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 "A platform is set-up to keep the child safe after that will the tunnel be made. NDRF says operations can take another 1.5-2 hours," an official said.                                        8-Year-Old Boy Fell Into Madhya Pradesh Borewell Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh: The operations are still underway to rescue Lokesh, the eight-year-old who fell into 60-feet deep borewell on Tuesday at Kher Khedi village of Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district, said officials. "Work to dig parallel to the borewell is complete. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) will now make a tunnel between them. A platform is set-up to keep the child safe after that will the tunnel be made. NDRF says operations can take another 1.5-2 hours," Vidisha Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sameer Yadav told ANI. According to the officials, the boy is stuck at 43 feet and a doctor's team is monitoring the child. The ...

 Police have detained the woman's 21-year-old daughter and are interrogating her.                                                        Mumbai Woman's Body Found In Closet Mumbai: In a shocking incident, the body of a 53-year-old woman was found inside a plastic bag in Mumbai's Lalbhaug area on Wednesday, police said, adding that the body was kept in a closet for months. The woman's daughter, 21, has been taken in for questioning. The dead woman's brother and nephew registered a missing persons complaint at Kalachowki police station on Tuesday, DCP Pravin Mundhe said. On searching the first-floor apartment, the woman's decomposing body was found inside a plastic bag. Police have detained the woman's daughter and are interrogating her. Cause of death in the case is yet to be ascertained and the woman's body has been sent for post-mortem. Many i...

 According to police, the accused school headmaster was arrested following the recording of statements of four of the victims before a magistrate.          The accused headmaster was suspended by the state education department. (Representational) Jodhpur: The headmaster of a government school here was arrested on Tuesday for "inappropriately touching" girl students, police said. The accused, Bhagwan Singh Rajput (56), was suspended by the state education department on Saturday after a police case was registered against him. The arrest came following recording of statements of four of his victims before a magistrate, police said. According to police, the students and their parents had lodged a complaint against the accused headmaster of Government Upper Primary School, Ramnagar near Jodhpur on March 10. "The complainants had stated that the headmaster had been inappropriately touching school girls and threatening them of dire consequences if they told anyone...

The procedure is done under ultrasound guidance, "We placed a needle through the mother's abdomen into the baby's heart, a senior AIIMS doctor said.  This procedure is called Balloon dilation of an obstructed valve in the baby's heart. (Representational) New Delhi: AIIMS Delhi performed successful balloon dilation in a grape-sized baby's heart in the mother's womb. A 28-year-old pregnant patient was admitted to the hospital with three previous pregnancy losses. The parents wished to continue the current pregnancy after the doctors communicated about the child's heart condition and consented to the procedure with a wish to improve the outcome. The procedure was done at the Cardiothoracic Sciences Centre, AIIMS. The team of interventional cardiologists and fetal medicine specialists performed a successful procedure. According to the team of doctors from Department of Cardiology & Cardiac Anesthesia, along with Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology (...

 The recommendation comes at a time when highly skilled foreign-born workers, including Indians, face long waits for their immigrant visas to be processed during which they may lose out on job. Image of green card used for representational purpose only. WASHINGTON: A presidential advisory commission has discussed the possibility of issuing employment authorisation cards in the early stages of Green Card application, a move if approved by the Biden administration would end the agonising wait for the Permanent Resident Card for highly skilled foreign-born workers, including Indians. A Green Card is a document issued to immigrants to the US as evidence that the bearer has been granted the privilege of residing permanently. The recommendation proposes that the Department of Homeland Security's US Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS-USCIS) grant employment authorisation documents (EADs) and travel documents to individuals who have approved I-140 employment-based visa petitions ...

India plans new security testing for smartphones, crackdown on pre-installed apps     NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India plans to force smartphone makers to allow removal of pre-installed apps and mandate screening of major operating system updates under proposed new security rules, according to two people and a government document seen by Reuters. The plan for new rules, details of which have not been previously reported, could extend launch timelines in the world’s No.2 smartphone market and lead to losses in business from pre-installed apps for players including Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo, and Apple. India’s IT ministry is considering these rules amid concerns about spying and abuse of user data, said a senior government official, one of the two people who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity as the information is not yet public. “Pre-installed apps can be a weak security point and we want to ensure no foreign nations, including China, are exploiting it. It’s a matter of nat...

