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A 24-year-old woman in Greater Noida allegedly died after being thrown from her house terrace, with her family accusing her husband and in-laws of dowry harassment. The family claims she was beaten and injured with a sharp object before being pushed to stage an accident. Police are investigating the incident.

Amaravati, the newly anointed capital city of Andhra Pradesh, is still under construction, but its Quantum Valley project is already luring deeptech startups, scientists and engineers to move in as the first settlers and work on the next frontier of technology

The BJP government has also done away with the exisiting state OBC list in accordance with the Calcutta high court judgement and would set up a panel to decide quota eligibility. Last year on July 28, however, the CJI-led bench of the Supreme Court had vacated high court's stay on implementation of the new OBC list that had a total of 140 sub-groups under OBC-A and OBC-B categories, including 80 belonging to the Muslim community.

The Central Information Commission ruled the BCCI is not under the RTI Act, dismissing an appeal seeking information on its national representation and player selection. The CIC noted that increased government oversight could disrupt BCCI's finely balanced economic structure, citing its financial independence and market-driven operations, particularly the IPL's success.

The first breakthrough in the NEET scandal did not come from an official raid. It came from a coaching teacher who refused to dismiss a viral document as mere rumour.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told WSJ at the World Economic Forum in Davos that software is heading toward being "cheap, maybe essentially free," warning that whole careers built around writing code may not survive the AI shift. The Anthropic chief executive also predicted SaaS incumbents leaning on code complexity as a moat could "go bust" as ServiceNow, Snowflake and Microsoft stocks slide and Anthropic eyes a $900 billion valuation.

Family members of a 33-year-old woman found dead in Bhopal protested, demanding a fresh post-mortem at AIIMS Delhi. Police formed an SIT to investigate dowry harassment allegations against her husband and mother-in-law, a retired judge who received anticipatory bail. The family alleges murder and criticizes the handling of the case.