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Hema Committee Report Follow-Up Gathers Momentum
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government headed by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has swung into action by initiating steps to implement the Hema Committee report on the problems plaguing the Malayalam film industry. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) consisting of senior women police officers has...
Congress Not To Declare Any CM Candidate In Haryana Before Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra Both the Sirsa MP, Kumari Selja, and Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala of the Congress Party have expressed their strong desire to contest the assembly election’s from Haryana but state in-charge Deepak Babaria has gone on record to say that no MP will be taken...
Transition To Electric Vehicles As A Part Of Greener Future Has Led To Huge Lithium Extraction
By Tirthankar Mitra Demand for electric vehicle batteries is on the rise as the world shifts towards a greener future. Together with it, the requirement for lithium, a key component in electricity vehicle batteries and renewable energy storage has skyrocketed. A piquant situation has arisen from this elliptical rise...
Moody’s Raises India’s Growth Projection; Fitch Affirms ‘BBB-‘ Rating
NEW DELHI: Moody’s Ratings raised India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth projection for this calendar year to 7.2 per cent from 6.8 per cent previously on the back of expectations of robust broad-based recovery and signs of improving rural demand, while Fitch affirmed the country’s sovereign credit rating, the...
Govt Lowers Minimum Public Shareholding Rule To 10% For GIFT City Listing
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry on Thursday issued a notification allowing companies to list on stock exchanges in GIFT City with a minimum of 10 per cent public shareholding, down from the previous requirement of 25 per cent for continued listing on stock exchanges in India and GIFT City....
India On The Cusp Of A New Revolution In Telecom, Can Lead The World In 6G
NEW DELHI: India can lead the world in 6G, after keeping pace with the world in 3G and 5G, communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said. Speaking with Kiran Rathee and Romit Guha, Scindia, also the minister of development of north eastern region (DoNER), said the government has fixed no timeline...
Centre Sets Milestones For States On Urban Land Reforms
NEW DELHI: The Centre has set three milestones in urban land reforms, which will lead to the finalisation of land parcel-based property cards, for states to become eligible for incentives in the form of grant-like capex loans. It has earmarked Rs 5,000 crore in FY25 for the participating states...
Adani Tops Ambani As India’s Richest On Hurun List, SRK Makes Debut
MUMBAI: Despite challenges following US-based short seller Hindenburg Research’s report against his companies in January last year, billionaire Gautam Adani and his family top the 2024 Hurun India Rich List, after their wealth increased 95 per cent to Rs 11.61 trillion. He replaced Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and...
NTPC Plans New Subsidiary For Nuclear Energy Business
State-owned NTPC is planning to set up a new subsidiary to undertake nuclear projects, its chairman and managing director Gurdeep Singh said on Thursday. Speaking at the company’s 48th annual general meeting, he said NTPC is on the verge of commencing work on the 2.8-gigawatt (GW) Mahi Banswara nuclear...
New Energy To Rival O2C Business; Rs 75,000 Crore Investment Plan On Track
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries has chalked major plans for its new energy business, which includes production of solar photovoltaic modules by year-end. With new units being set up for the renewable energy solutions, the company is also aiming to make Jamnagar the energy capital of the world. It is also...
Ambani Announces Jio AI Cloud Welcome Offer; Up To 100 GB Free Cloud Storage For Jio Users
NEW DELHI: Stepping up the company’s AI and cloud play, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Thursday announced that Jio users will get up to 100 GB of free cloud storage to securely store and access their photos, videos, documents, digital content and data. Addressing the 47th AGM of...
Industry Came Forward For Rules On Small, Medium REITs: SEBI Chief
MUMBAI: Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch on Thursday said there has been a positive response to small and medium REITs (real estate investment trusts) and industry players came forward for regulations on such entities. Recently, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) implemented regulations for small and medium...
Paytm Shares Jump 5 Per Cent On Receiving Govt’s Nod For Investment In Paytm Payments Services
NEW DELHI: Shares of fintech firm One97 Communications — the owner of Paytm brand — jumped 5 per cent on Thursday morning after the company received the government’s approval for downstream investment in wholly-owned subsidiary Paytm Payments Services Ltd. The stock climbed 5 per cent to Rs 565 on...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Now Clueless, Losing His Earlier Strong Moorings
By Nitya Chakraborty Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said that a week is too long a time in politics. This was in the context of post-war turmoil in British politics. As regards India, it seems that the post 2024 Lok Sabha elections scenario is changing fast and...
Narendra Modi’s Visit To Ukraine Was Primarily Meant To Mollify US
By P. Sudhir Narendra Modi’s brief visit to Ukraine has been hailed by the pro-American circles and the corporate media as a big success. According to this version, here is an Indian leader whose international stature has been heightened by the holding of the G20 summit in Delhi and...
Enriching Corporates In The Name Of Employment Generation Is Wrong
By Dr. Gyan Pathak What emerged from the meeting held by the Union Minister of Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya with Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on August 28 is quite disconcerting, since the government is bent upon implementing the newly announced Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) in the Budget 2024-25...
Mamata’s ‘I’ll Topple Modi’ Is Open Dare To Prime Minister And NDA Govt
By Sushil Kutty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in all sorts of moods. She is “deeply sad”. She is boiling mad. And she’s not in a forgiving mood. But in a generous mood, she was dedicating a Trinamool event to the memory of the Kolkata rape-cum-murder victim,...
India Losing Its Demographic Dividend Due To Absence Of Proper Job Strategy For Youth
By Krishna Jha Growing Unemployment rate is not only a challenge to the economic fabric of the country, it occupies the basic tenet on which a county is assessed. Our country is one of the most populous nations and hence its needs are also different, in both size and...
