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Hyderabad’s wealthiest family donates Rs 22 crore in FY 2022-23

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Murali K Divi & family are the owners of Divi’s Laboratories, and they have been named the wealthiest individuals in Hyderabad for 2023, with a total wealth of Rs 55,700 crore.

Updated On – 01:30 PM, Fri – 3 November 23


Hyderabad’s wealthiest family donates Rs 22 crore in FY 2022-23


Hyderabad: Murali K Divi & family, the top earners in Hyderabad, donated a total of Rs 22 crore this year, according to the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2023 report. The family has been recognized as one of the most generous contributors.

Murali K Divi & family are the owners of Divi’s Laboratories, and they have been named the wealthiest individuals in Hyderabad for 2023, with a total wealth of Rs 55,700 crore. Divi’s Laboratories, a prominent pharmaceutical company in India with two manufacturing units, has been established in Hyderabad for over 30 years.

The report also featured K Satish Reddy and family from Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, who made donations amounting to Rs 7 crore in the financial year 2022-23. As per the report, donations were assessed based on the monetary value of cash or cash equivalents contributed during the period from April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023.

“Philanthropy is important when building a legacy and passing on wealth. As wealth expands, family philanthropy is gaining prominence, evolving from ad-hoc acts of providing essentials like food, clothes, and scholarships to focusing on new and marginalized areas. This emphasizes the importance of acknowledging these endeavors, ensuring their influence reaches every stratum of society – a fundamental goal of the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List,” said Anas Rahman Junaid, MD, and Chief Researcher at Hurun India.

On a national scale, Shiv Nadar and family led the list with donations of Rs 2,042 crore, followed by Azim Premji and family with Rs 1,774 crore, and Mukesh Ambani and family with Rs 376 crore in contributions.

India

Don’t want Supreme Court to become ‘tarikh-pe-tarikh’ court: CJI Chandrachud

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The CJI said that now with the help of lawyers’ bodies, the time gap in the listing of fresh matters after their filing in the top court has been significantly reduced.

Published Date – 12:16 PM, Fri – 3 November 23


Don’t want Supreme Court to become ‘tarikh-pe-tarikh’ court: CJI Chandrachud


New Delhi: Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Friday urged lawyers not to seek adjournments in fresh matters, saying he does not want the Supreme Court to become a ‘tarikh-pe-tarikh’ court.

At the outset of the day’s proceedings, the CJI flagged the issue of lawyers seeking adjournments in fresh matters and said in the last two months adjournment slips were moved in 3,688 matters by advocates.

“Unless it is very very necessary, please don’t file the adjournment slips…I don’t want this court to be a ‘tarikh-pe-tarikh’ court,” the CJI, who was sharing the bench with justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, said.

“Tarikh-pe-Tarikh” (repeated adjournments) was a famous Sunny Deol dialogue in Bollywood film “Damini” where the actor rued the adjournment culture in courts.

The CJI said that now with the help of lawyers’ bodies, the time gap in the listing of fresh matters after their filing in the top court has been significantly reduced.

He, however, rued the fact that after their listing before the benches, lawyers seek adjournments and this gives a very bad signal to the outside world.
“I have been seeing that the period from filing to listing is reducing. We could not have achieved this without the support of the SCBA (Supreme Court Bar Association) and the SCAORA (Supreme Court Advocates-on Record Association),” the CJI said.

“For November 3, we have 178 adjournment slips. For each miscellaneous day, since October, 150 adjournment slips were there on each day and from September to October, 3,688 adjournment slips were circulated..,” the CJI said, adding, “This defeats the very purpose of expediting the case”.

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Law Student Sexually Harasses Classmate At Her Noida Flat, Arrested: Cops

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Law Student Sexually Harasses Classmate At Her Noida Flat, Arrested: Cops

The police said efforts are on to trace the other accused in the case.

Noida:

A first-year LLB student was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly sexually harassing and assaulting his classmate after barging into her house in a Noida housing society with his associates, officials said.

The incident took place in the housing society in Sector 137, under Sector 142 police station limits, on Monday, a day after an argument broke out between them, the police said.

Both the key accused and the complainant study in the same college in Noida, Additional Deputy Commissioner Of Police (Central Noida) Hridhesh Katheria said.

