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NEW DELHI: India and the UK will likely sign an agreement in early February to spurt flow of London-based patient capital funds the burgeoning infrastructure sector of the world’s fifth largest economy. India is aiming for $5-10 billion inflows in the initial phase to establish a proof of concept in project financing for investors to […]

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NEW DELHI: The government has halved the amount of equity infusion in state-owned fuel retailers to Rs 15,000 crore for supporting their investments in energy transition projects, the finance ministry has said. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had on February 1 last year while presenting the annual Budget for 2023-24 fiscal (April 2023 to March 2024) […]

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MUMBAI: Private banks have continued to grow their personal loan books in the September-December quarter even after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised risk weights for unsecured loans. According to the banks’ latest quarterly numbers, their personal loan books have risen between 10% and 86% year-on-year (yoy). Leading banks like ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra […]

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The Uttarakhand government is expected to pass the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill on February 5 and has therefore convened a special one-day session in the state Assembly to discuss the bill. The five-member committee, led by former Supreme Court judge, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, is expected to hand over its report to the government […]

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday continued to target the Congress party calling it “soft naxal”, which has moved away from the Gandhian philosophy. “I was with the Congress for 22 years. Slogans have changed. Congress slogans used to be different, soft. Now they have become Left-leaning,” Sarma said as Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat […]

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Murshidabad has an air of rebellion about it. This is the historical place that has been marked by the famous rebellion of Nawab of Bengal Siraj ud-Daulah against the British though he was betrayed and killed. This is also one of the last citadels of the Congress in the state. And Berhampore in Murshidabad district […]

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Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar for a seventh time on Sunday with support from the Bharatiya Janata Party, his on-again-off-again ally, sources told NDTV Friday, as the churn in the state’s political landscape spins to a conclusion. For its backing, the BJP will get two Deputy Chief Minister berths, […]

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, after parting ways with the  BJP in 2022, took on the initiative of coralling all opposition forces to jointly take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling party in the national election. He hosted the first meeting of opposition parties in Patna, and it was widely believed that he […]

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By Savera The Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023, a draft of which was circulated for public comments by the union ministry of information and broadcasting in November 2023, is yet another step by the Modi government to restrict and stifle freedom of expression. It seeks to replace the nearly three-decade-old Cable Television Networks Regulation Act, […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik The unemployment situation is worse today than it has ever been in post-independence India. There are two distinct elements that have contributed to this situation. One is the fact that the output recovery from the fall caused by the pandemic-linked lockdown has not been accompanied by a comparable employment recovery. In fact, […]

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By Devasis Chattopadhyay India celebrates her 75th Republic Day. Different states and Union Territories are marking this special day with celebrations. Like all previous Republic Days, on New Delhi’s Kartavya Path (erstwhile Rajpath), this year too, a group of finest horsemen attired in exquisite red coats, elegant golden sashes, and magnificent turbans would accompany our […]

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By Ashis Biswas West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Ms. Mamata Banerjee has just publicly rejected an alliance with the state Congress for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, but in truth, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) had decided to shake up the still evolving opposition I.N.D.I.A anti-BJP coalition some days ago. There had been […]

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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday spoke to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a bid to “find a way forward” a day after she announced the Trinamool Congress (TMC) would go alone in the Lok Sabha polls, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said. “Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has spoken with Mamata Banerjee today. […]

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For months, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had aimed to become the face of the INDIA bloc as its convener. But it is the dilly-dallying by the Congress over the same and a perceived ‘insult’ of Kumar at the last INDIA meeting that may have proved to be the proverbial last straw for him to […]

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Maratha quota leader Manoj Jarange Friday reached Navi Mumbai with thousands of supporters to push for reservations for the Maratha community. Jarange and other Maratha activists reached the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) on the outskirts of Mumbai around 5 am by bikes, cars, jeeps, tempos and trucks. As per his plan, Jarange, along with […]

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Chinese officials have asked their Iranian counterparts to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthis, or risk harming business relations with Beijing, four Iranian sources and a diplomat familiar with the matter said. The discussions about the attacks and trade between China and Iran took place at several […]

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The survey of the Gyanvapi mosque has revealed the existence of a temple, complete with 34 inscriptions in various languages, which was remodelled into a mosque, the lawyer of the women  petitioners told the media today after receiving a hard copy of the survey report. The Varanasi district judge had earlier refused to make the […]

