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Jammu & Kashmir: SC upholds abrogation of Article 370; asks for Assembly polls by Sept. 2024

December 11, 2023 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: Seventy-five years after Maharaja Hari Singh integrated the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir with the Indian Union, the Supreme Court on Monday sealed the matter as a fait accompli, upholding the Narendra Modi Government’s 2019 decision to legally abrogate the Article 370 and the “special status” to the restive border state that […]

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Business

Modi: With a 76% rating, the Indian PM is the most popular world leader, says a survey

December 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has once again topped the global leaders’ popularity chart, getting the highest rating of 76 percent, according to a survey. PM Modi was followed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (66 percent), Switzerland President Alain Berset (58 percent), and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da […]

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Business

Onions: Ahead of LS polls, India bans the bulb’s export until March 2024

December 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The humble onion, whose higher prices have affected election results in the past, is back in the headlines. Some months ago, the onion prices had sky-rocketed multiple times and the government had to arrange for their marketing through its channels in different places to cool down the prices. Now, ahead […]

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Business

Growth: Nirmala junks Chidambaram’s claims of jobless growth as “whimsical calculations”

December 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Tearing into the Opposition’s claims of India witnessing a ‘jobless growth,’ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday dubbed these claims as a result of “whimsical calculations” and said careful implementation of various welfare schemes by the Modi government has ensured that benefits reach the people. Slamming Congress for its claims […]

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Business

PMLA: With ED’s actions, PSBs get back over Rs.15k crore, says Sitharaman

December 5, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has confiscated assets worth Rs 15,186.64 crore under the stringent Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and almost all of these have been restituted to public sector banks (PSBs). Replying to supplementary questions in the Rajya Sabha, she said […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Concerns about the revival of the Christian v/s Muslim sentiments

December 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The election victory of an ‘anti-Muslim’ leader in the Netherlands in the West, and the Islamist terrorists bombing a Catholic mass service and killing four people in the Philippines in the east have reignited the fears of Christian versus Muslim sentiments, reminiscent of the post-9/11 apprehensions worldwide. At least four […]

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Business

Markets: BJP’s landslide win fire up bourses; Adani shares shine

December 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The world’s largest political party—Bharatiya Janata Party—not only retained its Madhya Pradesh stronghold but also wrested two other states—Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh—from its principal rival, Indian National Congress (INC), on Sunday, sending out a clear message that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would continue to lead the world’s largest democracy after the […]

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Business

Amrit Kaal: India to be a $5 trillion economy, Modi govt says in Parliament

December 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A day after the BJP retained Madhya Pradesh and wrested Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh from the Congress, and the fired-up stock markets reflected the political stability and continuity in India, the government told Parliament that South Asian country is set to become a USD 5 trillion economy during the Amrit Kaal […]

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Economy: India outperforms estimates, runs at over 7%; govt may revise projections

December 1, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In its exponential post-pandemic recovery, the world’s fastest-growing Indian economy has not only left other challengers behind, it is outperforming its own estimates, encouraging the government to rethink and possibly revise earlier projections. With the government on Thursday releasing the GDP data for the second quarter (July-September) of the current […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid US envoy’s meeting with him in jail, PTI denies Imran won’t contest party polls

November 29, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Sensing the popular support growing for Imran Khan, imprisoned since August and fighting dozens of court cases, the US Ambassador to Pakistan is reported to have met the former Prime Minister in a Rawalpindi jail to reset America’s relations with him, the media reported on Tuesday. Apparently, the US wants […]

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