 Indian cinema first knocked at the door of the Academy Awards in 1958 with director Mehboob Khan’s seminal work, Mother India. M M Keeravaani (right) and Chandrabose accept the award for Best Original Song for Naatu Naatu from RRR at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday Indian cinema first knocked at the door of the Academy Awards in 1958 with director Mehboob Khan’s seminal work, Mother India. Since then, this quest has been an obsession almost, with films like Salaam Bombay and Lagaan going agonisingly close. Of course, our artists like Bhanu Athaiya (Gandhi), A R Rahman, Gulzar, and Resul Pookutty (Slumdog Millionaire), have all won the Oscars, but those were all films made in India, but not by India. And now, finally, a documentary called The Elephant Whisperers and the song Naatu Naatu from RRR have made the world turn in our direction. Naatu Naatu started as a Telugu song, became an Indian phenomenon and then a worldwide rage, gaining momentum in the lead-up to the...

 Russia-Ukraine War: Vladimir Putin has earlier claimed- several times- that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons amid Ukraine invasion.  Russia-Ukraine War: Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen. Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat is "real and not just words", a Russian opposition politician warned. Grigory Yavlinsky has been a longtime critic of the Russian president's regime. He asserted that Russia could use it's nuclear capabilities against Ukraine if they were to try and recapture Crimea, saying as per Newsweek, "I think that [Putin's] nuclear threat is a real threat. That kind of weapon is such a serious thing...this is not [just] words, this is a real factor, which you have to take into consideration in the current situation. That's it." Vladimir Putin has earlier claimed- several times- that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons amid Ukraine invasion as Moscow had to "take into account" the weapons possessed by the United St...

 The invitation came during a meeting between Mr Biden and Mr Sunak in San Diego, California, where they were taking part in the unveiling of a nuclear submarine pact with Australia.  President Biden invited PM Sunak to visit Washington in June, the White House readout said. San Diego: President Joe Biden on Monday invited British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to the White House in June. The invitation came during a meeting between Mr Biden and Mr Sunak in San Diego, California, where they were taking part in the unveiling of a nuclear submarine pact with Australia, according to a readout from the White House. "The president and prime minister discussed the importance of continuing to deepen the strong, enduring economic relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States. President Biden invited Prime Minister Sunak to visit Washington in June to continue this conversation," the readout said. While in San Diego, they joined Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese i...

 China took its first major step towards reopening two months ago, in January, when it scrapped quarantine requirements on arrival at international airports. Business visas were also resumed at the time                                                      China to allow foreign tourists after 3 years Beijing: China on Tuesday announced that it will allow foreign tourists into the country for the first time in three years and resume issuing various other categories of visas from March 15, the latest step in the country’s opening up after three years of strict border controls amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The decision to issue all categories of visas comes after China declared a “decisive victory” against Covid-19 and downgraded outbreak control protocols earlier this year. Allowing tourists back in the mainland means China has fully ended the much-crit...

Delhi's Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission issued notice to delivery company Dunzo sexual harassment by its delivery partner, who showed up drunk at a woman's address. Delhi's Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission on Wednesday issued notice to delivery company Dunzo for alleged sexual harassment by its delivery partner, who showed up drunk at a woman's address at midnight and later even threatened her over WhatsApp to withdrew her complaint. Dunzo sexual harassment A bench of Raj Kumar Chauhan and Dr Rajendra Dhar issued the notice to Dunzo following a complaint seeking Rs 50 lakh damages for negligent hiring and alleged sexual harassment by a delivery partner. Complainant, Rahella Khan was represented by lawyers Abhishek Yadav and Ankita Wadhwa. In her complaint, Khan had stated that she had placed an order and a Dunzo delivery partner had showed up in a drunk condition at her address at midnight and abused her. However, after two days, the delivery partner sen...

Shyam Maheshwari is the founder and partner of SSG Capital Management. Maheshwari serves on the Ares SSG investment committee and is a director of Ares SSG Singapore. He focuses primarily on origination and evaluation of investment opportunities in India and other regions throughout Asia. Maheshwari is also an Associate Member at the institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Shyam Maheshwari begins his career in 1999 at Lehman Brothers. He has 17 years of experience in deal sourcing, analyzing and investing industry. In his former position at SSG Capital, he was extensively involved in deal sourcing, analysis and investing in Asia and business development in India. Mr. Shyam Maheshwari Shyam Maheshwari SSG ,in his recent talk, gives his interpretation on stressed assets resolution and its recent developments. He identifies that stressed assets are a $4.5 billion platform today. India has happened to be a large part of our investments since 2009. The economy has a tailwind of growt...