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Big 4 In India Outshine MNC Parents; Combined Revenue Seen At Over Rs 45,000 Crore In FY25
MUMBAI: The Indian arms of the Big Four — Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG — outpaced their global parents in FY24 revenue growth numbers, fuelled by strong demand for consulting and tech consulting services, with their combined revenue expected to surpass Rs 45,000 crore by FY25 at the current...
Realty Sector Seeks Higher Tax Benefit On Home Loans
NEW DELHI: The real estate sector has requested the government to pay greater attention to the expansion of rental housing and provide higher tax benefit on home loans, in a pre-Budget consultation with the finance minister on Monday. “Until now we are only talking about ownership housing but a...
Government Must Raise Infrastructure Spend To Push Jobs, Consumption And GDP
By Nantoo Banerjee The slump in India’s GDP growth rate is understandable. Contrary to the government claims, the job market is down. The income growth, in general, is shrinking. A vast section of consumers are not spending enough, except for wage goods or daily dire necessities, as their real...
Controversy Over Retaining H-1B Visa Policy Divides Republican Party
By Kalyani Shankar As the US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office on January 20, he faces a unique challenge. The issue of immigration and the H-1B visa has become a contentious point among the two key groups. He is trying to satisfy the conflicting interests of the...
National Anthem Controversy In Tamil Nadu Has Ominous Signs
By Dr. Gyan Pathak National anthem controversy picked up by the Governor of Tamil Nadu is ominous for the state and the country as well. Moreover, his refusal to follow the tradition relating to recitation of India’s national anthem in the Legislative Assembly of the state is also unwise,...
Delhi CM Atishi’s Missing Surname And Priyanka Gandhi’s Cheeks
By Sushil Kutty Playing the wronged man is Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal’s forte. Kejriwal is often heard reminding people he’s being targeted by the BJP for being ‘kattarimandar’ and ‘honest bloke Kejriwal’ says the “BJP has crossed all limits of shamelessness…” after serial slanderer Ramesh Bidhuri’s utterly...
Billionaires Get Ready To Take Over In Washington After January 20
By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik WASHINGTON—Once again the corporate media, as it did in the election campaign, is failing to focus on the issues that are important to the U.S. working class. While the billionaires prepare to take direct control over the government in Washington and use that...
Coalition Partners Upset With BJP Administration In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: All is not well between BJP and coalition partners in Uttar Pradesh where Apna Dal and Nishad Party presidents expressed dissatisfaction on public platforms at the functioning of the Yogi Adityanath government.. Significantly ,Apna Dal (Sonelal Patel) leader and cabinet minister Ashish Patel publicly alleged...
Right To Information Is Being Transformed Into Right To Deny These Days
By Shailesh Gandhi It is worth revisiting two judgments of the Supreme Court. A five-judge Bench has ruled in P. Ramachandra Rao versus State of Karnataka: “Courts can declare the law, they can interpret the law, they can remove obvious lacunae and fill the gaps but they cannot entrench...
Elon Musk Is Using His Social Media Platform To Throttle Liberalism
By Asad Mirza The recent seemingly eccentric and uncalled for comments by X’s owner Elon Musk against global leaders and governments, has once again brought the issue of setting the limits for Freedom of Expression, as per the democratic and decency norms of the society, not as dictated by...
GDP Growth May’ve Picked Up Steam In Q3: Economists
NEW DELHI: Economic growth may have sped up following the slowdown in the September quarter, with business activity showing signs of improvement in the third quarter, economists said. However, growth for the year is expected to remain subdued, they added, putting it below FY24’s 8.2%. The government will release...
Falling Poverty Claims In SBI Report Spark Concerns About Methodology
NEW DELHI: State Bank of India (SBI), in a report on Friday, claimed a significant decline in the headline poverty ratio in rural areas on account of enhanced physical infrastructure, higher consumption growth in the bottom fractile and direct benefit transfers (DBTs). Using the latest annual Household Consumption Expenditure...
TRAI To Tighten Anti-Spam Norms; Pilot To Digitise Past User Consents
NEW DELHI: TRAI will start, this month, a pilot to onboard paper-based and past permissions given by customers for receiving commercial communications onto its digital distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, a process that in the long-run would include scrubbing and verifying their current validity and offering opt-outs to those...
Most Banks See Slower Loan Growth Amid Weak Demand
MUMBAI: Slower consumer demand, risk aversion to unsecured loans, and tepid deposit growth until late into the December quarter have meant that a majority of lenders clocked slower credit growth in the just concluded three-month period. Some banks such as HDFC Bank, which had an acute credit to deposit...
Growth In Agri Credit May Top 13% In FY25: NABARD Chairman
NEW DELHI: Agriculture credit growth this financial year is likely to be more than 13 per cent, reaching Rs 27-28 trillion, said National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) chairman Shaji KV, at a media interaction in New Delhi. “Over the past decade, agricultural credit has consistently grown...
Did Nitish Kumar Talk To Chandrababu Naidu About Joint Move Against BJP?
By Arun Srivastava Nobody except Narendra Modi knows Narendra Modi well, better than others. Leaders of almost all the political parties, even his BJP colleagues, are mythically in a state of confusion whether Modi would renounce Nitish Kumar and impose president’s rule in Bihar or Nitish would emerge on...
Digital Privacy Protection Must Avoid Pitfalls Of State Surveillance
By K. Raveendran The government has notified draft rules relating to the digital privacy protection law. Undoubtedly, this underscores a critical moment in the ongoing evolution of privacy legislation. The law, ostensibly designed to safeguard citizens, particularly children, from the darker corners of the digital realm, also raises profound...
Sambhal Issue Imparting A New Dimension To The Politics Of Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty Sambhal is an inflection point with many implications, some of which are already in play. One, there is a new ‘old Sambhal’ emerging before disbelieving eyes, the preserved remains of a long-lost town that existed much-much before the majority of those among today’s living were born,...
