News highlights: Gross non-performing asset ratio of banks fell to six-year low of 5.9% in March 2022, says RBI

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Gross non-performing asset ratio of banks fell to six-year low of 5.9 per cent in March 2022: RBI

Banks, non-banking financial institutions have sufficient capital buffers to withstand shocks, says RBI

Punjab Assembly passes resolution against Centre's Agnipath defence recruitment scheme

Alok Aradhe appointed as acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair moves Delhi High Court against remand order

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair has moved the Delhi High Court challenging the police remand granted by the Patiala House Court to the Delhi Police Special Cell.

His lawyer mentioned the matter before Delhi High Court's vacation bench today.

The mentioning was allowed and the matter will be heard tomorrow.

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Chinese President Xi arrives in Hong Kong for handover anniversary

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday for events to celebrate 25 years since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule and the inauguration of the city's new leader John Lee, state media reported.

Xi's visit, via high-speed rail, is his first to the city since 2017 and the first known trip outside mainland China in over two years amid the COVID-19 epidemic.(Reuters)

Banners and flags put up in Hyderabad ahead of BJP's national executive meeting on July 2-3

Actor Swara Bhasker receives death threat, case registered

Actor Swara Bhasker filed a police complaint that she has received a death threat through a letter. A case has beenregistered at Versova police station against an unidentified person. Investigation is under way, say Mumbai Police.

PM Modi inaugurates ‘Raising & Accelerating MSME Performance’ scheme

Continuous rainfall in Delhi-NCR causes traffic snarls

Amarnath Yatra begins, 2,750 pilgrims leaves Nunwan base camp for cave shrine

The annual Amarnath Yatra began on Thursday as a batch of about 2,750 pilgrims left the base camp here for the cave shrine housing the naturally formed ice-lingam in the south Kashmir Himalayas.

The pilgrimage was flagged off by Deputy Commissioner Piyush Singla at the Nunwan base camp in the Anantnag district's Pahalgam.

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Delhi wakes up to sudden rainfall in several parts

Lucknow HC upholds life term in Syed Modi murder case

Thirty-four years after he was killed, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has affirmed the life imprisonment awarded to a convict Bhagwati Singh a.k.a. Pappu in connection with the murder of national badminton champion Syed Modi in 1988.

The bench said that there was ample evidence on record to show that Syed Modi was killed in firing by the appellant along with another accused by using a firearm.

A vacation bench of Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Saroj Yadav passed the judgment on Wednesday, which it had reserved on March 21, 2022, after completing the hearing of appeal filed by the convict Pappu.

Amarnath Yatra begins today amid tight security arrangements.