Nine people died, and several others were critically injured after a tourist van plunged off a hairpin bend into a gorge at the Valparai hills in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu.

The incident occured when a vehicle lost control at the 13th hairpin bend and plunged to the 9th hairpin bend, according to Valparai Police.

Iran has rejected claims by US President Donald Trump that it has agreed to transfer its enriched uranium to the United States, with its Foreign Ministry strongly dismissing the assertion, Al Jazeera reported.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Tehran would not allow such a move under any circumstances, according to Al Jazeera.

The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam (Constitution 106th Amendment Act, 2023) was defeated in the Lok Sabha on Friday after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) failed to secure the two-thirds majority required to pass a Constitutional amendment bill.

The Bill proposed a 33 per cent (one-third) reservation for women in the Lok Sabha, state legislative assemblies, and the Delhi legislative assembly.

Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart plans to sell movie and concert tickets in India, moving into a fast-growing space driven by consumers spending more on entertainment, two sources familiar with the matter said.

India's live events and ticketing market has gathered pace over the last year, as demand for large-scale concerts

President Donald Trump claimed Iran has made key concessions in negotiations with the US and that a deal to end the war — which has left thousands dead and rattled energy markets — could be announced “fairly soon.”

The US president said it may be unnecessary to renew a two-week ceasefire with the Islamic Republic before it expires next week, defying expectations that an extension will be needed to allow more time for diplomacy.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday pulled out ₹2.00031 trillion transient liquidity from the banking system through a seven-day variable rate reverse repo (VRRR) auction.

The central bank had received higher bids worth ₹2.28098 trillion than the notified amount of ₹2 trillion in the auction.

The Supreme Court on Friday said rampant illegal riverbed sand mining has created an "environmental crisis" and wreaked "havoc" in the National Chambal Gharial Sanctuary, causing a grave risk to the gharial (long-snouted crocodile) preservation project.

Slamming the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh for their utter failure in dealing with the issue.

A SpiceJet aircraft collided with a stationary Akasa Air plane while taxiing at Delhi airport on Thursday afternoon, causing minor damage to both aircraft. No injuries were reported.

The incident occurred at around 2:15 pm when the SpiceJet aircraft, arriving from Leh, was moving towards its gate and made contact with the Akasa Air plane, which was preparing for departure to Hyderabad.

US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran has agreed to hand over its enriched uranium stockpile, signalling that both countries are “close” to reaching a peace deal.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said Iran had agreed to hand over what he described as “nuclear dust”, his term for highly enriched uranium that the US believes could be used to build nuclear weapons.

The Congress on Thursday said the true intent of the bills being brought by the government in the garb of implementing women's quota law is mischievous and they have to be rejected completely in their present shape and form.

Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the three bills are being taken up in Lok Sabha and the packaging and marketing is women's reservation but the fundamentals have to do with delimitation.

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