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Crypto and blockchain startups in the country have seen unprecedented investor capital inflow from international ventures amid a booming developer ecosystem, rising awareness and interest amongst retail investors to invest in tokens and cryptocurrencies, and the emergence of successful projects like Polygon and Instadapp out of India.

There are a number of ambitious infrastructure projects underway. Let me give a few examples. An in-principle approval has been given for 21 greenfield airports across the country. Projects worth ₹7 lakh crore, to be completed in the next three years, are said to be in the pipeline. Almost 8,400 greenfield expressways are being built as part of the Bharatmala project. Work is on for a 16,000 km-plus long natural gas pipeline.

The elections were held on December 27 to 1,185 wards in 58 urban local bodies, including five city municipalities, and 59 gram panchayats across 19 districts.

"I have tested positive for COVID-19. I am asymptomatic and taking treatment on the advice of a doctor. I appeal to all those you have come in my contact to get themselves tested. I urge everyone to wear a mask and follow all COVID-19 protocols," Thorat tweeted.

"No Chakma and Hajong shall cooperate with any illegal census. Any census on them must meet the litmus test of complying with Article 14 and Article 21 of the Constitution of India and the 1996 Supreme Court judgement in the case of National Human Rights Commission of India Vs State of Arunachal Pradesh & Anr," stated Santosh Chakma, general secretary of CCRCHAP.

On Wednesday, the 22-member SIT that included five Indian Police Service officers started examining and recording the statements of officers and jawans who were involved in an ambush on December 4, which claimed the lives of 14 civilians. A soldier died in a subsequent attack by villagers.

Lenders, however, claim that the forensic audit is based on concerns about diversion of funds and irregularities in the operations of the company, said people in the know of the matter. The Hyderabad-based engineering, procurement and construction company has denied these claims.

According to data from the Centre and the states, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country crossed 10,000 after a little over a month. On November 26, the total reported was 10,549.

The consortium outbid five others bidders, including realty companies Alpha Corp and Signature Global and high net worth individual investors Nikhil Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain and Summer Nanda, they said.

The Big Four firms had faced cash flow issues in 2020 amid the pandemic, but have since added scores of partners, rolled back salary cuts and are set to return to their pre-Covid-19 growth rate of about 20%. Professional services firms now generate more than ₹16,000 crore in revenue from India, as demand for their services has increased due to business complexity, an ever-changing regulatory environment, a robust deal scenario, and higher compliance work faced by corporates.

Retail inventories, excluding autos, which go into the calculation of gross domestic product, edged up by 1.3%. The economy grew at a 2.3% annualized rate in the third quarter, a step-down from earlier in the year but activity has rebounded in the fourth quarter.

The board of Evangelos Ventures had on December 7 passed a resolution to raise ₹2,000 crore by issuing secured, unrated NCD in several tranches. The ₹750-crore bonds raised last week have a bullet payment on March 31, 2025, and provide an internal rate of return (IRR) upwards of 15%, people said.

Look, this is not a podcast about finance, or specifically about finance. It's a podcast more about decision-making and all the errors and wonky decisions that people make and, importantly, how to make these decisions better. In fact, finance - financial markets, asset prices - is just the aggregation of all these biases, mistakes and difficult and complex decisions.

Expressing concern over the third wave, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, during an administrative meeting in Sagar Island on Wednesday, directed the Superintendent of Police of various districts and other administrative officials to review the education scenario.

On December 27, it again breached the 0.5-% mark and stood at 0.68 %, prompting the Delhi government to announce a "yellow" alert and impose restrictions on certain activities on Tuesday (December 28). On December 28, the city recorded 496 fresh Covid cases with a positivity rate of 0.89 %. On Wednesday, the positivity rate breached the one-% mark and stood at 1.29 % with 923 fresh cases.

The committee was constituted following the intervention of the Supreme Court, which is hearing petitions challenging the government notice issued in July that provided for 10% EWS quota in NEET admissions.

In addition, in the past such schemes failed as with no collateral required, the borrowers did not repay the amount which in turn led to the reluctance of banks to meet the government's stipulated credit targets.

The pandemic has induced a similar shift in the food retail value chain. With many countries moving into lockdown during the pandemic, there's been a significant shift towards ecommerce in food retail. This is further reinforced by the disruption of food supply chains, a supply-side effect.

The previous record high of daily infections was 122,186 on Dec. 24.

