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Why Is 2024 Lok Sabha Poll So Crucial For Defending The Secular Fabric Of India?
By D. Raja The elections for the18th Lok Sabha are taking place in a context which is extremely crucial for our country. A lot depends on how our country will decide about the survival of our Constitution and Parliamentary democracy. A plethora of rhetoric and empty promises are going...
India Should Take Fresh Approach To Improve Relations With Maldives
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The 93-member Maldivian Parliament, People’s Majlis, is now having the supermajority (more than three-fourths of total seats) of the People’s National Congress (PNC), the party that President Mohamed Muizzu belongs to. In the general elections on Sunday, PNC won 71 seats out of 93. Together...
$95 Billion Weapons Bills Will Prolong Deadly Wars In Ukraine And Gaza
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON : Splitting President Joe Biden’s bonus war budget bill into several pieces proved to be the winning formula to getting (most of) it passed in the House after months of trying to clear the package as a whole repeatedly hit a wall. In a series...
Government Steps Up Vigil On Soaring Food Prices
NEW DELHI: The government is taking a slew of steps to rein in prices of food items, given that even the latest retail food inflation print was higher than projected by the Reserve Bank of India. The new set of measures come at a time when projections of “above-normal”...
Centre Studying Innovative Ways To Boost Infra Funding
NEW DELHI: The government is exploring policy mechanisms to capture the increase in land value resulting from road projects, including auctioning exits at greenfield expressways and ‘betterment’ levy, as it looks to ramp up funding for infrastructure creation, a senior official told ET. In this regard, the roads ministry...
Lenders Look To Reduce Personal Loan Portfolio
MUMBAI: In the aftermath of the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) measures on unsecured consumer credit, banks and non-bank lenders are looking to reduce their personal loan portfolios. This will lead to a fall in the personal loan mix within the overall co-lending assets under management, say experts. “Considering the...
RIL Q4 Profit Falls 1.8% To Rs 18,951 Crore, Rs 10 Dividend Announced
MUMBAI: Missing analysts’ estimate, Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) on Monday reported a 1.8 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) decline in its consolidated net profit (attributable to the owners of the company) for the quarter ended March 2024 (Q4FY24) because of higher tax expenses. At Rs 18,951 crore, the...
More Than 70% Global Workers Exposed To Climate Change Risks: ILO
More than 70% of the global workforce is exposed to risks linked to climate change that cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Monday, adding governments would need to act as the numbers rise. Workers, especially the world’s poorest, are more...
India’s Major Ports See 5% Rise In Traffic In FY24, Driven By Iron Ore Exports, Coking Coal Imports
NEW DELHI: India’s major ports saw a 5 per cent-odd y-o-y increase in cargo traffic, including container movement, to 819.3 million tonnes (mt), driven by rising iron ore exports and increasing coking coal imports. Cargo traffic in the earlier fiscal (FY23) was 784.3 mt, data by the Indian Ports...
HP Inc Partners With Indo-MIM For Metal 3d Parts Production, Expect Nearly 40% Growth In India
BENGALURU: HP Inc has partnered with Metal Injection Molding (MIM) company Indo-MIM to mass produce metal 3D parts in India. The company is looking at a nearly 40 per cent growth in India, said Savi Baveja, President of Personalisation and 3D Printing, HP. With HP’s 3D Binder Jet technology,...
Over 2.5 Lakh Cars Sold Every Week In 2023, E-Car Sales To Reach 17 Million Globally In 2024
CHENNAI: Electric car sales keep rising and could reach about 17 million in 2024, accounting for more than one in five cars sold worldwide, according to a report ‘The Global EV Outlook 2024 by the International Energy Agency (IEA). In 2023, global sales of electric cars reached close to...
India Is Fourth Largest Military Spender In World
India is the fourth largest military spender in the world with its military expenditure 83.6 billion dollars in year 2023. This is 4.2 per cent higher than in 2022, said the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in its annual report released on Monday. The biggest spender is USA...
NSDC, ISKCON To Provide Vocational Training To Underprivileged Youth
NEW DELHI: In a groundbreaking collaboration aimed at empowering marginalized communities, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is all set to provide vocational training to tribal and underprivileged youth across multiple states. The strategic partnership will initially focus on skilling youth...
Questions over credibility of Election Commission: Brinda
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat raised questions about the credibility of the Election Commission of India (ECI) following what she calls “a shocking statement” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to Ms Karat, the Prime Minister’s words violated Indian laws against inciting communal enmity and hate...
Narendra Modi’s Vicious Attack On Muslims Misquoting Manmohan Is A Blatant Violation Of Model Code
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vicious attack against the Muslims, the largest minority community in the country at the election rally in Rajasthan on Sunday misquoting a statement of former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in 2006, has crossed all limits of the Election Commission’s Model Code...
The Current Heatwave May Spoil The Election Tempo, Result Predictions
By Nantoo Banerjee The current heatwave seems to have far overtaken the ongoing Lok Sabha election wave with political combinations such as the NDA and the INDIA are increasingly uncertain about their positions as the heatwave is certain to have an impact on the participation of voters in the...
Artificial Intelligence Has Become A Dominant Tool Of Poll Campaigning In 2024
By Kalyani Shankar Artificial Intelligence, a game-changer in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, has revolutionised traditional campaign strategies. The era of candidates personally visiting voters’ homes and engaging in conversations over tea, even after a five-year hiatus, has given way to a more technologically advanced approach. In the 2014...
Prime Minister Losing Steam As The Going Gets Hot In Ongoing Polls
By Sushil Kutty “Infiltrators” from Bangladesh and Myanmar weren’t evicted in 10 years of muscular Modi rule. Instead, large numbers of the “termites” were beneficiaries of Modi’s welfare schemes including free monthly rations, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Modi’s LPG, Modi’s LED bulbs and Modi’s jan-dhan yojana bank accounts. So,...
