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NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Defence on Friday signed a contract worth Rs 588.68 crore with state-owned Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) for a digital project of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG), which would enable centralised monitoring and management of deployed applications and assets. The “Digital Coast Guard (DCG)“ project was inked under the Buy […]

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By Sushil Kutty Delay in picking Chief Ministers for Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan is telling on the mental agility of claimants for the post in all three states. Look at outgoing Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan who can’t stand in one spot for more than an hour at a piece. He is all […]

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By Harihar Swarup Finally, somebody has politically owned him—Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the 7th Prime Minister of India. Though he changed the course of Indian politics, and unleashed forces leading irreversibly to the rise and rise of OBCs, a process that is likely to influence the 2024 elections, the Mandal messiah, as “VP” was popularly called, […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak December 10, 2023 is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and ILO Convention 87, yet we are far from achieving human dignity, freedom, and social justice for all, especially for the entire workforce. Intensified efforts to promote and protect the human and labour rights is thus imperative […]

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By Arun Srivastava The cat phrase “Modi Hai to Mumkin Hai” was proved correct by none else but Narendra Modi himself when he succeeded in his mission to have Mahua Moitra of TMC expelled from Lok Sabha by manipulating the parliamentary procedures and practices. In the history of the parliamentary politics this was for the […]

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Days after facing defeat in the recently concluded Assembly polls, the Congress party on Friday conducted separate review meetings over its dismal performance in Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh, and said that its defeat in the two states at the hands of the BJP was unexpected. The meeting was chaired by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge at […]

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Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra’s expulsion from Lok Sabha following an Ethics Committee report into the ‘cash for query’ charges against her has given much-needed ammunition to her party to raise the issue in the run-up to the 2024 polls. On Friday, as Moitra made her way out of Parliament, not just TMC MPs but […]

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Telangana BJP legislator T Raja Singh has refused to be administered his oath by AIMIM’s Akbaruddin Owaisi, who was appointed by the protem speaker of the state assembly. Singh, who won from Goshamahal in last month’s assembly elections, said none of the BJP lawmakers would take oath. In a video message, he said he would […]

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MUMBAI: The life insurance industry reported a 25.28 per cent decline in new business premium income in November 2023 to Rs 26,494.83 crore from Rs 34,588.8 crore recorded a year ago. The fall in group premium and change in taxation norms for policies with a higher ticket size dragged the premiums of the state-run Life […]

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MUMBAI: Private sector banks have increased their share in term deposits to 35 per cent in the second quarter (Q2) of 2023-24 (FY24), up from 32 per cent in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2022-23 (FY23). In contrast, public sector banks (PSBs) lost 200 basis points (bps) of their share in fixed deposits (FDs), declining […]

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NEW DELHI: Hiring activity for white-collar jobs witnessed a 12 per cent on-year decline during October-November largely due to fall in recruitment trends in IT-Software, telecom and education sectors, a report said on Thursday. White-collar recruitment during October-November declined by 12 per cent with 2,433 job postings, compared to 2,781 during the corresponding months in […]

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NEW DELHI: India continues to be the fastest-growing major economy, with all sectors contributing significantly, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Thursday. She flagged India’s manufacturing growth, citing India’s mobile phone and passenger vehicle exports. “The second-quarter growth was very high — it is the highest in the world,” Sitharaman said, replying to a short-duration discussion […]

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NEW DELHI: Amid lingering concerns that the much-delayed private capex cycle may not have taken root yet, Corporate India on Thursday said with capacity utilisation in many sectors being 75-80% if not higher, a strong momentum in private investments was firmly around the corner. Pointing out that fresh investments have already started in many sectors, […]

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NEW DELHI: A series of steps are being taken by the government to curb retail food inflation. The Union food ministry on Thursday directed all sugar mills and distilleries to stop using sugarcane juice for the production of ethanol for the 2023-24 season, to ensure an adequate supply of sweetener for domestic consumption and prevent […]

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By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the BJP victories in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were because of ‘team spirit’ in the Bharatiya Janata Party. Is that so, who is the Prime Minister fooling? Team spirit is the last thing in the saffron party. Team spirit goes for a toss when everything that […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra The race has begun on who will be chosen as the I.N.D.I.A. bloc’s joint Prime Ministerial candidate. The JD(U) has repeated its demand to project Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the PM face of the INDIA bloc against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Nitish has […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Making no secret of any love being lost for each other, Trinamool Congress seeks to upstage BJP on what the saffron camp considers to be its sole preserve – religion. An outfit stated to be close to the ruling dispensation of West Bengal has planned to organise a Chandi Path programme days […]