​​The Kalyan-Dombivali municipal corporation (in Thane district), Aurangabad and Nanded in central Maharashtra have recorded two cases each of the new variant. Satara, Osmanabad and Panvel municipal corporation have recorded five infections each. Buldhana, Latur, Ahmednagar, Akola, Vasai-Virar, Navi Mumbai, Mira-Bhayander, Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporations and Palghar district have recorded one case each.

Kanhaiya Kumar also lambasted Patnaik for allegedly not being able to speak Odia properly.

​​Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan held a high-level meeting with the five poll-bound states of Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab to review the public health response measures for containment and management of Covid-19, and the vaccination status in these states, a health ministry statement said.

Rohit has been doing his rehabilitation programme at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) but it could still take some time for the Indian captain to regain full fitness.

“The state government has arranged 13 RTPCR testing centres in Kolkata for the pilgrims, who will travel to Kolkata, and leave for the Gangasagar mela, set up five safe homes, 600 beds COVID hospitals and 11 quarantine centres in the fairground, in order to maintain proper pandemic protocol," West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.

V P Singh's announcement, on August 7, 1990, drawing on the recommendations in the report of the Second Backward Classes Commission, chaired by Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, remains the single-biggest step towards affirmative action in the country thereafter.

​​ "If Omicron cases rise (further), its going to be challenging due to its faster spread. We will have to deal with the prevailing situation and take decisions appropriately. "If cases rise, may be temporarily we may have to consider closure for a small period of time till the storm settles," he said.

Pregnant women in South Korea have been reminded to have enough pressed shirts, socks, and underpants, as well as freezer meals, ready for their husbands while they are in the hospital giving birth.

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained on February 1 in a coup that brings the country's decade-long democratic experiment to an end.

Modi approved an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund for the next of kin of the deceased. The injured would be given Rs 50,000 each, the PMO said.

The commission is likely to seek updates from Bhushan on the COVID-19 situation and the emergence of Omicron, the new coronavirus variant, sources said on Sunday.

Evergrande is the world's most indebted property developer, with over $300 billion in liabilities. It is struggling to repay bondholders, banks, suppliers, and deliver homes to buyers, epitomising a bloated industry suffering from the Chinese government's deleveraging campaign.

Dibrugarh superintendent of police Shwetank Mishra served a legal notice to AASU’s general secretary Shankar Jyoti Baruah for calling 24-hour Dibrugarh bandh. The student body had called a bandh to protest the arrest of their members following scuffle with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members.

A host of summons have been issued by the GST authorities since the issuance of clarification after the GST Council decided to exempt toll payments from GST.

A total of 957 Christmas Day flights, including domestic flights and those into or out of the country, were canceled, up from 690 on Christmas Eve, according to a running tally on flight-tracking website FlightAware.com. Nearly 2,000 flights were delayed.

"There were five people killed in the explosion, plus the bomber, making six," mayor Narcisse Muteba Kashale told Reuters. Congo's government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said on Twitter that the explosion had indeed been caused by a suicide bomber, and that security forces were investigating the incident.

Voters will not be polarised this time. Be it the OBCs or Dalits, including Jatavs - all are coming to the SP fold. They know that the BSP is neither in the field nor in the fray. The BJP is conspiring to end reservation benefits for them. They are privatising our country's assets, says Hasan.

The Cabinet's recent proposal to raise the minimum age of marriage for women to 21 years has focussed attention on the need to review the multiple legislations dealing with personal laws. Courts and experts have time and again pointed out numerous contradictions in India's legal system with regard to the age of consent, the minimum legal age of marriage, punishment for child marriage and a girl's right to dissolve her child marriage.

The man, former police official Gagandeep Singh, was dismissed from his services and was arrested by a special task force in 2019 in a drug-trafficking case, Chattopadhyaya said. Singh, who had spent two years in jail, was identified through a tattoo on his hand, the DGP said.

The new outfit, under the leadership of farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal, has been named Samyukt Samaj Morcha. "Ever since we won the battle at Delhi borders and came back to Punjab, the expectations of the people of Punjab from us have increased and there was a lot of pressure from them to enter into politics.

Cricket, in 2001, needed new oxygen to continue as India’s foremost national passion. Fans’ faith had to be restored and new fans needed to be brought in. That India could continue to express itself through cricket needed to be reinforced.

On August 7, 2021, the penultimate day of the Tokyo Olympics, Neeraj Chopra wrote history when he threw his javelin to 87.58 meters to become India’s only second Olympic gold medallist in an individual event after Abhinav Bindra’s shooting gold at 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The 14th round of talks has been pending for the past few months following intransigence from the Chinese side, delaying the disengagement along the LAC in the western sector. Disengagement and de-escalation are key to the proposed Russia-India-China summit proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.