The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it has ordered listing of a plea challenging the verdict of the Bombay High Court which had upheld a decision of a Mumbai college to impose a ban on wearing of 'hijab', 'burqa' and 'naqab' inside the campus.

The high court had on June 26 refused to interfere with the decision of the Chembur Trombay Education Society's N G Acharya and D K Marathe College imposing the ban, saying such rules do not violate students' fundamental rights.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday informed the lower house of Parliament that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will make a statement on the situation in Bangladesh.

Birla informed the House after Question Hour concluded that Jaishankar will make a suo moto statement at 3.30 pm in Lok Sabha.

Telecom major Bharti Airtel reported a sharp 158 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) jump in net profit — attributable to owners — for the first quarter of financial year 2024-25. This comes amid greater focus on cost efficiencies, rising number of 4G and 5G users, and continued growth in the Wi-Fi category.

Beating industry estimates, the telco’s net profit for Q1FY25 reached Rs 4,159 crore, up from Rs 1,612 crore in the year-ago period. Sequentially, the profit more than doubled. It was Rs 2,071 crore in the previous quarter.

The Delhi High Court made clear that it will deliver its judgment on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's petitions on Monday. These petitions challenged his arrest and sought bail in connection with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case concerning the Excise Policy matter.

On Monday, Arvind Kejriwal's legal team mentioned the matter before the bench of Justices Neena Bansal Krishna, urging the court to expedite the decision on his petitions. The bench stated that it scheduled the pronouncement of judgment for 2:30 p.m. on the same day.

Shares of PCBL hit a new high of Rs 390, gaining 3.5 per cent on the BSE in Monday’s intra-day trade amid heavy volumes in otherwise a weak market on healthy business outlook. The stock of RP-Sanjiv Goenka group company has surged 50 per cent in past nine trading days. In past two months, the stock zoomed 86 per cent.

At 10:29 am; PCBL was trading 2.7 per cent higher at Rs 387.25, as compared to 1.8 per cent decline in the BSE Sensex. The average trading volumes on the counter jumped nearly three-fold. A combined 16.84 million equity shares representing 4.5 per cent of total equity have changed hands on the NSE and BSE.

The Rs 1.46 trillion Bajaj Group is preparing to foray into healthcare through a chain of hospitals, according to reports.

The healthcare business venture is likely to be headed by Nirav Bajaj, who currently oversees corporate strategy at Mukand. However, the investment plans have not yet been finalised.

Equity market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled in early trade on August 5 in line with extremely weak trends in global markets amid fears of a slowdown in the U.S .economy and foreign fund outflows.

The 30-share BSE Sensex tanked 2,401.49 points to 78,580.46 in early trade. The NSE Nifty tumbled 489.65 points to 24,228.05.

In a setback to the Aam Aadami Party (AAP), the Supreme Court on Monday upheld Delhi Lieutenant Governor's decision to nominate 10 'aldermen' to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices Narasimha, JB Pardiwala said that LG is expected to act as per the statutory mandate and not as per the aid and advice of the Delhi government.

Nearly 100 people, including 14 policemen, were killed and hundreds injured on Sunday in fierce clashes between protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation and the ruling party supporters in different parts of Bangladesh, forcing authorities to cut off mobile internet and enforce a nationwide curfew for an indefinite period.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who heads the ruling NCP, on Friday said he would quit politics if the veracity of the reports about him visiting New Delhi in disguise to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah before his party forged an alliance with the BJP, was proven. But if the reports are found to be wrong, those who made these allegations against him should quit politics, he challenged the leaders from the opposition parties, as he alleged that efforts were on to defame him.

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