The two-judge bench of the Supreme Court delivered its judgement in hijab ban case. While, Justice Hemant Gupta's verdict upheld the hijab ban verdict of Karnataka High Court, Justice Dhulia noted that hijab is a matter of choice. Since the verdict is slpit, the Chief Justice will assign the case to a larger bench in due course of time.

Justice Gupta said, "Whether college management can take a call on uniform of students and if wearing of hijab and restricting it is violative of Article 25.

Hyundai Motor Group said it will invest 18 trillion won ($13 billion) to apply an advanced software programme to all of its vehicles and offer its customers regular software updating services.

The South Korean carmaker has decided to make the massive software investment to launch most of its new vehicles as "software defined vehicle (SDV)" in global markets from 2025, Hyundai said in a statement.

Hindustan Unilever (HUL), one of the country’s largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) players, is learnt to have cut prices of its leading soaps and detergents this month by 2-19 per cent, according to the company’s distributors.

The cuts come after consistent price increases by the company as well as its peers, following the sharp rise in raw material prices in the past several months.

All India Majalis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Imtiaz Jaleel said while the division in the Shiv Sena was "unfortunate", the positive thing for the Muslim community is that it will no longer be used as a "punching bag" by that party as well as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

In the tug-of-war between the two Sena factions led by Uddhav Thackeray and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde would need Muslim votes, he said.

The Supreme Court will on Thursday pronounce its verdict on a batch of pleas that challenged the Karnataka High Court's judgement refusing to lift the ban on hijab in educational institutions in the state. The apex court's bench, comprising Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia, had reserved its verdict on September 22 after hearing arguments in the matter for 10 days.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that India has maintained accelerated growth momentum, after the contraction in 2020, by balancing the immediate needs of the economy with long-term structural reforms.

She said this on Wednesday while speaking in the first session of the 4th G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Washington DC on the sidelines of the ongoing IMF-WB annual meetings 2022.

Around 315,000 complaints are currently pending under the Right to Information (RTI) Act in India. These are across 26 information commissions in India, according to a report by The Hindu (TH). The pending cases have been rising in recent years.

From 218,347 pending cases in 2019, they rose to 233,384 cases in 2020 and 314,323 in 2022. At 99,722, the highest number of pending cases was in Maharashtra. In Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, pending cases were 44,482 and 30,358 respectively.

After five months of investigation, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has taken action against the contractor of the Ramban Tunnel project on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, which collapsed in May, causing the death of 10 workers inside.

Ceigall India-Patel Engineering, the joint venture responsible for executing the project has been fined Rs 8.46 crore and banned from all central government projects for six months. The company will also have to rectify the issues that led to the collapse at its own cost.

D2C footwear start-up Yoho has raised Rs 20 crore in pre-series A funding led by Rajeev Mishra, CEO of Softbank Vision Fund, Rukam Capital, and Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of Paytm, along with participation from other investors.

Funds will be used by the company to create capabilities for new product propositions and sustainable manufacturing standards.

Owing to recession fears in the West, attrition rates in IT companies may remain near 20 per cent in the coming months, as reported by Livemint.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in its quarterly results announced on Monday, said that attrition rose to over 21 per cent in the second quarter of the current financial year (Q2FY23). This was 19.7 per cent in Q1FY23.

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