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Stalin on Sunday said it is only through unity that the opposition can defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and oust the «fascist» BJP to form a federal India. In his message at the INDIA bloc's rally here, he said the arrest of former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal shows the BJP's «growing desperation in the face of imminent defeat». His message was read out by DMK leader in Rajya Sabha Tiruchi Siva, who represented the party at the rally. Siva expressed hope that the national flag would be unfurled by the leaders of the INDIA bloc at the Red Fort on this year's Independence Day.

employment intensity of manufacturing is declining, and it will need to be buttressed by services, where India has an advantage over its East Asian neighbours. Services also have a bigger impact than manufacturing on reducing job market inequity such as gender, age and social bias.

AAP workers and supporters attended the INDIA bloc rally in large numbers at the Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, many of them wearing yellow-coloured T-shirts with «Mai bhi Kejriwal» and «Modi ka sabse bada dar Kejriwal» printed on them. Top INDIA bloc leaders gathered at the Ramlila Maidan to express solidarity with arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, and urged people to vote out the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls to «save democracy and the Constitution». «Arvind Kejriwal who always talks about education, providing free electricity, free bus services for women has been sent behind the bars,» said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP worker Kewal Singh, a resident of Taran Taran village. He was dressed up as Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann at the rally. «The rally is being organised to end dictatorship and save democracy,» said Kulwinder Singh, an AAP worker from Delhi.

Fighter ( ₹199.96 crore), Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya ( ₹81.61 crore) and Yodha ( ₹30.70 crore) - performed well below par. By contrast, in January-March of 2023, Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan was a blockbuster success, becoming the first Hindi language film to cross the ₹500-crore mark at the domestic box office. Two Tamil films - Vijay’s Varisu and Ajith-starrer Thunivu - were also big hits, each earning over ₹170 crore.

PDM Nyay Morcha, calling it a front to bring justice to Pichda (backwards), Dalits and Muslims. This is similar to PDA -- an acronym for Pichda, Dalit and Alpasankhyak (minorities) -- coined by the former Apna Dal (K) ally Samajwadi Party.

₹11.1 trillion in FY25, budget documents showed. Emails sent to the finance ministry and the rural development ministry seeking their comments remained unanswered till press time. In FY24, the total spending for rural jobs is projected to be ₹86,000 crore, slightly below ₹90,806 crore spent in FY23.

record-setting momentum, marking its second-best March performance ever, led by brisk sales activity and robust demand despite higher mortgage rates and escalating property prices. The significance of performance is underscored by its second-place ranking, closely following March 2021, when the market received substantial support through a halving of stamp duty rates, intended to bolster business activity in the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The country’s commercial capital has witnessed the registration of over 14,145 properties during the month, up 7.5% from a year ago. Revenue collection through stamp duty charges, however, declined 8.1% to Rs 1,125 crore, according to data from the inspector general of registration in Maharashtra.

Sadanand Vasant Date, who bravely fought terrorists during the 26/11 Mumbai attack, on Sunday took over the reins of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), according to an official statement. Date, a 1990 batch Indian Police Service officer of Maharashtra cadre, succeeded Dinkar Gupta, who superannuated on Sunday. Before joining the NIA, Date was serving as the chief of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Maharashtra. He has held several important positions in Maharashtra, including thoseof Police Commissioner of Mira-Bhayandar Vasai-Virar, Joint Commissioner Law and order, and Joint Commissioner Crime Branch Mumbai, said the statement issued by the NIA.

soft-boiled egg, the ball is raised to the other end of the rod and released. It hits the mould with a force of 0.6867 Newtons, just enough to crack the eggshell so the top comes off cleanly and the contents can be dug out and eaten. Germans aren’t alone in their love for soft-boiled eggs; Singapore’s kopitiam (coffee-shop) style eggs are served with a dash of soy sauce and pepper. France has many recipes structured around oeufs mollets, most notably one which suspends them in savoury jelly. Scotch eggs envelop them with minced meat. Japanese ramen includes a soft-boiled egg whose creaminess subtly helps enrich the broth. Indians eat eggs scrambled with onions, tomatoes and coriander, or stir-fried with kheema. We hard boil and cook them in curries. We make them into omelettes, stuff them into rolls, or dunk them in gravy. We fry and serve them with cheese and chillies on toast in the newly-popular Eggs Kejriwal. We make bizarre variations (fried with Fanta!) that are condemned or celebrated on social media. What we don’t like is to just soft-boil them.

