Accepting a request for postponing questioning in the National Herald money-laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate has asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to record her statement with the agency in the last week of July, officials said on Thursday. The 75-year-old Congress president, who was supposed to depose before the agency on Thursday, wrote a letter seeking more time on the grounds that the doctors had ''strictly advised her to rest at home following her hospitalisation on account
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Polling was by and large peaceful in the bypolls for three Lok Sabha and seven assembly seats spread across five states and Delhi on Thursday barring an incident of stabbing of a policeman in Tripura, where polling was the highest at 76.62 per cent. In Punjab, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, the turnout was below 45 per cent while it was 56 per cent in Jharkhand and 67 per cent in Andhra Pradesh. The final figures are likely to change. In Uttar Pradesh, where the turnout was 43 per cent in the bypolls
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Leaders of BRICS nations, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday stressed the need for a comprehensive reform of the UN, including its Security Council, with a view to making it more representative, effective and efficient. China and Russia reiterated the importance they attach to the status and role of Brazil, India and South Africa in international affairs and supported their aspirations to play a greater role in the UN, according to the Beijing Declaration of the virtual BRICS a
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World Bank has approved three loans totalling $562 million (about Rs 4,393.70 crore) to fund an education project in Gujarat, a social protection programme in Tamil Nadu and a project to help recovery in the fisheries sector post the pandemic, the multilateral funding agency said on Thursday. The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved additional financing of $250 million for Outcomes for Accelerated Learning (GOAL), a programme which aims to improve education results for children acro
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Oil prices rise on tight supply; Brent reaches $110.44/bbl Brent crude futures rose 39 cents, or 0.4%, to $110.44 a barrel at 0012 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 37 cents, or 0.4%, to $104.31 a barrel. The group known as OPEC+ agreed at its last meeting on June 2 to boost output by 648,000 barrels a day in July, or 7% of global demand
Oil prices rose slightly in early Asian trade on Friday as nations seek to address global crude oil and fue
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Netflix Inc said it laid off 300 employees, or about 4% of its workforce, in the second round of job cuts aimed at lowering costs after the streaming giant lost subscribers for the first time in more than a decade. The move mostly affected its US workforce and came after the company cut 150 jobs last month. "While we continue to invest significantly in the business, we made these adjustments so that our costs are growing in line with our slower revenue growth," Netflix said in a statement on T
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(Reuters) - Curtis Mewbourne, founder of one of the largest closely held oil companies in the United States, died on Thursday at age 86. His company, Mewbourne Oil Co., operates more than 2,100 oil and gas wells in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, with a staff of about 400 people, according its website. Mewbourne founded the company in 1965 and expanded it over the years into on
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When loved ones pass away, memories play a vital part of moving forward. Recently there was a trend where people used technology to animate photos of dead friends and family to give new life to their memories. While many found this to be strangely comforting, it was quite creepy for the others. And if that wasn’t enough, there’s now a chance for you to revive the voice of those who have moved on. Amazon is working on a feature that will let Alexa speak in your dead relative’s voice. Cr
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The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Special Investigation Team's (SIT) clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots in the state and dismissed a plea by slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri's wife Zakia Jafri.
A three-judge bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar upheld the magistrate's order rejecting Zakia Jafri's protest petition against the closure report filed by the SIT in 2012.
The bench, also comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and C T Ra
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Diversified group Raymond aims to be a net debt-free company in the next three years and is focused on liquidity management through cost reduction initiatives and working capital optimization, according to the latest annual report of the company. For the financial year ended March 31, 2022, Raymond's net debt has been reduced to Rs 1,088 crore. It was Rs 1,416 crore in FY21 and Rs 1,859 crore in FY20. The net debt-to-equity ratio of the leading Indian branded fabric and fashion retailer has als
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