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Russia attacks chemical plant in Ukraine's Severodonetsk city

Officials estimate that as many as 800 civilians are hiding in the plant

NEET 2021 counselling: SC quashes plea to hold stray round for vacant seats

The bench said that granting a stray round of counselling for NEET 2021 would have public health implications

Rajya Sabha elections: BJP, Congress bag 3 each in Karnataka, Rajasthan

Counting halted in Maharashtra, Haryana over accusations of rule violations

War causing severe cost-of-living crisis no country can escape: UN

An FAO index of food prices surged to a record earlier this year as Russia's invasion of Ukraine curtails shipments from one of the world's biggest suppliers of vegetable oils and grains

China gives nod to Ant IPO, firm says it has no plan to go public

Ant, an affiliate of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group Holding, aims to file the preliminary prospectus for the offering as soon as next month

In reversal, Twitter to comply with Elon Musk's demands for data

Firm's board plans to grant Musk access to the massive stream of 'firehose' data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted each day

Apollo, Reliance Industries consortium said to make binding bid for Boots

The bid for the Boots business is fully backed by committed financing, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private

Five-day work week, curtailed foreign trips as Pak battles an energy crisis

Pakistan announced a six-day work week soon after Sharif took over as the new prime minister in April

Cricket legend Mithali Raj announces retirement from all forms of the game

Mithali Raj has scored 7805 runs in 232 ODIs with seven centuries and 64 fifties to her name

Local BJP leader arrested in Kanpur over tweet on Prophet Muhammad

The BJP leader's arrest came four days after violence erupted in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur post Friday prayers over remarks made by former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on Prophet Mohammed

RBI likely to raise interest rate by 25 bps-50 bps today: Experts

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has already indicated that there may be another hike in the repo rate though he refrained from quantifying it

Gupta brothers, wanted for graft in South Africa, arrested in UAE

In a statement, the Dubai Police said that Rajesh and Atul have been arrested in connection with money laundering and criminal charges in South Africa

Pawar urges PM Modi to raise sugar export quota by another million tonnes

Production of the sweetener is expected to be higher than earlier estimates

Delhi IGI airport to induct 62 EVs to cut down greenhouse gas emissions

The Delhi airport has decided to replace all its vehicles with EVs in the next four months for its airside operations under the Green Transportation Program

Explained: What happens if British PM Johnson wins the confidence vote?

Even if Johnson is protected from a new vote of confidence, a significant mutiny could make his leadership untenable

Kuwait supermarket pulls Indian products as row grows over Prophet remarks

Workers at the Al-Ardiya Co-Operative Society store piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a protest against comments denounced as "Islamophobic"

ED raids Delhi minister Satyendar Jain's residence in money laundering case

Satyendar Jain was arrested on May 30 under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act

Dozens killed, scores injured in late-night Bangladesh container depot fire

Bangladesh has a history of industrial disasters, including factories catching fire with workers trapped inside.

Egypt rejects ship carrying Indian wheat originally intended for Turkey

'We rejected the ship before it entered Egypt,' says Egyptian plant quarantine chief Ahmed El Attar

Early kharif sowing shows healthy progress; rice, pulses area up

The actual pick-up in sowing will happen once the monsoon becomes active over Central and Western India