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  1. Nestle’s Chief executive officer, Mark Schnider, said the company has plans to invest Rs.5000 crores over the next three and a half years.
  2. India’s biggest insurer, the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), plans to strengthen its agency channel by adding 40 percent more agents to generate more business.  
  3. Tata Steel board will absorb six of its subsidiaries and an associate company. The move is to simplify “group holding and management structure” and also for driving synergies and nurturing strategic businesses.  
  4. In the Uttarakhand Receptionist Murder case, it has come to light that Pulkit Arya, the resort owner, was coercing the 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari to enter prostitution and other illegal activities. 
  5. The BJP leaders in Maharashtra have sought the government to take stringent action against PFI protestors who raised “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans at Pune.
  6. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has called the hartal violence in the state by the Popular Front of India (PFI) a “Premediated” one.  
  7. Addressing a special ‘India@75’ event in New York, EAM S Jaishankar said India, which once was the poorest nation during the middle of 20th-century colonialism, is now the 5th biggest world economy. 
  8. The National Broadband Mission, which operates under the Ministry of Communications, said that PM Modi would inaugurate 5G services in India on October 1.
  9. The government has asked job aspirants in India to maintain extreme caution and not to get lured by lucrative job offers from dubious IT firms in Thailand. 
  10. The Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) said that at least 50 people are dead as the Iranian government continued to crack down on protestors agitating against the death of Mahsa Amini.