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NEW DELHI: India will not agree to an “asymmetrical”  agreement on reducing fisheries subsidies that contribute to overfishing and will insist on specific carveouts to protect its resource poor fishers and preserve the space to develop its capacities at the WTO, officials have said. “In India, the livelihood of 9 million people, mostly resource-poor, dependent […]

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Ratings agency ICRA has revised upwards its projection of bank credit growth in FY24 to 14.9-15.3 per cent, estimated at an incremental growth of ₹20.4-20.9 lakh crore, from the earlier projection of 12.8-13 per cent equating to a growth of ₹17.5-17.8 lakh crore. “This will be the highest ever incremental bank credit growth and would […]

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The Congress on Wednesday said no one can imagine the existence of the opposition INDIA bloc without West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee. The Congress statement comes immediately after Banerjee announced that her party Trinamool Congress has decided to go alone in the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a […]

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Featuring the Ram Mandir, G20, the Centre’s success on the economy and infrastructure front, Chandrayaan-3 and sports medals, the BJP on Thursday launched the video for its 2024 Lok Sabha election campaign theme centred around Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The slogan: “Sapne nahin haqeeqat bunte hain, tabhi toh sab Modi ko chunte hain.” The BJP […]

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As the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra entered West Bengal on Thursday, the Assam Police have transferred the case registered against the Congress scion and others over clashes on the outskirts of Guwahati to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). This comes after the state police registered a case against the Wayanad MP and his […]

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NEW DELHI: The National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) is going to inspect the Big Four audit firms as well as other top auditors of large listed entities in 2024, an official familiar with the development told FE. “We shall inspect the Big four audit firms again this year in order to check whether the corrective […]

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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday announced re-bidding for the 10 Gigawatt hour (Gwh) tranche of the total 20 GWh capacity under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for the advanced chemistry cell (ACC) battery storage. A budgetary outlay of Rs 3,620 crore has been earmarked as the incentive against setting up this battery manufacturing capacity […]

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NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved Rs 8,500 crore financial incentive scheme for coal gasification projects. In the first category, Rs 4,050 crore has been provisioned for public sector utilities (PSUs) in which up to three projects will be supported by providing a lump sum grant of Rs 1,350 crore or 15 per […]

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NEW DELHI: Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Wednesday reported a massive jump in its third quarter net profit as compared to the year-ago period when it was financially struggling as input raw material crude oil prices spiked but retail finished product prices remained on freeze. Standalone net profit of Rs 8,063.39 crore in October-December 2023-24 […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) to defeat the BJP has run into choppy seas, losing its cohesive hold and threatening to return to the previously splintered status of the Opposition. Cracks have developed and the INDIA bloc cannot agree on seat-sharing formulas. Common enemy BJP is gung ho watching INDIA […]

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By Arun Srivastava With Indian policing system getting excruciatingly communalised under the command of home minister Amit Shah, the Assam police chief G.P. Singh lodging an FIR against Rahul Gandhi and at least six other senior Congress leaders leading the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, has certainly neither been shocking nor disappointing. Singh followed the saffron […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee’s outbursts against the Congress as ‘discourteous’ and her declaration that her party would go solo in the forthcoming Lok Sabha Election 2024 is being blown out of proportion, to emphasize that INDIA bloc is entirely in disarray, and it would help PM Narendra Modi and his […]

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By Krishna Jha “The people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a sovereign Democratic republic and to secure to all its citizens Justice, social, economic and political, Liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship, Equality of status and opportunity, and to Promote among them all, Fraternity assuring the this twenty sixth […]

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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee suffered injury after her car halted suddenly to avoid a collision with a vehicle. The chief minister said she could have died in the accident and added that the law will take its course. Narrating how the accident took place, Banerjee said a car came from the front and almost […]

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Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who joined the Congress last year before Karnataka assembly election, rejoins the Bharatiya Janata Party. The 68-year-old Shettar, a staunch RSS man and a senior BJP leader, switched to Congress after he was denied a ticket during the 2023 assembly election. He belongs to the politically influential Lingayat community. […]

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MUMBAI: In a relief to foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) with disproportionately high exposure to a single corporate group, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has decided to give them more time to comply with the new disclosure norms on beneficial owners or liquidate holdings, sources close to the development said. In its latest […]

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NEW DELHI: Industry bodies have sought continued thrust on capital expenditure (capex) in their proposals to the Finance Ministry for the upcoming interim budget to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has asked for an increase in capex by at least 20 per cent to […]

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