“An FIR was lodged at the local police station after a written complaint. The accused studies in the same class as the complainant. On October 29, the accused misbehaved with her and in the morning the next day, he reached her house in the society along with his associates where they argued with, and assaulted her,” Mr Katheria said.

“The key accused, who has been identified as Tanvir Ahmed, was arrested today and has been produced before a local court,” the officer said.

Besides Ahmed, around 10 people, some of them unidentified, have been charged by the police, who said efforts are on to arrest them as well. Ahmed lives in Delhi’s Kalkaji Extension.

The FIR in the case has been lodged under Indian Penal Code sections 354 (sexual harassment), 147, 149 (both related to rioting), 323 (assault), 504 (provocation for breach of peace), 452 (trespassing) and 506 (criminal intimidation), the police said.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

World

EU’s Mora hails ‘timely exchange’ with Iran’s deputy FM

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In a post on his X account on Thursday, Mora wrote that he had a timely exchange with Bagheri Kani on “regional and international issues, at a critical moment for the region.”

“Diplomacy and engagement remain the best way to avoid escalation,” he added.

Earlier in the day, Bagheri Kani had taken to X to say that the meeting focused on significant regional and international developments, in particular the “dramatic humanitarian situation” in the Gaza Strip.

He also said they also discussed the “latest state of play” on multilateral negotiations to lift anti-Iran sanctions through reviving the US-abandoned nuclear agreement.

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No more Palestinian workers from Gaza: Israel

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The Palestinian Authority controls areas of the West Bank, but not the Gaza Strip.

Published Date – 12:54 PM, Fri – 3 November 23


No more Palestinian workers from Gaza: Israel


Jerusalem: The Israel government on Friday announced that “there will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza” and that it was “severing all contact” with the Hamas-controlled enclave.

“Israel is severing all contact with Gaza. There will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza. Those workers from Gaza who were in Israel on the day of the outbreak of the war will be returned to Gaza,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a post on X. It also added that the Israeli Security Cabinet has decided “to deduct all funds designated for the Gaza Strip — in addition to the deduction, required by law, of funds paid to terrorists and their families — from Palestinian Authority funds”.

The Palestinian Authority controls areas of the West Bank, but not the Gaza Strip. Some 18,500 Palestinians from Gaza had received permits to enter Israel before the massive October 7 Hamas attack, the BBC reported citing Cogat, the Israeli defence body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs, as saying.

Since then, Israel has launched a retaliatory bombardment of the Strip. So far, a total of 9,061 Palestinians have been killed in the war, mostly women and children, while more than 32,000 people have been injured as a result of the raging violence,according to the latest update by the Gaza Health Ministry. In Israel, there were about 1,400 casualties with some 5,400 people injured.

According to the Israeli authorities, 242 people are held captive in Gaza, including Israelis and foreign nationals. Media reports indicate that about 30 of the hostages are children. Till date, four civilian hostages were released by Hamas, and one female Israeli soldier was rescued by Israeli forces.

Middle East

US bases in Iraq, Syria come under fresh drone attack

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Arab sources reported that a US base in Iraq’s Erbil was attacked by Resistance groups.

Minutes later, the sources added that the US base in Syria’s Ash Shaddadi was targeted with a suicide drone.

Meanwhile, other media outlets claimed that a drone was shot down on Thursday over the US Harir military base in northern Iraq.

In reaction to US support for the Israeli regime in the Gaza war, the Resistance groups have repeatedly targeted the positions of American forces in recent days.

After the martyrdom of Resistance commanders who led the anti-terrorism fight in Iraq and Syria, the Iraqi parliament approved a piece of legislation to call for the withdrawal of American troops from the country, a demand that the US troops have yet to meet.

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Hyderabad

YSRTP not to contest elections, extends support to Congress: YS Sharmila

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Hyderabad: YSRTP president YS Sharmila on Friday announced that her party has quit from contesting Assembly Elections in the state and expressed unconditional support to Congress. Earlier on October 12, YSRTP had announced that it would contest the Assembly elections. It was then speculated that her mother Vijayamma would also contest from the Secunderabad seat. […]

Updated On – 12:45 PM, Fri – 3 November 23


YSRTP not to contest elections, extends support to Congress: YS Sharmila


Hyderabad: YSRTP president YS Sharmila on Friday announced that her party has quit from contesting Assembly Elections in the state and expressed unconditional support to Congress.

