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Bihar business summit: MoUs signed for Rs 50,530 crore investment

Stating that the Centre should grant special status to Bihar to ensure faster growth, minister said state govt's focus is on food processing, leather, textiles and IT, among other sectors

No proposal to provide subsidy on import duty on EVs into India yet: Govt

The govt has also taken various steps to boost domestic and foreign investments in India to enhance local value addition under Make in India initiative, the MoS said in a written reply to Lok Sabha

Govt not considering any proposal to take over Vodafone Idea: MoS

To a question on whether the government has any plan to take over Vodafone Idea, Chauhan said, "No such proposal is under consideration in the Department"

Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages plans to invest Rs 3,000 crore in Gujarat

HCCB already operates facilities at Goblej in Kheda district and Sanand in Ahmedabad district

Winter Session: Parliament clears bill to repeal 76 outdated, obsolete laws

In December last year, the government introduced the Repealing and Amending Bill to cull 65 old laws. But the bill could not come up for discussion in subsequent sessions

US conducted countervailing probe on certain Indian goods: MoS Commerce

Countervailing duty is a country-specific duty imposed to safeguard the domestic industry against unfair trade subsidies provided by the local governments of the exporting nations

Russia asks India to keep in mind old ties, help from Soviets in 1971

Maintaining that India has the right to pursue its own interests, Russia's Consul General said Moscow will "appreciate" if India keeps certain facets of the Indo-Russian ties in mind

UltraTech to have 85% green energy mix by 2030 to meet sustainability goals

As an interim target for its sustainability objectives and targets, the AV Birla Group company plans to increase its total green energy share from its current 22 per cent to 60 per cent by FY26

OPS to restrict states' capacity to undertake development activities: RBI

The central bank's report said the return to the Old Pension Scheme by a few states, and reports of some other states moving in the same direction would exert a huge burden on state finances

Crop residue burning must stop, monitoring needed to check pollution: SC

Observing that farm fires were still significant, a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia directed the state governments concerned to take steps to curb pollution

Happened despite 5 layer security: Eyewitnesses recall Lok Sabha incident

An eyewitness who was sitting at the public gallery said that while some Lok Sabha MPs were chasing the protesters, a smoke canister was thrown by one of them inside the House

$5 trillion economy goal for 2025 nearly impossible: Raghuram Rajan

India retained the tag of the world's fastest-growing major economy, with its GDP expanding by a faster-than-expected rate of 7.6 per cent in the July-September quarter

Rajasthan urban body, panchayati raj institution bypolls to be held in Jan

According to this, the voting and counting of votes for the by-election of sarpanch and panch will be held on January 10, 2024, and the election of up-sarpanch will be held on January 11, 2024

Accused was seeking Parliament pass from Simha for over 3 months: Report

Manoranjan D, one of the accused, introduced co-accused Sagar Sharma as a friend to the MP's office and got passes issued to them on the pretext of watching the new Parliament

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla orders probe into security lapse in House

Birla lauded the Lok Sabha members, security personnel, chamber staff, and marshals for rising to the occasion and capturing the perpetrators

Pakistan's ex-PM Imran Khan, his aide Qureshi indicted in cipher case

Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqernain conducted the proceedings of the case in the Adiala Jail Rawalpindi where the two leaders have been incarcerated in the case

SIP collection up Rs 1.66 trn in 2023, lower ticket size to push inflow

At present, SIP instalment amount can be as small as Rs 500 per month

M3M India targets Rs 5,000 cr revenue from 333-acre township in Haryana

Realty firm M3M India on Wednesday said it is targeting 5,000 crore in revenue from its 333-acre township in Panipat.

FM introduces GST bill to raise age limit of president appellate tribunals

The president and members of the GSTAT would be eligible for re-appointment for a period of two years subject to the age limit of 70 and 67, respectively, as per the amended bill

No uncontrolled situation in Sabarimala: Vijayan amid mismanagement claims

Pilgrims from neighbouring states who could not visit the shrine earlier due to the flood in Chennai and the assembly election in Telangana are now coming in large numbers, he explained