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West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee’s visit to New Delhi and a near certain meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday has the Bengal BJP worried. Sources told News18 that the saffron party’s state unit is anxious that any meeting between Modi and Mamata months before Lok Sabha elections could send […]

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the security breach at the new Parliament building was ”a serious matter.” Rubbishing reports that Lalit Mohan Jha, one of the accused in the Parliament security breach case, has links to the state, she said it was a ploy of the BJP to malign Bengal. In […]

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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday called the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its allied organisations as ”factories of lies.” Responding to a question by reporters on the BJP calling the five guarantees of the Congress government as ”failures”, Siddaramaiah termed the BJP and the Sangh Parivar a ”factory of lies.” To another query about a […]

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By K Raveendran The imposition of extra tariff on Chinese gold jewellery exports by the United States has helped the Indian jewellery export trade to dislodge the United Arab Emirates as the country’s leading export market. The tariff on Chinese jewellery has made Indian exporters more competitive on the one hand, while the Comprehensive Economic […]

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By James M Dorsey Israel wasn’t slamming the door on renewed indirect prisoner swap negotiations with Hamas when it this week barred David Barnea, the head of Mossad, the country’s foreign intelligence agency, from travelling to Qatar to explore possibilities for renewed exchanges. Instead, it was manoeuvring for greater leverage in potential talks and expressing […]

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By Anjan Roy The Indian stock market is looking like unstoppable, for now. The equity markets are scaling new heights and along with that, the investors are reaping riches. The BSE Sensex has increased by close to 1000 points in intra-day trading on Friday. The NSE index has climbed by close to 300 points. The […]

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By Girish Linganna Speaking at a conference held at the Maldives President’s Office after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday (December 14, 2023), Maldives’ Under Secretary for Public Policy, Mohamed Firuzul, said that the archipelagic nation would not renew the earlier government’s agreement on the Third Joint Hydrographic Survey of Maldives’ waters signed with India on […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday issued his first response on the recent Parliament security breach episode that occurred on December 13 and admitted that the Lok Sabha intrusion is a “serious issue”. However, he appealed that instead of launching debate or resistance in the matter, it is necessary to dig deep into the matter […]

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Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh is set to witness a huge rush of pilgrims on January 22 for the grand opening of the Ram Mandir – when a new idol of ‘Ram Lalla’ will be placed in the sanctum sanctorum or ‘garbhagriha’ of the temple. It’s a dream come true for many in the country. People […]

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The MP-MLA Court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur on Saturday summoned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on January 6 in connection with a case in which he has been accused of making certain remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Earlier, the court had summoned Gandhi on December 16 in the case, but he did not appear. The […]

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Days after its drubbing in the Madhya Pradesh elections, the Congress has replaced senior leader and former chief minister Kamal Nath as the state unit chief with other backward class (OBC) leader Jitu Patwari. OBCs account for over 50% of voters in Madhya Pradesh and the selection of Patwari – who lost to a BJP […]

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NEW DELHI: The government has reviewed the steel import situation amid concerns raised by the domestic industry over the increased inward shipments, according to an industry official. Steel players have been raising concerns with various ministries including steel and commerce over the surge in steel imports from select countries like China and Vietnam. The Ministry […]

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Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis has initiated a special investigation team (SIT) probe to look into Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Nitesh Rane’s allegations that a Shiv Sena (UBT) leader from Nashik, Sudhakar Badgujar, hosted a party for Salim Kutta, a member of the Dawood gang convicted for his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts […]

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Adani group has acquired a 50.5 per cent stake in newswire services provider IANS India Pvt Ltd for ₹5.1 lakh, further consolidating its presence in the media sector. The acquisition was done through Adani Enterprises’ subsidiary AMG Media Networks, which signed an agreement with IANS and its shareholder Sandeep Bamzai, an exchange filing late on […]

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NEW DELHI: India will buy crude oil from Venezuela as a number of Indian refineries are equipped to process heavy crudes, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said. With the United States (US) easing sanctions on Caracas in October, India’s imports of Venezuelan oil are set to resume after three years. The minister said that as […]

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Coal demand in India, the world’s second largest consumer of the critical commodity, is expected to rise by 3.5 per cent annually till 2026 topping 1,397 million tonnes (mt), the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday. “India becomes the driving force behind the upward pressure on global coal demand through to 2026, even if […]

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NEW DELHI: The Defence Ministry on Friday inked a contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Pune, for procurement of Electronic Fuzes for the Indian Army for a period of 10 years, at a total cost of Rs 5,336.25 crore. As part of the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ vision, this contract has been signed for ammunition procurement under […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak In a written reply on December 11, 2023 in the Lok Sabah during the current winter session, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment Rameshwar Teli claimed that unemployment rate in the country has a declining trend over the year, obviously to give a political message to the electorate in […]

