Whoever becomes my heir will be my son,’ tweets Eknath Shinde in dig at Thackerays

Mumbai, 5/10: Ahead of his Dussehra rally, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday tweeted a couplet by famous Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, which said that whosoever is his heir will be his son and not vice versa. Shinde’s tweet appears to be targeted at former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya…

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Bertozzi, Meldal, Sharpless awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Sweden, 5/10: Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”.     The prize was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($915,072).   The third of the prizes…

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With an eye on Lok Sabha polls, K Chandrashekar Rao floats national party Bharat Rashtra Samithi

Hyderabad, 5/10: With an eye on the Lok Sabha elections 2024, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) supremo K Chandrashekar Rao announced his national party on the occasion of Dasara.   The TRS passed a resolution to change the name to Bharat Rashtra Samithi.   KCR said that the TRS general body decision was unanimous, Bharat Rashtra…

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Putin signs law annexing 4 regions of Ukraine

Kyiv, 5/10: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed laws absorbing four Ukrainian regions into Russia, a move that finalises the annexation carried out in defiance of international law.     Earlier this week, both houses of the Russian parliament ratified treaties making the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions part of Russia.   The…

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IPO-bound OYO valuation dips in private market after reported markdown by investor SoftBank

Mumbai, 5/10: The valuation of IPO-bound OYO in the private market has dipped to around $6.5 billion following reports of a markdown of valuation of the hospitality and travel-tech firm by SoftBank in its private books, according to industry players.   In the week ended September 30, 2022, nearly 12.3 lakh shares of the company…

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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat bats for Matri Shakti, religion-based population balance

Mumbai, 5/10:Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday called for the empowerment of women in all domains of society, along with their participation and equity in the decision-making process.     Taking about the Bharatiya tradition, where activities are carried out jointly by men and women, Bhagwat said that over time this tradition…

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Four militants killed in separate encounters in J&K’s Shopian

Kashmir, 5/10: Four militants were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, police said.     Three Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants were killed in the Drach area of Shopian, while a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant was killed in the Moolu area of the south Kashmir district, they said….

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