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MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India on Friday decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent for the fifth time in a row as it maintains a tight vigil on inflation. The rate increase cycle was paused in April after six consecutive rate hikes, aggregating to 250 basis points since May 2022. […]

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NEW DELHI: India has the potential to grow at 8 per cent as the country is labour-rich with enough institutional maturity of a functioning democracy, Niti Aayog vice chairman Suman Bery said on Thursday. Bery also cautioned that North India has not been doing well traditionally compared to South India, and this can create tensions […]

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NEW DELHI: The government has banned exports of onion till March next year with a view to increase domestic availability and to keep prices in check. “Export policy of onions… Is amended from free to prohibited till March 31, 2024,” the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said in a notification. Local vendors in the […]

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NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday ruled out any “spectacular announcement” for her sixth budget on February 1 next year, saying it would just be a vote on account before the general elections. A full Budget for the 2024-25 fiscal would be presented in July next year by the new government elected after […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Being the main opposition party in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is on the driving seat of INDIA bloc. Much significance is being attached to the statement of Akhilesh Yadav that INDIA got more strength after recent assembly polls. Irrespective of poor performance in assembly polls by the […]

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If going to temples leads to our people being murdered, if touching idols leads to our people being killed, then we should stop going to such places, AAP MLA and former minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said at an event of the Scheduled Caste community organised by the Guru Ravidas Manav Kalyan Samiti in Haryana’s Sonepat. […]

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In view of its defeat in the recently concluded Assembly elections, the Congress party is set to hold a meeting on Friday to review its poll performance in three states – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. The meeting will be chaired by party president Mallikarjun Kharge, while central leadership and state leaders are also expected […]

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The ruling alliance in Maharashtra seems to be under strain after NCP leader Nawab Malik sat on the treasury bench in the House on Thursday. Expressing his opposition, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis wrote to his cabinet colleague Ajit Pawar that it will not be appropriate to make the out-on-bail Malik a part of […]

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BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri expressed regret for his objectionable remarks against BSP’s Danish Ali on Thursday at a meeting of the Lok Sabha Privileges Committee, which heard both leaders separately. Sources said that Bidhuri noted that senior BJP leader and Union minister Rajnath Singh had conveyed his apology in the House on September 21 while […]

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Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra has been expelled from the Parliament after Ethics Panel’s recommendation over cash-for-query row. Opposition INDIA bloc leaders questioned the Lok Sabha Ethics Panel recommendation for expelling Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, and accused the BJP-led government of doing “vendetta politics”. The report was tabled in the Lok Sabha today amid an uproar […]

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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday sought approval of Parliament for gross additional spending of Rs 1.29 trillion including Rs 14,524 crore for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) and Rs 13,351 crore for fertiliser subsidy. “Approval of Parliament is sought to authorise gross additional expenditure of Rs 1,29,348.85 crore. Of this, the […]

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MUMBAI: The RBI’s high-powered rate setting panel on Wednesday began its 3-day brainstorming on the next set of bi-monthly monetary policy amid expectation of continued pause on the short-term key lending rate as GDP growth is gaining momentum, and inflation manageable. RBI left the benchmark policy rate (repo) unchanged in its past four bi-monthly monetary […]

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NEW DELHI: The Centre has amended the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Rules to allow demarcation of a portion of the built-up area in an IT/ITES SEZ as a non-processing area, subject to conditions including repayment of tax concessions attributable to the area. “A non-processing area may be used for setting up and operation of businesses […]

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MUMBAI: India is seen as a rising star among Asian peers, besides Indonesia and the Philippines, and is expected to be among the fastest growing economies in the region in 2024, Nomura said on Wednesday. India’s GDP, Numura believes, will expand at 5.7% in 2024. The projection reinforces the popular view of a pause in […]

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NEW DELHI: The next spectrum auction will be held in late February 2024 and the reserve price for most bands will remain the same as the 2022 auction, department of telecommunications (DoT) officials have said. The government expects operators to go for low bands beginning in 600 megahertz (MHz), licences for many of which are […]

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NEW DELHI: In a development that will deepen India’s local value addition in the mobile and electronics manufacturing chain, Apple has asked its suppliers to make batteries for its forthcoming iPhone 16 domestically. This is part of the company’s plans to shift its global supply chain out of China. According to a Financial Times report, […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Four days after the declaration of the state assembly poll results, a close analysis shows that the Congress has not done so badly in the three Hindi heartland states- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh as is being presented in the national media. In fact compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the […]

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