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Ahead of the Ram Mandir inauguration ceremony, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi appealed to the young Muslim community and told them to protect mosques before they are “snatched away”. Owaisi asked the youths to be on the lookout for the activities carried out by the BJP-led Centre and said that mosques in […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The year 2023 has ended with two big wars and a few local conflicts including one in Myanmar bordering India. While the world was looking for the end of war in Ukraine during 2023, a new war with much severe death toll began in Gaza strip of Palestine in October 2023 giving […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The world is finally recognizing India’s economic strength and its fast-growing market size. Going by the overall development trend, the economy is capable of growing close to 10 percent annually over the next several years. In 2023-24, the economy may reach a growth rate of seven percent. Both domestic and foreign investors […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress is running against time on seat-sharing arrangement with India alliance partners, which is likely to be delayed further. A crucial meeting has been scheduled by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on January 4, in which presidents of its state units and the leaders of its legislative members will be sharing their […]

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By Arun Srivastava Chasing Nazi spokesperson Joseph Goebbel’s famous maxim that people tend to believe a lie as a biblical truth if it is insistently repeated for hundred times, the RSS and BJP’s ecosystem have launched a psychological war against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Saffron vilification campaign launched by the saffron ecosystem against Nitish […]

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Targeting the Congress, BJP president J P Nadda on Sunday said those who spared no effort in doing injustice to society are now thinking about holding a ‘nyay yatra’. Addressing a public gathering here, Nadda also hit out at the opposition INDIA bloc, saying it is bent on dragging the country down while Prime Minister […]

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The CBI has issued a notice to Kerala-based Jaihind channel seeking details of the investments made in the channel by Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar in connection with a disproportionate assets case against the Congress leader, officials said Sunday. The Bengaluru unit of the agency, which is probing the case against Shivakumar, had asked […]

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The Congress in Kerala on Sunday accused the ruling CPI(M) of needlessly creating controversy over the invitation extended to a few individuals from the grand old party for the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22. The comments came after the CPI(M) called the Congress indecisive as it has not revealed whether […]

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On the Karnataka BJP’s dartboard, one person who seems to be the target for several disgruntled leaders is veteran BS Yediyurappa. While a tirade of accusations has been launched by Vijayapura BJP MLA and former Union minister Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, other senior leaders like Sadanand Gowda, KS Eswarappa, and CT Ravi have also earlier trained […]

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The BJP on Sunday alleged that members of the Christian community who recently joined the party in Kerala are facing online attacks from supporters of the Congress and the CPI(M). The saffron party, which has been actively courting the Christian community in the state, issued a warning of strong retaliation against those involved in the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Number of Bank frauds in 2022-23 in India reached 13,576 as against just 4306 in 2013-14, and has even broken the record of the last year in only first six months of the current financial year 2023-24 when the fraud cases have already risen to 14,483. Obviously, UPA government was no […]

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By Girish Linganna The Indian defence manufacturing sector has advanced significantly, largely due to the government’s ‘Make in India’ policy and emphasis on self-sufficiency. But difficulties that can hinder development in 2024 need to be addressed. So like all significant nations, India has an Army, Navy and Air Force and these wings need among other […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Famous as the first ‘Showman’ of Indian cinema, had Raj Kapoor been alive today, he would have celebrated in grand style his turning 100 this month. Facing the movie cameras after putting on the grease-paint and an attire which was a take on that of the inimitable Charlie Chaplin, he essayed the […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The central investigating agency, the enforcement Directorate (ED), which is on a rampage against the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala, suffered a highly embarrassing double defeat in the Kerala High Court. In the latest rebuff to the ED, the Kerala High Court stayed the fresh summons issued […]

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Drawing an end to speculation and rumours, the JD(U) yet again witnessed a change of guard as party members got their old guard back with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar finally taking the reins of the party once again. At the party’s national executive committee meeting on Friday, senior members are said to have addressed […]

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To “exact revenge on the AAP,” which controls the nation’s capital and the border state, the BJP-led federal government rejected the tableaux of Delhi and Punjab for the Republic Day parade alleged Delhi Art, Culture, and Languages Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Friday. Addressing a press conference, Bharadwaj said the Centre has rejected Delhi’s tableaux for […]

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NEW DELHI: Retail inflation for industrial workers increased marginally to 4.98 per cent in November compared to 4.45 per cent in October this year, mainly due to higher prices of certain food items. Food inflation stood at 7.95 per cent against 6.27 per cent in the previous month (October 2023) and 4.30 per cent during […]

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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said his party would contest 23 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, and the seat-sharing talks with the Congress have to ”start from zero” as the latter had ‘not won any seat’ in the previous elections, a statement that drew a sharp response from the […]

