(FE) A team of Indian officials will be in the UK this week to resume negotiations on the free trade agreement, after a brief stalemate. The idea is to resolve a few pending issues and sew up the deal without any more delays, a senior official said Monday. The visit of the Indian delegation comes a month after both sides decided to take a pause in negotiations when Indian elections were announced on March 15. At that time the 14th round of negotiations were on. “Team is going this week. Some of them have already gone. Our deputy chief negotiator…
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(Telegraph) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said during Narendra Modi’s tenure as prime minister, India’s borders have become safer and respect for the country has increased in the world. He was speaking at a public rally at Hinganghat town in Maharashtra’s Wardha district to campaign for BJP candidate Ramdas Tadas in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Under PM Modi’s leadership, the NDA govt wants to make India a global power, Adityanath said. “During Modi’s tenure as PM, country’s borders have become safer, respect for India has increased in world,” he said.
(MC) Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) approved the initial public offer (IPO) of Blackstone-backed Aadhar Housing Finance, showed the market regulator’s site on April 8. This confirms Moneycontrol’s April 5 story about Blackstone-backed Aadhar Housing Finance getting the SEBI nod after its refiled its draft initial share sale documents on February 2. The proposed IPO will combine a fresh issue of shares of up to Rs 1,000 crore and an offer-for-sale component of as much as Rs 4,000 crore. Blackstone will dilute its stake as part of the share sale, reported Moneycontrol. The affordable home financier had previously filed papers for…
Your Friends Theatre performed “Shadi ka Laddoo” on last Saturday i.e. April 6th in Blank Canvas LTG Mandi House, showcased a collection of three engaging stories spanning the genres of drama, comedy, and suspense, all centered around husband and wife relationships. Under the direction of Vivek Awasthi, the talented cast Sapna Tyagi, Vivek Pradhan, Shivani Subhash Sharma, Vivek Awasthi himself, along with Karan Rao, Savita Rao and Tarun Yaduvanshi, delivered stellar performances, seamlessly transitioning between the varying tones of the stories. Music was created by Arjun Verma and crew consisted of Anup Mahanty, Saurabh Pandey, and Himanshu Sharma. “Shadi ka Laddoo”…
(FE) As widely expected, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)-led Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) maintained the repo rate at 6.5 percent on Friday, given concerns about inflation. It is the seventh consecutive time that the central bank committee has kept the key lending rate unchanged. The repo rate, the rate at which the RBI lends to banks, remains a crucial parameter in this context. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has consistently underscored the central bank’s commitment to steering inflation towards the 4 percent target. Despite February witnessing volatile food inflation, core inflation, excluding food and fuel, has exhibited a downward trajectory. However,…
(IE) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed a meeting in Mathura to garner support for actress Hema Malini, the BJP’s candidate from the Lok Sabha constituency, and hit out at the Opposition parties, urging people “not to waste votes on them”. Adityanath also alluded to the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah mosque dispute. “Humne Kashi, Ayodhya ka kaam pura kar liya hai…ab hume pura focus Brij Bhoomi par karna hai. Dikatte ayengi nyalaya aur doosri jagah se bhi, lekin ant mein jeet hamari hogi (We have completed our tasks in Kashi and Ayodhya and now our total focus will be on…
(PTI) हिमाचल प्रदेश के चंबा जिले में बृहस्पतिवार को 5.3 तीव्रता का भूकंप आया और उत्तर भारत के कई हिस्सों में इसके झटके महसूस किये गये। राष्ट्रीय भूकंप विज्ञान केंद्र ने बताया कि भूकंप का झटका रात नौ बजकर 34 मिनट पर महसूस किया गया।
(TH) Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL), a special purpose vehicle created by the government for building and operating strategic petroleum reserves in the country, has invited bids for constructing 2.5 million tonnes of underground storage at Padur in Karnataka, according to the tender document. ISPRL had in the first phase built a strategic petroleum reserve in underground unlined rock caverns for storage of 5.33 million tonnes of crude oil at three locations Visakhapatnam (1.33 million tonnes) in Andhra Pradesh and Mangalore (1.5 million tonnes) and Padur (2.5 million tonnes) in Karnataka. Under Phase-II, it intends to build a commercial…
(PTI) सुरक्षा बलों ने शुक्रवार को जम्मू-कश्मीर के बारामूला जिले में नियंत्रण रेखा के पास घुसपैठ की कोशिश को नाकाम करते हुए एक आतंकवादी को ढेर कर दिया। अधिकारियों ने यह जानकारी दी। उन्होंने बताया कि सेना के जवानों ने जिले के उरी इलाके में सबुरा नाला रुस्तम में नियंत्रण रेखा पर संदिग्ध गतिविधियां देखीं और घुसपैठियों को ललकारा।
(MC) Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL), the country’s largest fuel retailer, relaunched tenders for its maiden green hydrogen plant to be set up in Panipat, with the bidding process set to begin on April 15, according to the tender document seen by Moneycontrol. The revised new tender issued earlier in March, seems to address concerns raised by developers regarding discriminatory clauses. In February, the state-run oil marketing company cancelled the tender after a group of renewable energy firms moved court amid allegations that the nation’s largest fuel retailer made “tailored” tender norms favouring a joint venture that included IOCL. The revised tender has…