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By Tirthankar Mitra A fish curry is a meal while macherjhol is a emotion that will find widespread support in West Bengal. Its residents who swear by the taste of hilsa would in all likelihood be foxed by Gujarat’s choice of Ghol as the state fish. Black spotted croaker or ghol is

On the Telangana campaign trail, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in an exclusive chat with Network18, responded to the “panauti” remark by the Congress against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying people will give them a befitting reply. “Whenever they have abused PM Modi…the public has given them an answer by voting for the Bharatiya Janata […]

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AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday expressed confidence that his party would win the assembly polls in the states of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana. Addressing an election rally at LB Nagar here, he urged the electorate to dislodge the BRS government in Telangana. ”Election will be held in Rajasthan tomorrow. We are winning […]

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Trouble seems to be mounting for Mahua Moitra in the cash-for-query row, with the latest report claiming that the Trinamool Congress MP’s Parliament login ID was not just accessed from Dubai, but two other places including ones in the United States. Apart from Dubai, Moitra’s login credentials were used from New Jersey in the US […]

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US President Joe Biden said Friday’s release of a first group of hostages taken by Hamas was just a “start” and that there were “real” chances to extend a temporary truce in Gaza. Speaking to reporters in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where he was spending the Thanksgiving holiday with his family, Biden also said it was time […]

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Amid the reported outbreak of H9N2 cases and clusters of respiratory illness in children in northern China, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital Director Dr Ajay Shukla advised people to be careful, follow routine practices of cleanness and if there’s someone who has got this respiratory illness or infection they should try to maintain distance from other […]

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Rebellions have a way of coming back to haunt. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words at a rally in Rajasthan, where he accused the Congress top leadership of taking revenge against Sachin Pilot because of his father standing up to Sonia Gandhi, stung the party. It also brought back memories of those days in the Congress […]

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The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday held that the previous BJP government’s decision to accord sanction to the CBI to prosecute Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar in a disproportionate assets case against him was not in accordance with law. The Congress government is now expected to issue an order withdrawing the approval given to the […]

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NEW DELHI: The government is likely to ask the next Finance Commission to consider a higher weight for the human development index (HDI) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) while recommending the distribution of resources among states. It may also ask the commission to weave in climate goals in its formula. The government is currently finalizing […]

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NEW DELHI: The Indian economy is likely to post better than anticipated growth in the second quarter (July-September) owing to robust urban consumption and expansion in services, a Business Standard analysis of high-frequency indicators showed. While gross domestic product growth in the September quarter is expected to come below the 7.8 per cent print in […]

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MUMBAI: Private credit may be the buzzword in the investing world, but many bulge bracket investors have remained tight-fisted as far as the Indian markets are concerned. While those like Carlyle, SoftBank and CDPQ, who were exploring an entry into the Indian private credit market, have kept away so far, existing ones such as KKR […]

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NEW DELHI: The government is set to take a slew of measures to contain the stubborn retail food inflation, including through intervention in pulses markets, a senior official said on Thursday. “While the retail intervention in selling pulses is challenging, it is an effective way to curb the possibility of increase in prices,” Rohit Kumar […]

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By Sushil Kutty Who is ‘Panauti’ for which political party will be known on December 3 when votes are counted and the results of the assembly elections are out. And if the 2024 general election favours the INDI-Alliance, the Election Commission, which has issued a show cause notice to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his

By Rahil Nora Chopra Telangana gears up for the assembly polls on November 30, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are rigorously campaigning. The Congress in Telangana has vouched a chain of commitments, including conducting a caste census and raising reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) to 42 […]

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Undeterred by the Election Commission’s show-cause notice to Rahul Gandhi over his “shameful and disgraceful” comments, the Indian National Congress on Friday came up with posters referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as ‘Panauti’, a term associated with bad luck. The poster came in a continuation of Gandhi’s untasteful “PM means Panauti Modi” remark after […]

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In a dig at the BJP, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that India would have won the cricket World Cup if the final match was played in Kolkata or Mumbai. Not stopping there, but without naming anyone, she said “wherever sinners go, they take along their sins”. “The Indian team played […]

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NEW DELHI: India is now set to give preliminary approval to three mega indigenous projects to manufacture another aircraft carrier, 97 more Tejas fighters and 156 Prachand light combat helicopters, which together will be worth around Rs 1.4 lakh crore. The Rajnath Singh-led defence acquisitions council is likely to take up the “acceptance of

