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NSE Chief Cautions Retail Investors Against Derivatives Trading
NEW DELHI: National Stock Exchange (NSE) chief Ashishkumar Chauhan on Friday cautioned retail investors against trading in derivatives and suggested them to invest in equities through mutual fund route. He emphasised that trading in Futures & Options (F&O) derivatives should be limited to informed investors who can manage risk...
Biden Admin Urged To Take Urgent Action To Protect Over 250,000 Documented Dreamers
WASHINGTON: A bipartisan group of 43 lawmakers has urged the Biden administration to take urgent action to protect more than 250,000 Documented Dreamers, a significantly large number of whom are Indians, who will be forced to self-deport after ageing out of the temporary legal status derived through their parents’...
India Inc’s Capex Requirement Will Need Offshore Funding, Says Report
India’s non-financial corporates will require capacity expansion, inorganic growth, refinancing and working capital needs, along with shareholder payments, in order to fulfil their large capital requirements, said a report by Moody’s Ratings and ICRA. “While India’s domestic liquidity and companies’ internal cash flow can largely cover their capital needs,...
No Plan To Cut Import Duty On Wheat: Govt
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday ruled out reducing import duty on wheat by stating that there are “sufficient stocks” of the grain to meet the domestic requirement and undertake a market intervention. While stating that the food and consumer affairs ministry is keeping a close watch on market...
Petroleum Products, Realty, And Electricity May Come Under GST Net
NEW DELHI: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council will meet here on June 22, with a packed agenda, including proposals to bring natural gas and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) under the ambit of the GST, and a review of the way the tax on consumption is applied on...
Foreign Portfolio Investors Make A Tentative Comeback
MUMBAI: Even as Indian equities have seen net inflows of around $700 million (Rs 5,848 crore) from foreign funds in the past few sessions, experts believe this might not turn out to be a trend reversal, given concerns over valuations and underperformance of large-caps. Last week, when election results...
Reforms In Customs Duties, GST, Commerce To Push India’s Growth: GTRI
NEW DELHI: Implementation of key strategic reforms such as simplification of customs duty structure, GST, and not incentivising low value-added electric vehicles would help India ensure its sustainable development and inclusive growth, GTRI said on Thursday. Economic think tank Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) also said that India is...
Prime Minister Modi’s Clay Feet Has A Name: Rural Distress
By Dr. Soma Marla Rural India limited the Bharatiya Janata Party to 240 seats in the Lok Sabha. And but for the “NDA allies”, Narendra Modi wouldn’t have become Prime Minister for a third time. The BJP now depends on its partners for the simple majority in Parliament. The...
Huge Water Shortage In India’s National Capital Turning Worse
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s National Capital Territory Delhi is running a shortage of water to the tune of 50 MGD (million gallon) per day. The Water and Tanker Mafia are minting money. People are undergoing unprecedented suffering. Political parties are trying to derive political mileage by indulging in...
Bangladeshis Worry Mamata’s TMC Will Block Teesta Water Treaty Again
By Ashis Biswas In normal circumstances, except for a few specifically Bangladesh-related issues, Dhaka-based leaders/analysts do not always delve deep into Indian political developments. However, the outcome and trends of Indian general elections naturally generate considerable public interest and media-sponsored debates in Dhaka and other Bangladeshi cities. Now, after...
BJP Cannot Escape Facing An Alliance Test Going Forward
By Rahil Nora Chopra The BJP is bound to face a stiff alliance test in its third term. The signs were evident after ally Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) said it would demand a review of the Agnipath/Agniveer recruitment scheme for the Army and reiterated his support for caste-based census, besides...
Nepali PM Dahal’s Daughter At Modi Swearing-In Event: Heir In Line?
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav This might be stretching it a bit, but the presence of two daughters of note at the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as India’s Prime Minister for the third time in a row led to talk that their attendance must have been more than what...
Post-Fractured Mandate, Will Judiciary Rise To The Challenges?
By Indira Jaising By far the biggest takeaway from the 2024 general elections for India is that the ruling coalition will no longer be able to amend the Constitution and convert the country from a secular State to a Hindu Rashtra. During the election campaign, the Prime Minister of...
Forging A Labour-Climate Alliance Is The Planetary Need Of The Hour
By Steve Early A familiar scene played out in the city council chambers of Richmond, California, on May 22, 2024. For the last twenty years, since members of the anti-Chevron Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) first got elected to the council, any measure before that body affecting the city’s largest...
Congress Heading Towards Tough Political Battle For Rajya Sabha
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian National Congress (INC) is heading for another very interesting political battle for the Rajya Sabha, where it had just escaped a loss of the post of the Leader of Opposition. With two of its members in the Upper House recently elected to the Lok...
BJP Footprint Increases In All Southern States Except Karnataka
By P. Sudhir The overall results of the Lok Sabha election are certainly a setback for the BJP. Getting 240 seats, it failed to achieve the absolute majority it had gained in the 2014 and 2019 elections. Narendra Modi is now heading a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition government...
Some Senior JD(U) Leaders Are Mulling ‘Honourable Departure’
By Arun Srivastava Shaken by their leader Nitish Kumar prostrating before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and making an uncouth retreat from his stand, which he had taken before leaving for Delhi to discuss JD(U)’s share in the Union Cabinet, a section of senior JD(U) leaders are contemplating jumping the...
Engineering India’s Biggest Stock Market Scam: Now A Modi Legacy
By Krishna Jha BJP victory would soon turn into a reality and it was no illusion — that was what Modi and Shah told the investors. But the crash came at the most unexpected moment and led to a whopping Rs 30 lakh crore loss on the day the...
