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India To Make High-Speed Trainsets, Railway Arm Floats Tender
NEW DELHI: After making major headway in indigenous manufacturing of semi high-speed trainsets, the government has now set in motion a process for local production of high-speed rolling stocks. The move follows the potential rise in procuring the standard-gauge coaches for India’s planned bullet train projects, including the under-construction...
India Inc Sees Margins Rising As Crude Falls; No Price Cuts Yet, Say Companies
MUMBAI: A drop in crude oil prices is likely to ease cost pressures for a large number of companies across sectors — from paints and industrial segments to textiles and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) — which use crude-linked derivatives as a key input. Firms, however, say they remain cautious...
Competition Commission Selects Management Development Institute To Conduct Market Study On AI
NEW DELHI: Fair trade watchdog CCI has selected the Management Development Institute Society (MDIS) to conduct a market study on artificial intelligence and competition that will examine various aspects, including potential competition issues in the AI ecosystems. In April this year, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had issued...
Government Mandates Use Of Fire-Resistant Upholstery Fabrics In Non-Domestic Furniture
NEW DELHI: The Government has introduced stringent regulations mandating the use of fire-resistant upholstery fabrics in non-domestic furniture, a move expected to improve public safety with respect to fire-related tragedies. Effective from October, the Quality Control Order (QCO) now requires all upholstery components used at public spaces to comply...
Preparing To Use Chennai Manufacturing Plant For Exports, Says Ford
CHENNAI: American automaker Ford on Friday said it is preparing to utilise its Chennai manufacturing plant to roll out vehicles for exports and has intimated the same to the Tamil Nadu government. The company which in 2021 had said that it would stop manufacturing vehicles in India, has submitted...
Food Ministry Inks Pact With FCI To Boost Grain Operation Efficiency
NEW DELHI: The food ministry has signed an agreement with the state-run Food Corporation of India (FCI) for the 2024-25 fiscal year, aiming to enhance efficiency and accountability in foodgrain procurement and distribution. The MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) sets specific performance benchmarks, including metrics for FCI depots, and outlines...
Passenger Vehicle Wholesales Dip Two Per Cent In August As OEMs Cut Dispatches
NEW DELHI: Domestic passenger vehicle wholesales declined by about 2 per cent year-on-year in August as companies curtailed dispatches to reduce inventory at dealers amid a drop in demand. According to data issued by the industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the total passenger vehicle dispatches in...
Why Sitaram Yechury’s Demise Is A Big Loss To The INDIA Bloc In Its Fight Against The BJP
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, who passed away on Thursday, September 12 after a fatal bout of respiratory illness at the age of 72, has left a deep void just not in the leadership of the CPI(M), but also in the...
New Spin In National Politics After Supreme Court Bail To Kejriwal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak While Haryana is undergoing an election process, and election in Delhi is round the corner early next year, Supreme Court’s granting bail to AAP Supremo Kejriwal in Delhi excise policy case, on September 13, is sure to give politics a new spin. AAP’s election campaigns...
Nitish Kumar Steadily Losing His Grip On The Bihar Political Situation
By Arun Srivastava Never before in his political life, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s credibility has dipped so low as is visible in recent months. By virtue of his being the chief minister, people approach him, bow before him, but the respect which he commanded till some months back,...
Prime Minister Should Have Avoided Going To CJI’s Place For Doing Puja
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud at the latter’s Delhi home and Prime Minister Modi performed aarti-puja on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi to then go his way. If Prime Minister Modi whispered something conspiratorial and compromising in CJI Chandrachud’s ear,...
Nitish Says No More Flip-Flops; Tejashwi Shrugs It Off
By Rahil Nora Chopra After Nitesh Kumar reiterated that the flip-flops of the past were a mistake and vowed to remain with the NDA forever, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav took a jibe at the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, alleging that he has been to him...
Meghalaya Locals Want The State Government To Be Strict Towards Migrants
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Khasi Students Union (KSU) president Lambokstar Marngar wants the Meghalaya government to ensure that migrant workers who come to the state for livelihood are all Indians. Asked whether he has doubts that at least some of them may not be Indians, Marngar told IPA...
Country Loses An Illustrious Son In Yechury’s Untimely Demise
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is a saying in Malayalam that death is a clown who lacks a sense of the stage. The adage has been proved yet again in the sad and untimely passing away of Communist Party of India(Marxist)(CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury. An epoch has come...
Deep Financial Crisis Is Behind Maldives President Muizzu’s Soft Tone To India
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The recent resignation of two controversial ministers in Maldives, who had made derogatory remarks about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has cleared the path for Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu’s visit to India. These ministers, known for their anti-India stance, were seen as a potential obstacle...
US Agencies Plotting To Oust Leftist President Of Honduras Xiomara Castro
By W. T. Whitney Jr. WASHINGTON: After narrowly losing elections in 2013 and 2017, Xiomara Castro and her social democratic Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre) won the next set of elections such that, as of January 2022, she was Honduras’s new president. The defeated National Party had presided over...
Retail Inflation Inches Up To 3.65% In August; IIP Growth At 4.8% In July
NEW DELHI: India’s Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based retail inflation rose marginally in August to 3.65 per cent from 3.6 per cent in July, yet remained below the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s medium-term target of 4 per cent for the second time in nearly five years, mainly because of...
Food Inflation At 5.66% In August, Second Lowest Since June 2023
NEW DELHI: Retail food inflation rose marginally to 5.66% in August on an annual basis, compared to 5.42% in July, as prices of pulses, cereals and vegetables continued to be at elevated levels, and base turned less favourable than in July. The consumer food price index (CFPI), however, declined...
