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MUMBAI: In a move to strengthen governance in private sector banks and wholly-owned subsidiaries of foreign banks, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday directed them to have at least two wholetime directors. Lenders that do not meet the requirement will have to submit the names for the RBI’s approval within four months. Banks […]

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NEW DELHI: In a leg-up for India’s consistent stand against global rules on e-commerce, the US has decided to withdraw its proposal on digital trade at the WTO to retain the policy space for regulating big-tech firms. The US proposal on e-commerce rules, withdrawn at the WTO’s Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) on e-commerce on Wednesday, […]

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NEW DELHI: Government think tank NITI Aayog has initiated a study to develop a comprehensive action plan to bridge India’s trade deficit with China over time and align trading strategies with emerging geopolitical situation and potential risks to safeguard supply chains. The Aayog has invited bids from consultants to lead the two studies in areas […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak “All farm loans will be waived, as we have done in the past, immediately after the Congress returns to power,” promised CM Bhupesh Baghel in Chhattisgarh in a repeat of 2018 election promise. It was among the four key promises made by the Congress on which the party has pinned its […]

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By Arun Srivastava This is not the first time that the JD(S) has entered into an alliance with the BJP. In 2006, with the tacit blessing of the senior JD(S) leader, the former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, the JD(S) had brokered an alliance and his son HD Kumaraswamy headed the alliance government. But […]

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By P. Sudhir The speech of the RSS chief at the annual Vijayadashami rally in Nagpur is supposed to contain the authoritative pronouncements of the Sangh. In the rally last Tuesday, Mohan Bhagwat’s speech continued with the theme of the last few Vijayadashami speeches, where the Sangh totally identified with the Narendra Modi government and […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Her acting is a combination of vivacity which gels completely with her natural acting style. This has earned Aparna Sen a place of honour among the greats of Bengali cinema. Here is a heroine turned director whose co-actors have ranged from Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chattopadhyay to Shatrughan Sinha and Amitabh Bachchan (during […]

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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slammed the BJP-led Centre on Wednesday over its “hollow” welfare schemes while addressing a rally where her party promised an annual honorarium of Rs 10,000 to the women heads of families in Rajasthan. At a public rally addressed by Gandhi, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot promised two “guarantees” if the […]

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NEW DELHI: A two-day meeting of senior officials of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries which concluded in Geneva last Tuesday shaped agenda for the coming ministerial meeting of the world body, by narrowing down the differences over the key issues of agriculture, dispute settlement, e-commerce taxation, according to official sources. The direction and […]

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NEW DELHI: The finance ministry is reviewing its disinvestment schedule following the recent stock market selloff amid high volatility triggered by global factors, said people aware of the details. The ministry is likely to adopt a “prudent selloff” approach now, one official told ET, adding there won’t be “divestment for the sake of divestment anymore” […]

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NEW DELHI: The Centre’s “just-in-time” mechanism to release money for government agencies, including at the state level, has forced banks to rework their fund-raising strategy as they have lost out on low-cost current and savings account float.Worst hit are public sector banks such as State Bank of India, which have now activated the SME and […]

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NEW DELHI: The government is likely to provide the option of a regulatory sandbox for existing and new over-the-top (OTT) communication apps to test features in a “live but safe environment” before they are allowed to be released for all users. According to the latest version of the draft Indian Telecommunications Bill 2023, the government […]

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By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat does not enjoy the dubious reputation of speaking lies. But on Dussehra, in his annual sermon, when he tried to dig out the ghost of the “foreign powers” for putting the blame for the unabated six-month-long violence in Manipur, one could not hide the shock at Bhagwat not […]

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By K Raveendran Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has added a new dimension to the current debate on caste-based reservation by stressing the need to advance from the accommodative aspect of the reservation policy as it is practised today to one where reservation would be a tool for empowerment. Justice Chandrachud did not […]

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Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Tuesday said if voted to power in the assembly elections, the Congress will revive the project to construct Sitamata temple in Sri Lanka even as he made a string of promises mostly concerning Hindu community. He also said the new government will be committed to the upliftment of […]

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