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Indian private sector must boost capital expenditure to support sustainable, long-term growth and job creation, according to industry leaders and policymakers. Speaking at the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence in Mumbai, Amitabh Kant, Uday Kotak, Sanjiv Mehta, Sajjan Jindal and Preetha Reddy said services provide a strategic advantage, but manufacturing needed to fire. The investment could encourage greater support for R&D and India becoming a reserve currency of the world, said the panel.

​​A gala buffet dinner with seasonal specialities and haute cuisine followed. The Grandeur Grazing Table had a spread of the choicest cheese -- Brunost, red cheddar, aged 60% brie, Edam ball, goat milk feta -- served along with artisanal bread and home-made cultured butter.

Rajan said 255 people from Karnataka, including 134 from Shivamogga district and 53 from Mysuru, have so far returned to the state in four batches since April 27. As per official data, the total number of Indians who have been brought back home from Sudan now stands at 1,954. Under the evacuation mission, 754 people arrived in India in two batches on Friday.

Cargoes can be transported from Chattogram and Mongla ports to Agartala in Tripura via Akhaura, Dawki in Meghalaya via Tamabil, Sutarkandi in Assam via Sheola and Srimantapur in West Bengal via Bibir Bazar. The same routes can be used to transport commodities from the northeastern states to the two ports, officials from Dhaka told ET.

A man in Texas killed five people, including two children, possibly because he had been drinking and was randomly shooting a gun. The incident occurred after a neighbour who was concerned about the noise from shooting had asked him to stop. The neighbour, Francisco Oropeza, said he had the right to do what he wanted on his property. Oropeza shot the neighbour's wife, a teenage girl and two women - including one who was shielding two small children when she was killed before fleeing the area.

Bastar Police have announced a cash reward and released a photo of Jagdish, considered the mastermind behind the recent Dantewada blast in which ten DRG personnel and a civilian died. Although Jagdish is still at large, his wife, Hemla, is currently a doctor’s team commander within the Darbha division of the CPI (Maoist) group.

Polish state-run news channel TVP Info had earlier reported that police had showed up outside the Russian embassy school on Kieleckiej street in Warsaw on Saturday morning. When asked about the incident, a Polish foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters the building housing the embassy school belonged to the Polish state.

"We have welcomed the investigation, which represents a fair opportunity for everyone to be heard and for all issues to be addressed. We are fully compliant with all laws, rules and regulations and are confident that truth will prevail. We are fully cooperating with SEBI and will continue to provide all our support and cooperation," the statement added.

The Indian Air Force and Garud Commandos conducted an overnight air-lift operation to rescue stranded Indians from Sudan’s unlit airstrip at Wadi Seidna, with no navigational aids, lighting or fuel. The IAF used Electro-Optical/Infra-Red sensors to secure the runway and ensure no adversary forces were present. A total of 121 personnel were rescued, including a pregnant woman and others without means to reach Port Sudan.

The IED blast on Aranpur-Jagargunda state road comes months after major initiatives by the Chhattisgarh state police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to set up new base camps, construct roads and open old trade routes which had remained closed for over 15 years.

India's top men's doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty assured a men's doubles medal at the Badminton Asia Championships after 52 years after outplaying Indonesia's experienced duo Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in the quarterfinals here Friday.

While Putin is expected to attend the Summit, there is no concrete indication yet if Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Summit in person. India-China ties remain lukewarm over China’s intransigence to restore May 2020 status quo along the Line of Actual Control.

Bankers argue that a broader policy is required to promote environmental, social and governance (ESG) lending, and the proposed relaxation will free up more capital for such financing.

"Trial court to take a decision in accordance with law, as early as possible, within a period of 10 weeks," a bench led by Justice KM Joseph said, while noting that the trial in the case was over and the former directors of Ansal Group - Sushil and Gopal Ansal - who stood convicted had already deposited the fine of ₹30 crore each as directed by the Supreme Court in August 2015.

While Modi interacted with the beneficiaries of the project, he recollected his days when the initiative was launched in 2003, when he was the chief minister.

Medical experts have said Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.16 could be driving the surge in cases in the city. However, they have maintained that there is no need to panic and people should follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and get their booster shots.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will release the exam city slip for NEET-UG 2023, informing candidates about their exam location. The NEET-UG exam, which is the largest entrance exam in India, will be held on May 7th, 2023, and has received a record 20.87 lakh registrations this year. Females represent 11.8 lakh of the total candidates who registered for the exam. NEET-UG is the qualifying entrance exam for admission to various medical courses, including MBBS and BSc Nursing courses, and will be conducted in 13 languages.

The state government has recently amended the Bihar Prison Rules, 2012, by removing the "murder of public servants on duty" clause from the list of cases for which remission of jail term cannot be considered. Mohan is one among the 27 prisoners who would be released after this amendment. The government has this week issued an order for the release of 27 inmates, including Mohan, from jails across the state.

