A Nagpur court on Thursday granted bail to former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in a case of allegedly concealing information about two criminal matters against him in an election affidavit.

Fadnavis appeared before the court after being granted exemption from appearance on four earlier occasions.

India ranked 77th on a sustainability index that takes into account per capita carbon emissions and ability of children in a nation to live healthy lives and secures 131st spot on a flourishing ranking that measures the best chance at survival and well-being for children, according to a UN-backed report.

The report was released on Wednesday by a commission of over 40 child and adolescent health experts from around the world. It was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and The Lancet medical journal.

Shares of Muthoot Finance scaled 7 per cent to hit a new high of Rs 935 on the BSE on Thursday. The stock of India's largest gold financing company, in terms of loan portfolio, surpassed its previous high of Rs 898 touched on Tuesday, February 18, 2020.

A sharp rally in the market price of Muthoot Finance has led to its market capitalisation (market-cap) touching Rs 36,823 crore, the BSE data shows. With this, the company overtook financials like AU Small Finance Bank (Rs 35,657 crore), Punjab National Bank (Rs 35,843 crore) and IDBI Bank (Rs 35,969 crore) in the m-cap ranking.

Three people were killed while 10 others were injured after a crane collapsed on the set of actor Kamal Haasan's upcoming film 'Indian 2' near Chennai on Wednesday.

While Haasan was unharmed, three people working on the set at EVP Film City in Poonamallee lost their lives.

A Tihar Jail official on Thursday said that one of the death row convicts of Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case, had tried to hurt himself by banging his head against a wall in his cell earlier this week.

Vinay Sharma received minor injuries and he was taken to hospital for treatment after he banged his head on the wall on February 16.

The number of fatalities due to the deadly coronavirus outbreak in China has reached 2,118 as of the end of Wednesday, up by 114 from the previous day.

The central province of Hubei, the epicentre of the outbreak, reported 108 new deaths, while in the provincial capital of Wuhan, 88 people died.

Mainland China had 394 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Wednesday, the National Health Commission said on Thursday, down from 1,749 cases a day earlier and the lowest since January 23.

The Karnataka High Court has prima facie not found merit in the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) order of an investigation into some of the business practices of e-commerce majors Amazon India and Flipkart. The High Court last Friday granted an interim stay on a petition filed by Amazon, after hearing the matter for three days.

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday slammed the economic policies of his successor Narendra Modi, saying the government was not acknowledging that there was a slowdown, and that there was a need to rethink the reform process afresh to deal with the country’s challenges.

Today we have a government which does not acknowledge that there is a word as slowdown. And I feel this is not good for our economy.

As China reels from the coronavirus epidemic, Korean mobile phone maker Samsung seems to be recovering some of the lost ground.

While the outbreak has forced most leading brands like Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Realme to rework their launch dates and pricing strategies, Samsung, which struggled to maintain its hold over the market last year, has taken the lead.

Home Secretary Priti Patel on Wednesday announced the launch of the UK's new points-based visa system, aimed at attracting the brightest and the best from the world, including from India, and cutting down numbers of cheap, low-skilled workers coming to the country.

The new system will come into force from January 1 2021 at the end of the transition period after the UK's exit from the European Union (EU) last month, which will formally end free movement of people within the economic bloc for the UK as a non-member.

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