Union Finance Secretary and senior IAS officer T.V. Somanathan on Saturday said Artificial Intelligence (AI) can replace the work being done by auditors and accountants. He was delivering the CA S. Hariharan memorial lecture here.

At least two workers were killed and six others injured in a major explosion in a company in Maharashtra's Thane on Saturday, Police said. The tragedy occurred around 10.45 am at the Century Rayon Co.when the gas container was brought to the company premises and it was being readied by the workers to fill up with Carbon Disulphide (CS2) gas.

Two multi-storied buildings in a leading IT park in Hyderabad were demolished on Saturday. Buildings 7 and 8 in Raheja Mindspace IT Park in Madhapur were demolished to construct new buildings in their place.

A woman was killed and hundreds of people were evacuated to safer places after a thunderous downpour since midnight of Friday-Saturday virtually submerged the state’s second capital Nagpur into a lake city, and the Indian Army was called for the rescue operations, officials said.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday said that heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to continue over Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Sikkim and over northeast India during next two days and decrease thereafter.

The US dollar-Indian rupee exchange rate will fluctuate between Rs 82 and Rs 84 during the second half of FY24, CARE Ratings said in a report. According to the credit rating agency, the rupee breached the Rs 83 against a dollar recently, but its decline has been curtailed by interventions by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) across various markets, including the spot, non-deliverable forward (NDF), and futures markets.

Parts of Delhi and neighbouring Noida received heavy rainfall on Saturday bringing much respite from scorching heat and humid weather. "Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain with heavy intensity rain over isolated places and gusty winds with speed of 30-40 Km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of many places of Delhi, NCR," the weather forecast agency had wrote prediction on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Delhi Police have arrested a 40-year-old Nigerian national for allegedly indulging in drug peddling across the city and recovered over 100 grams of amphetamine worth Rs 70 lakhs in international market, an official said on Saturday.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reached Maharani College at around 12 p.m., where he talked to the girl students for some time and then traveled on a scooter with student. The video of the Congress leader riding as a pillion on a girl's scooter in Jaipur has also gone viral on social media.

Karnataka unit of BJP on Saturday staged a protest here against the Congress government's move to release water to Tamil Nadu. Addressing the agitators, former chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa alleged that the Congress government in Karnataka has become Tamil Nadu's agent.