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Congress Leans Towards BSP After Seat-Sharing With SP Goes Awry
By Rahil Nora Chopra After tensions between the Congress and Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party over seat-sharing for Madhya Pradesh, Congress has been looking for an option and exploring the possibilities for an alliance with the BSP in UP for the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections. According to sources, both...
Curious Case Of Italian Prime Minister Ending Her Relationship With TV Host Partner
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has announced the end of her nearly 10-year relationship with her partner, Andrea Giambruno, following explicit off-air remarks he made on a TV show. Giambruno, a TV host, faced controversy after his comments, including flirtatious remarks to a female colleague...
After 142 Years, Pablo Picasso Still Stands As A Colossus In World Of Art
By Tirthankar Mitra Pablo Ruiz Picasso cannot be pinned down. Even as his 142nd birth anniversary passed by early this week, legions of his critics, detractors and of course his fans have been unable to categorise him. The reason is not difficult to see. There is so much of...
Israel-Hamas War In Gaza Has Exposed President Putin’s Duplicity In Geopolitics
By Alexey Sakhnin Last week, the Financial Times quoted a “senior European Union official” calling the escalating war in the Middle East “a gift from heaven” for Vladimir Putin. He suggested that Western governments’ support for Israel is turning Global South countries into Moscow’s allies. As an unnamed Arab...
Air India Appoints Klaus Goersch As Chief Operations Officer
Mumbai: Air India on Friday announced the appointment of Klaus Goersch as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, as well as various other senior level appointments. In the newly-created position at the airline, Mr Goersch will oversee flight operations, engineering, ground operations, Integrated Operations Control and cabin...
Govt Hikes Allocation Of Wheat Under Open Market Sale Scheme
The government has decided to offload 0.3 million tonnes (MT) under the open market sale scheme (OMSS) by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) in its weekly e-auction from next month, against 0.2 MT currently being offered for the bulk purchaser to cool down the prices. Sources told FE...
Unilever Flags Pricing Pressure In India As Inflation Eases
Global consumer goods major Unilever says the India market, its second-largest in the world, may see a deflation in pricing within skincare and fabric cleansing, as commodity inflation moderates. The India unit of the London-headquartered company reported a flat price-led growth last week for the September quarter as it...
Isha, Akash, Anant Get Shareholders’ Approval To Be Appointed On RIL Board
MUMBAI: Shareholders of Reliance Industries Ltd have approved the appointment of Isha Ambani, Akash Ambani and Anant Ambani to the company’s board as Non-Executive Directors with the required majority. While Isha and Akash got approval from 98 per cent of shareholders, Anant got approval from 92 per cent of...
Create New Domains That Can Be Followed By Other Countries: PM To Telecom Companies
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged telecom and technology companies to create new domains that can be followed by other countries in future. Citing the example of UPI, a leading digital payments system, he said, “India has the power of a young demography and vibrant democracy....
US To Withdraw Key Proposal On Digital Trade
NEW DELHI: The United States has decided to withdraw its support for an initiative at the World Trade Organisation on free cross-border data flows without localisation, a move that strengthens India’s approach on retaining control over its data. Washington has decided to withdraw its proposal on digital trade at...
RBI To Call Out Liquidity Skew With Bankers
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India is likely to meet with banks next week to discuss the key issues of liquidity in the banking system and developments in sovereign debt yields, which serve as benchmarks for pricing corporate borrowing. “There are meetings scheduled on November 2 and November 3....
Government Hints Against Hike In Fuel Prices
NEW DELHI: State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) have the capacity to absorb the global crude price shocks as they have made large profits (in the previous quarters) due to high prices, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri told FE on Thursday. Though it has been...
P-Notes Investment Continues To Swell For Seventh Month On Robust Macros
MUMBAI: Investment in the Indian capital markets through participatory notes rose over a six-year high at Rs 1.33 lakh crore at September-end, making it the seventh consecutive monthly increase, on the back of robust macroeconomic fundamentals. This is the highest level since July 2017 — when investment through the...
India, Other WTO Members Criticise EU, UK On Steel Safeguard Measures
NEW DELHI: India and some other nations, including Switzerland, Brazil, China, Japan, Korea and Russia, have criticised the EU for deciding against terminating its safeguard measure on imports of certain steel products after carrying out a review. Most argued the EU’s safeguard duty, imposed after the Trump administration in...
Congress Working Hard To Retain Its Support Base In Chhattisgarh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “All farm loans will be waived, as we have done in the past, immediately after the Congress returns to power,” promised CM Bhupesh Baghel in Chhattisgarh in a repeat of 2018 election promise. It was among the four key promises made by the Congress on...
Future Prospect Of JD(S)-BJP Alliance In Karnataka Looks Grim
By Arun Srivastava This is not the first time that the JD(S) has entered into an alliance with the BJP. In 2006, with the tacit blessing of the senior JD(S) leader, the former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, the JD(S) had brokered an alliance and his son HD...
RSS Supremo’s Vijayadashami Speech Is Aimed At Establishing A Hindu Authoritarian State
By P. Sudhir The speech of the RSS chief at the annual Vijayadashami rally in Nagpur is supposed to contain the authoritative pronouncements of the Sangh. In the rally last Tuesday, Mohan Bhagwat’s speech continued with the theme of the last few Vijayadashami speeches, where the Sangh totally identified...
Aparna Sen Is Still Enthralling Bengali Viewers With Issue-Based Cinema
By Tirthankar Mitra Her acting is a combination of vivacity which gels completely with her natural acting style. This has earned Aparna Sen a place of honour among the greats of Bengali cinema. Here is a heroine turned director whose co-actors have ranged from Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chattopadhyay to...
