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The net Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India, declined sharply in April-August 2023 to $2.99 billion from $18.03 billion in April-August 2022 due to moderation in global investment activity and a rise in repatriation. Reserve Bank of India’s data (October 2023 bulletin) said FDI in India was $7.28 billion and FDI by India, that is, […]

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Apple is yet to refresh its 2021 24-inch iMac, with the company widely speculated to be working on the follow-up. Industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo had said last week that he expected the Cupertino, California-based company to unveil a new 24-inch iMac next year. A new report, however,

NEW DELHI: The Small and medium enterprises (SME) IPOs have been performing exceptionally well in the share market. The reasons are the strong participation from High Net Worth Individuals (HNIs), liquidity in the market and the positive outlook of the investors. As per the data provided by PrimeDatabase.com, various units have raised Rs

NEW DELHI: India’s 5G rollout speed may be one of the fastest in the world in just a year of  launch. But where the country is falling behind is in the adoption of private captive networks by its enterprises. India lags behind the US, Japan, Germany, UK and China,  among other geographies, on this parameter, […]

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Nationalist Congress Party MLA Rohit Pawar on Sunday alleged 26 works at under-construction government hospitals in Maharashtra were lying incomplete due to stoppage of funds by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on the orders of Devendra Fadnavis who wants to “control” his colleague. These include under-construction hospitals in his constituency Karjat-Jamkhed, alleged Pawar, who is […]

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Just ahead of the five state assembly elections and less than a year before the Lok Sabha elections, thanks to a letter by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has resurrected an issue that has so far only embarrassed the Congress. In the four-page letter, Kharge sought […]

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The BJP’s central disciplinary committee has revoked the suspension of its Telangana MLA T Raja Singh, who was suspended by the party in August last year for his controversial remarks against Prophet Mohammed. Raja Singh was the only BJP candidate to be elected MLA from Telangana in 2018. Subsequently, two more MLAs, Raghunandan from Dubbak […]

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By K R Sudhaman All is not well with India’s exports this financial year and the global uncertainties has made matters worse when one reads between the lines the data of exports of goods and services in the first half of this financial year 2023-24. This meant that India’s dream of achieving $ 1

By Arif Ayaz Parrey and Gursimran Kaur Bakshi Today is Day 14 of the latest flare-up in the Israel–Palestine conflict. During this fortnight, the internet has been flooded with images and videos of flattened buildings and neighbourhoods, rockets being intercepted mid-flight, gunfights, people fleeing bombings, and injured and dead babies— so many images of dead […]

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By James M Dorsey Israel will likely win the Gaza war on the battlefield. Even so, it has already been defeated in the court of public opinion. It no longer really matters who attacked Gaza’s Al Ahli Arab Hospital in which hundreds of innocent civilians were killed or the Greek Orthodox Saint

By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON—Playing the part of classic Cold Warrior in his Thursday night Oval Office speech, President Joe Biden made a sales pitch for a permanent war economy, using democracy as a prop to convince the American people that he needed $105 billion to spend on weapons for Israel, Ukraine, and—unmentioned in his remarks—Taiwan. […]

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  BJP’s Vidyadhar Nagar seat candidate and Rajsamand MP, Diya Kumari, has told News18 that she respects Vasundhara Raje “greatly”, and it was she who brought her into the party, accusing the opposition of creating rumours of her alleged rivalry with the former BJP chief minister. News18 on Saturday caught up with Diya Kumari, who […]

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The Congress high command has firmly snubbed state party leaders from issuing statements regarding seat sharing among INDIA bloc members in Uttar Pradesh, said sources on Sunday. The move comes after the SP leaders took a strong view of statements being issued by UP Congress leaders, and the SP president even accused the Congress of […]

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat drew a comparison with Hinduism in India while commenting on the ongoing war between Israel and militant group Hamas. Hinduism respects all sects and India has never seen a conflict like the one in Israel, he said. Bhagwat on Saturday was speaking at a school programme in Maharashtra’s […]

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Supporters of BJP aspirants who failed to make it to the fifth list of the candidates for the next month’s Madhya Pradesh assembly elections created a ruckus in front of Union Minister Bhupender Yadav in the party office at Jabalpur on Saturday evening. Superintendent of Police AP Singh said three persons have been arrested on […]

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The opposition BJP in Chhattisgarh has filed a complaint with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in Raipur seeking action against 83 Congress candidates, claiming they have not furnished their criminal record details to the Election Commission within 48 hours of their selection. The Congress, however, claimed the BJP was levelling false allegations against the ruling […]

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NEW DELHI: Slamming the US, the European Union, Japan, Australia and Brazil, which are seeking to limit spending on procurement of rice and wheat by agencies such as FCI, India has asked them to shed their “arrogance” and agree to reforming the global trade regime, as its public procurement scheme had helped feed a large […]

