Border Security Force (BSF) Director General Daljit Singh Chawdhary on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting here on Wednesday to review border security preparedness, and discuss the ongoing law and order situation in Bangladesh and its implications on the security scenario, officials said.

A BSF spokesman said that the BSF chief, at the meeting at the Tripura Frontier headquarters at Salbagan, on the outskirts of Agartala, applauded the tireless efforts and dedication of the troops in safeguarding the borders.

He also appreciated efforts made to prevent infiltration and trans-border crimes effectively on the India-Bangladesh border by BSF Tripura Frontier personnel.

Around 12.52 lakh women dairy farmers have been covered under the Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF) out of a total of 42.48 lakh producer members, with significant participation of 30 per cent, Union Minister for Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Rajiv Ranjan Singh told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

DIDF is an infrastructure development scheme, aimed to modernise milk processing and chilling plants, as well as enhance value addition. The DIDF scheme thereby, aims to benefit milk producers, providing them with an organised market for their produce and employment opportunities in the project areas.

The DIDF scheme has been merged into the Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF), and its implementation has been extended for the next two years (2024-2026) with an outlay of Rs 29,110.25 crore.

Ramchet, a cobbler in Uttar Pradesh, who shot to national fame after his shop was visited by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi last month, met Sultanpur District Magistrate (DM) on Wednesday and apprised her about the problems that he was facing regarding the government's welfare schemes.

Ramchet attended the Janata Darshan programme, organised by Sultanpur DM Kritika Jyotsana

A Maharashtra cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday approved the ambitious Rs 87,342 crore Wainganga-Nalganga interlinking river project, which aims to enrich agriculture in these areas by creating large-scale irrigation facilities in districts hit by farmer suicides.

The project will irrigate an area of 3.75 lakh hectares and will especially benefit the drought affected areas like Marathwada. About 11.33 lakh people will be benefited.

The project will bring water from the Wainganga from the Godavari sub-basin to the Wainganga reservoir in Buldhana district. For this, 426.52 km of connecting canals will be constructed. The link canal will comprise an open canal, pipeline and tunnels in its route up to the Nalgonda reservoir

The Indian space agency will celebrate the country’s Independence Day by putting into orbit an earth observation satellite (EOS) with its small rocket – Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV).

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the SSLV’s third and final development flight will be on August 15, 2024 at 9.17 a.m. from the country’s rocket port in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

The rocket will carry the microsatellite called EOS-08 weighing about 175.5 kg.

A seek and destroy operation (SADO) by the security forces continued on Wednesday in J&K’s Udhampur district where terrorists were spotted the previous day and briefly engaged.

"Additional reinforcements have been rushed to the area. Massive joint search operation by police, army, and the Central Reserve Police force (CRPF) is underway in the Pathi Nalla Khaned area of Basantgarh where brief contact was established with a group of terrorists late Tuesday," an official said.

After three days of fall, Indian frontline indices Sensex and Nifty closed on a positive note on Wednesday after Bank of Japan (BoJ) Deputy Governor's comment that it won’t hike rates when markets are unstable, which led to optimism in the international markets as well.

At close on Wednesday, Sensex was at 79,468, up 874 points or 1.11 per cent, while Nifty was up 304 points or 1.27 per cent at 24,297.

On the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), 2,988 shares closed in the green, 945 shares in the red, and 98 shares without any change, which shows that the trend in the market remains positive.

Indian stock market opened in green on Wednesday, following buying in auto and IT majors.

At 9:37 a.m., Sensex was up 718 points or 0.93 per cent at 79,324 and Nifty was up 249 points or 1.04 per cent at 24,250.

The broader market trend is positive. On the National Stock Exchange (NSE) 1,778 shares are in the red and 122 shares in the green.

All 30 stocks in the Sensex pack opened in the green. Infosys, M&M, Maruti Suzuki, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, JSW Steel, Tata Steel and UltraTech Cement are the top gainers.

All sectoral indices are trading in the green. Auto, IT, fin Service, pharma, metal, realty, media and energy are major gainers.

The stock of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company Marico Ltd slumped nearly 5 per cent on Tuesday amid the political unrest in Bangladesh as the neighbouring country contributes almost 11 per cent of its consolidated business.

The company’s stock was trading around Rs 640 a piece (down 4.9 per cent) during the day trading.

Marico Bangladesh Ltd clicked Rs 1,103 crore in revenue in the last fiscal (FY24), making up 11 per cent of Marico's consolidated revenue. For international business on a standalone basis, Bangladesh contributes around 44 per cent of the total revenue.

Marico's net profit in the April-June quarter went up 8.7 per cent (year-on-year) to Rs 474 crore.