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A Desperate Modi Is Subverting Electoral Process In His Favour
By Arun Srivastava The electorate turnout being down by 4 percent in the first phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election relative to phase 1 of 2019 has three distinct messages: first, voters have outright rejected Narendra Modi’s constricted rhetoric on polarisation of Hindu votes; second, youths have lost faith...
BJP Can’t Escape Loss Of Seats In Rajasthan Despite All Hypes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lok Sabha election in Rajasthan would conclude in the second phase of election on April 26.BJP is contesting on its own with a belief that the party would be easily able to win all the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state, but the party...
BJP Placed Comfortably In Assam As INDIA Bloc Partners Fail To Fight Jointly
By Ashis Biswas Despite her best efforts, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s elaborate campaign to project her Trinamool Congress (TMC) party as the strongest, most credible political alternative to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam, has once more run into trouble. . Barely four days after her...
Electronic Warfare Escalates In Middle East With Microwave Missiles
By Girish Linganna Early on during its wildcat strike on Israel on October 7 last year, Hamas carried out coordinated drone attacks on Israeli watchtowers and security cameras designed to blindfold the Israel Defense Forces’ surveillance of Gaza, making it easier for its armed assailants to infiltrate Israel and...
Government Weighs Stake Sale In Some Public Sector Banks With Low Public Float
NEW DELHI: The Centre may disinvest minority stakes in five public sector banks (PSBs) if they fail to comply with the minimum public shareholding (MPS) norm by raising fresh capital from the market in a year, official sources told FE. According to the Securities and Exchange Board of India...
Once Adani-Heavy, Eight FPIs Look To Settle With SEBI
MUMBAI: More than half a dozen foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) that owned substantial stakes in Adani Group firms are looking to settle securities violation matters with markets regulator Sebi, said people familiar with the matter. They have agreed to pay a certain amount as fines, the people said. The...
Majority Of Top-100 Firms Making Disclosures About Carbon Emissions: PwC
NEW DELHI: Supplementing the efforts of the Indian government to achieve a net-zero emission target by 2070, as many as 51 per cent of the top-100 companies have started making disclosures on a voluntary basis about carbon emissions, says a PwC India survey. The survey further said that about...
FDI Reform 2.0 Banking, Defence, Insurance On Table
NEW DELHI: The government is examining if foreign direct investment norms (FDI) for banking, insurance and defence can be further liberalised, after rules were relaxed for the space and satellite sectors recently. Officials said that although the bulk of the heavy lifting in terms of FDI reforms has been...
Tech Start-Ups Can Seek Dot Nod Directly For Beta Testing Services: TRAI
MUMBAI: Soon tech start-ups can start testing their services and products on a telecom network without getting into a bilateral deal with a specific operator. The telecom regulator has suggested that a start-up with interesting products and services that will benefit users at large can seek direct permission from...
India Role During G-20 Presidency Appreciated At IMF and WB Meeting
WASHINGTON: During the annual Spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank there was a widespread appreciation of the role played by India during its G-20 presidency in building consensus on a range of key global issues, a top Indian official has said. India hosted the G20 Summit...
India Becoming A Convenient Hub For Travel Between South East Asia & Middle East
CHENNAI: India is slowly becoming a convenient hub for travel between Southeast Asia and the Middle East as airlines prefer to transfer people by connecting through Indian cities, a top industry official said. There is huge growth in India and many domestic routes are used by airlines for connectivity,...
Centre Aims To Make India Attractive Destination For Manufacturing, Services: Nirmala Sitharaman
AHMEDABAD: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the Centre has tailored policies to make India an attractive destination for manufacturing and services, and the aim was to produce not just for the domestic market but for exports as well. She was responding to a query on American...
Direct Tax Collections Exceed Estimates In FY24; Jump 18 Per Cent To Rs 19.58 Lakh Crore
NEW DELHI: India’s net direct tax collections surged by a massive 17.7 per cent year-on-year to Rs 19.58 crore in the fiscal year ended March 2024, surpassing even revised estimates by a wide margin, the tax department said on Sunday. Net collections of income and corporate taxes, which make...
Gems, Jeweller Exports In FY24 Dip By 12.17 Per Cent To Rs 2.65 Lakh Crore: GJEPC
MUMBAI: Gems and jewellery exports declined by 12.17 per cent to Rs 2,65,187.95 crore (USD 32,022.08 million) during 2023-24, compared to the previous financial year due to high interest rates in the US and slow recovery in China, Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) data showed. Gems and...
Storm over Modi’s remark on Muslims as national burden
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election speech in Rajasthan’s Banswara has raised a controversy over his references to Muslims, with leaders of the Opposition bloc INDIA calling the speech an attempt to divert attention from “real issues”. “This ‘urban Naxal’ mindset, mothers and sisters, they will not even leave your...
For India, Any Escalation Of Israel-Iran War Is Bad For The Country’s Economy
By Girish Linganna As the polling for the 18th Indian Lok Sabha elections began on April 19, New Delhi is closely monitoring the growing conflict between Iran and Israel. The situation in the Middle East is creating risks for energy, security, and trade that could affect India, now the...
Oil Market Nerves Calmed After Israeli Retaliation Pushes Prices To Weekly Peak
By K Raveendran A sudden spike in the oil price in the wake of Israel’s retaliatory missile attack on Iran seemed to have upset the calculations of a relative stability in the crude oil market, but the unexpected development, both in terms of the retaliation and its market impact,...
To Protect Democracy, Trust In Election Commission Is Imperative
By Arun Srivastava While pushing the EVM button, the voters who turned up in large numbers at the polling booths in the first phase of the Lok Sabha 2024 elections, overwhelmingly showed their choice and preference for the INDIA bloc and especially Congress. However, they were fairly sceptical of...
