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Spiritual tech startup My Tirth India shuts shop due to fund crunch

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

Founder and CEO Indraneel Dasgupta said the startup is grappling with a fund shortage after the demise of Subrata Roy, the principal shareholder. Founded in 2018, the Mumbai-based company is a pilgrimage and darshan site offering a one-stop portal to travel around India's religious destinations.

Alar Karis: Major losses and human casualties have shaped Estonia's choices

Err.ee (en) 

World War Two and the suffering during and after was the harshest in our recent past. The way to survive such a tragedy is not by allowing oneself to become bitter and yearning for revenge, but through talking and writing about those years and what happened, President Alar Karis said in the opening speech of the "Estonian War Refugees in World War II" conference.

Israel-Gaza latest: Hezbollah and Israel swap fire as Cairo talks end without deal - The Independent

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  1. Israel-Gaza latest: Hezbollah and Israel swap fire as Cairo talks end without deal  The Independent
  2. Netanyahu says attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon ‘not the end of the story’  The Guardian
  3. UN calls for calm after Israel and Hezbollah trade strikes  BBC
  4. Five key takeaways from Nasrallah’s speech after Hezbollah-Israel attacks  Al Jazeera English
  5. Iran says Israeli deterrence no longer exists after Hezbollah barrage  The Times of Israel

WCD minister slams WB govt over delay in enacting women's safety measures

Business Standard 

Lambasting the West Bengal government for its alleged failure to implement crucial safety measures for women and girls, Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi has said the state has not taken any step to start the remaining 11 fast track special courts in spite of a pendency of 48,600 rape and POCSO cases. In a letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Devi criticized the West Bengal government for failing to implement key emergency helplines such as the Women Helpline (WHL), Emergency... Читать дальше...

Powell's rate cut hint fuels 612-point Sensex rally, market cap swells by Rs 2.3 lakh crore

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

The benchmark equity index Sensex climbed 612 points, while the Nifty gained 187 points, closing above the 25,000 mark, driven by strong performance from major financial and IT stocks. HDFC Bank, Reliance, ICICI Bank, NTPC, HCL Tech, Infosys, and TCS were the top contributors to the Sensex's gains. On the other hand, Adani Ports, Maruti, Kotak Bank, Nestle India closed in the red.

Why I changed my mind about volunteering

Vox 

Last fall, a reader asked me what they could really do, as one person, to aid people living on the streets. “I often feel helpless to enact change,” they wrote. I’d been covering homelessness in America and knew that even the sprawling support organizations that have been working on outreach for decades had failed to […]