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India summons Meta executives over briefly restricted Modi Facebook post

NEW DELHI, July 30 (Reuters) – India has summoned executives from U.S. tech giant Meta, a senior official said ​on Thursday, after its Facebook platform briefly ‌restricted a post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week. A video message by Modi posted on Meta’s Instagram ​platform and later shared on Facebook was ​restricted temporarily on the latter. A Meta spokesperson ⁠said at the time that the post had ​been blocked inadvertently. “We have asked Meta to come ​in at the highest level and explain what is happening,” S. Krishnan, secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and ​Information Technology, said on

Stock markets end higher for 2nd day led by buying in blue-chips, foreign fund inflows

Mumbai, Jul 30 (PTI) Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty ended higher on Thursday, driven by a rally in blue-chip stocks Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank and foreign fund inflows. After a volatile day of trade, the 30-share BSE Sensex ended 273.55 points, or 0.35 per cent, higher at 77,928.15, helped by fag-end buying. During the day, it hit a high of 78,007.09 and a low of 77,440.91, gyrating 566.18 points. The 50-share NSE Nifty went up by 66.95 points, or 0.28 per cent, to end at 24,317.15. From the Sensex pack, Maruti, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries, State Bank of

Rupee rises 9 paise to 95.67 against US dollar

Mumbai, Jul 30 (PTI) The rupee stayed steady for the fifth straight session and settled with a gain of 9 paise at 95.67 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday, taking cues from positive domestic equity markets and inflows of foreign capital. According to forex traders, a softening dollar also supported the local currency, but its upward move was restricted due to volatile crude oil prices, triggered by a fresh escalation of the war in West Asia. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 95.59 and traded in the range of 95.56 to 95.75 against the greenback. The

CBI files charges against 13 over NEET exam paper leaks

NEW DELHI, July 30 (Reuters) – India’s CBI( Central Bureau of Investigation) ‌has filed charges against 13 people in connection with leaked question papers for the national medical college entrance test, days after youth-led protests over the scandal forced the education minister to quit. About 2 million students had taken the National ​Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in May before it was cancelled following allegations of test paper ​questions being leaked. A re-test was held on June 21. Those charged include ⁠three subject experts from the federal National Testing Agency, several middlemen who sourced and distributed the ​leaked questions, and

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