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The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu on a plea by the Andhra Pradesh government against a high court order granting regular bail to him in the skill development corporation scam case. A bench of justices Bela M Trivedi and SC Sharma issued notice to Naidu and directed […]

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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray (Left), Eknath Shinde on Tuesday hit out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde over his visit to neighbouring Telangana for poll campaigning amid losses faced by farmers in his home state due to unseasonal rains. Addressing a news conference, Thackeray demanded that a cabinet meeting be held immediately to […]

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Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was on Tuesday suspended for the entire winter session of the West Bengal Assembly for making ”objectionable remarks” against Speaker Biman Banerjee. The suspension happened during a discussion on ’Constitution Day’ in the state assembly. A resolution under Rule 169 was tabled in the assembly to discuss ”how the Constitution […]

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Even as deliberations are on to finalise the appointment of Congress legislators and workers to key positions in various state-run boards and corporations, there seem to some differences among leaders over the process, with Home Minister G Parameshwara openly saying he was not consulted. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, however, tried to clarify, saying that no leader […]

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Rescuers have pulled out all 41 workers trapped for 17 days inside a collapsed Uttarakhand tunnel after rat miners drilled through the debris, triggering jubilation. The focus will now be on what led to the collapse and why the rescue took so long. The 41 workers were pulled out yesterday after a 17-day rescue operation […]

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A Delhi court has allowed Karnataka deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar, accused in a money laundering case, to travel abroad. Special Judge Vikas Dhull allowed Congress member Shivakumar to travel to Dubai from November 29 to December 3 on an application moved by him. The application claimed that he was invited by His Excellency […]

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A political row erupted after the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government decided to slash the holidays for the state’s schools on the occasion of Hindu festivals while increasing them for Muslim festivals. The Bihar education department on Monday issued the holiday calendar for 2024 with fewer leaves and said the chart has been created to ensure […]

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The Congress on Monday slammed the BRS over the EC’s withdrawal of permission to the Telangana government for disbursements of financial aid to farmers under the Rythu Bandhu Scheme, alleging that those ruling the state, in their desperation to hang onto power, have ended up denying what is owed to farmers. The Congress also said […]

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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday continued to accuse Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of ”trying to mislead the public” about the alleged neglect shown by the central government towards the southern state. The CM had on Sunday charged Sitharaman with trying to mislead the public through her claims of timely disbursement of required […]

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The BJP has once again gone to the Election Commission of India, complaining against the Congress. The party has knocked on the doors of the poll body due to an advertisement by the Congress-ruled Karnataka government in Telangana edition dailies, which are circulated in poll-bound state, demanding criminal proceedings against Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah. Projecting […]

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MUMBAI: The banking sector is expected to witness rise in co-lending deals between Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and banks after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das asked shadow banks to reduce their over-dependence on bank funding. Smaller and mid-size NBFCs will prefer co-lending as funds sourced through banks will be cheaper than […]

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By Anjan Roy China’s is staring in the face of a possible financial sector crisis, with its largest privately owned non-banking financial company unable to meet its obligations. Zhongzhi financial company, having widespread exposure to China’s real estate sector, has failed to honour its obligations to its investors and defaulted. As such, the bankruptcy of […]

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By Arun Srivastava As the exit polls of the four states, where the elections to the assemblies were held this month, send a distressing signal that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personality cult, that was painstakingly built over the last nine and half years by the RSS and its frontal organs, has failed to

By Girish Linganna Ever since militant group Hamas’s most audacious attack ever to be launched from Gaza blindsided Israel on October 7 this year, people have been questioning who the brains are behind masterminding this deadly strike. Notwithstanding their varied and checkered backgrounds and antecedents, they all have one thing in common: They are all […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra It is a morning knock but is no less sinister than a midnight one as Dublin microbiologist Eilish Stack comes face to face with state’s totalitarianism as powers that seek to interrogate her trade unionist husband Larry. It is in this way Paul Lynch, an Irish author begins the book

NEW DELHI: S&P Global Ratings on Monday revised India’s economic growth forecast for this financial year to 6.4%, up from 6% projected earlier, bringing it closer to the Reserve Bank of India’s estimate of 6.5%. “We have revised up our projection for India’s GDP (gross domestic product) growth for fiscal 2024 (ending in March 2024) […]

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NEW DELHI: Exports of engineering products from India witnessed growth from countries such as the US, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during October but contracted from several nations in the European Union (EU), China, and Southeast Asia, according to government data. After a slump during the first half of this year, India’s

NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will continue to work with Apple to break the deadlock in talks over introducing its Do Not Disturb (DND) application (app) to Apple’s iOS Store, senior officials have said. The iPhone maker removed the app from its app store in September last year over privacy concerns, […]

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NEW DELHI: Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, which is a contract manufacturer for iPhones, on Monday said its subsidiary Foxconn Hon Hai Technology India Mega Development, has planned $1.6 billion investment in India. The planned outlay by the company is related to certain construction projects at its own land, according to an exchange filing […]

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NEW DELHI: The 16th Finance Commission will have a tough task, primarily because the mismatch between the resource mobilisation by the Centre and state governments and the rising requirements of spending of public monies on socio-economic development and critical infrastructure creation refuses to go away. In this context and keeping in mind the sustainable development

By Nantoo Banerjee The announcement of a prisoner swap deal between warring Hamas and Israel mediated by Qatar and Egypt and agreed by Israel, Hamas and the United States may have led to a temporary armistice in the region and selective exchange of captives from both the sides , the issue of a viable state […]

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By Kalyani Shankar As the Telangana elections approach their final week, the youngest state in India is ready for a Triangular electoral contest. The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (B.R.S.), Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) compete for victory. Since its inception in 2014, B.R.S. chief K. Chandrashekhar Rao has been at the

By Sushil Kutty Telangana votes on November 30. Two days later votes cast will be counted and by afternoon of the same day, which party will be ruling Telangana would be known. If it is the Bharatiya Janata Party, the party has promised an Other Backward Caste Chief Minister. The party will also

By Arun Srivastava It would be presumptuous to say that the elections to the five-state assemblies are a semi-final clatter for Prime Minister Narendra Modi; but one thing is certain that the peoples’ verdict for these elections will outline the political future of Rahul Gandhi. A negative mandate will certainly erode the credibility and image […]

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The Election Commission (EC) has issued an ‘advisory’ to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for his controversial remarks against the state’s Congress leadership. Ahead of the Telangana Assembly polls scheduled in the upcoming week, the CM was asked to follow the provisions of the Model Code of Conduct in “letter and spirit”. Rao had made […]

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MUMBAI | NEW DELHI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) decision to create a regulatory framework for the facilitation of small and medium real estate investment trusts (SM REITs) is expected to boost participation of retail investors, institutionalise the segment, and encourage greater capital influx from both domestic and offshore investors. The establishment […]

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NEW DELHI: Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, may stabilise around 4% in January with a limited scope for further decline as prices continue to be sticky in certain service sectors, according to economists. A higher core is likely to keep retail inflation from declining significantly, they say. Core inflation eased to […]

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BENGALURU: New York-based artificial intelligence and robotics firm BRAIIN Holdings is entering the Indian market and has acquired prominent CXaaS (customer experience-as-a-service) company Exato.ai which serves as a strategic foundation for its operations in India. With this acquisition, the company has bolstered its presence in the customer and employee experience as a service sector along

NEW DELHI: The Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) is expected to finalise crucial amendments to regulations – from those seeking to make life simpler for home buyers to those for personal and companies’ insolvency proceedings, insolvency professionals and liquidation – next month as it seeks to improve the seven-year-old regime and improve its […]

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Four days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Mathura, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday alleged the SP does not want to build the Shri Krishna temple and challenged the party chief Akhilesh Yadav to clarify his stand. ”The SP, which is shedding the blood of Hindus for the sake […]

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Union Minister Amit Shah on Sunday alleged that a deal has been done between the ruling BRS in Telangana and Congress to make K Chandrasekhar Rao as chief minister again and that he would later help Rahul Gandhi to become prime minister. Shah, who addressed an election rally at Makthal, said if a vote is […]

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  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said his party punctured all four tyres of the BJP in poll-bound Telangana and shall do it in Delhi soon. Addressing poll rallies in Telangana, he said BRS chief Chandrasekhar Rao should realise that it was the Congress that built the school and university in which he studied. […]

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In a major development in the Mahadev betting app probe, one of the key witnesses against Bhupesh Baghel has given a clean chit to the Chhattisgarh chief minister. Asim Das, a driver arrested in the case, retracted his statement against Baghel in a letter to the PMLA court in Raipur. He said he is being […]

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By K Raveendran Irrespective of the outcome of the batch of petitions in the Supreme Court against the SEBI investigations into the charges levelled by US-based short-selling firm Hindenburg Research against the Adani group of companies regarding violations of stock market regulation, it is most likely that short selling would emerge as the villain