Wholesale inflation accelerated to 5.13% in September, driven in large part by quickening inflation in the primary articles segment and stabilising food prices, according to official data released on Monday. Growth in the Wholesale Price Index quickened in September from 4.53% in August. Inflation in the primary articles category stood …
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NCLAT breather for IL&FS, subsidiaries
Infrastructure Leasing and & Financial Services (IL&FS), which is in the midst of a huge liquidity crisis, has got a one-month relief from proceedings filed against the company by banks and other creditors as the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has stayed all such proceedings against the company and …
Read More »Yameen blames defeat on ‘disappearing ink’
Outgoing Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has told the Supreme Court that disappearing ink and specially treated ballot papers were to blame for his heavy election defeat last month. The comments came as the court considered a petition by Mr. Yameen to have the September 23 election result annulled due to …
Read More »Bangladesh editors protest ‘anti-press’ law
Bangladeshi newspapers’ editors on Monday staged a protest demanding sweeping amendments to a newly-enacted digital law that journalists and rights groups say will curb freedom of expression. Critics say the measures — including prison sentences for spreading “negative propaganda” — are an attempt by an increasingly autocratic Prime Minister Sheikh …
Read More »Uncertainty plagues U.K. talks with EU over Brexit
The status of Britain’s Brexit talks with the EU continue to be governed by uncertainty as Prime Minister Theresa May stood by her rejection over the weekend of a deal being negotiated with the EU by her own officials. Speaking in Parliament on Monday, the British Prime Minister insisted that …
Read More »Bhutan’s not-so-happy evicted minority
The Himalayan nation of Bhutan, often described as a “Shangri-La” where happiness is equated to wealth, is holding elections this week. But the Lhotshampa people, brutally driven out of the small kingdom in the 1990s, won’t be voting. The Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa were branded as immigrants and stripped of citizenship rights …
Read More »U.K.’s Brexit talks with EU take a dramatic turn
Britain’s Brexit talks with the EU took another dramatic turn over the weekend as — faced with growing opposition from within her own party ranks, some Cabinet ministers and Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party — Prime Minister Theresa May rejected terms of a deal being negotiated by her own officials …
Read More »‘Rogue killers could be behind Khashoggi disappearance’
Trump speaks to Saudi King; says he denied any knowledge on missing scribe Turkish investigators were to search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Monday for the first time since journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared, as King Salman denied any knowledge of his fate in talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. …
Read More »Chinese troops briefly came to Indian side in Dibang Valley in Arunachal
Chinese Army men made a brief incursion in July A group of Chinese Army personnel briefly came to the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control in Dibang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh on July 25 but returned after Indian security personnel objected to it, official sources said. They said …
Read More »Bharat Net project on track: Telecom Minister
Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha on Monday said the work on the second phase of implementing the Bharat Net project was on track. The Bharat Net project aims to bring broadband connectivity to 2.5 lakh gram panchayats in the country. “We have completed approximately 50% of the project… the work has …
Read More »‘12 courts set up to try MPs and MLAs’
The Supreme Court has upped the ante on the States, Union Territories and High Courts which have not provided it with details of criminal cases pending against sitting lawmakers, warning that their Chief Secretaries and Registrars General will be made personally liable for non-compliance. The Centre informed the court that …
Read More »High Court seeks details of deaths of lions at Gir
The Gujarat High Court has expressed serious concern about the condition of lions in Gir, where 23 lions recently succumbed to a viral infection. The deaths prompted the State government to isolate 36 wild cats and vaccinate them to prevent the spread of canine distemper virus (CDV). On Monday, the …
Read More »Ahead of climate talks, India in touch with 40 countries
To forge ties and make developed nations keep promises Ahead of the December climate talks in Katowice, Poland, India is having discussions with 40 countries, including China, to forge alliances and compel developed countries to make good on promises, made over the years, to provide enough finance and technology to …
Read More »Toiling for generations but not farmers yet
Women in agriculture face multiple challenges due to lack of land entitlements, recognition Shahjahan Begum Mehboobani grows corn, onions, tomatoes and vegetables on her three-acre plot in Dharwad district of Karnataka. She’s also a responsible member of her local gram panchayat. But without a land patta in her name, it’s …
Read More »‘Museum of PMs a distinct project’
Mahesh Sharma says it will have no connection to NMML on Teen Murti Estate The Union Culture Ministry will construct a museum on Prime Ministers on the Teen Murti Estate here within a year, Minister Mahesh Sharma said on the occasion of the project’s ground breaking ceremony here on Monday. …
Read More »Puja pandals in Kolkata remain out of bounds for the disabled
Subhankar Manna touched the messages on the walls of the pandal at Ballygunge Samaj Sevi — said to be in Braille — but could not make much sense out of them. The Durga Puja of this well-known south Kolkata club has been much touted this year for being inclusive. Therefore …
Read More »IIT-Bombay tops in QS ranking of Indian institutions
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, has topped the first-ever standalone ranking of Indian higher education institutions by QS, a think tank that is famous for bringing out world rankings of institutions. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, which tops Indian institutions in almost all rankings, stands second. The top 10 Indian …
Read More »Kashmir erupts over AMU suspensions
Protests, both from the student community and the political parties, grew in Kashmir on Monday over the Aligarh Muslim University’s move to suspend at least three Kashmiri students and lodging of cases against them. Scores of students at Kashmir University in Srinagar held a demonstration on campus. “We have assembled …
Read More »India, France in talks to conduct tri-service exercise
India and France are in discussions for a bilateral tri-service military exercise to take forward the strategic cooperation while also exploring ways to operationalise the logistics agreement. These issues were discussed during the visit of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to Paris last week. “We have agreed on a bilateral tri-service …
Read More »Top priority to employment generation, says Pawan
Accusing the State government of utterly failing in providing employment to youth, actor and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan on Monday said employment generation would be accorded top priority once his party voted to power in the ensuing elections. “We promise jobs to the eligible, scrapping the contributory pension …
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