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Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi Speaks With Confidence At J&K Poll Rally
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrived in Jammu & Kashmir and proclaimed that if the Narendra Modi government did not restore Jammu & Kashmir’s statehood, the “next government” will do it. For those of us who had been missing the stone-pelting and the daily skirmishes between security...
Hunger Issue Still Dominates A Substantial Portion Of Indian Families
By Krishna Jha The absence of food signifies the stage when a family starts living in absolute poverty. The consumption level comes down to extremes as affordability goes down. With the earnings going down, affordability also comes down to bottom level that leads to falling rate of consumption level...
Budget 2024-25 Proposals On Cities Focusing On Development Without Poor
By Evita Das Do you recall how, as children, our drawings would inevitably feature four mountains, a sun, a river stream, and perhaps a house with some grass if we were feeling particularly artistic? In a way, the Union Budget 2024–25 focusing on cities seems like those simple drawings,...
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Reverses His Predecessor Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Orders
By LS Herdenia BHOPAL: At present both the major parties in Madhya Pradesh are taking various steps to strengthen their organisations. Bharatiya Janata Party has launched a state wide campaign to enrol new members. The state leadership has allotted quota to each and every member to enrol new members....
Growth In New Business Thrusts Services PMI To 5-Month High In August
NEW DELHI: Growth in India’s dominant services sector rose to a five-month high in August as new businesses expanded amid easing inflationary pressure, said a private survey on Wednesday. The HSBC headline Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), compiled by S&P Global, rose to 60.9 in August from 60.3 in July....
Onboarding By P2P Lenders Plummets More Than 90 Per Cent
MUMBAI: Hit hard by the recent guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), more than half of the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms have halted the onboarding of new customers. Previously, these platforms were bringing on 250,000 to 300,000 users (both borrowers and lenders) each month, but this...
Govt Eyes Extra Sops For Mobile Makers Topping PLI Targets
NEW DELHI: The government is mulling ways in which it can provide additional incentives to companies that have been able to produce, sell and export mobile phones over and above the production targets set for them every financial year under the mobile phone production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, sources told...
Govt Conducting Feasibility Study To Transport Green Hydrogen Through Pipelines
NEW DELHI: The Central Electricity Authority in collaboration with state-owned energy and power companies including GAIL, IOCL, and NTPC is conducting a feasibility study to explore possibilities and cost dynamics of transporting green hydrogen through pipelines from renewable energy zones to ports to meet domestic demand as well as...
Centre Awards RIL Full Quota Of Advanced Chemistry Cell Under PLI-II
NEW DELHI: Oil to telecom behemoth Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has been awarded the complete capacity of the Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) offered under the second tranche of the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. The ministry of heavy industries (MHI) in a public announcement said the award followed the...
Solar Cells Production To Come Under Approved List
NEW DELHI: The ministry of new and renewable energy is planning to bring out a policy similar to the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) for solar modules for solar cells, to ensure better quality of these items while also providing a boost to domestic manufacturing. “ALMM for...
Analysts Bullish On Defence Stocks As DAC Okays Rs 1.4-Trillion Acquisition
NEW DELHI: The Defence Acquisition Council’s (DAC’s) approval for 10 capital acquisition proposals worth nearly Rs 1.45 trillion, to enhance defence preparedness, triggered a sharp surge in related stocks on Wednesday. On the BSE, Cochin Shipyard, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, Paras Defence and Space Technologies, Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), and Garden...
Govt Mulls Import Duty Hike On Steel To Counter Chinese ‘Dumping’
NEW DELHI: The Steel Ministry has backed industry’s demand for an import duty hike on the metal offerings coming in, particularly from China and other South-East Asian nations. The pitch – to the PMO and Finance Ministry – would be to raise tariffs to 10-12 per cent, from the...
Steel Firms May Ward Off Import Threat With Higher Tariffs
NEW DELHI: India’s primary steel manufacturers including Tata Steel, JSW, AM/NS and state-run SAIL may get a reprieve from the prospect of “unsustainable prices’ wiping off their margins, in the form of higher import tariffs on their key products like hot rolled coil (HRC). Union Steel Minister H D...
Oil Tumble Below $75 Aggravates Cartel’s Challenge To Continue Price Manipulation
By K Raveendran The drop in crude oil prices below the $75 per barrel threshold has raised significant concerns within the oil market, particularly for the OPEC+ cartel, which has been striving to maintain prices near the desired $100 mark. The decline, influenced by a potential resolution of the...
RSS Leadership Shifts Its Battle Against Narendra Modi To Caste Census Turf
By Arun Srivastava The RSS leadership has imparted a new dimension to its protracted battle against Prime Minister Narendra Modi by extending support to caste census at the three day conclave of RSS organisations that ended in Kerala on September 2. With deepening existential crisis and unable to find...
Narendra Modi Government And Farmers Are Still Poles Apart
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers have been demanding legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP), but the Centre has announced 7 new big schemes for farm sector worth Rs14,000 crore on September 2. Modi government said that the schemes intended for farmers welfare, but farmers have been saying that...
Massive Global Protests Against Netanyahu Are Having Its Impact Finally
By Satyaki Chakraborty Massive global protests in the last four days of September in all the major cities of the world including New York, Washington, London, Paris, Berlin and finally Tel Aviv against Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rigid attitude to the ceasefire proposal to end the Gaza war,...
Pakistani Army Has Only Limited Options Left In Balochistan
By Manish Rai Recent bold attacks carried out by Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) rocked Pakistan. A large number of people and security personnel were killed in the province of Balochistan when separatist insurgents attacked police stations, railway lines and highways, and security forces camps. The assaults were the most...