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By Arun Srivastava Congress having a massive rally in Nagpur to celebrate its foundation day on December 28 is unlikely to have any significant political or electoral bearing on the RSS. Congress was born in Bombay in 1885. But the party leadership chose Nagpur as the venue of celebration for obvious reason to send a […]

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By Harihar Swarup BJP’s top leadership seems to act in unconventional ways. That relates to its unexpected choice of chief ministers in three states, Vishnu Deo Sai in Chattisgarh, Mohan Yadav in Madhya Pradesh and Bhajan Lal Sharma in Rajasthan. To the public at large, and often the know-it-all media, these names could have been […]

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By Sushil Kutty So after all the “jalsas” to crown chief ministers of three states — Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, forget Telangana, it is ‘Congressi’ — a probe has been ordered on the Parliament security breach, with the Modi government’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi telling the country, shamed by a bunch of unemployed […]

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NEW DELHI: India’s goods exports slipped back into contraction in November, recording a fall of 2.83% to $33.9 billion, but a sharp drop in imports narrowed the trade deficit to a three-month low of $20.58 billion, official data showed. Trade deficit had touched an all-time high of $31.5 billion in October on the back of […]

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NEW DELHI: As talks with the European Union (EU) on resolving the dispute around Indian import tariffs on information technology products hit a roadblock, to preempt the adoption of an adverse ruling that had been delivered in the case at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) New Delhi has filed an appeal. India and EU have […]

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NEW DELHI: India will become the world’s third largest economy by 2026 as its GDP in current dollar terms will reach USD 5 trillion in that year and further rise to USD 5.5 trillion in 2027, former Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya said on Friday. Delivering the 18th C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture titled […]

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NEW DELHI: In a first, the Ministry of Mines on Friday directly sanctioned exploration licences to five Notified Private Exploration Agencies (NPEAs) for critical and deep-seated mineral projects. These licensees selected by the Centre sans any auction process would, however, be allowed to participate in the auction of the said minerals, a privilege that was […]

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MUMBAI: Bucking the overall positive market trend, life insurance stocks declined by up to 8 per cent on Friday after the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) proposed a higher surrender value for life insurance companies. In the last two days, the stock of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) slipped by 1 per cent […]

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Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Friday said a high-level probe is on in the Parliament security breach incident, as opposition MPs continued with their protest, demanding a statement on the issue from Home Minister Amit Shah and a discussion in both Houses. Asked about the opposition’s allegation that the Centre is trying to suppress […]

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The Supreme Court on Friday extended the deadline for Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar to decide the cross-petitions filed by the rival factions of the Shiv Sena seeking disqualification of each other’s MLAs from December 31 to January 10 next year. The top court, which granted 10 more days to the speaker, had earlier […]

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A Congress MLA from Karnataka sparked a row after proposing to rename the Mandakalli Airport in Mysuru after the 18th-century ruler Tipu Sultan. “I propose the naming of Mysuru Airport to Tipu Sultan Airport,” Prasad Abbayya, the Hubballi-Dharwad (East) MLA said during a discussion on changing airport names. “For our Hubballi airport, we want to name it […]

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Setting the tone for the 2024 general elections, ruling BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday called upon the party rank and file to effectively counter the misinformation campaign by opposition political parties as they do not have any issue to target the state government. Patnaik said this while presiding over the […]

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NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways has chalked out a plan to purchase new trains worth ₹1 lakh crore over the next few years to cater to the rising demand in the passenger travel segment on the national transporter, Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told ET.The national transporter has spent 70% of the ₹2.4 lakh crore […]

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NEW DELHI: The procurement of goods and services from the government portal GeM is expected to touch Rs 3.5 lakh crore by the end of this fiscal due to higher buying activities by various ministries and departments, a senior government official said. The government e-Market (GeM) portal was launched on August 9, 2016, for online […]

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LONDON: A new GBP 10-million design and manufacturing centre has been created in partnership between Imperial College London and Indian multinational Tata Steel as part of efforts to develop innovative new processes to help decarbonise steel production. The Centre for Innovation in Sustainable Design and Manufacturing is expected to enable the development of high performing […]

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NEW DELHI: As the world moves towards clean energy technologies, the demand for critical minerals is surging. So is their import dependence. Most of these minerals – which help power electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels – are imported from China, which is a leader in global production and supplier of these resources. During […]

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