Pranavi Urs will head the Indian challenge with Tvesa Malik also in the fray at the Lacoste Ladies Open de France. A total of 96 players from 29 nations will tee up at the Diane Barriere course at Golf Barriere.

The 54-hole tournament with a purse of 375,000 euros will see the Top-60 make the cut after 36 holes and play the weekend.

Last week Pranavi had a stunning 6-under 66, her career-best round on the Ladies European Tour, while finishing seventh. Tvesa finished T-57 after four rounds. Pranavi is 24th on the Order of Merit, while Tvesa, making a comeback is 47th. The top Indian is Diksha Dagar at 18 and she is taking a two-week break.

Multiple winner on the women's Pro Golf Tour, Pranavi is playing with Emma Spitz of Austria and Pauline Roussin-Bouchard of France, who is having a good season. Tvesa, also on a winner on WPGT, will go out with Sara Byrne of Ireland and Lily Humphrey Mays of England. They are both in the afternoon session.

Driven by the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, the overall production of electronics in the country has surged to Rs 9.52 lakh crore, from Rs 1.9 lakh crore 10 years back, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.4 per cent, the government has informed.

India has reached Rs 6.61 lakh crore in total value of production, above the target that has been set by the government. The overall investment has been Rs 9,100 crore, also above the target.

The mobile PLI scheme set a target to achieve cumulative production of Rs 4.39 lakh crore in 2023-24 and Rs 8.12 lakh crore during the five-year scheme period till FY 2026.

A five-year-old girl, reported missing for the last three days, was found dead on Thursday in the same multi-storey building where she was living with her parents in Bhopal.

As per the information, the girl's body was found floating in the water tank of the building in Bajpayi Nagar under the Shahjahanabad police station in the capital city.

The body was found after the police unlocked the door of a flat (the flat's door was shut for the last three days) and carried out a search early on Thursday.

She was missing from Tuesday afternoon and a complaint was registered at Shahjahanabad police station. Since then, several teams of police, including Dog Squad had been searching for the girl.

French President Emmanuel Macron has voiced strong support for India's inclusion as a permanent member of a reformed United Nations Security Council (UNSC), along with Germany, Japan, Brazil, and two African nations.

"Germany, Japan, India and Brazil should be permanent members, as well as two countries that Africa would designate to represent it. New elected members should also be admitted," Macron said while addressing the general debate at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York early Thursday, India time.

The French President stressed the need for reforms within the UN to make it more effective and representative, particularly in light of the challenges posed by the current structure of the Security Council.

More than 3,000 registered senders have whitelisted more than 70,000 URLs, APKs (Android package kit) or OTT (over the top) links as per the government directive to safeguard consumers from unsolicited messages containing malicious links, it was announced on Thursday.

In a major step to curb the misuse of URLs (uniform resource locators) in messages, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had issued a directive on August 20, and then extended it till September 30.

The new rule, instructing all access providers to block any traffic containing URLs, APKs, or OTT links that have not been whitelisted, is set to be implemented by 1st October 2024.

To ensure smooth flow of SMS traffic containing URLs, TRAI advises registered senders to promptly upload their whitelisted URL/APK/OTT links to the portal of the respective Access Providers.

The death toll from the record-breaking rainfall in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture last weekend has risen to 11 after three more deaths were confirmed on Wednesday, local media reported.

A woman was confirmed dead on Wednesday after being found near a river, and two men were found dead along the coast in Wajima city later on the day, reports news agency, quoting public broadcaster NHK.

This brings the total number of deaths confirmed as a result of the heavy rain to 11, nine in Wajima city and two in Suzu city.

Authorities have also reported that two people in Suzu and Noto were still missing, while several others in Wajima remained unreachable.

Bangladesh's senior all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has announced his retirement from T20Is while also expressing his desire to retire from Test cricket at the end of the home series against South Africa in Mirpur next month.

The 37-year-old all-rounder made the announcement on Thursday, ahead of his team’s second Test against India at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur.

“This is the right time to bring in new players. It’s the same vision for T20Is as well. I have spoken to the chief selector and the BCB president and we all felt that this was the right time to move on and allow new players to come up the ranks,” Shakib told reporters.

Ola Electric’s flagship S1 series EV scooter has turned out to be a nightmare for several customers as they continue to face issues like malfunctioning hardware and glitching software even from day one after purchase.

An angry customer from Agra on Thursday posted a video on X, showing an Ola Electric service station in the city in complete mess.

“This is the current situation of Agra Ola electric service station. People are so enraged because no solutions are provided for their problems. Ola electric is fastest growing when it comes to their scooters coming back to service stations for 2-3 months,” the customer posted.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), along with researchers of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has developed lightweight bulletproof jackets with 360-degree protection, the Ministry of Defence has said.

The jackets, named ABHED (Advanced Ballistics for High Energy Defeat) have been developed at the DRDO Industry Academia Centre of Excellence (DIA-CoE) at IIT, Delhi.

The ABHED jackets were developed using polymers and indigenous boron carbide ceramic material.

“The design configuration is based on characterisation of various materials at high strain rate followed by appropriate modelling and simulation in collaboration with DRDO,” the Ministry said.