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Bihar Bypolls Defeat In All Four Seats Reveals Serious Gaps In RJD’s Functioning
By Arun Srivastava It would be presumptuous to construe that the results of the bye-elections to the four assembly seats in Bihar do not reflect the changing economic and social relations at the ground level and point to the emergence of new political equation. In the just concluded Lok...
Testing Time For Uddhav And Sharad Pawar In Post Poll Maharashtra Politics
By Sushil Kutty The future is tense for NCP (Sharad Pawar) and Shiv Sena (UBT), but that doesn’t mean they’ll stop politics, the debilitating results of the Maharashtra Assembly elections, notwithstanding. Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar and ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray find themselves in a coarse political...
Easier Agriculture Marketing On The Cards
NEW DELHI: Three years after rolling back three controversial farm Bills, the government is set to make another bid to achieve their essential objectives of barrier-free trade in farm produce under a uniform pan-India framework. According to official sources, a 12-member committee, under the aegis of the Union ministry...
India Inc’s Q2 Scorecard Weak; Brokerages Say All Eyes On Q3
With the end of the fiscal second quarter results season, brokerage firms stated that Q2 corporate earnings scorecard was weak, but excluding commodities, it reported an in-line growth. Consumption, per analysis by Motilal Oswal Financial Services (MOFSL), has emerged as a weak spot, while select segments of BFSI are...
India Red-Flags Non-Tariff Barriers, Wants EU Focus On Market Access
NEW DELHI: India has sought certainty from the European Union that the bloc will not impose new non-tariff barriers in future hurting the country’s interests. India’s insistence on such an assurance comes as the two sides assess the progress of their free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations, which restarted two...
Banks Eye Rs 1 Trillion Through Infrastructure Bond Issuances In FY25
MUMBAI: Infrastructure bond issuances by commercial banks in the current financial year (FY25) are likely to surpass Rs 1 trillion, almost double that of FY24, market participants said. So far this financial year, banks have raised Rs 74,256 crore via infra bonds. In FY24, the total issuances stood at...
RBI Injects Rs 6,956 Crore As Liquidity Turns To Deficit
MUMBAI: After running surplus liquidity of about ₹1.4 lakh crore for over two months, the banking system saw a decline in cash, prompting the Reserve Bank of India to inject ₹6,956 crore on Monday. The liquidity deficit was because of the balance of payments turning negative in the ongoing...
JSW Steel, SAIL Seek Mongolian Coking Coal Imports Amid High Steel Demand
NEW DELHI: India’s JSW Steel and Steel Authority of India (SAIL) are in talks with Mongolian authorities to secure imports of coking coal, signalling a strategic move to diversify their supply sources, Reuters has reported. JSW Steel plans to purchase 2,500 metric tons, while SAIL aims to secure 75,000...
BEML Signs MoU With Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders To Advance R&D For Marine Applications
BENGALURU: Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), a PSU specialising in heavy equipment manufacturing for rail, metro, and defence sectors, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL). The partnership aims to jointly advance R&D to develop technologies for marine applications. Commenting on the partnership,...
DRDO Advancing Next Generation Main Battle Tank (NGMBT) Smoothbore Gun For The Indian Army
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is actively developing smoothbore guns for the Next Generation Main Battle Tank (NGMBT), which is part of the broader Future Main Battle Tank (FMBT) project aimed at modernizing the Indian Army’s armoured capabilities. This initiative is crucial as it seeks to replace...
Railway Board Forms Committee To Study Career Stagnation Of Employees In Supervisory Roles
NEW DELHI: The Railway Board has constituted a five-member committee to examine the issue of career stagnation of employees in supervisory roles in various departments and suggest modalities to improve their promotion prospects. The matter pertains to posts of senior section engineers, junior engineers, chief divisional controllers, traffic inspectors,...
No Material Impact Of TotalEnergies’ Decision As No Funding Talks Were On: Adani
NEW DELHI: Embattled billionaire Gautam Adani’s group on Tuesday said French energy giant TotalEnergies’ decision to pause new investments in the group will not have any material impact on operations and growth plans as no new funding was under discussion. TotalEnergies SE had on Monday stated that it was...
Better Infrastructure Is About Connecting Dreams, Accelerating Progress: PM Modi
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the Union Cabinet’s approval for three rail projects would benefit Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, and boost development along the busy section between Mumbai and Prayagraj. “Better infrastructure is about connecting dreams and accelerating progress,” he said in...
BJP Undergoes A Test Of Coalition Morality In Maharashtra
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite leading Mahayuti in Maharashtra to an impressive comeback to power, the BJP and its leadership had to undergo a difficult test of coalition morality within NDA to such an extent that it could not name its chief minister before the term of the Vidhan...
Hemant’s Arrest By ED Irked Voters, Generated Sympathy For JMM
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: It is not just that the Bharatiya Janata Party cut a sorry figure in the electoral battle 2024 for Jharkhand assembly despite a high octane campaigning that had strong communal overtones and in which the party’s money power was all too evident. Some new...
CPI, CPI(M) Fail Miserably In Jharkhand Polls By Fighting Outside INDIA Bloc
By Arun Srivastava With the identity quotient for Adivasis getting electoral prominence and political economic character of the labour force undergoing a major shift from the traditional features, the left parties in Jharkhand appear to be losing ground as is manifest from the votes they could poll. Both CPI...
Genesis Of Sambhal Violence Traced To Yogi Adityanath’s Divisive Slogan
By Sushil Kutty ‘Batenge Toh Katenge’ could have led to the Sambhal violence that claimed four lives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 23 spoke of how ‘Ek Hain Toh Safe Hain’ had become the ‘Mahamantra’ of our times. It took Nationalist Congress Party heavyweight Sharad Pawar to put...
Uruguay’s Left Opposition Leader Yamandu Orsi Wins Presidential Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty In a big boost to the Latin American Left, Uruguay’s left wing opposition candidate Yamandu Orsi became the country’s new president after defeating convincingly the candidate of the ruling far right coalition Alvaro Delgado in the presidential elections held on Sunday, November 24. With nearly all...
