On the phone, Modi and Putin addressed the situation in Ukraine and the Wagner mutiny.

Friday, in a telephone conversation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Ukraine conflict and the recent
Wagner mutiny.

Prime Minister Modi had expressed support for what the Kremlin described
as the Russian leadership’s decisive response to the Wagner mercenary group’s
mutiny last Saturday.Read also this:  A bus fire on the Maharashtra motorway claimed the lives of 25 people.

Less than a week has passed since the Russian leadership thwarted a
significant coup d’état led by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private mercenary army
Wagner Group. The telephone conversation between the two heads of state occurs
shortly after.

The private mercenary army conquered two key cities in southern Russia but halted its march on Moscow after the Kremlin reached an agreement with
Prigozhin with the assistance of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Later, Prigozhin denied intending to overthrow the Russian government in
a Telegram video mess

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A bus fire on the Maharashtra motorway claimed the lives of 25 people.

The bus was going from
Yavatmal in Maharashtra to Pune when a fire broke out on the Samruddhi Mahamarg
motorway in Buldhana.

Police say that at
least 25 people died when a bus with 33 people on board caught on fire on the
Samruddhi Mahamarg motorway in Buldhana, Maharashtra.Deputy SP Baburao Mahamuni
said that the people who were hurt were taken to Buldhana Civil Hospital.Read also this:  Dr. Neerja Gupta made history as Gujarat University’s first female Vice Chancellor

A private excursions
bus traveling from Nagpur to Pune smashed into a barrier near Sindkhedraja
in Buldhana district at around 2 a.m. on Saturday.

Buldhana SP Sunil
Kadasne told PTI that, according to what they know so far, a bus tyre blew and
the bus hit a pole, crashed into a divider, and caught fire. 25 of the 33 people
on the bus died from the fire.

The bus driver, who
lived through the accident, told Kadasane that the bus flipped over after a
tyre burst and started a fire inside.

The o

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Dr. Neerja Gupta made history as Gujarat University’s first female Vice Chancellor.

For the first time in
the history of Gujarat University, a woman has been selected to serve as Vice
Chancellor. Gujarat University has appointed Dr. Neerja Gupta as its next vice
chancellor. She will take over for Professor Dr. Himanshu Pandya as Vice
Chancellor of the University. At the end of June, Dr. Himanshu Pandya’s
contract was up.Read also this: What If You Don’t Link your Aadhaar and PAN Today? Explained

After 73 years, Gujarat
University finally has a female Vice-Chancellor. Dr. Neerja A. Gupta of
Ahmedabad will now oversee GU. Professor Dr. Himanshu Pandya has been
replaced by Dr. Gupta. On June 30th, Pandya officially retired from his
position. Until recently, Sanchi University’s Vice-Chancellor was Dr. Neerja A.
Gupta. Dr. Neerja Gupta’s appointment as Vice Chancellor comes at a time when
the university is receiving a lot of media attention for a number of different
reasons. The University of Gujarat was established in 1949. NAAC has awarded
Gujarat Univ

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Prime Minister Modi will assess the cyber threat to India’s critical infrastructure.

Even though India and
the United States have united forces to combat cyber-threats, the Chinese
threat poses a serious risk to critical infrastructure.

PM Narendra Modi will
likely organise a high-level gathering to examine data security and privacy in
order to strengthen India’s critical infrastructure more resistant to hybrid
warfare in the face of increasing attacks and data breaches by arch-rivals in
the region.Read also this: What If You Don’t Link your Aadhaar and PAN Today? Explained

North and South Blocks,
including the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), have taken extreme measures in
response to rising cyber threats to prevent data theft via malicious software
or computer faults. The National Informatics Centre downplays the severity of
the cyber-security threat as the government remains tight-lipped. The PMO has
also instituted robust measures to prevent unauthorized entry or participation
in video conferences presided over by PM Modi.

While much of India’s

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What If You Don’t Link your Aadhaar and PAN Today? Explained

The linking of PAN and
Aadhaar is mandatory for all taxpayers in the country. The original deadline of
March 31 had been extended by the Income Tax Department to today, June 30. Now,
from today, there will be consequences for anyone who does not link their PAN
and Aadhaar.Read also this: HDFC Will Rise to World’s Most Valuable Banks After Merger.

All taxpayers who were
issued a Permanent Account Number (PAN) as of July 1, 2017, who are eligible to
receive an Aadhaar Number, must link their PAN and Aadhaar by June 30, 2018,
according to the Income Tax Department. Those who live in Meghalaya, Assam, and
Jammu and Kashmir, as well as those who are 80 years or older or who are not
Indian nationals, are excluded from attaching their documents. Officials stress
the significance of integrating PAN and Aadhaar in their efforts to reduce tax
avoidance.

