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“Warm welcome to FM MoosaZameer of Maldives on his official visit to India. Discussions on bilateral & regional issues and seeking ways to provide impetus to our multifaceted relationship lie ahead,” writes External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on X (formerly Twitter).

RBI has revised its decision to impose restriction on BOB World, allowing it to onboard customers through the app, Bank of Baroda informed stock exchanges on May 8.

The lifting of restriction applies to PSU lender with immediate effect, the bank said.

Back in October 2023, the banking regulator had directed our BoB to suspend further onboarding of customers onto ‘Bob World’ mobile application, citing ‘certain material supervisory concerns’ observed in the processes.

TVS Motor Company saw its fourth-quarter net profit rise 18 per cent to Rs 485 crore in the March quarter, aided by robust volumes, healthy product mix, better pricing and benign commodity costs. The Chennai-based two-wheeler manufacturer’s revenue from operations jumped by 24 per cent to Rs 8,169 crore in Q4FY24.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today slammed Congress leader Sam Pitroda for his ‘racist’ remark, saying it reveals the mindset and attitude of Rahul Gandhi’s mentor. In a post on X, Sitharaman retorted saying, “I am from South India. I look Indian! My team has enthusiastic members from north east India. They look Indian! My colleagues from west India look Indian! “But, for the racist who is the mentor of @RahulGandhi we all look African, Chinese, Arab and the White! Thanks for revealing your mindset and your attitude. I.N.D.I alliance’s shame!”

Live-in relationship is an “imported philosophy” and against the “expectations of Indian tenets”, the Chhattisgarh High Court has observed, holding that the institution of marriage no longer controls the people as it did in the past.

The division bench made the remark while dismissing an appeal of a man seeking custody of a child born from his live-in relationship with a 36-year-old woman.

The Uttarakhand government infomed the Supreme Court today about the steps taken to control the raging forest fires and said 0.1 per cent of the wildlife cover in the state was on fire due to such incidents. The state government told the bench that from November last year, there have been 398 forest fires in the state and all of those were man-made.

Tata Power today registered a 15 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) growth in its consolidated net profit at Rs 895 crore for the fourth quarter, compared with Rs 778 crore in the last year quarter.

The top court will deliver its order on granting interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam on May 10.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) nationa convener was arrested on March 21 and is currently lodged in Tihar Jail under judicial custody. 

News agency AFP reported today that “all parties had agreed to return to the negotiating table” for talks towards a truce in the Israel-Hamas war. Earlier, some media outlets had reported that Egyptian, Qatari and US mediators were in talks with a Hamas delegation, without initially mentioning Israel.

Jammu and Kashmir’s former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was among the passengers who were hit by the sudden cancellations of the Air India Express flights today. Azad’s Delhi-Srinagar flight was cancelled today morning following which he took an IndiGo flight after waiting 3-4 hours in Delhi. “If the flights have been cancelled, they should have informed us in the morning itself. Why fool the passengers? So many people are being harassed,” Azad said.

AV Mukesh,  a cameraman and columnist with a Malayalam TV channel Mathrubhumi News who was part of a news team covering wild elephant menace in Kerala’s Palakkad district was crushed to death by an elephant on Wednesday, the police said. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Opposition leader VD Satheesan have condoled the death of Mukesh.

Ruling out any possibility of supporting the BJP after its tie-up ended, Dushyant Chautala said, “I have made it quite clear that the JJP will not go with the BJP now”. He said the government has lost majority and either the chief minister should prove majority or resign on moral grounds.

Karnataka JD(S) MLA HD Revanna, who is facing kidnapping charges, was remanded to judicial custody till May 14 by a Magisterial court here on Wednesday.

Also, his bail petition before a sessions court has been posted for Thursday.