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India’s exports up 2.14% to $36.27 billion in July; trade deficit triples
India’s exports rose by 2.14 per cent to $36.27 billion in July while the trade deficit almost tripled to $30 billion during the month, according to official data released on Friday. Imports shot up by 43.61 per cent to $66.27 billion in the month compared to July 2021, the...
‘Slap on BJP’s face, says Tejashwi after meeting Sonia
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Friday said Nitish Kumar’s decision to walk out of the NDA coalition and form the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance) government in the state was a “slap on the BJP’s face”. The statement came after the RJD leader met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and...
IRCTC shares decline despite 251% jump in June quarter revenue
IRCTC Shares Today: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) shares were trading lower in the opening trade on Thursday morning. IRCTC posted a 196 per cent surge in its net profit, at Rs 246 crore, for the quarter ending June 30, 2022-23 (Q1 FY23). It reported a net...
Stocks: Aurobindo Pharma, LIC, ONGC, Hero MotoCorp, and others
The stock market witnessed healthy performance and closed at a four-month high in the last session following a decline in US inflation for July, but overall it was a rangebound session. The BSE Sensex rallied more than 500 points to 59,333, while the Nifty50 rose 124 points to 17,659. Results...
GMP, price, risk, other details
Syrma SGS Tech IPO Opens Today: Syrma SGS Technology (SSTL) IPO opens for subscription today, August 12, 2022. The Rs 840 crore public offer will be available for subscriptions till August 18. Electronic manufacturing services firm Syrma said it has raised Rs 252 crore from anchor investors ahead of its...
Karnataka HC reinstates anti-corruption powers to Lokayukta
In a landmark judgment, Karnataka High Court on Thursday nullified the order of formation of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) by the then Congress government in 2016 headed by then chief minister Siddaramaiah. The division bench headed by Justice B. Veerappa and Justice K.S. Hemalekha gave the order while looking into...
JD-U leader says BJP will lose 40 LS seats in 3 states alone
JD(U) president Lalan Singh expressed confidence on Thursday that the BJP will be “uprooted” from power at the Centre in 2024 and will lose 40 Lok Sabha seats out of its 2019 winning tally in three states alone. Speaking to reporters after meeting Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad...
Gopinath Munde’s daughter upset with Shinde cabinet miss
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pankaja Munde on Thursday said she may not have been “qualified enough” to get a berth in the newly expanded Maharashtra cabinet. Nine ministers each from Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena faction and his ally BJP took oath during the first expansion of the...
BJP slams Cong for attacking PM on ‘black magic’ comment
After Indian Youth Congress national president uploaded images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlighting a black thread worn by him, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla on Thursday slammed the Congress calling it a “kali kartut, kali niyat wali party” (a party of dark deeds and intentions). Srinivas uploaded these images...
Thackeray gets two more weeks to submit documents to EC
The Election Commission is learnt to have given the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena 15 more days to submit documents in support of its claim on the party’s election symbol. Last month, the Election Commission had asked the rival factions of the Shiv Sena, led by Thackeray...
Tejashwi says govt will deliver on its 10 lakh jobs promise
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav has asserted that his newly formed government will deliver on the promise of providing 10 lakh jobs that he had made while spearheading the RJD’s campaign during the Bihar assembly elections in 2020. Yadav claimed that Nitish Kumar, with whom he took...
Nitish denies BJP claim he wanted to be vice-president
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has rejected claims by BJP MP and his former deputy Sushil Kumar Modi that some people in Kumar’s party sent feelers to nominate the Chief Minister for the Vice President’s post. “We supported the NDA candidates in the presidential and vice presidential elections. It’s...
CBI arrests TMC leader after skipping summons in cattle case
Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a cattle smuggling case after failing to appear for questioning twice in three days. After the CBI filed a FIR in 2020, his name came up in the case. According to the CBI, over...
Mizoram, Assam CMs to hold border talks in Delhi
Mizoram and Assam will hold chief minister-level talks in New Delhi later this month or early September to find an amicable solution to the inter-state border dispute, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday. The development came a day after the two northeastern states held a ministerial-level discussion...
Gehlot speaks to Mann in row over sewage water dumping
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Wednesday spoke to his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann over the issue of sewage water from the AAP-ruled state being dumped in the Indira Gandhi Canal Project. Gehlot said the two leaders also discussed relining work of the Sirhind Feeder canal. Talked to the Chief...
Move for change of Karnataka CM denied
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will stay in the top post at least till the next assembly election, which is less than a year away, sources in the Delhi BJP have confirmed amid much speculation on the matter in the state. There has been a buzz about a change...
Cong to get Bihar Speaker’s post, BJP ministries for RJD
Bihar’s mercurial Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is all set to take oath for the eighth time on Wednesday and will now head a coalition of seven parties, backed by an Independent. While Kumar, who split with his ally BJP for the second time in eight years, is yet to...
Akhilesh says Bihar developments a good start
The change of government in Bihar has filled the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh with ‘optimism’. SP President Akhilesh Yadav sees the BJP-JD(U) break-up as a “good start” for Indian politics. “This is the beginning of the end. It signals ‘BJP satta chhodo’ on the lines of ‘Angrezo...
