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MUMBAI: Sebi is pushing ahead with bond market reforms with plans for bond tokenisation pilots and a new regulatory framework for debt brokers, as it seeks to deepen corporate debt markets beyond their current narrow base of issues and investors. The regulator is looking at easing disclosure norms for debt-only issues.Noting that financing for business...

NEW DELHI: After struggling for three years, acid attack survivor, 28-year-old Reshma Qureshi, has finally won a hard-fought battle to get the authorities to conduct a reassessment of her disability, taking into account the damage caused by the lethal acid thrown at her more than 12 years ago by her brother-in-law during an ongoing marital...

NEW DELHI: In a move aimed at strengthening the electronic warfare capabilities of the IAF’s workhorse fighter jets, the defence ministry has issued a request for proposal (RFP) to upgrade the Su-30MKI fighters with a state-of-the-art anti-jamming, anti-spoofing multi-constellation global positioning system (GPS) antenna.Jamming and spoofing are part of electronic warfare. Under jamming, the signal...

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has held that the in-laws of a woman cannot be prosecuted for cruelty or making dowry demands merely because they remained mute spectators to disputes between spouses and did not come to rescue of the daughter-in-law. It said that while such conduct is questionable on moral grounds, it does not automatically...

India is in negotiations with Russia to purchase additional batches of S-400 long-range air defence systems, Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) confirmed on Tuesday.“Russia and India are negotiating the delivery of an additional batch of S-400 Triumf air defence systems, according to Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation. Moscow said the S-400 ‘proved...

Kansas City Chiefs emerge as a “strong fit” for $63 million former New England Patriots wide receiver Rashee Rice’s legal trouble.(Image via X) The former New England Patriots’ wide receiver, Stefon Diggs, has remained an unrestricted free agent since the team released him in March after a dominating performance. Amid this, the star player has...

NEW DELHI: Ladakh L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena on Tuesday asked Sonam Wangchuk to desist from “weaving a misleading and provocative narrative” about the situation in the UT, in criticism of the activist’s recent comments that feared Manipur-like social divisions in the border region and indicated his support to Cockroach Janta Party.Saxena said he had a...

After a year of uncertainty, precipitated by the protracted absence of a leaders’ summit, the Quad announced a series of initiatives in key areas like critical minerals, energy security and maritime surveillance in the Indian Ocean, along with a plan to build a port in Fiji, hoping to supercharge the grouping’s “global good” agenda.Indian officials...

PUNE: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday evening arrested a student, who allegedly received physics questions from Pune school headmistress Manisha Havaldar, in connection with the NEET-UG question paper leak case. With this, the total number of people arrested in the case has risen to 12.The student, whose phone number was reportedly saved...

Bangladeshis gather at Hakimpur border crossing on Tuesday (IANS) SWARUPNAGAR/KOLKATA: Hundreds of Bangladeshis without the documents required to stay in India made a bee-line for the Bithari-Hakimpur border exit in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas on Tuesday, seeking to return home amid an administrative flurry to implement the new BJP govt’s “detect-delete-deport” strategy for illegal immigrants.CM...