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By Debabrata Biswas from Boston, USA After eighteen days of the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, the return onslaught against Gaza strip continues. The Hamas attack resulted in the killing of 1400 Israelis and abducting of more than 200 others, leading the Israeli govt. to declare war on the Palestinians in Gaza and even

By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat does not enjoy the dubious reputation of speaking lies. But on Dussehra, in his annual sermon, when he tried to dig out the ghost of the “foreign powers” for putting the blame for the unabated six-month-long violence in Manipur, one could not hide the shock at Bhagwat not […]

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By K Raveendran Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has added a new dimension to the current debate on caste-based reservation by stressing the need to advance from the accommodative aspect of the reservation policy as it is practised today to one where reservation would be a tool for empowerment. Justice Chandrachud did not […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak On a sacred religious occasion of Dussehra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, played a vicious game of communal politics, when he expressed his diagnosis on social disharmony alleging ‘casteism’ and ‘regionalism’ as the causes, but not even mentioning the hate speeches based on religious bias and communalism. He was grossly wrong on […]

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Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Tuesday said if voted to power in the assembly elections, the Congress will revive the project to construct Sitamata temple in Sri Lanka even as he made a string of promises mostly concerning Hindu community. He also said the new government will be committed to the upliftment of […]

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The Dussehra rally of the Shiv Sena is considered the occasion when the party chief makes the political line clear for the workers, asking them to take it to the villages of Maharashtra. In the 57th rally, the second after the split in the Shiv Sena and the first after losing the party name and […]

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Madhya Pradesh minister Govind Singh Rajput has been booked for “violation of Mode Code of Conduct” in force in the state for the assembly elections next month. This came after Congress alleged that he “openly and blatantly offered to pay Rs 25 lakh” to the booth where most votes are cast in favour of the […]

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  Leaving nothing to chance, the BJP has dropped quite a big chunk of its MLAs for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. The reason being anti-incumbency and low approval ratings of the leaders in their constituencies found by surveys. The party removed nearly 29 MLAs, including three state ministers, from the fifth list of […]

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NEW DELHI: India’s commitment to become a major global manufacturing hub is reinforced as the sector witnesses a 36% increase in job postings, as unveiled by Indeed, a global matching and hiring platform. Recent data by Indeed also indicated that production/manufacturing continues to remain one of the most hired functional areas in the past year. […]

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The department of telecommunications (DoT) has given an additional two months’ time to telecom operators for complying with the new SIM card sale rules that were notified by the government in August, according to officials aware of the matter. The new rules that required telcos to register SIM card sellers and conduct their

India is “most likely” to adopt the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Pillar-One and Pillar-Two tax package and bring it into effect from April 2025, a government official said. “Once India implements the two-pillar tax package, it will have to withdraw the equalisation levy (EL), which earned the government a revenue of about […]

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Mobile data service revenue is expected to grow at CAGR 8.1% over 2022-2027, even as mobile voice revenue drops on the back of users increasingly shifting to over-the-top (OTT) communications platforms, data and analytics firm GlobalData said in its India Telecom Operators Country Intelligence Report Tuesday. The total telecom and pay-TV services revenue in India

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has drawn a parallel between the terrorist attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba in Mumbai and Hamas in Israel, emphasising that all acts of terrorism are “unlawful and unjustifiable.” Speaking at the United States Security Council ministerial meeting regarding the situation in the Middle East, following the October 7 attack on Israel […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Discontent among the BJP leaders denied party tickets to contest Vidhan Sabha election in Madhya Pradesh and their supporters in the party’s rank and file is slowly acquiring dangerous dimension, a situation which is potentially frustrating for the BJP’s state and Central leaderships, particularly the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Congress was booted out in 2018 assembly polls.. And now it is harbouring hopes to make a return. The ruling Mizo National Front and the opposition Zoram People’s Movement haven’t given up hope, though. The BJP in Mizoram has to contend with the sordid happenings in neighbouring Manipur. The

By Girish Linganna Israel confronts significant dangers while gearing up for an extensive ground incursion into Gaza. A far-reaching mission by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) within the coastal territory is very likely to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis and lead to more civilian casualties. It also jeopardizes the lives of Israeli soldiers, potentially swaying global […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The cryptocurrency market is going through a prolonged winter, and very few things seem to be going in its favor, especially from the point of view of dramatic rise in prices and sky-high valuations of crypto coins. However, the cryptocurrency space is witnessing developments of far-reaching significance. For example, the United […]

