded scrapping of the Agniveer scheme and regularisation of services of all soldiers recruited under the scheme till date. A Defence Ministry statement, terming the incident unfortunate, said Agniveer Amritpal Singh died while on sentry duty in the Rajouri sector due to a self-inflicted gunshot injury. A court of inquiry to ascertain more details is in progress, it said. It said mortal remains of the deceased, accompanied by one Junior Commissioned…

According to party insiders, the popularity of the government schemes on the social media has been taking a hit in the last 15 days after the rift between the Rajasthan Congress leaders and Arora few days ago following a verbal spat.The party insiders said that the popularity of the party’s campaign is taking a massive hit in the state. The assembly election for the 200 member assembly is scheduled on November 25.A party source, following the reach of the social media campaigning said that in the last 15 days the reach of the posts on the Facebook is down by…

The CBI arrested two people, including a Senior Superintendent of the Passport Seva Laghu Kendra (PSLK) in Sikkim’s Gangtok area, while accepting a bribe of Rs 1.90 lakh.The arrested Senior Superintendent has been identified as Goutam Kumar Saha and the other accused has been identified as Dipu Chetri.A CBI spokesperson said that a case was registered against 24 accused including 16 public servants. This included the Deputy Passport Officer (DPO), Kolkata; Senior Superintendent, PSLK, Gangtok; other public servants and private people.It was alleged that public servants of the Regional Passport Office (RPO) Kolkata and PSLK Gangtok entered into a criminal…

She had to undergo rigorous physical training to be on top of her game. This was something entirely different for her as Nora Fatehi has not really done action roles.As such, she underwent rigorous training to build her strength, agility and physique.Furthermore, to shape her physique she adopted a stringent fitness routine which combined strength training and flexibility exercises, so as to better prepare herself for the many physically demanding scenes in ‘‘Crakk- Jeethegaa Toh Jiyegaa’.Part of her training included stretching as well as taking a crash course in martial arts, all the while she was required to build up…

He said that the recovery of illegal money must be probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).The IT department had recovered Rs 42 crore cash at a flat owned by a contractor in Bengaluru. The issue had taken a political turn and it was alleged that the money was collected for assembly elections of five states. Bommai told media persons that there had been corruption in everything including transfer since the new Congress government has come to power. “This is the most corrupt government that Karnataka has seen. Corruption is seen from a village…