By Ashis Biswas As in neighbouring West Bengal, efforts to ensure a one-on-one contest by the INDIA constituents against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls are not going well in Assam , the biggest state in the Northeast with 14 seats. At the national level, parties like the Trinamool

By Girish Linganna After being sworn in as the new president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, 45, has formally asked India to withdraw its military personnel from the Indian Ocean archipelago. This request was made during a meeting between Muizzu and India’s Minister for Earth Sciences, Kiren Rijiju, who was present at Muizzu’s

A Qatar court has accepted India’s appeal against the death penalty to eight former Indian Navy personnel, who were handed the sentence last month in an alleged case of espionage. Sources said that the Qatari court will set a hearing date after examining the appeal. According to reports, the eight men were arrested in August […]

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Amid major row over property tycoon Niranjan Hiranandani’s son Darshan “uploading question for Mahua Moitra to raise in Parliament”, the Lok Sabha has reportedly blocked access of MPs’ aides to the Digital Sansad portal and apps. This won’t let others, except the lawmakers, to submit travel bills, access MPs’ official email or file notices for […]

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Union minister Giriraj Singh has written to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying halal business is a “treason” in a secular democracy like India and advocating a ban on production, storage, distribution and sale of food products with halal certification in Bihar like in Uttar Pradesh. In the letter to the Bihar CM, the BJP MP […]

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday asserted that the Congress will lose from every corner of Rajasthan and the BJP will form the next government in the state. Accusing the Congress government in the state of doing politics of appeasement, he said the public is very troubled by this. At a press conference in […]

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The Congress which came to power in Himachal Pradesh in 2022 by promising “Ten Guarantees” failed to implement them even after one-year of its rule, former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur alleged on Thursday. He also said the BRS led by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao runs the family-led dispensation in the state […]

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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said the government is positive towards addressing demands raised by Marathas and efforts are underway to give reservation to the community. A delegation of the Maratha community met Fadnavis in Pandharpur town of Solapur district where the deputy CM and his wife performed puja at the temple […]

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MUMBAI: Hit by a dearth of big-ticket deals, India’s merger and acquisition (M&A) activities fell 6.24 times to $14.58 billion in calendar year 2023 (YTD), its lowest in the past 12 years. While geopolitical developments have played their part, the deal-making scenario continues to be restrained for the rest of the year. In comparison, the

By Arun Srivastava Trying to arouse the sub regional feeling, exploit the sensibilities of the local people towards Sachin Pilot and more than this to feast on the factional differences at the top in Rajasthan Congress, Vishwaguru Narendra Modi came up with the most nonsensical lie. A master of manipulation and half-truths, Modi claimed that […]

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By Binoy Viswam The greed of the capital along with its market-controlled path of development is making the lives of people more and more miserable. The people are being denied even their basic rights of safe air, water, and landmass. The capitalistic rulers everywhere are doing only lip service to the safety of the people. […]

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MUMBAI: Concentrated borrowing linkages between non-bank financiers and mainstream lenders may pose contagion risks, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das said, pointing to potential sectoral fault lines a week after a concerned regulator sought to restrain the recent runaway growth in unsecured advances and safeguard the broader financial system. “NBFCs (non-banking financial companies) […]

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NEW DELHI: Members of the Government Employees National Confederation (GENC) on Wednesday staged a protest, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, demanding scrapping of the National Pension System (NPS) and restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS). The protest by GENC — affiliated to the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), a trade union backed by the […]

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NEW DELHI: The growth in the country’s NBFC sector is expected to be moderately lower than 16-18 per cent in the current fiscal because of relatively slower expansion on unsecured retail loans due to the recent regulatory measures issued by the RBI, CRISIL Ratings said on Wednesday. Assets Under Management (AUM) of Non-Banking Financial Companies

NEW DELHI: The review of Asean-India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITGA) will start with discussions on making the Rules of Origin (ROO) more comprehensive and detailed, as New Delhi is keen to remove the scope for exporters from third countries to exploit the preferential tariffs, a senior official said. “It is an agreement on trade […]

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By Sushil Kutty Headlines like ‘People ready to defeat BRS’ do not reveal the whole truth. There is a media narrative against Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and the man is media-meat. If the media pronouncements are taken at face value, the BRS has been scalped and laid out to dry. Everybody

By P. Sudhir It has become a crime in New India to observe Children’s Day by remembering the Palestinian children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. This is what happened on November 14 in Mumbai when a few score people, including minor girls, held a silent prayer in Juhu beach. 17 of them were