INS Teg, meanwhile, joined Operation Kaveri, and arrived at Port Sudan with additional officials and essential relief supplies for stranded Indians. Minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan is expected to be in Jeddah to oversee the evacuation process. ​​India sent two heavy-lift aircraft to Saudi Arabia and a ship to the coast of Sudan to begin the evacuation of Indian citizens who were caught in the conflict.

Even as China that controlled 75% of foreign investment in Sudan’s oil sector till 2018, has now reduced its dependency on Sudan for oil, it is engaged in the development of infrastructure such as roads, railways, and bridge construction. Being the first sub-Saharan country to recognise China in the 1950s, Sudan has seen a visible Chinese presence on its soil in the past seven decades.

The development comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October last year, endorsed Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami's remark that Mana was the first village of the country and every border village should be the first village.

At the much-awaited ET Awards for Corporate Excellence on April 28 in Mumbai, a high-powered panel will discuss what needs to be done to step up private sector capex so that the economy - the world's fastest-growing - can surge to 8% expansion and beyond.

"The companies are engaged in preliminary discussions to explore potential strategic options including potential combination and listing of the retail mortgage portfolio of JM Financial and the home finance business of IndoStar Home Finance Private Limited including other mortgage-backed business of IndoStar," JM Financial said in a regulatory filing to stock exchanges.

Trillium, which holds over 500,000 shares of Getty Images, offered to buy the rest at $10 apiece, representing a premium of nearly 98% to the stock's last close. Shares of Getty Images rose nearly 43% in morning trade to $7.25, much below the offer value, indicating there were concerns over the deal going through.

The leaders addressed a news conference in Kolkata and Lucknow after the meetings to send out a message that talks were beginning to yield results and Opposition parties would come together. A few days earlier, Kumar had met Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi where it was agreed that he would talk to parties which were at loggerheads with Congress and break the ice.

"I will just say thanks for the support, they came in big numbers. Most of these guys will come in a KKR jersey next time. They are trying to give me a farewell, so thanks a lot to the crowd," Dhoni kept it open-ended even as he took a picture with all groundsmen, one last time.

Mumbai saw 141 fresh cases and one fatality while another person died of COVID-19 in Ratnagiri. The case fatality rate in Maharashtra stands at 1.81 per cent.

A US Air National Guardsman was charged on April 14 with leaking classified documents online in what is believed to be the most serious US security breach since more than 700,000 documents, videos and diplomatic cables appeared on the WikiLeaks website in 2010.

Musk said on a conference call last week that Tesla has the wherewithal to sell cars at "zero profit" and then earn immense sums later off driverless software.

Both Shettar and Savadi are Lingayat leaders from the Mumbai-Karnataka (Kittur Karnataka) region, who quit the party after a lot of noise and are fighting elections on Congress tickets. The region accounts for 50 seats across six districts, and the party has traditionally been strong there. Shettar is contesting from the Hubli-Dharwad Central constituency and Savadi from Athani.

"Municipal finances is next on the reform agenda and bringing it to TSA will help in transparency in utilisation of funds," a senior official said. This could also figure as part of the terms of reference (ToR) for the 16th Finance Commission, which will be constituted later this year, officials aware of the proposal told ET.

A Ponzi scheme is one where old investors are paid returns with money deposited by new investors. The new entrants may not get any returns and, in some cases, they may lose the money they invested. In India, Ponzi schemes are banned under the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act, 2019.

According to reports, Virendra Kumar went down a well on Saturday evening to fix the motor pump. When he did not come up for long, Devendra and Chandra Prakash went down in the well, but both of them did not come up from the well for a long time either.

The News Intervention reported on the devastation caused in Kashmir during the 1980s and 1990s, as young men were brainwashed into believing in the "Jihad" to liberate Kashmir. Millions of rupees that could have been invested in human development were instead invested in negativity and destructive activities, while the Pakistani generals, politicians, and clerics who supported the Jihad benefited financially.

ADB forecasts Sri Lanka's economic growth to dip to 2.4% in 2022 and improve marginally to 2.5% in 2023. The forecast indicates a better prospect for the economy now that what the World Bank had forecast in October 2022. According to Word Bank October 2022 forecast, Sri Lanka's real GDP was expected to fall by 9.2 percent in 2022 and a further 4.2 percent in 2023.

Kotak Mahindra AMC managing director Nilesh Shah advocated greater public-private partnerships for state-owned firms to unlock wealth that will fuel India's growth.

The airman accused of leaking classified documents to a small group of gamers was reportedly posting sensitive information on a much larger Discord chat group months earlier, with around 600 members, according to The New York Times. The newspaper revealed that information posted, which was available to the public after being listed on a YouTube channel, included details about Russian and Ukrainian casualties, Moscow's spy agencies' activities and updates on aid provided to Ukraine.

Musk had announced on April 11 that Twitter users will lose the legacy blue check marks from April 20. Shah Rukh Khan, Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh Bachchan, Virat Kohli, Deepika Padukone, Bill Gates and Hilary Clinton were among those whose blue ticks have been removed by Twitter.

Intense speculation is going on in Maharashtra's political circles about Ajit Pawar's growing proximity with the ruling BJP.