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New Delhi, Jan 25: India's 100 top billionaires have seen their fortunes increase by Rs 12,97,822 crore since March last year when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country and this amount is enough to give 13.8 crore poorest Indians a cheque for Rs 94,045 each. The latest India supplement of the Oxfam report 'The Inequality Virus' said it would take an unskilled worker 10,000 years to make what

Mumbai, Jan 25: Equity benchmark indices swayed between gains and losses during early hours on Monday while their Asian peers were on an upward trajectory. At 10:15 am, the BSE S&P Sensex was down by 46 points or 0.09 per cent at 48,833 while the Nifty 50 edged lower by 13 points or 0.09 per cent to 14,359. Most sectoral indices at the National Stock Exchange were in the red with Nifty PSU bank

New Delhi, Jan 25: After getting the permission to organise a tractor rally in Delhi on Republic Day, the farmers' union has issued guidelines so that the parade is carried out in a peaceful manner. The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) said: "We are going to create history. Till date, such a parade has never been carried in the country on Republic Day. We have to keep in mind that this historic parade

Mumbai, Jan 24: Groping a minor's breast without "skin to skin contact" cannot be termed as sexual assault as defined under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Bombay High Court has said. Justice Pushpa Ganediwala of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, in a judgement passed on January 19, the detailed copy of which was made available now, held that there must be

Delhi, Jan 26: Delhi Police on Sunday claimed that over 300 Twitter handles have been generated from Pakistan to disrupt the tractor rally proposed by protesting farmers on Republic Day. Detailing the plan for the tractor parade, Deependra Pathak, Special Commissioner of Police (Intelligence) said the rally on Tuesday will be conducted amid tight security after the Republic Day celebrations

What appears like a replica of a Bollywood film ‘Nayak’ in real life, a 20-year-old girl from Uttarakhand was made the chief minister of the state for one day. She is also the state’s first woman chief minister. Hailing from Haridwar, Shrishti Goswami was made CM of the state to mark the National Girl Child Day on January 24. Goswami, a student of B.Sc agriculture at a Roorkee-based institution

Bengaluru, Jan 24: Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa on Sunday said the officials allegedly involved in leaking the first division assistant (FDA) examination question papers may be dismissed from service, even as eight more people were arrested in connection with the leakage, taking the total number of arrests to 14. The exam conducted by the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) was

President Joe Biden benefited from a record-breaking amount of donations from anonymous donors to outside groups backing him, meaning the public will never have a full accounting of who helped him win the White House. Biden’s winning campaign was backed by $145 million in so-called dark money donations, a type of fundraising Democrats have decried for years. Those fundraising streams augmented

Jeddah, Jan 24: The Saudi city of Madinah has been acknowledged by the World Health Organization (WHO) as among the world’s healthiest cities. The holy city gained the accreditation after a visiting WHO team said that it met all the global standards required to be a healthy city. Madinah is believed to be the first city with a population of more than 2 million to be recognized under the

Mangaluru, Jan 24: In a hit-and-run case, an elderly man was crushed to death by an unidentified vehicle at Thokkottu in Mangaluru taluk this morning. The deceased has been identified as Hammabba (60), a resident of Panemangaluru in Bantwal taluk. He was crossing the highway opposite Sahara hospital when the accident took place. It is learnt that the vehicle rammed into Hammabba and sped off