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📉 Sensex and Nifty slip for a sixth straight week as crude swings and IT-stock weakness weigh.🏅 Asian Games: India opens its medal account with silver in the women's 10m air rifle team event.🛠️ India sends its largest-ever 70-member team to WorldSkills Shanghai, which starts on 22 September.🤖 NPCI studies rules for AI agents on UPI: "AI may recommend," but payments must settle on auditable rules.🚀 NASA reportedly preparing two more Starliner crew flights; no official announcement yet.🎓 BRICS leaders back "human-centred" AI in education and explore a BRICS university ranking.💊 Health Ministry proposes CCTV at pharmacies selling Schedule H, H1 and X drugs; draft open for comment.📈 Centre expected to fix its second-half borrowing calendar at a meeting on 25 September.📉 Sensex and Nifty slip for a sixth straight week as crude swings and IT-stock weakness weigh.🏅 Asian Games: India opens its medal account with silver in the women's 10m air rifle team event.🛠️ India sends its largest-ever 70-member team to WorldSkills Shanghai, which starts on 22 September.🤖 NPCI studies rules for AI agents on UPI: "AI may recommend," but payments must settle on auditable rules.🚀 NASA reportedly preparing two more Starliner crew flights; no official announcement yet.🎓 BRICS leaders back "human-centred" AI in education and explore a BRICS university ranking.💊 Health Ministry proposes CCTV at pharmacies selling Schedule H, H1 and X drugs; draft open for comment.📈 Centre expected to fix its second-half borrowing calendar at a meeting on 25 September.
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