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This multibagger hits 5% upper circuit after new order win

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

The company had recently announced an acquisition of a substantial interest in a rice processing facility located in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh through a joint-venture agreement, in which it holds a 66 per cent stake in the JV agreement.

Kansas Proved That Abortion Rights Can Win in Red States

CounterPunch 

There’s no place like home. No statement rang more true as the country recently turned its attention to my home state of Kansas. We’re known for three things: The “Wizard of Oz,” our amazing barbeque, and our conservative voter base. But our ballot initiative on abortion shook that last notion up. In a referendum, Kansas More

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Is Liz Cheney a Profile in Courage?

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Is Liz Cheney’s stand against former President Donald Trump a profile in courage? Cheney was soundly beaten in the recent Wyoming Republican primary to run for her seat in the House of Representatives. Despite voting 93% along with Trump while he was president, Liz Cheney paid the price for repudiating Trump following January 6 and More

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Absolutely Fabulous

CounterPunch 

There is nothing like an unanticipated dance scene on stage or screen: the twist contest in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (an homage to, among other cinematic choregraphies, Godard’s Bande à part); in spite its cheezy intercutting, Al Pacino’s “tango” (not a tango at all, an Argentinian once contemptuously informed me, dismissing the number as a mere More

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TMC's Mukul Sangma writes to PM seeking probe into Meghalaya meters 'scam'

Business Standard 

Meghalaya's leader of opposition Mukul Sangma sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an inquiry by a central agency into the purchase of "overpriced" smart meters by the state government. Sangma, a Trinamool Congress leader, alleged massive financial irregularities in the contracts for procurement of smart meters awarded by the Meghalaya government. "Sir, you have always held that there is zero tolerance for corruption in New India. Your commitment to ensuring a corruption-free... Читать дальше...

303 new Covid-19 cases reported in Thane; active tally stands at 1,641

Business Standard 

Thane district in Maharashtra has reported 303 new coronavirus positive cases, taking its infection tally to 7,37,728, a health official said on Friday. With the addition of these cases on Thursday, the district currently has 1,641 active cases, he said. Since no patient died due to the infection during the day, the fatality count remained unchanged at 11,938, he said, adding that the overall recovery figure has reached 7,24,599, he added.

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Sydney Morning Herald 

Paul Connolly’s Kitchen Sink Drama is a slice of domestic life, captured masterfully in only 100 words. This week: An unexpected turn of events at a dinner

FG to end petrol subsidy in June 2023

The Punch 

… one month after Buhari’s exit The House of Representatives’ Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate the Petroleum Products Subsidy Regime from 2013 to 2022, on Thursday, grilled the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, over payments of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) by the Federal Government. In her presentation, Ahmed disclosed

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The Liberal “Aversion to Conflict”

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An unusual article recently appeared in the Financial Times called “Liberals must overcome their aversion to conflict.” It is hard to know what the author is arguing in the piece, though it might be for less criticism of militarization. Throughout, he touches on the threats posed to the liberal order by both the “woke left” More

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Anett Kontaveit crashes out in Cincinnati

Err.ee (en) 

World number two Anett Kontaveit is out of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, Ohio, after losing to Zhang Shuai (PRC), 2:6, 6:4, 6:4.

Rivers taxi driver rapes stranded woman, victim hospitalised

The Punch 

A 21-year-old girl has narrated how she was abducted and raped along the Obiri-Kwerre Airport Road in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The victim (name withheld) told journalists in Port Harcourt, the state capital, that the incident occurred around 10pm on Monday while she was returning from work. The lady said there

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Learning How to Die: Finding Meaning in the Midst of Collapse

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Elizabeth West Despite the extremely disheartening developments across the spectrum of worldly life, despair and defeat are –while understandable–not inevitable. That is the good news. We are never obliged to surrender the best of our humanity, even as things around us devolve. But in order to find our footing, it is important to begin by More

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