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MUMBAI : A new and more scientific way of calculation has put India’s logistics cost much lower than before. How sharp is this drop? Mint explains the reduction, where India stands globally when it comes to the cost of logistics, and what more needs to be done. A study by the National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) commissioned by the ministry of commerce and industry has put India’s logistics cost at 7.8% to 8.9% of GDP.

Lok Sabha polls are just months away, the BJP in Kerala resumed its 'Sneha Yatra' on Thursday -an outreach programme aimed at connecting with the Christian community in the state. The saffron party initially launched the initiative during this year's Easter. In a recent state committee meeting, the party decided to resume the yatra during the Christmas season.

Ayodhya on January 22, even foreign countries have witnessed an increase in demand for replicas of the Ram Mandir models in Ayodhya. Aditya Singh, owner of the factory that is involved in the manufacturing of Ram Mandir models, said while speaking to ANI, «We have been doing this work for the past three years. Earlier, the orders used to come from within India; now they are coming from outside, as well as from multiple departments like the police, court, electricity department and CBI branch.

HT reported. It will be the second Vande Bharat Express between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. One such train travels between Chennai, Bengaluru, and Mysuru.

MPs from Parliament, Congress leader Sachin Pilot hit out at the BJP and asked if the opposition did not have the right to put forward its view. «The issue is that they are suspending the MPs. They are making different headlines...Does the Opposition not have the right to put forward its view? This action is inappropriate,» Sachin Pilot told reporters.

France has submitted its response to India's tender for buying 26 Rafale Marine jets for the Indian Navy's aircraft carriers — INS Vikrant and INS Vikramaditya. The response to India's Letter of Acceptance has been submitted by France in New Delhi, defence sources told ANI. A team of French government officials dealing with military sales to foreign countries has flown over from Paris to submit the response to Indian tender, they said. The Indian side will carry out a detailed study of the French bid for the Indian deal including the commercial offer or price for the aircraft, along with other details of the contract, they said. India will now negotiate the deal with French government officials, as it is a government-to-government contract. The Navy Chief has directed the officials to ensure that the timeframe required for the project is squeezed significantly to ensure early finalisation and induction of the planes in the inventory. More than a month ago, India delivered the Letter of Request to the French government.

Narendra Modi used Bhashini, the Government of India’s national public digital platform for languages that develops services and products for citizens by leveraging AI, at two recent public events to enable travellers and students from southern India to understand his speech. Bhashini counts among its various products and technologies, real time speech to speech machine translation, and automatic speech recognition, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi used on December 19 to interact with students in various parts of India via video conferencing.

President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed their anguish and strongly condemned the mimicry by an Opposition MP of the Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar. The prime minister called Dhankhar on Wednesday morning to express his support. Dhankhar shared details of the phone call from the prime minister on his social media handle. «Received a telephone call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, along with nine party MPs, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the new Parliament on Wednesday and submitted a memorandum urging him to release dues pending for the MGNREGA scheme and all other central schemes to the state. Banerjee said the PM has proposed that a meeting be arranged between the officials of the Centre and the state government to sort out pending issues related to the release of central funds.

joint opposition candidate from Varanasi in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections was among the proposals discussed at the fourth meeting of the INDIA bloc, sources said. At the meeting held here on Tuesday, the opposition parties agreed that some out of the box ideas were required to counter the BJP in the polls. One of the ideas discussed was to have a united opposition candidate to fight against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi, the sources said. In 2014 parliamentary polls, Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal had fought against Modi from Varanasi, and lost by a margin of 3.37 lakh votes. In 2019, there was a buzz that Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra might fight from Varanasi. However, the Congress fielded Ajay Rai while Samajwadi Party fielded Shalini Yadav.

Amit Shah on Wednesday asserted that the Modi government has delivered what it promised and highlighted the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya and enactment of the women's reservation bill as key achievements. During a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills which seek to replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act, Shah said the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has delivered key promises made in its election manifesto and abrogation of Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir was one of them.

took the political centre stage, Opposition leaders came out in support of the TMC leader. Meanwhile, BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu, condemned Banerjee's actions. 1. Jagdeep Dhankhar said he received a phone call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss pending central funds for the state. She said the prime minister proposed that officials from the state and Centre can sit together and clear the issues. Speaking to the media after the meeting in the Parliament complex along with nine party MPs, Banerjee said 155 central teams have already visited West Bengal.

