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27.12 / 01:07

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Indian Railways is planning to adopt the public-private partnership (PPP) model for developing new projects, officials said, as the state-run transporter looks to share costs of large-scale infrastructure projects.

27.12 / 00:55

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The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose for the second straight week to its highest level since mid-July, reflecting a recent jump in the bond yields that lenders use as a guide to price home loans

27.12 / 00:53

COST Adventure wellness Celebrity exclusive travelers Destinations From igloos to private islands: How India’s wealthiest explored the world in 2024

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s wealthiest always travel a bit differently, seeking out locations and experiences that are less explored. This year was no different, with travel agencies working hard at sending their clients away to explore new destinations from snow-capped mountains to private islands.

26.12 / 21:29

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Microsoft Corporation intends to lessen its reliance on OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT after investing nearly $14 billion in OpenAI.

26.12 / 20:17

COST awards WhatsApp Bill Trade strain Rupee depreciation may push import bill by USD 15 bn: GTRI

26.12 / 10:03

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Elon Musk’s deputy Steve Davis has spent more than 20 years helping the billionaire cut costs at businesses like SpaceX, the Boring Company and Twitter — making the engineer by training a natural choice for his new role at Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE for short.

26.12 / 08:43

COST UPS Waters economy Food Trade information India’s budget needs to address three medium-to-long term priorities

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As we approach the new year, preparation of the annual budget is proceeding in earnest. Apart from the annual balancing of expenditure, revenues and the deficit, the next budget will hopefully address some medium-to-long term priorities, as there is no other policy document that can address these concerns in the post-Five Year Plan era.

26.12 / 04:07

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. America’s unions have had a banner year. In November 33,000 machinists returned to their stations at Boeing having won a 38% wage increase over four years.

26.12 / 01:19

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mint spoke with wealth management experts to identify their top investment picks and strategies for 2025. Financial services stocks emerged as a favourite, driven by their reasonable valuations and the potential boost from monetary stimulus, which could revive credit growth and stabilize margins.

26.12 / 01:19

COST Progressive Platform Boxing film Experts stars Bollywood projects in limbo amid financial challenges, unpredictable box office

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Several Hindi films starring popular actors have made little progress since their announcement, and continue to remain in cold storage, as producers struggle to find OTT buyers and are unsure of what will work at the box office.

25.12 / 20:09

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Andy Palmer, known as the «Godfather of EVs» for his role in developing the Nissan Leaf, the world's first mass-market electric vehicle (EV), is sharing his insight on why Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) are leading the charge in the EV race. Palmer, formerly of Nissan, tells us how China topped the West in the EV market, and why the West is lagging behind.

25.12 / 18:43

COST UPS economy awards Traffic Great expectations: Telcos draw up a long New Year wishlist

telecom operators will be looking to the government for ensuring a level playing field with global satcom companies such as Starlink and Amazon-backed Kuiper on satellite spectrum access. They are also hopeful that rules will be in place for ensuring large data traffic generators are pushed to share 5G network infrastructure costs with telcos, and OTTs are brought within the ambit of spam regulations.

25.12 / 08:45

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The US Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) in its December 2024 policy meeting has raised questions about how this move might influence India’s monetary policy and asset classes. This is the third consecutive rate cut by the Fed in 2024, bringing the benchmark interest rate to the range of 4.25%-4.50%. However, the Fed has signalled a slower pace of easing in 2025, envisioning only two rate cuts as inflation remains “somewhat elevated".

25.12 / 08:29

COST Waters Landmark consequences biodiversity Features PM Modi to inaugurate Ken-Betwa River Linking National Project: What is it and concerns surrounding the project?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Ken-Betwa River Linking National Project on Wednesday (December 25), coinciding with the 100th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The project, hailed as a landmark in India’s water resource management, also faces criticism for its potential environmental impact.

25.12 / 08:11

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25.12 / 07:15

COST security Election Bill country reports recommendations One nation, one election: An idea that calls for a good hard look

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Earlier this year, a nine-member committee led by former president Ram Nath Kovind presented an 18,626-page report recommending simultaneous assembly and Lok Sabha elections, popularly being referred to as ‘One Nation, One Election.’ It also recommended local body elections within 100 days of Lok Sabha and assembly elections. There have been recent debates around the proposed One Nation, One Election bill, officially titled The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment Bill), 2024.

25.12 / 06:53

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NATHEALTH has asked the government to address systemic gaps such as acute shortage of medical specialists, escalating cancer care costs, and inadequate hospital infrastructure to meet the demands of a growing population in the upcoming union Budget. In its pre-Budget recommendations, NATHEALTH sought increasing budgetary allocations of the healthcare sector to over 2.5 per cent of GDP and asked Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to address the growing burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, compounded by long standing challenges.

25.12 / 04:43

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. They gave it the old college try, but America’s elite universities are facing money problems partly of their own creation. It might not seem that way compared with the broader world of U.S.

25.12 / 04:31

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Venus de Milo; “Mona Lisa"; 250 skulls on a mirrored wall; a six-metre Tyrannosaurus rex. You can see all this and more at “The Art of the Brick", a touring exhibition currently in Berlin.

25.12 / 03:23

COST FLEX Instagram social Videos 36-year-old mom loses 37 kg weight without gym or fancy diets. How she transformed herself

Tanushree has a huge following on social media. She regularly posts videos about weight loss and body fat loss. But when she was just 25 years old, she found herself struggling with her weight and self-confidence. At one point, the influencer weighed 85 kilos and felt trapped in her own body, often mistaken for someone much older. This harsh reality became a turning point, sparking her determination to reclaim her health and confidence.

25.12 / 00:15

COST Target FIVE Food shock Headlines Debate over excluding food inflation from monetary policy reaches MPC

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Two newly appointed Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members have rekindled the discussion started by the Economic Survey on excluding food inflation from the monetary policy framework. Of the three external members of the rate-setting panel of the Reserve Bank of India, Nagesh Kumar and Ram Singh have argued in the MPC minutes released last week that a high repo rate cannot bring down food prices.

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