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Congress Is Hoping On Its Five Guarantees For Success In Karnataka Polls
By Harihar Swarup Winning Karnataka is central to the BJP’s plans to make deeper inroads into the south. The saffron party tasted power for the first time in South India in 2008, when B S Yediyurappa formed the government in Karnataka despite falling short of a majority. While a...
Modi’s Attempts To Polarise Hindi Heartland Not Yielding Big Response
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi “spreading fear” among Hindu women by claiming that the Congress would not even spare their mangalsutra if it comes to power, as well as maligning Dr Manmohan Singh for his reflection on share of power to the minorities, such as Muslims, are the top...
Jat Farmers Anger Haunt BJP In Second Phase Of Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The visible anger in powerful Thakur-Rajput community which constitutes 10 per cent of total votes in the population of Uttar Pradesh can spoil chances of BJP candidates in eight seats of Western UP going to poll in second phase on April 26.. The Thakur community...
Court Order On Bengal Teachers Recruitment Has Big Impact On Lok Sabha Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra Illegality and bribe are unacceptable under any circumstances. But so is tarring those with the same brush who did not indulge in these unlawful practices and obtained teaching and non-teaching jobs from 2016 School Service Commission test in West Bengal. A 300-page judgement of a Division...
Middle East Totters On The Edge Of A Cliff As Two Arch Enemies Confront Each Other
By James M Dorsey Multiple overt and covert wars have pushed the Middle East to the edge of a cliff. Increased tension between Iran and Israel complicates efforts to pull the Middle East back from the abyss. With the two archenemies walking a fine line between waging covert or...
Democratic Alliance Wins In South Korean Elections To Parliament Defeating Ruling PPP
By Kap Seol South Korea’s unpopular conservative president, Yoon Suk-yeol, and his People Power Party (PPP) suffered a well-deserved defeat on April 10 when voters went to the polls to elect a new National Assembly. The governing party could only manage 108 out of the 300 seats. Yoon now...
Inflation At Risk From Weather Shocks: RBI
NEW DELHI: Extreme weather events may pose a risk to India’s inflation in the near-term, along with geopolitical tensions that could keep crude oil prices “volatile”, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its April Bulletin. Retail inflation in March eased 4.85%, after averaging 5.1% in January-March. Food...
New Agri Export Policy Soon, To Focus On Unregulated Products
NEW DELHI: India’s agriculture exports strategy is being reworked with greater focus on products whose trade is not regulated. The government has identified 20 farm products whose global imports are over $ 405 billion for focussed push in the coming years, official sources said. India’s share in the world...
Foreign Portfolio Investors Trim Stake In Private Banks
MUMBAI: Foreign investors turned bullish on public sector banks (PSBs) in the fourth quarter while their interest waned in the private lenders. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have trimmed their stake by up to 6% in nine private banks, but raised their holdings in 10 PSBs by up to 3%....
India’s Positive Demand Trends Fuel Flash Composite PMI To 62.2 In April
NEW DELHI: India’s private sector activity strengthened in April, helped by positive demand trends that fuelled new business intakes and output. In both the cases, the rates of expansion remained the fastest in nearly 14 years, said a survey by HSBC on Tuesday. According to the survey, the headline...
Telecom Sector AGR Rose 1.88 Per Cent Sequentially To Rs 67,835 Crore In Q3 FY23
NEW DELHI: The telecom sector witnessed a 1.88 per cent sequential growth in adjusted gross revenue (AGR), reaching Rs 67,835 crore in the third quarter (October-December) of FY24, data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Tuesday shows. AGR is the basis on which the Department...
Growth In Housing Prices May Moderate This Fiscal To Five Per Cent Annually: India Ratings
NEW DELHI: Housing demand and prices are likely to moderate this fiscal on a high base effect with sales expected to rise 8-10 per cent and rates by around 5 per cent annually, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said on Tuesday. The rating agency has maintained a neutral outlook...
Karnataka, Gujarat Lead India’s Clean Energy Transition Race: Report
NEW DELHI: Karnataka and Gujarat continue to lead the race to clean energy transition, but states like Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh need to step up efforts, according to a new report released on Tuesday. The joint report by research organisation, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial...
Reliance Industries Shares Climb Nearly One Per Cent Post Earnings
NEW DELHI: Shares of Reliance Industries Ltd on Tuesday climbed nearly 1 per cent after the company’s annual earnings hit a record high. The stock advanced 0.85 per cent to Rs 2,986.05 on the BSE. At the NSE, it climbed 0.92 per cent to Rs 2,987 apiece. The company’s...
None of G7 Economies On Track To Meet 2030 Mitigation Targets
NEW DELHI: None of the G7 members are on track to meet their existing emission reduction targets for 2030, according to a new analysis released on Tuesday. The analysis by Climate Analytics, a global climate science and policy institute, comes ahead of the G7 climate, energy, and environment ministers’...
Razorpay Announces UPI Switch In Partnership With Airtel Payments Bank
NEW DELHI: Fintech company Razorpay on Tuesday launched its own UPI infrastructure with ‘UPI Switch’, a cloud-based innovation in partnership with Airtel Payments Bank, and said the solution is geared to ensure smoother and faster transactions. Boosting success rates by 4-5 per cent, the solution is designed to handle...
PM Narendra Modi’s Frustration Mounting On His Stronghold Too
By Dr. Gyan Pathak At the fag end of second phase campaign of Lok Sabha election 2024 scheduled on April 26, PM Narendra Modi’s stronghold Hindi heartland states are emanating signals that they are heading for a clipping of his poll ambitions. BJP’s performance in the first phase of...
Election Commission Is Deaf Of Hearing And Voiceless To Boot
By Sushil Kutty The second phase will be between ‘Mangalsutra’ and ‘Muslim’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and, to a lesser extent, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi have seen to it. The Congress manifesto mentions “encouraging Muslims” to fight for their rights, but later in the document chooses “ensuring Muslim rights”,...