It’s been almost a month since news broke of an alleged plot to assassinate pro-Khalistan figure Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the United States, with possible Indian involvement. In the weeks since, India and the US have scrambled to minimise damage to their relationship. Mint takes a look at how the two countries have responded and the impact on India-US relations.

India's steel demand will likely slow in the next financial year beginning March as a mammoth general election will delay government projects and infrastructure spending, analysts and industry executives said. Steady government spending on infrastructure projects propelled India, the world's second-biggest crude steel producer, into one of the fastest-growing markets for the alloy globally, even as world demand slackened. But steel demand is expected to grow at a modest 7%-10% in the 2024-25 fiscal year, slower than a projected 11%-12% growth in the current year to March 2024, the analysts and industry executives said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will seek a third term in the next general elections due in early 2024. Staggered voting in India's general elections, the world's largest democratic exercise, takes place for weeks. «We expect finished steel consumption in India to increase by 9% in FY25, following a 12% rise in FY24,» Fitch Ratings said. But India would still remain the main growth market globally for steel, it said. Finished steel consumption hit a five-year high between April and October as construction activity picked up and the automobile sector showed robust demand. The construction sector grew 13.3% year-on-year in the July-September quarter and posted a 7.9% growth from the previous quarter to June 2023, the highest in five quarters.

LK Advani, and Murli Manohar Joshi not to attend the consecration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya, scheduled to be held in January 2024, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Tuesday invited the former deputy prime minister Advani, and Murli Manohar Joshi to Ayodhya next month. Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) president Alok Kumar said that both BJP veterans said that they will try their best to attend the 22 January event in Ayodhya. "The pioneers of the Ram Mandir movement, Advani ji and Murli Manohar Joshi ji were invited to attend the consecration ceremony.

INDIA alliance meet gave indications that his faction of the Shiv Sena would be pushing for a coordinator of the alliance to be appointed as soon as possible and would also like a PM candidate from the INDIA opposition bloc̣. “ Before Modi whether a face needs to be given is that is there, (we first) need to have a coordinator or a convenor and if possible we have to decide this in the shortest possible time whether there could be a face in front of Modi (PM candidate)” Sources within the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) said that the party would be pushing for a coordinator to be appointed during the INDIA alliance meet and also looking for a discussion within the Opposition for a face to be decided to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi prior to the Lok Sabha polls. Uddhav’s take on a coordinator to be appointed during the INDIA bloc meeting is interesting as well as talk of having a face to take on Modi is interesting as there has been no agreement on who should be the co-ordinator or who should be the PM candidate to take on the BJP.

Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Tamil-Kashi Sangamam's version 2 at the Namo Ghat in his constituency, Varanasi. The Sangamam's inaugural version was held in 2022. However, the event this year hold significance for the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls.

Lalu Prasad on Monday bristled at the BJP's assertion that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will return for a third consecutive term, asserting that the INDIA alliance will «drive him out of power». Prasad was approached with queries by journalists at the airport, where he had reached, alongside son and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, to board a flight to Delhi for the coalition meeting on Tuesday. The ailing septuagenarian began on an ebullient note, saying he was looking forward to the meeting, where all the alliance partners will sit together and chalk out the strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Congress on Monday said Parliament is getting adjourned repeatedly as Home Minister Amit Shah «refuses» to make a statement on the Lok Sabha security breach issue which is his duty and responsibility. Soon after both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till 2 PM, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to a leading newspaper on the very serious December 13 security breach in the Lok Sabha and the Home Minister spoke to a TV channel on the issue while Parliament is in session. «INDIA parties are demanding a statement from the Home Minister in both Houses on the shocking incidents.

The Northern Railway (NR) has announced the launch of the second Vande Bharat train connecting Varanasi and New Delhi, scheduled to be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 2:15 pm today (December 18). According to the statement by the Northern Railway (NR), the train features a distinctive saffron color and introduces several new amenities.