Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha has called Trinamool Congress a carbon copy of the CPIM, which ruled Bengal for 34 years in a row.

Speaking at a public meeting in Belonia, under South Tripura district, on Friday, Saha said, "Wherever the Communist Party ruled, their remnants could be traced. The people of Bengal trusted Trinamool and voted for them. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a gross mistake.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday proposed to make CBDC-R (CBDC-Retail) accessible to a broader population by allowing non-bank payment system operators to offer CBDC wallets.

Non-bank payment system operators include third-party payment applications like Phone Pe, Google Pay, etc.

In the wake of the suicide bomb attack that claimed the lives of five Chinese nationals, Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan to probe the incident, The News International reported, citing Pakistan's interior ministry.

According to the report, the incident that occurred on March 26 was the third major attack in little over a week on China-invested infrastructural projects, where Beijing has invested more than USD 65 billion as part of its wider Belt and Road initiative.

Farmer activist Navdeep Singh Jalbera has been arrested by the Haryana Police in connection with an FIR registered during the farmers' "Delhi Chalo" protest last month.

The development comes ahead of a gathering convened by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mukti Morcha (KMM) on Sunday to pay homage to Shubhkaran Singh (21), a farmer from Punjab's Bathinda who was killed in a clash with police at the Punjab-Haryana border on February 21.

The petrol pump strike in parts of Assam, scheduled to begin on Saturday morning, was deferred, a leader of their association said.

The North East India Petroleum Dealers' Association (Greater Guwahati Unit) had called for 'no purchase no sale' from 5 am on Saturday till 5 am on Monday over a host of demands.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been disqualified as a candidate in South Africa's general elections scheduled for May 29 due to his criminal record, the Electoral Commission (IEC) said on Friday.

Zuma, who was recalled by his own African National Congress (ANC) in February 2018 for refusing to step down, was sentenced to 15 months in jail in 2021 by the highest judicial body in South Africa, the Constitutional Court after he earlier walked out of hearings at the Commission of Enquiry into State Capture.

Delhi on Saturday registered a minimum temperature of 21.8 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season's average, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The humidity levels were recorded at 64 per cent at 8:30 am.

Zee Entertainment Enterprises has laid off 50 per cent of its staff at its Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC), Bengaluru in order to optimise its resources, the company said in a statement. The company did not disclose the number of employees at the Centre who were laid off.

The plan will optimise the resources and arrive at a cost-effective structure to drive continued growth for the company, it said.

Shares of IDFC First Bank slipped 3 per cent to Rs 75.10 on the BSE in Thursday's intra-day trade after over 2 per cent equity of the private sector lender changed hands via block deals.

At 09:15 am; as many as 165 million equity shares representing 2.33 per cent of the total equity of IDFC First Bank changed hands via block deals on the BSE, the exchange data shows. However, the names of the buyers and sellers were not ascertained immediately.

India strongly objected on Wednesday to US remarks about its "internal affairs" after the arrest of Delhi's chief minister, a government rival, and the freezing of opposition Congress party bank accounts ahead of an election. Arvind Kejriwal, whose Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) governs the national capital territory and the northern state of Punjab, was arrested last week by the ED on corruption charges, weeks before Indians head to the polls on April 19.

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