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Farmers are blocking highways and holding demonstrations in many rural areas in northern India to protest over a range of grievances that have also led tens and thousands to march toward the capital

NEW DELHI : The government is finalizing a carrot-and-stick approach to ensure that mining companies move swiftly towards production at mineral blocks awarded to them at auctions, and to make delays unpalatable. The stick first: delays in work at every milestone within an overall timeline will attract penalties. And the carrot: if delays in meeting milestones are overcome in the full course of the project development, the penalties paid will be adjusted, two people aware of the development said.

Farmers have always lived by the whim of nature, but fickle regulation they find more difficult to accept

Eni says drilling to appraise a third natural gas discovery in waters off Cyprus shows the commitment of the Italian energy company and its French partner TotalEnergies to swiftly develop the deposit and bolster energy supply to Europe

Truckers are staging protests on busy highways outside of Mexico City to protest the wave of killings of drivers during highway robberies

Greek farmers angry at high production costs say they will step up a roadblock campaign and take their protests to Athens, after rejecting government-proposed concessions

₹2,035 on the NSE during pre-open trade on Friday, driven by a significant block deal worth ₹1,100 crore. Approximately 60 lakh shares were traded in this substantial transaction, according to a report by CNBC TV18. Also read: TVS Motor market cap surpasses ₹1 lakh crore mark, share price hits 52-week high A foreign entity acted as the seller in the Data Patterns block deal, while a group of foreign institutional investors (FII) and domestic institutional investors (DII) were among the anticipated buyers, as per sources quoted by the report.

Bharat Bandh: Two farmers' unions, including the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) have called for Bharat Bandh on February 16, to get their demands fulfilled. Delhi alone is expecting to have lost around ₹300 crore in business amid the ongoing protests, according to Praveen Khandelwal, the national secretary general of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT).

Lok Sabha privileges committee summoned Chief Secretary BP Gopalika, DGP Rajeev Kumar and other officials, a six member BJP’s Fact-Finding team, comprising two Union Ministers and four MPs, were stopped at Rampur, on their way to Sandeshkhali on Friday. The Committee urged the police to allow them but the area was barricaded and cordoned off. The team said they will meet Governor CV Ananda Bose in Kolkata today and complain to him on the issue. Apart from DGP Kumar and Gopalika, North 24 Parganas DM, Basirhat SP and additional SP have also been summoned for «oral evidence» in Delhi on Monday, based on a complaint of police brutality which led to Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar injuries in Taki “What else can the state government do? The government wants to suppress the fact and so they stopped us. We have come here to give justice to the people,” Union Minister of States (MoS)-Education Annapurna Devi said.

₹208 crore and involves the construction of Blocks D1 & D2 (SEZ) at the Embassy Manyata Business Park Campus, Bangalore. With this new order, the total order book of the company as on date stands at ₹3,165 crore, as per the company's exchange filing. Also Read: Vibhor Steel Tubes IPO allotment to be out soon; GMP rises, steps to check Vibhor Steel IPO allotment status B L Kashyap & Sons Ltd.

(Reuters) — Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) plans to launch an artificial intelligence tool for completing lines of software code, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

The trading pairs involving First Digital USD (FDUSD) have seen a surge in trading volume on Binance, reaching its highest share ever in spot trading volume on the exchange.

PTI. The authorities have managed to curtail the 'Delhi Chalo' agitation by farmers from Punjab at the state's border with Haryana. However, farmer leaders have said a meeting will be held with three Union ministers in Chandigarh on February 15.

Cetera has just deepened its bench of talent by drafting a seasoned advisor to its ranks.

A longshot bid to temporarily double a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions for most married couples went down to defeat in the House

Vedanta Ltd promoter is in talks to sell a partial stake in the mining major to Rajiv Jain-led GQG Partners in a deal worth $1 billion, ETNow news channel reported, quoting sources. The final talks for a potential stake sale have already taken place, and the transaction may take place in a few days in the form of a block deal, the news channel reported.

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BPCL ESPS Trust on Wednesday sold a 0.3% stake in Bharat Petroleum Corporation through the open market for around Rs 400 crore. The trust sold 68,36,948 shares at Rs 584 apiece, block deals data showed. Shares of the state-owned oil refiner ended 7.3% higher on the National Stock Exchange at Rs 626.95.

Rommelia Asuncion’s older sister.Rommelia and her five-month-old baby girl, Morgyn Rose Asuncion-Massicotte, were found in the basement apartment of the home they rented on Mackay Drive in Richmond Hill on Feb. 1, just after 4 p.m.Also found dead in the apartment, Rommelia’s common-law husband and the father to her child, 41-year-old Joshuah Lawrence Massicotte.

World Health Organization on Wednesday warned that an Israeli military offensive against Rafah in southern Gaza would cause an «unfathomable catastrophe» and push the enclave's health system closer to the brink of collapse. «Military activities in this area, this densely populated area, would be, of course, an unfathomable catastrophe… and would even further expand the humanitarian disaster beyond imagination,» said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for Gaza and the West Bank.

health insurance scheme at the AIIMS here since September 2018, with a majority of the patients seeking treatment in the departments of medical oncology followed by ophthalmology, general medicine, orthopaedics and neurosurgery. As far as complex surgeries are concerned, 730 procedures for congenital heart diseases have been performed followed by 557 total hip replacements and 148 total knee replacements under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY). According to data provided by the AIIMS, 5,179 beneficiaries availed benefits of the scheme under medical oncology followed by 4,275 under the department of ophthalmology, 3,169 under general medicine, 2,260 under orthopaedics and 2,223 under neurosurgery till January 24. «The AIIMS, Delhi proudly announces the successful and effective implementation of the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (ABPMJAY) scheme. AIIMS has a centralised Ayushman Bharat Kendra located near gate no 1 which runs 24x7 for the smooth implementation of the scheme,» the hospital said in a statement.