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By Harihar Swarup The INDIA alliance meeting in Delhi is broadly an effort at political resuscitation. For three months, the opposition formation had virtually suspended such strategic level dialogue, as the Congress prioritised the assembly elections. Talk of crucial loss of momentum. INDIA’s leading partner Congress stands devastated after losing in three states to the […]

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Union Minister Smriti Irani Friday alleged that former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi ignored the development of Amethi, a constituency he represented in the Lok Sabha for 15 years, but built a guest house for himself. During an interaction with people in Munshiganj here, the villagers drew her attention to the drainage. Irani, a Lok Sabha […]

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NEW DELHI: The finance ministry on Friday exuded confidence that the economy will “comfortably achieve” a growth rate upwards of 6.5% in FY24, as it expected the robust economic activity being witnessed in the third quarter of FY24 to continue through the March quarter as well. In an economic review for the first half of […]

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By Anjan Roy Economic forecasting is always hazardous. It is more so in the current scenario. There are always any number of uncertainties about the future. But currently these are multifarious. No one really knows, including the dramatis personae, what will happen in the next week, let alone in course of the coming year. Take […]

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NEW DELHI: Despite heavy odds and global crises, India showed remarkable resilience to keep inflation under control, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, exuding confidence that the BJP was a “natural choice” for the people and will form a majority government for a third time in a row in 2024. In an interview with newsmagazine […]

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NEW DELHI: The eight core sector industries, which include coal, steel and electricity, posted a growth of 7.8 per cent in November compared to the same month last year, official data released on Friday showed. India’s core sector output growth hit a six-month low of 7.8% in November, easing from 12% in the previous month, […]

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MUMBAI: The pace of growth of bank credit to the industrial sector slowed down to 6.1 per cent in November from 13.0 per cent in the year-ago month. However, the growth in credit to industry on a year-to-date basis in November in the current financial year (FY24) was slightly higher at 4.9 per cent against […]

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By K Raveendran It is election year for the Indian economy and the footnote to the robust economic performance would pinpoint the risks of freebies and subsidy politics impacting growth. The pressures are expected to pinch hard from mid-year onwards as the drivers of growth would shift gears down by at least a couple of […]

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By Arun Srivastava The catchline “Phir Aayega Modi” of the saffron ecosystem needs correction. It portrays him as a visionary who will return to usher India to a new and affluent ecosphere — purely as a device to strengthen the perception that Modi is the only saviour. Therefore, people must elect him. But scratch a […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today flagged off two new Amrit Bharat trains and six new Vande Bharat trains from the redeveloped Ayodhya Dham Station. The new Amrit Bharat trains will run as Darbhanga-Ayodhya-Anand Vihar Terminal Amrit Bharat Express and Malda Town-Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminus (Bengaluru) Amrit Bharat Express. The Amrit Bharat trains, which are a […]

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NEW DELHI: Bank credit growth is expected to remain healthy at 12-13 per cent in the next fiscal, rating agency ICRA said while maintaining a positive outlook on the banking sector. In a statement, ICRA said the positive outlook on the banking sector is mainly driven by comfortable asset quality levels, with both corporate and […]

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MUMBAI: As many as 12 companies raised Rs 8,931.69 crore through initial share sales this month, making it the best IPO month in two years. The previous best was December 2021, when 11 companies mopped up Rs 9,534 crore through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). As per an analysis, 12 companies hit the market with their […]

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MUMBAI: Biotechnology company Indian Immunologicals (IIL), under the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), on Thursday announced the start of the construction of its new vaccine manufacturing plant at Genome Valley, Hyderabad. The company is investing around Rs 700 crore in this facility. Equipped with a BSL3 (biosafety level) facility for drug substance production and a […]

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Investments for insurance companies are highly regulated and life insurers should be allowed more investment classes to enhance their liquidity, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India Chairman Siddhartha Mohanty said. “For insurance companies, so far as investment is concerned, it is highly regulated. So, new asset classes should also be allowed, like sovereign gold bonds, […]

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NEW DELHI: Bangladesh wants India to remove the anti-dumping duties on certain jute product imports. India extended these duties for a five-year period in January this year but New Delhi is not keen to do so, sources have said.. The neighbouring country is also trying to stop India from attempting to impose countervailing or anti-subsidy […]

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NEW DELHI: Capital markets regulator Sebi on Thursday tweaked the regulatory framework for Online Bond Platform Providers (OBPPs) to enhance the ease of doing business. This came after Sebi received representations from stock exchanges and market participants, including online bond platforms. “The proposed modifications shall aid in ease of doing business for OBPPs,” the Securities […]

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