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: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the conferment of the Bharat Ratna on BJP stalwart L K Advani is a recognition of his enduring contributions to the nation's progress. President Murmu conferred the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, on former deputy prime minister Advani at his residence here earlier on Sunday. Modi sat next to Advani as the President honoured the veteran leader. Besides Modi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and Advani's family members attended the ceremony.

heavy rain a part of ceiling outside the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati collapsed. Rain waters were gushing through the ceiling of the airport. Sources said there was no injuries. Trees were uprooted and approach road to airport was closed. India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasted that thunderstorms with lightning and moderate to heavy rainfall are likely to lash Assam along with other northeastern states till April 4.

INDIA bloc held a massive rally here on Sunday against the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi kickstarted the NDA Lok Sabha campaign from Meerut in west Uttar Pradesh with a public meeting where he alleged that the Opposition has formed a coalition to protect the corrupt while he has ensured that those engaged in huge corruption are put behind bars. “In the last ten years, the country has seen that we have started the fight against corruption, we have ensured that no middleman is able to steal money from the poor… I am fighting against corruption and because of this, some people are facing problems… Modi’s mantra is remove corruption and they say ‘save the corrupt’. This election is between the NDA, which is fighting against corruption and the other group, which is fighting to save the corrupt,” he said at the joint rally of NDA partners. He took digs at the Opposition on corruption and the formation of INDI Alliance to fight him.

British International Investment is looking to raise exposure to India's affordable housing finance and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) spaces, sectors that receive continuous government support and have shown significant improvements in asset quality metrics. The UK's development finance institution said that it has a strong pipeline on both debt and equity investment in these two sectors and that it is looking for innovative ideas for funding. «We are currently pushing funding into two big areas. One is affordable housing and the other is MSME finance. There is a third area which is microfinance,» BII's director and head of financial services business in South Asia, Gaurav Malhotra, told ET.

NTPC on Sunday said it has logged an all-time high annual electricity generation of 422 billion units in 2023-24. During 2023-24, the NTPC coal stations recorded a plant load factor (PLF, or capacity utilisation) of 77 per cent, NTPC said in a statement. According to the statement, NTPC Ltd, India's largest power generating company, recorded its highest-ever yearly generation of 422 billion units in 2023-24, registering a growth of nearly 6 per cent over 2022-23. The company had on September 1, 2023 recorded the highest-ever single-day generation of 1,428 million units.

ALSO READ: Tomorrow's IPL Match: MI vs RR; who’ll win Mumbai vs Rajasthan match? Fantasy team, pitch report, and more In the IPL tournaments, MI and RR have faced each other 28 times, where MI have won 15 of those and Rajasthan 12. One match between the two ended in a tie. MI's highest total against RR so far is 214, and RR’s highest score against MI is 212.

'important piece of Bharat' has caused troubles for Tamil Nadu's "fishermen brothers and sisters". In a video posted on Sunday, he trained guns on the Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) for "colluding in the ceding of Katchatheevu by Sri Lanka". Several BJP leaders, including top leadership such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Finance Minister Nirmatharaman reacted to the report, slamming the Congress.

₹5,144 crore, as per the company’s latest filings sourced from Tofler. While the company grew its total income 71% to ₹718 crore during the year, the growth in advertising—a key revenue stream—appears to be slowing down. To understand the way forward for the company, and if it can survive, we spoke to former and current employees, investors, market watchers and ShareChat’s current bosses—Sachdeva and Manohar Charan, the chief financial officer (CFO).

Zomato received a GST demand order worth ₹23.26 crore for FY 2018-19 from Karnataka tax authorities. Further INDIA bloc leaders assembled at Ramlila Maidan in solidarity with Kejriwal, Soren. CUET-UG also extended application deadline till April 5.

Mint's editor-in-chief Ravi Krishnan at the Mint India Investment Summit 2024. In a fireside chat, Sitharaman also said that though the Centre-state relationship has been highly politicised recently, it hasn't deteriorated. The finance minister emphasised that states such as Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal would have to become the engine of India’s growth.

Narendra Modi, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Sunday said she would like to tell him that the message of Lord Ram's life is that power is not permanent and arrogance gets shattered. In her remarks before reading out the INDIA bloc's demands at a rally at the Ramlila Maidan here, Priyanka Gandhi said, «I have been coming to the Ramlila Maidan since childhood. Every year Ravan's effigy is burnt.» «When I was a kid, I used to come (here) with my grandmother Indira Gandhi Ji. She used to narrate Ram's 'jeevan gaatha' to me. Those in power today call themselves Ram bhakts. When I was sitting here, I thought that I should say something to them in this context,» the Congress general secretary said. Priyanka Gandhi said she thinks that those in power today are besotted with showoff and she wants to remind them of the thousands of years old tale and its message.