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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday batted for a “caste census” on the lines of the one conducted in Bihar by the Nitish Kumar government and said such a move will help find the exact population of all communities so that proportionate benefits can be given accordingly. Addressing a public meeting in Madha […]

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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday criticised the circulation of his cropped images with Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra and called it an act of “cheap, low-level politics.” Shashi Tharoor while responding to media in Kottayam about the online trolls related to his pictures with MP Mahua Moitra said, “This is seriously low-level politics” […]

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AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make efforts to see that a humanitarian corridor is opened in Gaza so that people can get relief and a ceasefire announced. He spoke to reporters after addressing a public meeting on Monday night organised at the AIMIM headquarters here “in protest against […]

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Some assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh are set to see an electoral fight among members of the same family albeit with different political backgrounds with the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress giving tickets to relatives, making them take on each other in quest for power. Brothers, uncle-nephew, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law, all […]

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Calling Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat a coward, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday said if he claims to be innocent in the alleged Sanjivani scam, why has he moved court against his arrest, and asked that the police be barred from filing a chargesheet in the case. Speaking to the media in Jodhpur […]

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NEW DELHI: India has settled international trade worth over $2.5 billion in rupee after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) facilitated this in July last year, according to a senior official. Much of the trade settlement in rupee has been with Russia, Sri Lanka and three-four other countries, he said. Though this shows a pick-up […]

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NEW DELHI: Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have withdrawn over Rs 12,000 crore from Indian equities this month so far, mainly due to a sustained rise in US bond yields and the uncertain environment resulting from the Israel-Hamas conflict. However, the story takes an intriguing turn on observing FPI activity in Indian

By Nitya Chakraborty The Hamas-Israeli war entered its seventeenth day on Monday indicating all the potential of the limited conflict engulfing the entire West Asian region if the global powers, especially the United States President Joe Biden does not persuade his friend Israeli:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare ceasefire immediately to stop the killing of […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The recommendation of the international proxy advisory firm, Institutional Shareholders Services (ISS), asking shareholders to vote against the proposal of 28-year-old Anant, the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, for appointment on the board of Rs.9.75 lakh crore Reliance Industries may not look entirely unjust. Few will deny that Anant is too

By Satyaki Chakraborty In a major development in Latin American politics, defying all opinion poll projections, the candidate of the ruling centre left Peronist coalition Sergio Massa trounced the far right challenger Javier Milei in the first round of Presidential elections held on Sunday, October 22. Since no candidate out of the contesting five got […]

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By Harihar Swarup As the conflict between Israel and Hamas intensifies and the horrifying scale of the October 7 attack on civilians emerges, there is a growing disquiet in a section of the Congress about the working committee resolution that did not mention Hamas or condemn the terror attack . In fact, the first step […]

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MUMBAI: Small loans may turn out to be a big worry for banks. Some lenders are seeing stress rise in small-ticket unsecured personal loans as borrowers with low incomes find it hard to repay dues. RBI has flagged concerns over an increase in unsecured loans. While Yes Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank said delinquencies are […]

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MUMBAI: The initial trend in the second quarter results season is along anticipated lines with double-digit growth in net profit helped by a low base in the year-ago period and a stellar performance by banking and finance companies, offsetting a muted show by software exporters. For a sample of 219 companies, aggregate net profit grew […]

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NEW DELHI: Several multinational companies headquartered in the Netherlands, Switzerland and France could be staring at retrospective tax demands for close to ₹11,000 crore on dividend income repatriated from India, following a Supreme Court ruling last week. The Supreme Court said on Thursday that the lower 5% withholding tax on dividend income of companies was

NEW DELHI: Senior officials from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries are meeting in Geneva from Monday to lay the groundwork for the next ministerial conference of the global trade regulating body which will involve reviewing the status of progress on the decisions of the previous ministerial conference and reforms in the global trade […]

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that the government’s recent orders asking officials to “showcase” the achievements of the last nine years was “politicisation” of the bureaucracy and demanded their withdrawal. In his letter, Kharge objected to the government order issued on October 18 which, he claimed, stated […]

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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has gone on an announcement spree this election season and is even promising a bridge where there is no river, claimed state Congress president Kamal Nath on Sunday. The BJP-governed MP will go to polls on November 17 and votes will be counted on December 3. “Shivraj Singh […]

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