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MUMBAI: US-based private equity major Blackstone said on Monday it had completed the acquisition of a 72.5 per cent stake in Quality Care India Ltd (QCIL), which operates a network of Care Hospitals, from Evercare, a platform backed by TPG Rise funds. This marks Blackstone’s foray into India’s health care services sector. TPG will continue […]

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MUMBAI: The answer to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) question why its rate actions are not completely transmitted through the economy may lie in the shrinking trade volumes in the very segment the central bank targets through its monetary policy — the overnight call money market. The value of trades in the interbank call […]

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NEW DELHI: India has asked the WTO members to work on a clear definition of e-commerce trade in goods and services as it would help provide developing countries a policy space to make decisions on the fast-growing sector, an official said. At present, there is a difference of understanding about the subject between developed and […]

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NEW DELHI: India is estimated to be a $30 trillion developed economy by 2047, preliminary results from the Centre’s vision document which is being prepared have shown, Niti Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam said on Sunday. The Vision India@2047 document is likely to be released by PM Modi in the next three months. The estimates will […]

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MUMBAI: The government has mandated all private companies, other than small companies, to dematerialise their shares by September 30, 2024. The move is expected to boost transparency and oversight of the financial system. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), in an amendment dated October 27, inserted a new clause in the Companies (Prospectus and Allotment […]

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NEW DELHI: India has proposed that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) clearly define what constitutes goods and services in relation to cross-border electronic transmissions such as content streaming. The suggestion, made by senior Indian officials at a meeting of WTO member countries in Geneva last week,  is aimed reaching a multilateral agreement to put import […]

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MUMBAI: The K-factor, visible in many sectors of the economy, is at play in the housing space as well. Housing sales were at six-year high in the September quarter, however, the sale of affordable housing units declined 10%, as buyers in the segment continued to be troubled by the high interest rates. Sale of units […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not derive much comfort from the fact that Indian Railways, the government’s single biggest public connect, is in bad shape. India’s railway network, recognised as one of the world’s largest railway systems under single management, carries some 24 million passengers daily. Politically, that is like addressing 240 […]

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By Girish Linganna As Israel ratcheted up its ground offensive on Saturday (October 28, 2023), relentlessly pounding Gaza with airstrikes to back up a night of intense bombing, the north of the Gaza Strip was assailed “on a magnitude never witnessed before” and there was “total chaos” in the region. Although there are no specific […]

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By Arun Srivastava Some political commentators hold the view that Palestinians should have followed the Gandhian path and also implicitly accuse them that they never followed the Gandhian path. However, their suggestion also applies to the Israel. The Israeli rulers should have followed the Gandhian path, and boy how they haven’t. This is most pertinent […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Minister of Home Affairs and the second most influential leader in the BJP, Amit Shah, only next to PM Narendra Modi, has perhaps rightly perceived the general voters’ annoyance in Madhya Pradesh against the ruling double engine government, both in the state and the Centre. The issue of their misgovernance […]

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Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday claimed that central agencies will carry out raids in election-bound Madhya Pradesh similar to the ones they recently conducted in Rajasthan, which also goes to polls next month. Earlier this week, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the premises of Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra and the party candidate […]

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Telangana Chief Minister and BRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday warned voters that the Congress, if voted to power in Telangana in the November 30 Assembly elections will abolish welfare schemes such as Rythu Bandhu and free power to farmers. Speaking at a rally here, Rao, also known as KCR, said people like eminent […]

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The Congress and the BJP – the two main contenders in the November 25 assembly elections in Rajasthan – have fielded at least 29 candidates who are kin of leaders or belong to political families so far. Of the 200 assembly constituencies, the BJP has so far announced candidates for 124 seats and the ruling […]

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A delegation of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) on Sunday met Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais urging him to direct the state government to intervene in the quota agitation by the Maratha community. The delegation comprised NCP working president Supriya Sule, state NCP chief Jayant Patil, and party leader Jitendra Awhad. Jayant Patil said […]

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The leadership of the Congress and the Samajwadi party have finally decided that the misunderstanding at the state level should not reflect on the national agenda of the two parties that are standing united under the banner of INDIA bloc. The two parties, according to sources, have decided to call for truce and have asked […]

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As Mallikarjun Kharge completed one year in office as Congress President on October 26, the party has been able to rejuvenate its cadres with back-to-back victories in Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh and also has been able to hold its flock together. Kharge was elected as the Congress President in last October after defeating Shashi Tharoor […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cancelled his planned campaign trip to Mamit in poll-bound Mizoram on October 30, a senior BJP leader said here on Saturday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will fill in for Modi, but his date of campaigning is yet to be decided, state BJP media convener Johny Lalthanpuia told PTI. Lalthanpuia, […]

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