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The Post-Bail Behaviour Of Arvind Kejriwal Is Becoming Curiouser And Curiouser
By Sushil Kutty If the Bharatiya Janata Party wins June 4, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will become Prime Minister and Yogi Adityanath will be removed from his post of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in three months and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join LK Advani in the ‘Marg-darshak...
BJP Led NDA’s Majority In 18th Lok Sabha Does Not Seem To Be A Done Thing
By Dr. Gyan Pathak By announcing outside support to INDIA bloc, Trinamool Congress Supremo Mamata Banerjee has just expressed the opposition’s belief at the pick of election campaign for the fifth phase that India is heading for a hung parliament. Election campaign for the fifth phase will end on...
Hiking Deposit Rates By SBI In The Midst Of Lok Sabha Polls Smacks Of Politics
By Anjan Roy In the context of the US presidential election, economists and political scientists are all wondering why the ground performance of the American economy is not boosting incumbent Joe Biden’s popularity. US unemployment rate is at rock bottom levels, the economy is growing steadily, there is no...
Preventing Muslims From Voting In Sambhal By Uttar Pradesh Police Was Inspired By PM
By P. Sudhir Narendra Modi cannot speak nowadays anything which even approximates the truth. His latest false utterance is in an interview after having filed his nomination in Varanasi. Modi said that when he talked of “those who have more children”, he had not meant Muslims. He further went...
Conviction Of The Killers Of Narendra Dhabolkar Was Long Overdue
By Krishna Jha In the early hours of August 20, 2013, Narendra Dabholkar was on his morning walk, part of his daily routine, when two bikers drove up to him and shot him dead. Dabholkar was a rationalist, believed in scientific thinking, and always tried to struggle against any...
India Has Planned To Triple Nuclear Capacity By 2030 With Russia’s Rosatom
By Girish Linganna India is set to triple its civilian nuclear power capacity by 2030 in collaboration with Russia. Rosatom is poised to significantly contribute to India’s objective of tripling its nuclear power production. Rosatom is a Russian state corporation specializing in nuclear energy and nuclear power plant construction...
Key Economic Gauges May Shift Base To FY23
NEW DELHI: The government is considering a change in the base year for key economic indices to FY23, as well as a revamp of several datasets, to better capture structural changes in the economy, said people aware of deliberations on the matter. Measures such as the Index of Industrial...
India Top Draw For Data Centre Business In APAC, Gets $40 Billion Funds
India has become the data centre leader in the Asia-Pacific (excluding China), having overtaken Singapore, Australia, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong on installed capacity, reflecting the burgeoning demand for data in the world’s fastest-expanding major economy. With installed capacity of 950 MW and anticipated addition of a further...
April Exports Drop To Five-Month Low On Geopolitical Woes, Shows Data
NEW DELHI: Disruptions caused by geopolitical tensions, such as the Red Sea crisis, and softer commodity prices dragged down the value of India’s goods exports to a five-month low in April. Data released by the commerce department showed that the country’s merchandise exports grew merely 1.07 per cent year-on-year...
State Bank Of India Hikes Short Term Retail FD Rates By 25-75 Basis Points
MUMBAI: The State Bank of India (SBI) has hiked interest rate on retail term deposits by 25-75 basis points for deposits up to 1 year, giving further push to competition for raising resources. The revised rates for deposits came into effect from May 15, 2024. In the retail term...
Unemployment Rate In Urban Areas Declines
NEW DELHI: India’s unemployment rate in urban areas fell sharply to 6.6% in FY24 from 7.2% in the previous year, helped by the smart growth in the economy. India’s economy is estimated to have grown at 7.6% last fiscal, as per the National Statistical Office’s (NSO) second advance estimates,...
Exports Up One Per Cent In April; Trade Deficit Widens To Four Months High
NEW DELHI: India’s merchandise exports rose by 1 per cent to USD 34.99 billion in April even as the trade deficit widened to a four-month high of USD 19.1 billion during the month, according to government data. Healthy growth in sectors such as electronics, chemicals, petroleum products and pharmaceuticals...
LG Looks To Enhance Leadership In TV Segment With Products Tailored For India
NEW DELHI: Korean consumer electronics major LG will continue to introduce products in the home entertainment segment tailored for India to maintain its leadership position, according to senior company officials. LG Electronics India, which on Wednesday launched 55 AI-enabled television models, expects to grow 25-30 per cent this year...
Gen Zs, Millennials Globally Optimistic About Economy, Social Situation: Survey
NEW DELHI: More than half of Gen Zs and two-thirds of millennials globally are optimistic about the economic and social situation of the country and expect it to improve further, a Deloitte survey said on Wednesday. Both generations are optimistic about GenAI and its potential benefits in improving the...
LIC Gets 3 More Years Till May 16, 2027 To Meet SEBI’s 10 Per Cent Public Holding Norm, Scrip Jumps 4 Per Cent
NEW DELHI: Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) on Wednesday said markets regulator Sebi has granted an additional 3 years time till May 16, 2027 to comply with the 10 per cent public shareholding norm. Currently, Government holding in LIC is 96.50 per cent, while public holding is 3.50 per cent....
Aadhar Housing Finance Shares Make Flat Market Debut
NEW DELHI: Shares of Aadhar Housing Finance Ltd, which is backed by private equity major Blackstone, made a flat market debut on Wednesday against the issue price of Rs 315. The stock listed at par with the issue price at Rs 315 on the NSE. It later hit a...
What Is The Truth Behind Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Hindu-Muslim’ Clarification?
By Sushil Kutty Fact-checker Muhammed Zubair checked and declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not speak the truth. Modi did indeed do ‘Hindu-Muslim’ as he went about drumming support from Hindus. But Zubair stopped short of asking Modi to “quit public life” as Modi said he would if he...
Modi Gives Inheritance Tax A Spin To Create Communal Polarisation In Larger Agenda
By K Raveendran Narendra Modi has an uncanny knack for converting insults hurled at him into campaign rallying points, with verbal slips by Congress leaders ending up overturning Modi and his party’s s electoral fortunes. It was during the 2014 general elections, that Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar referred...
