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Indian AC Industry Likely To Double In Next Four Years, Says Blue Star
NEW DELHI: The air-conditioning industry, valued at around Rs 27,500 crore (USD 3.3 billion), is likely to double in the next four years, Blue Star has said in its annual report. The Indian HVAC&R (heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerating) is poised for exponential growth, said Blue Star Chairman...
Tier 1 Cities Dominate In Blue-Collar Gig Job Opportunities: Report
MUMBAI: With a rise in gig economy, tier-one cities led in short-term blue-collar employment opportunities, accounting for 67.1 per cent openings from June 2023 to June 2024, a report said on Saturday. These tier-I cities, which have a large concentration of gig working opportunities, saw 63.11 per cent job...
Armed Nihang’s Search for Smokers Puts IIM-Amritsar on High Alert
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Amritsar has heightened security measures following reports of an armed Nihang Sikh roaming the campus grounds, reportedly in search of individuals smoking cigarettes. The presence of the armed individual has sparked concern among students and faculty alike, prompting increased vigilance from campus security....
AAP, Jail authorities in heated exchange over Kejriwal’s BP
The Tihar jail administration and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are locked in a heated exchange over the health condition of Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal. While AAP leaders have claimed that Mr Kejriwal is rapidly losing weight and his health is declining in prison, jail...
SC refuses to stay CBI case against DK Shivakumar
The Supreme Court on Monday refused quash a CBI case against Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar related to disproportionate assets. The apex court said it cannot quash the case based on a split verdict. The CBI has alleged that Shivakumar amassed wealth to the tune of Rs 74.93 crore,...
Another IAS officer in the dock over fake claims
Amid claims that trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar allegedly submitted fake disability certificates to get the job, questions are now being raised over another former bureaucrat’s selection under the disability criteria. Abhishek Singh – the 2011 batch IAS officer who resigned last year to become an actor – is...
First Session Of 18th Parliament Showed Opposition In Poor Light
By Harihar Swarup The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha has just concluded where an unprecedented level of acrimony was witnessed. Since this session was held immediately after the general elections, the mood during the electioneering, it appears, was carried into the house as was reflected in the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Leaves India-US Ties At A Moscow Crossroad
By Sushil Kutty BJP leader Narendra Modi in his first term as NDA Prime Minister of India shouldn’t have forgotten how to kowtow, and kowtow to whom? Why he went to Russia before kowtowing to the United States is a mistake. Why he went and hugged Russian President Vladimir...
Relief For Fuel Consumers As Post-Election Scenario Not Accompanied By Routine Hikes
By K Raveendran Fuel consumers have been pleasantly surprised by continued stability in prices even after the 2024 elections are settled and closed. This is a contrarian trend as most previous rounds of elections have invariably seen ‘price adjustments’ by the oil marketing companies by which they recoup their...
RSS Conclave Charts Roadmap For Helping BJP Win State Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava A large number of delegates attending the three day conclave of RSS currently on in Ranchi, gave enough indication of their unhappiness at the manner in which the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his coterie are underestimating the role of the RSS vis a vis BJP,...
Early Implementation Of Labour Codes On The Cards Now
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has started meeting representatives of Central Trade Unions seeking their co-operation for early implementation of the four labour codes, which were put on hold by Modi government during its entire second term due to a range of issues including...
Kisan Rail And Krishi Udan Launched With Fanfare, Now Forgotten By Centre
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Kisan Rail scheme, announced in the 2019-20 budget and the first train rolled out in August 2020 with much promise, appears to have fallen by the wayside. Envisioned as a revolutionary way to transport perishable agricultural products such as fruits and vegetables, the project...
Erdogan Just Used The Syrian Conflict For His Personal Political Goals
By Manish Rai For quite some time now tensions have been rising in Syrian opposition-held areas over Turkish moves towards rapprochement with Syria. The recent violence against Syrians in Turkey acted as a catalyst and sparked retaliatory riots in opposition-held areas of north-western Syria. Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators, some...
India’s Retail Inflation Rises To 5.08% In June; IIP Grows 5.9% In May
NEW DELHI: India’s retail inflation rate in June reversed its five-month downward trend owing to an increase in food prices, and crossed the 5 per cent mark, prompting analysts to predict an extended pause on policy rates by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Separately, growth in the index...
India Can Be World’s Second-Largest Economy By 2031: RBI DG Patra
MUMBAI: It is conceivable that India can become the world’s second-largest economy by 2031 and the largest economy by 2060, given the country’s inherent strengths, said Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Michael Debabrata Patra. Speaking at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie on Tuesday,...
No Merger: Government Looks To Shift MTNL’s Operations To BSNL
NEW DELHI: Having failed to come up with a viable proposition, government is now looking to hand over the operations of ailing telecom PSU MTNL to its bigger sibling BSNL, instead of merging the two state-run firms that have repeatedly been handed out bailouts, including around two years ago.The...
GST Ghosts Haunt India’s $100 Billion Investment Playground
MUMBAI: India’s $100-billion private equity and venture capital world is in the crosshairs of the goods and services tax (GST) office. About a dozen such alternative investment funds (AIFs) have recently received notices, with the revenue department questioning why their schemes, housing the fund pools, are not registered under...
Central Spending Gives A Boost To Liquidity, Brings Overnight Rate 10 Basis Points Below Repo
MUMBAI: A pronounced increase in government spending after the polls has injected fresh liquidity into the banking system, bringing down overnight borrowing rates, Treasury Bill yields and, in turn, short-term financing costs for Indian companies, even as the central bank seems to be in no great hurry to lower...