Earlier on October 12, YSRTP had announced that it would contest the Assembly elections. It was then speculated that her mother Vijayamma would also contest from the Secunderabad seat. Sharmila had taken the decision after trying to negotiate a merger with the Congress. The party had also announced earlier that its president YS Sharmila would contest from Palair in Khammam.

While some Congress leaders were ready to welcome her, others like Telangana unit chief A Revanth Reddy said that she was welcome to join and work with the Andhra Pradesh unit instead. In spite of months of negotiations with senior All India Congress Committee (AICC) members, Sharmila however could not achieve a merger deal.

Sharmila had floated the YSRTP in 2021 after a fallout with her brother in Andhra Pradesh during and after the 2019 state Assembly and parliamentary elections.

 

Middle East

US attacks food convoy in Syria: Report

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The US military has attacked a food convoy in eastern Syria over allegations that the trucks were carrying weapons, a report has revealed.

Tasnim news agency said on Thursday that it obtained footage of the attack that took place in Syria’s eastern city of Al Bukamal near the border with Iraq.

According to the report, the US had claimed that the trucks were carrying weapons, but the footage refuted the claim.

The video showed passers-by unloading a truck, with Tasnim saying that the vehicle’s driver allowed residents to unload it as he became sure that it was impossible to transfer the food to the central and western parts of Syria.

The report didn’t specify the exact time of the attack, but Reuters on Monday cited an Iraqi border official as saying that unidentified aircraft targeted a 10-truck truck convoy that crossed from Iraq to Syria on Sunday night.

The attack is seen as a US attempt to disrupt imports from Iraq as another way to bring Syrians under pressure, and as a way to get revenge on the Syrian nation amid the US inability to prevent attacks on its bases in Syria.

The strikes came amid rising anti-US sentiment over Washington’s firm support for the Israeli onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 9,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

The US military has stationed its forces and equipment in northeastern Syria, with the Pentagon claiming that the deployment is aimed at preventing the oil fields in the area from falling into the hands of Daesh terrorists.

Damascus maintains that the deployment is meant to plunder Syria’s natural resources. Former US President Donald Trump admitted on several occasions that American forces were in the Arab country for its oil wealth.

The Syrian nation has already been under US pressure since 2011. Washington and its Western allies have dramatically tightened their economic sanctions and restrictions on Damascus after 2011 when the Arab country found itself in the grip of rampant foreign-backed militancy and terrorism.

The US coercive measures intensified even further with the passing of the Caesar Act in 2019, which targeted any individual and business that participated either directly or indirectly in Syria’s reconstruction efforts.

Syrians are forced to rely on imports from Iraq as Washington and US-backed forces have occupied areas that served as food baskets for Syria, unleashing a food crisis in the country.

Middle East

Zionist forces kill several Palestinians across occupied WB

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The Israeli regime has been waging a barbaric war against Gaza since October 7, when Hamas-led Palestinian Resistance groups launched their biggest operation against the Zionist regime in years. The sneak attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, came in response to the regime’s intensified crimes against the Palestinian people.

The Israeli war has so far claimed the lives of over 9,000 innocent Palestinians and left upwards of 32,000 others wounded.

The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Friday, calling for the implementation of an immediate “humanitarian truce” in Gaza. The Israeli regime has rejected all calls for a ceasefire, claiming it would benefit Hamas.

The following are the latest updates:

Zionist forces kill several Palestinians across occupied WB

Israeli regime’s forces have killed four Palestinians and wounded at least 12 others, according to medical sources, in an overnight raid on the Jenin refugee camp, which lasted for around nine hours.

In al-Fawwar refugee camp south of al-Khalil, Zionist forces killed two Palestinians and wounded at least five others, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

In the Qalandiya refugee camp by Ramallah, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian and wounded several others.

Another Palestinian has died of wounds he sustained on Wednesday during an Israeli regime’s raid on Nablus.

At least 141 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7.

Protests worldwide calling for end to Israeli bombing of Gaza

UAE says risk of regional spillover is real

The United Arab Emirates’ minister of state for foreign affairs has warned that the regional temperature “is approaching a boiling point”.

The risk of regional spillover and further escalation is real, Al Jazeera quoted Noura al-Kaabi as saying a policy conference in Abu Dhabi.

“Every effort must be made to protect civilians and immediately put an end to this conflict,” al-Kaabi added.

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