The Haryana Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of an alleged assault by a teacher on a Class 11 student, who suffered a fractured hand, and issued a directive for action.

The case pertains to a private school in Jhajjar district where teacher Sonu, alias R.S. Rathor, allegedly assaulted the student, who was admitted to a hospital run by the same educational group.

Shockingly, the student’s family was reportedly mistreated and intimidated by the school staff when they visited the hospital, said the Human Rights Commission on Monday.

The team of Cyber Police Station of Delhi Police have arrested three notorious cheats/fraudsters for digitally arresting elderly people and defrauding them of their money.

The three have been identified as Rahul Verma, a resident of Raipur, Chhattisgarh; Shantanu Richoriya, R/o Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh and Arjun Singh, R/o Village Saharanpur, UP. All three are aged around 25 years.

With their arrest, three smartphones, four SIM cards, Debit Cards, four passbooks and three cheque books of different banks were recovered from their possession.

The police officials in a press release on Monday said that a complaint of Mahender Jain, a resident of Raj Nagar, Palam Colony, was received through NCRP regarding digital arrest and duping of Rs 25 lakh by unknown fraudsters.

The incremental gain from the higher RBI dividend is expected to partly offset potential shortfalls in tax revenues and nominal GDP growth, a report said on Monday, adding that supported by a robust RBI dividend, system liquidity is likely to improve further.

This marks the third consecutive year where the actual dividend has exceeded the initial budgeted number. This implies an extra fiscal boost of 0.15 per cent of GDP.

Accordingly, “we maintain our FY26 gross FD/GDP target at 4.4 per cent, in line with the budget estimate,” according to the report by Emkay Global Financial Services.

“We expect Q1 FY26E to be in super surplus liquidity (with June tracking Rs 4-4.5 trillion), led by high RBI dividend of Rs 2.68 trillion and a sharp seasonal moderation in currency in circulation (CIC), along with RBI OMOs,” the report added.

South Korea's major companies spent an average of 2.9 billion won ($2.1 million) per year on information protection, industry data showed on Monday.

According to data from the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and other sources, 10 local companies each invested over 100 billion won in cybersecurity over the past three years.

Samsung Electronics Co. topped the list, spending a total of 712.6 billion won from 2021-2023, followed by telecom giant KT Corp., which invested 327.4 billion won during the same period, reports news agency.

SK Telecom Co., the country's largest mobile carrier that recently suffered a large-scale data breach, came in third with 251.5 billion won in spending.

FC Barcelona ended the season with a 3-0 win away to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday in a game where neither side had anything significant at stake.

The match began after both teams gave a guard of honour to Athletic Bilbao defender Oscar de Marcos, who was making his 573rd and final appearance after 16 years with the club.

Two goals in just three minutes from Robert Lewandowski put Barca 2-0 ahead in the first half, with the third coming from Dani Olmo's penalty, moments after De Marcos received an emotional send-off as he left the pitch at San Mames for the last time, reports.

Alexander Sorloth ended the season with a hat trick to take his tally of league goals to 20 as Atletico Madrid won 4-0 away to Girona, while Yeremy Pino, Pape Gueye (twice) and Alex Baena scored in Villarreal's 4-2 victory at home to Sevilla.

Australian researchers have developed a new, rapid testing method to help diagnose rare diseases in babies and children.

There are more than 7,000 types of disease caused by mutations in more than 5,000 known genes, affecting approximately 300 million individuals worldwide.

Currently, about half of all patients with a suspected rare disease remain undiagnosed, and existing testing methods for undiagnosed conditions are typically slow.

Researchers from the University of Melbourne developed a new blood-based method of analysing thousands of proteins in a single, untargeted test.

The DNA sequence of most genes is the code to produce proteins, the molecular machines of our cells and tissues, said Dr. Daniella Hock, a Senior Postdoctoral student at the varsity, while presenting the research at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics in Germany.

Aadit Palicha, the CEO and Co-founder of quick delivery platform Zepto, has alleged that the chief financial officer (CFO) of a rival company is running a smear campaign against them over the past few days.

In a LinkedIn post, Palicha said the spam campaign includes “calling our investors to make wild allegations about us with no empirical evidence, giving out false numbers/Excel sheets on Zepto through sources known to journalists, and paying bots on social media to spread a negative narrative”.

He, however, did not reveal the name of the rival firm. In the quick commerce space, Zepto competes with Blinkit (owned by Eternal which was earlier Zomato), Swiggy Instamart, Flipkart Minutes and Tata BigBasket, among others.

Hyundai Motor Group said on Monday it has established its third startup investment fund to support innovative venture companies with cutting-edge technologies and ideas.

The group's third fund under its ZER01NE accelerator program has been set up at a scale of 125 billion won (US$91.4 million), with financial participation from group affiliates, reports news agency.

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. each invested 40 billion won, while Hyundai Motor Securities Co. contributed 10 billion won. Additional investments came from seven other units, including Hyundai Mobis Co., Hyundai Glovis Co. and Hyundai Rotem Co.

The fund aims to identify and invest in promising startups in South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia, particularly those working in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, hydrogen and cybersecurity.

The domestic benchmark indices opened higher on Monday as India achieving a new high in the world’s largest economy ranking boosted investors’ sentiment.

At around 9.32 am, Sensex was trading 640.3 points or 0.78 per cent up at 82,361.46 while the Nifty added 187.39 point or 0.75 per cent at 25,040.45.

Nifty Bank was up 408.25 points or 0.74 per cent at 55,806.50 The Nifty Midcap 100 index was trading at 57,114.35 after rising 426.60 points or 0.75 per cent. Nifty Smallcap 100 index was at 17,789.25 after climbing 145.90 points or 0.83 per cent.

According to analysts, news of India becoming the fourth largest economy in the world would be a near-term morale boost for the market.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday paid tributes to Maharaja Agarsen Ji.

In a function held here. paying tributes to Maharaja Agarsen ji, the Chief Minister described him as a great ruler, who during his regime gave the message of welfare state by strengthening social harmony and unity. Exhorting the people to seek inspiration from the ideology of Maharaja Agarsen, he said that a real tribute to this legendary ruler would be to follow his teachings, which were still relevant in the present circumstances. Bhagwant Singh Mann appealed to the people to commemorate this auspicious day rising above the parochial considerations of caste, color, creed and religion.