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By Avikal Somvanshi Every year, post Dussehra, Delhi loses sight of the Sun. There are many factors contributing to these nightmarish levels of air pollution. Weather, geography, local pollution (traffic, industries, etc.), agricultural practices, water security and climate change are the key factors at play. On surface it looks like an insurmountable problem but it […]

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Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday said the draft of the Uniform Civil Code for the state is in its last stage. He said the government is trying to complete the process on a priority basis. “We have already said that as we will get the draft of the UCC committee, whose draft […]

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A day after 22 lakh ’diyas’ illuminated the banks of Saryu River in Ayodhya, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday shared a video on X showing some children taking out oil from lamps at a ghat and filling it in utensils. ”Poverty amid divinity…where poverty forces one to take oil from lamps, the light […]

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Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar felt unwell during a meeting in his hometown Baramati in Maharashtra’s Pune district and has been advised rest by doctors, party sources said. Pawar was on Saturday evening attending a meeting at Vidya Pratishthan, a trust controlled by his family, when he felt unwell and was immediately examined by […]

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday lashed out at the Congress for its minority declaration’ in poll-bound Telangana, claiming that the party is fulfilling the vision of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Muslim League. In an apparent reference to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi without naming him, the BJP leader alleged that those who have appropriated […]

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The air quality in Delhi and nearby cities reached hazardous levels a day after Diwali with the widespread violation of the firecracker ban across the National Capital Region (NCR) on Sunday raising pollution concerns. Most realtime air monitoring platforms this morning pegged the air quality index (AQI) above 500, with some places reaching as high […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak ILO Governing Body concluded its 349th session (30 October – November 9) at its headquarters at Geneva in Switzerland with a number of potentially far-reaching decisions on the future of work. Endorsement of the proposal to establish a Global Coalition for Social Justice and adoption of a new Global Strategy on […]

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By Harihar Swarup In a time marked by political discontent in Jammu and Kashmir, triggered by the loss of statehood and abrogation of Article 370, the BJP is trying to reshape people’s perception of the party. Leading that charge mechanism is a group of highly educated Muslims in —Farida Khan, Darakhan Andrabi, Hina

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The tension between the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government and Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan escalated with the former moving the Supreme court against him for the second time. The Government has accused the Governor of trying to “defeat the rights of the people” of the State by indefinitely sitting on […]

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By Girish Linganna In a significant development toward easing the ongoing conflict in Gaza, a meeting took place on Thursday at an elegant white-domed palace in Qatar. The Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, hosted the spy chiefs of the United States and Israel, namely CIA Director William J. Burns and

Congress leader Manish Tewari on Friday extended support to Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy’s “70 hours per week work” remark and advice that 70 hours a week with one day off and 15 days of vacations in a year should become the norm. The Congress leader’s reaction came days after Murthy stirred a little storm […]

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NEW DELHI: Sanjeev Sanyal, member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, thinks given the strengths of India’s macroeconomic fundamentals, its sovereign rating should be “at least two notches higher” than the current level (lowest investment grade). According to him, by around 2030, Indian rupee will be an international hard currency, since many steps

By Arun Srivastava Having lost hope of winning the assembly elections to the five states and haunted by the ghost of bleak prospect of coming back to power at the centre in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, RSS is seriously contemplating to resort to the design of rousing the sensibility of ultra-nationalism.and foreign bogey Though […]

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By K Raveendran The Supreme Court strictures against the Punjab governor for sitting over the bills passed by the state assembly by questioning the validity of the house session that passed those bills are a verdict against what has come to be regarded as the standard operating practice of the Union home ministry to use

By Tirthankar Mitra Politics makes strange bed fellows. But eyebrows were certainly raised when Subhendu Adhikari, a state leader of BJP which makes no secret of his outfit’s affinity for Hindutva recently spoke of supporting a representative from another political outfit at Lok Sabha constituency of Diamond Harbour to defeat Trinamool Congress’s Abhishek Banerjee. Peopled […]

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By Sushil Kutty The way the lay of the land lies, courts have the last word and among the courts, the Supreme Court. So, it’s a “big victory” for the AAP government and a lesson for the Punjab Governor who had withheld consent to four bills passed by the Punjab assembly while also ruling

The BJP on Friday appointed Vijayendra Yediyurappa, the son of former Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa, its state unit president, a surprise move that underscores the party leadership’s acknowledgement of the veteran Lingayat leader’s enduring influence on its fortunes. Vijayendra, who was elected as an MLA in the assembly polls held earlier this year, […]

