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OFCD case: SEBI moves Supreme Court against SAT relief to SICCL managers, company secretary

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-13T10:24:19+00:00

While dismissing the appeals filed by SICCL and its directors, the tribunal had allowed a separate appeal filed by four managers and the company secretary, while holding that as employees they could not be held liable for the company's actions

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Here’s the latest.

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-06-13T10:20:50+00:00
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Unfinished Business

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-06-13T10:12:28+00:00

We like it when projects are completed, but what if we could abide comfortably in the toiling and striving it takes to get them there?

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NTA launches digital training programme for examination officials

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-13T10:04:25+00:00

The course is intended for examination functionaries, in particular Centre Superintendents and Invigilators, who are involved in the conduct of the NTA examinations

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Two phones and an app: How Russians skirt Putin's digital iron curtain

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-13T10:03:34+00:00

Since the Kremlin tightened internet control this year, Russians have sought complex technical solutions to bypass state monitoring and restrictions on popular apps like WhatsApp and Telegram

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Tata Trusts CEO shifts focus from Boardroom turmoil to Philanthropy

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-13T10:03:21+00:00

Tata Trusts is among India’s largest philanthropic institutions and remains the principal shareholder of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata group

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Head of Commons media committee denies writing article accusing BBC of bias

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-13T10:00:13+00:00

Excoriating article under Caroline Dinenage’s name remains on ConservativeHome website It was a crisis that toppled a BBC director general and his head of news. After contentious accusations of bias by a former external adviser, Michael Prescott, both Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit the corporation.At the height of the media storm that ensued last November, the corporation was struck by another blow. A key figure in scrutinising the BBC – the chair of the Commons culture, media and sport committee – delivered an equally damning verdict. Continue reading...

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Pipers and dreams: World Cup fever grips Scotland again after 28 years

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-13T10:00:11+00:00

The country is ready to blow away decades of dashed hopes and celebrate, with marching bands and all-night partiesScotland is leaning into one its most treasured traditions: embracing the hope and anxiety of a football World Cup, with a healthy dose of self-deprecating style.There are brash new tartans, an Edinburgh bar offering free Irn-Bru-infused “fiery ginger” beers for patrons with red hair, a collaboration between Scottish whisky firms and a Brazilian distiller, and all-night parties in nightclubs repurposed as fanzones. Continue reading...

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Palestinian American woman held without charge by Israeli military

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-13T10:00:10+00:00

Soldiers arrested university student Sama Safi, 20, along with members of Palestinian women’s national soccer teamA 20-year-old Palestinian American woman has been held in Israeli military detention for nearly two weeks after Israeli soldiers stormed her family home in a pre-dawn raid on 2 June.Sama Safi, a psychology student at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, has not been charged with any crimes. A spokesperson for the Israeli military said she and three other women detained around the same time were arrested “after promoting hostile terrorist activity and additional terrorist-r

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The US border runs straight through the World Cup

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-06-13T09:56:42+00:00

The tournament was sold as a symbol of unity, but Trump’s border politics have turned it into a spectacle of exclusion.

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Tata's iPhone parts factory contaminated farmland water, alleges TNPCB

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-13T09:54:59+00:00

Farmland owners near the plant ‌had complained for months to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board that wastewater from the ‌factory ⁠was contaminating their land and open wells

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Free travel for women to begin on June 15 in seven KSRTC bus categories

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-13T09:43:22+00:00

The categories covered under the scheme are Ordinary, City Ordinary, Limited Stop Ordinary, Fair-Stage Ordinary, Town-to-Town, Point-to-Point, and Gramavandi services

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Удар по Чебоксарах: "Фламінго" рознесли завод, прихований металевою кліткою, - BI

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-06-13T09:34:00+00:00

Завод був захищений металевою "кліткою" від дронів, однак це не завадило ураженню ключового виробництва навігаційних компонентів для російської зброї.

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Blue-collar wages growing faster than white-collar: ProNearMe study

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-13T09:33:24+00:00

The platform, which operates home-services across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bengaluru, surveyed 1,000 skilled service professionals on its platform earlier this year

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Nadav Lapid, l’inacceptable assignation identitaire

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-13T09:30:05+00:00

L’annulation, à la suite de pressions, de la présence au Festival international de cinéma de Marseille du réalisateur israélien, pourtant farouche opposant à la politique menée par Benyamin Nétanyahou, illustre jusqu’à la caricature une dérive essentialiste.

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Le Kennedy Center retire le nom de Donald Trump de sa façade

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-13T09:08:18+00:00

Le président républicain avait accolé en décembre son nom à celui de son lointain prédécesseur démocrate assassiné. Ce changement a été dénoncé par la famille du président Kennedy et par l’opposition démocrate, qui en conteste la légalité.

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