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Leading Japanese mobile entertainment company Mixi on Tuesday announced the launch of its India-first $50 million Corporate Venture Capital (CVC). With his fund, the company aims at empowering early-stage entertainment startups in the country. 

Close to 11.5 gigawatts (GW) of coal power capacity under development moved forward through various approval stages in the first five months of 2023, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor (GEM) and the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said on Tuesday.

The BJP high command has decided to take out five 'Jan Ashirwad Yatras' in the poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, during which five prominent leaders of the party will lead the campaign to seek support from people across all 230 assembly constituencies in the state.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that contaminated common cold syrup found in Iraq last month was manufactured by an Indian pharmaceutical company based in Maharashtra.

The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023 was passed by the Parliament on Monday, with the Rajya Sabha clearing the law with 131 votes in favour and 102 votes against.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the Delhi Services Bill in no way violates the Supreme Court judgement and it is aimed to corruption-free administration in Delhi.

Criminals operating from Pakistan, reportedly supported by the ISI, purportedly employ air cargo to transport weapons, including Zigana pistols and Chinese-made AK-47 rifles, concealed within specially designed iron boxes, said a source in Delhi Police.

Similar to the provision in the Income Tax Act on “unexplained credits”, markets regulator SEBI would seek to consider provisions for “unexplained suspicious trading patterns”.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the order of the Delhi High Court allowing aircraft lessors of cash-strapped Go First airline to inspect their aircraft at least twice a month to carry out maintenance work.

The COCOMI said that the conflict can only be inferred to be pre-planned as tension started building up from April 27 after an open gym to be inaugurated by the Manipur Chief Minister was vandalised.

As per the sources, an investigation was conducted under the PMLA into PPK Newsclick Studio for an alleged fraudulent infusion of foreign funds amounting to Rs 38.05 crore over a span of three years.

The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will constitute a three-judge committee headed by Justice Gita Mittal, former Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to look into “humanitarian” issues like relief, rehabilitation, remedial, etc., in the violence-hit Manipur.

A fire broke out in the endoscopy room on the second floor of a building at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on Monday said a fire department official, adding that the flames had been doused and all are safe.

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL seeking the formation of a Commission of Inquiry to inquire into the alleged audio tape leak case linked to former Tamil Nadu Finance Minister P.T.R. Thiagarajan.

"A fire call has been received from the emergency ward of AIIMS at 11.54 hours. Total 8 fire tenders rushed to the site," Delhi Fire Services Director Atul Garg said.

The central government on Monday sought to play down the restoration of Rahul Gandhi's Lok Sabha membership, with Parliamentary affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi saying that the decision was taken as per due legal procedure.

Lok Sabha membership of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Monday restored by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, three days after the Supreme Court stayed his conviction in a defamation case.

The redevelopment works of these stations were launched under the Centre's "Amrit Bharat Station Scheme", which is aimed at redeveloping 1,309 stations, official sources said.

Olympic medalist wrestler Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat have returned to India after completion of their respective training camps in Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul and Budapest.

National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval has said that India has engaged with both Russia and Ukraine on a regular basis at the top most level, ever since the conflict between the nations broke out, as per reports.

A Delhi court on Saturday after accepting a bail bond by Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in connection with the anti-sikh riots in 1984 in the national capital's Pul Bangash area, posted the matter next for August 11.

This upward pressure of rice prices “raises substantial food security concerns for a large swathe of the world population, especially those that are most poor and who dedicate a larger share of their incomes to purchase food,” FAO warned.

The Supreme Court on Friday observed that the alleged remarks made by Rahul Gandhi are "not in good taste", while it stayed his conviction in the 'Modi surname' defamation case, paving way for restoration of his Lok Sabha membership.

A bench, headed by CJI D. Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, refused to interfere with the order of the Delhi High Court granting her bail as it disposed of the plea filed by the ED. 

A bench of Justice Dipankar Datta was hearing an application filed by a vehicle owner seeking transfer of a claim petition pending before a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehgarh to West Bengal's Darjeeling.