All taxpayers who were
issued a Permanent Account Number (PAN) as of July 1, 2017, who are eligible to
receive an Aadhaar Nu

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All You Need to Know About the US Supreme Court’s Verdict against Race-Based College Admissions

Affirmative action
programmes at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina were
deemed illegal by the Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday. Chief
Justice John Roberts has ruled that racial preferences in admissions offices,
which aim to improve campus diversity and promote access to higher education,
are unconstitutional because they violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection
Clause.Read also this: Putin said that PM Modi’s “Make in India” plan has a noticeable effect on the economy

Prospective students
applying to colleges and universities should be judged “as an individual —
not on the basis of race,” according to Roberts.

However, “many
institutions have for a while done just the opposite,” Roberts said. They
have incorrectly inferred that a person’s identity is based on the colour of
their skin rather than the obstacles they have overcome, the talents they have
acquired, or the life experiences they have gained. That’s a decision that

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Putin said that PM Modi’s “Make in India” plan has a noticeable effect on the economy.

Recently, Russian
Ambassador to India Denis Alipov said that the “special bilateral
strategic partnership” between Russia and India is “growing stronger
than ever.”

‘Make in India’ has
apparently had a “visible effect” on the Indian economy, as stated by
Russian President Putin. The Russian government operates the international news
channel RT.Read also this: HDFC Will Rise to World’s Most Valuable Banks After Merger.

While addressing at a
Moscow event, Putin praised the impact that the “Make in India”
initiative had on the Indian economy, said that “Our friends in India and PM
Modi, who is a dear friend of Russia, introduced the idea a few years ago,
which has had an exceptionally evident impact on the Indian economy.”

According to RT, the
Russian president used India as an illustration of how to promote native
products and companies.

Ambassador Denis
Alipov, in New Delhi, has recently claimed this “special Russia-India
strategic partnership” is “growing

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HDFC Will Rise to World’s Most Valuable Banks After Merger.

After a merger is
finalised, an Indian corporation HDFC will join the ranks of the world’s most
valuable banks, posing a new threat to the largest American and Chinese lenders
currently holding the top two slots.

By combining forces,
HDFC Bank Ltd. and Housing Development Finance Corp. have become the world’s
fourth-largest bank by equity market capitalization, just behind JPMorgan Chase
& Co., Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd., and Bank of America
Corp. Its current market cap is over $172 billion.Read also this: Credit card purchases made abroad will not attract TCS’s interest.

The combined HDFC Bank
will have a customer base larger than Germany’s whole population upon the
merger’s anticipated July 1 implementation. It will have more than 177,000
employees and expand its branch network to more than 8,300.

HDFC has just surpassed
other financial institutions including HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc.
State Bank of India and ICICI Bank, two Indian co

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France deploys 40,000 police amid worries of more deadly riots: Everything you require to know

Approximately 40,000 police officers will be
recruited across France, according to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, in an
effort to prevent more strikes following the incendiary police shooting of a
teenager. Protests following the shooting death of a 17-year-old by police
during a traffic stop have turned violent, prompting the deployment of 5,000
police officers in Paris.Read also this: Credit card purchases made abroad will not attract TCS’s interest.

President Emmanuel Macron of France called the
attacks and arson on public facilities that occurred during the riots and
violent fights to be “unjustifiable.”

Everything you need to
know about riots in France is right here:

The second night of confrontations
resulted in approximately 150 arrests across the nation.The minister of the interior, Gerald
Darmanin, criticised attacks on schools, municipal buildings, and police stations.Olivier Veran, a spokesman for the
government, criticized the violent escalation o

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Credit card purchases made abroad will not attract TCS’s interest.

The Union finance
ministry disclosed on Wednesday that the TCS rate remains unchanged for amounts
up to 7 lakhs per individual per year for all purposes under the Liberalized
Remittance Scheme (LRS) and for overseas travel tour packages, regardless of
the mode of payment. Credit card purchases made while travelling
internationally will not be included in the LRS & will not be subject to
TCS.Read also this: Reportedly costing India’s economy $1.9 billion, Internet shutdowns in Manipur and Punjab

The delay in enforcing
the new TCS rates is another policy decision made by the administration. On May 16, the
government included international credit card purchases within LRS, meaning
that beginning on July 1, a 20% tax would be applied to all international
credit card purchases. LRS previously supported the use of debit cards for
purchases. Some have even called the decision to tax TCS “tax
terrorism,” highlighting the widespread level of opposition to the
measure.

A su

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