An unidentified person fired at and injured Baba Siddiqui of the Ajit Pawar-led NCP in Mumbai's Bandra East on Saturday evening.
The former state minister has been admitted in Lilavati Hospital nearby, a police official said.  The firing took place outside his MLA son Zeeshan Siddiqui's office near Colgate ground in Nirmal Nagar, the official added.  "Two to three rounds were fired. Further probe is underway as teams have rushed to the area," the official said.  Siddiqui had recently joined the NCP from the Congress.

Baba Siddiqui

The company, whose shares have declined 11 per cent, has launched internal investigations and has taken legal action against Telegram and the hacker

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The Global Hunger Index (GHI), a tool used by international humanitarian agencies to measure and track hunger levels with GHI scores based on under-nourishment and child mortality indicators across 127 countries, has ranked India 105th, which places it under the serious category of the analysis.
The 2024 report, now in its 19th edition, is published this week by Irish humanitarian organisation Concern Worldwide and German aid agency Welthungerhilfe to highlight that hunger levels will remain high in many of the world's poorest countries for several decades in the absence of more progress in measures to tackle the issue.
India is among 42 countries that fall within the "serious" category, alongside Pakistan and Afghanistan, with other South Asian neighbours such as Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka showing better GHI scores to be listed under the moderate category.
With a score of 27.3 in the 2024 Global Hunger Index, India has a level of hunger that is serious, reads the index ...

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Realty firm Puravankara Ltd's sale bookings fell 17 per cent to Rs 1,331 crore in the second quarter of this fiscal year despite strong housing demand.
Its sale bookings stood at Rs 1,600 crore in the year-ago period.
The company sold properties worth Rs 2,459 crore during the first six months of this fiscal year, down from Rs 2,725 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year.
"In Q2FY25, we have achieved collections of Rs 1,033 crore and pre-sales of Rs 1,331 crore mostly from sustenance sales. Our performance continues to reflect robust housing demand across key markets, driven by our strategic focus on customer-centric offerings and operational efficiencies," Ashish Puravankara, Managing Director of Puravankara Ltd, said.
In the first half of the fiscal, he said the company witnessed sustained traction across its portfolio and continued to replenish land bank by acquiring over 5.75 million square feet of saleable area in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Goa with a total potentia

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Has improved fuel efficiency of machines like backhoe loader by 40% in 10 years

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Ratan Tata's empathy for animals, especially stray dogs, spanned from caring for his pets to creating safe spaces at Bombay House and founding India's first Small Animal Hospital

Ratan Tata

The finance ministry may undertake an amendment to the Insurance Act, which will allow mutual insurance associations

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Timeline extended almost by a month for smoother implementation

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The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.
Kang, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences.
Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee announced the prize in Stockholm.

Han Kang

The body of former DU professor GN Saibaba who passed away in Hyderabad, will be donated to a hospital as he wished, said a statement issued by his family on Sunday.
Saibaba, 54, was released from a Nagpur jail after 10 years, in March this year. He was released after being acquitted by the High Court in an alleged Maoist links case.
Saibaba's body will be kept at Jawahar Nagar, Hyderabad, for his relatives, friends and well-wishers to pay homage, on Monday. Afterwards, his body will be donated to a hospital as per his wishes. His eyes have already been donated to LV Prasad Eye Hospital, the family said in a statement.
The former professor who taught English at Ram Lal Anand College of Delhi University (DU) passed away on Saturday due to post-operative complications, seven months after he was acquitted in the alleged Maoist links case.
He was terminated from service by the DU and his official accommodation was taken away after he was arrested in 2014.
Saibaba's death will continue

GN Saibaba

Slamming Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's BJP is a "party of terrorists" remark, senior leader of the saffron party Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi alleged on Sunday that the Congress is selling hatred in its "shop of love".
Naqvi said the opposition party has become a "multinational distribution centre" of "certificates" labelling nationalists as terrorists and anti-nationals as nationalists.
Kharge alleged on Saturday that the BJP is a "party of terrorists", as he hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his recent remarks that the Congress is being run by a "gang of urban Naxals".
Kharge also accused those in the saffron party of "lynching and beating" people, and committing atrocities against the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).
Talking to reporters here, Naqvi said in its "depression of defeat", the Congress has become "hostage to hopelessness" due to its "habit of hate".
The "dynasty's animosity and hostility" towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi is becomin

Mallikarjun Kharge, Kharge, Mallikarjun

The National Health Authority, the implementing agency for the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), is assessing the need to add more health packages catering to the elderly as the government is set to roll out the health coverage for all aged 70 years and above.
The expanded scheme, which will benefit an estimated six crore citizens in about 4.5 crore households, is likely to be launched by the end of this month, official sources said.
"The committee which decides on health-benefit packages under the scheme is deliberating on the need for adding more health packages, which exclusively tend to geriatric care, as the number of such beneficiaries will go up with the launch of the scheme," an official source said.
The scheme presently offers a comprehensive coverage that includes 1,949 medical procedures across 27 medical specialties, such as general medicine, surgery, oncology and cardiology.
Hospital services, including drugs (covering 15 days' medication ...

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The rating agency's arm said that India's recent consumer price inflation at around 5 per cent was without clear evidence of a trend towards slowing price pressures

Most GCCs in India support critical business goals by using AI, data analytics, robotic process automation, and cloud services

India ranked third globally in terms of funding raised by fintech companies, behind the US and China, the report said

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