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Sachin Pilot on Friday that the Congress will register a win in the coming assembly polls with a higher majority than the party earlier expected. He said he has seen voters’ enthusiasm for Congress during his campaign, and that it is only increasing. “Our election campaign is going on a positive note. The public is […]

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday took exception to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark that Congress sympathises with terrorists, saying he did not expect him to use such language. He said that BJP leaders are making issues out of no issues. Modi had made the remark during an election rally near Udaipur on Thursday […]

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The Bharatiya Janata Party brought down the Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh using money power, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday. The Congress government under Nath, which came to power after the Assembly polls in 2018, collapsed in March 2020 following a revolt by several MLAs loyal to Jyotiraditya Scindia. It paved the […]

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NEW DELHI: India’s industrial growth dropped more than expected in September to 5.8% from a 14-month high of 10.3% in the preceding month, hit by an unfavorable base effect magnified by a shift in the festival calendar. Excess rainfall in September also disrupted output, impacting growth. Economists expect the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) to […]

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NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has solicited public comments on the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023, which, once enacted, will replace the three-decade-old Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act of 1995 (CTN Act). ET first reported on the ministry’s plans to introduce the bill. The bill, which is divided into six chapters, 48 sections […]

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MUMBAI: After a decent show in Samvat 2079, which saw investor wealth surge by Rs 46 trillion, stock market experts are upbeat about the upcoming Samvat 2080. They believe that despite the volatile global landscape owing to ‘higher for longer’ rates, high bond yields, geopolitical conflicts and elevated oil prices, the mood may continue to […]

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NEW DELHI: The Centre is drawing up a plan for the privatisation of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL), also known as Vizag Steel, under which the prospective buyer/s would have to commit to expand its 7 million tonne (MT) plant, an official source said. The capacity scope for

NEW DELHI: India on Thursday put the onus of long-term prosperity of the world oil market on OPEC and called upon the grouping of exporting countries to maintain market stability for the benefit of consumers, producers and global economy. At the 6th meeting of the Indian-OPEC Energy Dialogue in Vienna, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri

Amid mounting concerns over delinquencies, public sector lenders have assured the finance ministry that they do not see any systemic risks emanating from small unsecured loans as their overall exposure remains small. The finance ministry had asked state-run banks to review their small loan portfolios and submit a report detailing the situation. Banks said the […]

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MUMBAI: Global venture capital (VC) investments dipped 5.4 per cent on a quarter-on-quarter (Q-o-Q) basis from $81.4 billion in the second quarter of calendar year 2023 (Q2CY23) to $77 billion in the third quarter of calendar year 2023 (Q3CY23) as VCs remain cautious before closing deals. The number of deals fell from 9,563 in Q2 […]

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NEW DELHI: Strong domestic demand is likely to sustain India’s economy in the near term, said Moody’s on Thursday as it kept the country’s growth forecast for 2023 and 2024 unchanged at 6.7 and 6.1 per cent. “Robust goods and services tax collections, surging auto sales, rising consumer optimism and double-digit credit growth suggest urban

NEW DELHI: After a gap of eight months, India’s goods exports rose for the first time in October, driven by pharma and engineering exports. While official numbers are due to be released on November 15, preliminary data accessed by TOI estimated that exports went up by around 3% over last year’s level of $31.6 billion. […]

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By Ashis Biswas For Bangladesh, an inexorable decline of its economy during the last couple of years has added to the present tensions it faces in its uneasy relationship with the US. This has rendered the position of the ruling Awami League (AL) politically more vulnerable as it continues its pre-election campaign for the 2024 […]

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By Arun Srivastava The Lok Sabha Ethics committee has made Mahua Moitra a martyr. The indiscreet decision proves beyond doubt that the personal and political life of an individual daring to raise an accusing finger towards Narendra Modi and his tycoon friend Gautam Adani would have to face the wrath of the combined establishment. The

By Prabhat Patnaik In an economy like ours where the work-force is not neatly divided into “the employed” and “the unemployed”, and instead there is massive and growing casualisation of work, measuring unemployment is a tricky business. It necessarily means asking a person how much work that person got over a certain period in the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaigns are at peak in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh going to polls on November 17 in the second phase, and only five days are left for the chief contestants – the Congress and the BJP. As of now, Congress seems to be maintaining its lead in both the states. BJP […]

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The Lokpal has ordered a CBI probe into the “cash for query” row involving Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra, said BJP lawmaker from Jharkhand, Nishikant Dubey. Dubey on Saturday said that he has filed a complaint with the Lokpal—a body to probe corruption cases against public servants including legislators. लोकपाल ने आज मेरे कम्प्लेन पर आरोपी […]

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