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Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday said there has been no seat-sharing talks with the Aam Aadmi Party in Haryana and it will happen only after some criteria are set. Asked whether the Congress was willing to share seats with AAP in the parliamentary elections, Hooda evaded the query by calling it […]

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NEW DELHI: Expectations are muted over big big-ticket announcements or high-budget schemes being announced in the interim Budget on February 1, but the run-up to the Parliament elections could still feature some such. FE has reviewed the schemes and government programmes rolled out in FY24 budget, and found that while these did not entail huge […]

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NEW DELHI: India is likely to project higher economic growth estimates of around 7% for the 2023/24 fiscal year ending in March, compared with earlier government forecasts when the National Statistical Office releases its first advance GDP estimates on Friday. An increased estimate of annual gross domestic product is widely expected after the Reserve Bank […]

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By Arun Srivastava The RSS leadership is happy that its electoral strategy has paid rich dividend in three states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in just concluded assembly elections Now the RSS chief is concentrating on Bihar, Bengal and Odisha taking in view the coming Lok Sabha polls. Apart it is the threat perception […]

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By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Y S Sharmila is not what her name suggests—shy, placid… She has been a rebel after a cause, and so has done what she had set out to do, become a part of the Congress—which was her father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra Since Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took over the reins of the party, the Mahagathbandhan alliance partners are wondering whether the decision was deliberately engineered to create a conducive atmosphere for Kumar to switch over, once again to the NDA, or put pressure on the INDIA bloc, or just to hog the […]

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Getting into poll mode, the Congress on Thursday initiated discussions on the party’s strategy, manifesto and seat-sharing for the Lok Sabha elections while also finalising the route map for the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, a hybrid version of the earlier foot march. As the top leadership of the party got into a huddle at the […]

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar deserved to be the prime ministerial candidate, and not merely the convenor of INDIA coalition, a couple of the JD(U) president’s close aides asserted here on Thursday. The averment came from ministers Madan Sahni and Ratnesh Sada, both of whom had visited the JD(U)’s Bihar headquarters here for “Jan Sunwai”, […]

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The speculation on whether Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Sonia Gandhi will attend the Ram temple consecration ceremony continued with the party on Thursday saying that their decision would be conveyed at the “right time”. Asked whether Kharge and Gandhi will attend the ceremony, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh, at […]

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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) founder Sharad Pawar on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of using a five-point agenda to promote “Hindutva fascism” in the country and said the political situation is not good for the saffron outfit ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Addressing party workers in the temple town of Shirdi in […]

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NEW DELHI: The Centre may aim for a modest disinvestment target of around Rs 30,000 crore in 2024-25, 40% lower than the target of Rs 51,000 crore for the current financial year, which is set to be missed by 60%, official sources said. This would represent a progressive lowering of the ambition on this front […]

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MUMBAI: In line with the global funding winter, deal-making involving domestic firms hit a three-year low after falling 51 per cent to $83.8 billion in 2023, saved by the mega-merger of HDFC twins — the biggest deal in India Inc’s history till date, according to an industry report. Excluding the $60.4-billion HDFC Bank-HDFC merger, year-on-year […]

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Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari on Thursday said the Congress’ loss in the 2022 Punjab assembly elections was not because the party opted for a Dalit Sikh chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, but because of their “internal contradictions”. At a discussion on book ‘Punjab- From the Perspective of a Punjabi Hindu’ written by author and […]

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NEW DELHI: The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has allayed fears of any problems due to lower wheat procurement this year and expressed confidence in buying a quantity more than the annual requirement under all welfare schemes. Briefing the media on the achievement of FCI since its inception in 1964, FCI Chairman and Managing Director […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has just coined this attractive slogan to its gullible constituency – Teesri Baar Modi Sarkar, ab ki baar 400 paar. Some national and international political analysts are declaring “almost an inevitability” of PM Narendra Modi’s win for the third time, supporting the first part of the slogan, while PM Modi’s […]

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By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s “imminent arrest” has been on the cards for two-three days and the AAP convener has been milking every drop of sympathy from talk of his imminent “arrest”. That said, while half of Delhi is convinced Kejriwal is corrupt to the core, the other half is still making […]

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to order inquiries into Adani Group by a special investigation team (SIT) or the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) — a major relief to the business house — over US short-seller Hindenburg Research’s allegations of fraud, misgovernance and stock price manipulation. It said the Securities and Exchange […]

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NEW DELHI: India’s merchandise exports this financial year will touch last year’s levels despite shipments contracting 6.5% year-on-year in the first eight months and slowdown in global trade, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Wednesday. “Globally growth has been negative, international trade is in the negative territory, estimates are that this year international trade […]

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Last Updated: January 04, 2024, 00:57 IST With just a couple of months to go before the Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has done a major rejig of the organisational heads of its morchas (wings). The party released the list of all the new organisational appointments late on Wednesday evening. The BJP’s Yuva […]

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal could be arrested today after a raid at his house, leaders of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party said hours after he refused to appear for questioning in the Delhi liquor policy case. Party sources also claimed that the roads leading to Mr Kejriwal’s residence have been blocked by Delhi police. […]

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Top Congress leaders from across the country will hold a meeting on January 4 to discuss the party’s preparedness for the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the upcoming Bharat Nyay Yatra. The Congress will hold a day-long meeting of its general secretaries, PCC presidents and CLP leaders among others, party sources said. The meeting, […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government had successfully avoided any meaningful discussion on the three new criminal laws in the Lok Sabha by resorting to suspension of almost entire opposition members in the Lok Sabha, but had to face a serious roadblock even before their implementation enforcing the Centre to give a second thought […]

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By Arun Srivastava With their malicious design to engage Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar in a psychological war proving to be absolutely ineffective, the Narendra Modi and Amit Shah combine has tossed a new type of conceptual war against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. While the duo failed to muster courage to direct their parrot […]

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