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The lift-off of the Gaganyaan mission’s unmanned test flight, TV-D1, successfully took place today after initial hiccups. Test Vehicle D1 mission was launched for a lift-off from the first launch pad from Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota at 10:00 am. The brief test flight sequence launched the crew escape system and crew module at an altitude of […]

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has ordered nine Shiv Sena ministers to hold a ‘Janta Darbar’ at Shiv Sena Balasaheb Bhavan for five days a week to resolve the problems of the poor related to agriculture, any ministry or at the village or taluka-level. Apart from the orders, Shinde also issued a schedule for the […]

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NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday that the government is looking at reducing its debt burden further and has already resorted to prudent spending by resisting the temptation of fiscal profligacy, especially after the pandemic, to avoid burdening future generations. In her inaugural speech at the Kautilya Economic Conclave 2023 in the […]

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NEW DELHI: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das said interest rates will stay high, without offering any indication of when softening could start. Monetary policy must remain “actively disinflationary” to ensure the decline in retail inflation in recent months continues smoothly, Das said. “Interest rates will remain high. How long they will remain […]

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KOLKATA: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to hold repo rates steady for a long period as easing of core inflation and high real interest rates provide comfort, but frequent volatility in food prices – albeit transient – requires monetary policy makers to be vigilant, according to the minutes of the monetary policy […]

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India is rejecting pressure from Russian oil suppliers to pay for crude imports in the Chinese currency as tensions between New Delhi and Beijing continue to simmer. Some Russian oil suppliers are demanding payment in yuan, according to a senior Indian official directly involved in the negotiations and another senior person at a state-owned

By K Raveendran With signs of a wider conflict in the Middle East becoming stronger by the day, oil market analysts are keeping their fingers crossed over how the evolving scenario is going to shape the future of oil as well as the global economy. As Israel pushes ahead with its Gaza action, bombing

By Nilanjan Banik Joseph Campbell, author of “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” and scholar on comparative religions, once recounted a Japanese story. A samurai hunted down his master’s killer and was about to decapitate him when the assassin spat in the samurai’s face. The enraged samurai immediately returned his sword to the sheath and […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The decision of increasing minimum wages of unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled workers in the National Capital Territory of Delhi followed by strong criticism by Workers Unions have brought the issue of unprecedented suffering of unorganized workers again in focus. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led Delhi government has decided to increase the […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when Calcutta as it was known then glorified itself in the title of ,”City of Palaces” owing to majestic buildings be it offices or grandees’ mansions dotting it. Lamenting those glorious gone by days when merchant princes from the city ran the economy of the country and beyond stop

The spat between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress over the seat-sharing arrangement in Madhya Pradesh on Friday turned worse when MP Congress President Kamal Nath gave a snappy response to a media query about Akhilesh Yadav. On being asked about SP’s allegations of betrayal over seat-sharing, Kamal Nath said, “Are bhai chhodo Akhilesh Vakhilesh […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present at the BJP headquarters on Friday evening where discussions on tickets for the upcoming state elections of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Telangana took place in the presence of leaders from all three states and members of the Central Election Committee (CEC). Sources present in the meeting told News18 that […]

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Targeting the Congress on corruption, the BJP on Friday released the ATM Sarkara Collection Tree poster accusing the government of using Karnataka as the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) to fund Parliamentary polls and the forthcoming assembly elections in five states. The poster has pictures of Congress MP and former party president Rahul Gandhi on the […]

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BRS President Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has expressed confidence that his party would emerge victorious in the upcoming assembly elections, securing between 95 and 105 seats in the 119-member house. He was speaking at an extensive constituency-level BRS meeting in Gajwel, which he represents in the legislative assembly, on Friday. Stating that although Telangana’s […]

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Last weekend, more than 20,000 Mumbai residents gathered at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel stadium over three days to attend an event, which was so popular that the police had to erect barricades to prevent more fans from getting in. This wasn’t a concert featuring Bollywood stars or a stand-up gig. Instead, it was a first […]

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NEW DELHI: The Chinese yuan has surpassed the euro to become the world’s second-most used currency in SWIFT trade settlements, according to data from the international SWIFT system. This marks a significant milestone in China’s efforts to internationalise its currency. As of September 2023, the yuan accounted for 5.8% of international payments, up

NEW DELHI: CBRE South Asia, the real estate consulting firm, recently announced the findings of its latest report, ‘India Market Monitor Q3 2023’. The report highlighted the growth trends and dynamics across the real estate sector in India. In terms of cities, Bangalore, Delhi-NCR, and Pune collectively accounted for a share