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.

Adani Data Network has been granted unified licence for access services, which enables it to provide all telecom services in the country, according to two official sources.

Adani Group entered the telecom sector after buying spectrum in the recent auction.

"Adani Data Networks has been granted UL (AS)," an official source said. Another official said that the permit was granted on Monday.

India's green energy companies, such as Adani Greens, owned by billionaire Gautam Adani's Adani Group, and carbon offsetters like EKI Energy Services, have come together to develop a carbon credit market to help achieve energy transition goals.

India is one of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters and it aims to reach net zero emissions by 2070.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested TMC MLA Manik Bhattacharya in the early hours of Tuesday after night-long questioning in connection with the irregularities in the recruitment of primary teachers, officials said.

Bhattacharya, the former chairman of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education, was arrested for allegedly not cooperating with the investigation, they said.

Shares of sugar companies were in focus and trading higher by up to 13 per cent on the BSE in Tuesday’s intra-day trade in an otherwise weak market on expectation of stable operational performance going forward.

Ugar Sugars rallied 13 per cent to Rs 75.35, while Shree Renuka Sugars, Avadh Sugar & Energy, Uttam Sugar, Dalmia Bharat Sugar, Dhampur Sugar, Triveni Engineering, Dwarikesh Sugar and Balrampur Chini Mills were up in the range of 2 per cent to 5 per cent.

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