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By Sushil Kutty Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ is going ahead with its goal to bring peace to all the places through which it passes. Also fight for justice to people of all colour, creed and caste. It started in the violence-hit Manipur where both the Kuki and Meitei communities believed Rahul Gandhi had […]

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By Arun Srivastava BSP chief Mayawati continues to be an enigma. Till Monday morning, she was sending out signal to the leaders of INDIA bloc, especially to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, that she was ready to ride the bandwagon of INDIA. But by noon she made a volte-face and shocked the opposition leaders by saying […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is facing rising industrial concentration in just five hands, and is enriching billionaires, private equity funds, and crony capitalists driving unprecedented level of inequalities and poverty among people. Dalits are facing high and unaffordable out-of-pocket fees in the private healthcare sector, financial exclusion in the private healthcare sector, and overt […]

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Shiv Sena (Shinde) faction on Monday moved to the Bombay High Court challenging Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar’s decision of not disqualifying MLAs of the Uddhav Thackeray faction. On the other hand, Shiv Sena (UBT) has moved to the Supreme Court challenging Speaker Rahul Narvekar’s decision to declare the Shinde faction as the “real Shiv […]

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MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) draft norms for self regulatory organisations for the fintech sector (SRO-FT) have proposed that such entities should have a robust IT infrastructure and the ability to deploy technological solutions within a reasonable timeframe. The applicant for such an entity should have sufficient net worth and demonstrate the capability […]

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NEW DELHI: The exports of computer software and services, including IT enabled services and BPO, logged 12.2 per cent growth during 2022-23 to touch $193 billion, according to estimates by Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC). The IT software/services chunk accounted for the bulk of this at $126 billion, followed by BPO services […]

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NEW DELHI: The National Restaurant Association of India on Monday urged the government to restore input tax credit to restaurants while increasing the GST rate to 12 per cent from the current 5 per cent, ahead of the upcoming Union Budget. In a letter to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the National Restaurant Association of India […]

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NEW DELHI: Reliance Electrolyser Manufacturing, Jindal India and John Cockerill Greenko Hydrogen Solutions are among the six firms who have emerged as successful bidders for getting incentives to set up facilities to manufacture electrolysers, a critical component required for green hydrogen production. The bids came in response to a tender by Solar Energy Corporation of […]

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The Congress should not have shunned the ‘Pran Pratishtha’ or consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22 as it is not a political event, former Union minister Milind Deora who recently exited the party told News18 in an exclusive interview. Deora, former Mumbai South MP, resigned from the primary membership of […]

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In a big move ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress have decided to come together to contest the Chandigarh mayoral elections. If the alliance between the two holds and works out, it will be the first time ever that the bitter rivals would be joining forces […]

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NEW DELHI: India’s wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation rate rose to a nine-month high of 0.73 per cent in December, mainly due to an increase in prices of food articles, data released by the ministry of commerce and industry showed on Monday. This is the second consecutive month that the wholesale inflation rate had remained […]

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NEW DELHI: India’s trade deficit in December narrowed to a three-month low of $19.8 billion amid an import slowdown due to falling commodity prices. Merchandise exports during the month grew 0.97 per cent over a year earlier to $38.45 billion, contrary to the trend of a slowdown so far this financial year, showed data released […]

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NEW DELHI: Capital markets regulator Sebi on Monday proposed to provide flexibility to Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), Venture Capital Funds (VCFs) and their investors to deal with unliquidated investments of their schemes beyond expiry of tenure. In its consultation paper, the regulator suggested that instead of launching a new liquidation scheme by AIFs, the same […]

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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday signed an agreement to acquire five lithium brine blocks for exploration and development in Argentina. The agreement was signed between Khanij Bidesh India Ltd (KABIL) and Catamarca Minera Y Energética Sociedad Del Estado (CAMYEN), a state-owned mining and energy company in the Argentine province of Catamarca. This is the […]

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While terming Samajwadi Party (SP) a ‘Dalit-Virodhi’ party, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Monday once again made it clear that it would contest solo in the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls. Besides, BSP chief Mayawati made it clear that the party would maintain distance from those with casteist and communal ideologies, re-assuring that her party would […]

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With just a week left for “Pran Pratishtha” of Ram Lalla in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, several Congress leaders, including its Uttar Pradesh chief Ajay Rai and MP Deepender Hooda took a holy dip in the Saryu River amid chants of “Siyavar Ramchandra Ki Jai” on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. The visit by these Congress […]

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NEW DELHI: The government will take a decision after September on the existing import management system on certain IT hardware products such as laptops and tablets after evaluating the import data, which it is monitoring, an official said. In October last year, India put in place an import management system under which importers of these […]

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NEW DELHI: The government has clarified that there are no import restrictions on certain IT hardware products such as desktop computers. In a circular to customs authorities and industry, the commerce ministry arm Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has said only the import of laptops, tablets, all-in-one personal computers, ultra small form factor computers […]

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NEW DELHI: Hit by two anti-subsidy actions in the US and the European Union, government is looking to revamp the system for Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP), attempting to build a verification system for the refunds. The two cases are seen to be due to the fault of the exporter, who […]

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NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Ltd is seeking a minimum USD 10 rate for the gas it plans to produce from coal seams, as it altered its pricing formula to reflect the changed energy scenario. Reliance has sought bids from users for 0.90 million standard cubic meters per day of gas it will produce from coal-bed […]

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NEW DELHI: The pharma industry has sought fiscal incentives to promote research and development (R&D) in the sector, as it is likely to reach USD 400-450 billion market size by 2047. In a statement, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance Secretary General Sudarshan Jain said there is a high risk, long gestation period and low success rate in […]

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NEW DELHI: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has made two significant back-to-back natural gas discoveries in a Mahanadi basin deepwater block in the Bay of Bengal as its calculated game plan of venturing into high-risk deep water exploration starts yielding results. The firm made the discoveries in the block MN-DWHP-2018/1, which it had […]

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