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The Trinamool Congress also attacked the BJP-led government at the Centre for holding back funds for schemes such as the MGNREGA

Speculation about a possible BJP-BJD coalition intensified further as no one from Odisha appeared in first BJP list of 195 Lok Sabha candidates released on Saturday. It was anticipated that the BJP list will have four names from Odisha - Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan (Sambalpur), national spokesperson Sasmit Patra (Puri), ex-Union minister Jual Oram (Sundargarh) and Aparajita Sarangi (Bhubaneswar).

Tarun Kumar Vashisth, the first visually impaired PhD holder from IIM Ahmedabad, conducted a groundbreaking study on the experience of visually impaired employees in corporate India. His research shed light on the concept of ableism and the organizational response to employees with blindness.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal stated that India successfully protected the interests of its farmers and fishermen at the WTO (World Trade Organization) meeting. He called for a quick resolution of the impasse that has affected the functioning of the dispute-settlement mechanism. Goyal emphasized the need to reinstate the appellate body for dispute resolution.

Two ministers, Rohit Thakur and Jagat Singh Negi, walking out of a cabinet meeting on Saturday in Himachal Pradesh has stirred the political pot again in the state amid claims by disqualified MLA Rajinder Rana on the 'imminent fall of the state govt' and questions over PWD minister Vikramaditya Singh's recent meeting with rebels in Panchkula.

Sheikh Jameel-ur-Rehman, a Pakistan-based terrorist commander and the self-styled secretary general of the United Jihad Council (UJC) and emir of Tahreek-ul-Mujahdeen (TuM), has been found dead under mysterious circumstances in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Rehman, designated a terrorist by the home ministry in October 2022, was involved in multiple terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and collaborated closely with Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI.

Highlighting demanding nature of motherhood, Karnataka HC in a recent judgment ruled in favour of a woman and her two children, and hiked her maintenance cost. Justice M Nagaprasanna granted the woman Rs 36,000 per month in maintenance from her husband, a manager in a nationalised bank, instead of Rs 18,000 per month awarded by Anekal family court.

Kumar Alankrit, a techie, narrowly escaped a bomb explosion at Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru's tech corridor. He credits his mother's call for saving his life. He was in Brookefield, working in hybrid mode, and went out to have brunch. While eating idli and dosa, he received a call from his mother and stepped out.

The former Supreme Court judge is now expected to stand up to the state against corruption as the new chairperson of the anti-corruption body

"Banking is fundamentally about risk management above anything else. What is (incorrectly) perceived as RBI's heavy-handedness against fintechs is in fact an opportunity for founders to leverage tech to reduce risks, improve governance, and enhance compliance," Bhavin Turakhia, founder of Zeta, a banking tech company, said in a series of posts on social media platform X.

During a public rally in Aurangabad, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar declared unwavering allegiance to the BJP-led NDA. In another rally in Begusarai, PM Modi targeted the Congress-RJD alliance, alleging the promotion of family-centric politics over social justice. Modi expressed confidence in NDA's victory in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and inaugurated development projects worth over Rs 48,000 crore for Bihar.

The phenomenon of ‘feminisation of responsibility’ refers to the disproportionate work done by women workers in the garment sector, despite nearly a decade of wage stagnation

Tirupati Katla, a BJP functionary and janpad panchayat member, was brutally attacked and killed by a Maoist hit squad in Bijapur district, Bastar, after attending a wedding. This marks the eighth murder of a BJP functionary by Maoists since the previous year and the first since the BJP returned to office in December.

Deputy Chief Minister urges businesses to leverage the industry-friendly environment in Telangana, cites development initiatives such as textile parks and pharma villages

Two PhD students from IIT-Roorkee's, Shashi Gaurav Sinha and Kamlesh Meena, were killed in a road accident near Dhanauri village in Roorkee. They were hit by a bullock cart while riding a bike on a rural road. The bullock cart driver has been arrested. The IIT-Roorkee community is devastated, and the victim's families have been informed.

Absconding accused picked up at Mumbai airport on arrival from Tanzania