Rush Hour: GDP growth slows, 3 get life term for 2022 Uttarakhand murder and more

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India’s real gross domestic product for the financial year 2024-’25 grew by 6.5%, showed a provisional estimate released by the Union government. This was the slowest growth since the Covid-19 pandemic year of 2020-’21 and significantly lower than the rate of 9.2% in 2023-’24.

The real GDP grew by 7.4% between January and March, lower than the 8.4% expansion during the same period in the previous financial year. Read on.

An Uttarakhand court has sentenced a former Bharatiya Janata Party leader’s son and his two associates to life imprisonment in the 2022 Ankita Bhandari murder case. A fine of Rs 50,000 each was also imposed on Pulkit Arya, son of former BJP leader Vinod Arya, and his associates Saurabh Bhaskar and Ankit Gupta.

Bhandari, a receptionist at a resort in Rishikesh owned by Pulkit Arya, went missing in September 2022. Pulkit Arya, along with Bhaskar and Gupta, initially filed a missing person report but later confessed to killing Bhandari by pushing her into a canal after an altercation.

Messages sent by Bhandari to a friend, which were uncovered during the investigation, suggested that the men had allegedly...

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