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US apples, walnuts and almonds will not result in any negative impact on domestic producers. Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said that the opposition parties particularly Congress is politicizing the subject without having a complete understanding of the subject. There is a regular duty of 50 per cent and Rs 50 per kg minimum import price on apples. «We have just removed the retaliatory duty...the move would not have any impact on domestic apple producers. There will be no impact on prices also.

OPEC optimism over the resilience of energy demand in major economies.Brent futures rose $1.64, or 1.8%, to $92.28 a barrel by 11:15 a.m. EDT (1515 GMT). U.S.

Nyoma Airfield in Eastern Ladakh virtually, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that one of the world's highest airfields will boost the air infrastructure and would prove to be a game-changer for the Armed Forces. The Nyoma Airfield will be built at a cost of around Rs 200 crore and is located just 35 km from the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Eastern Ladakh sector. The Defence Minister was dedicating to the nation, the 90 infrastructure projects of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), at an event here in Jammu. The projects are worth over Rs 2,900 crore and spread across 11 states/Union Territories. These include the Nechiphu Tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh; two airfields in West Bengal; two helipads; 22 roads and 63 bridges.

₹2,000 crore. Interestingly, ‘deal value’ would also include the value of any investment in the target by any acquirer group entity in the last two years. The need to introduce new-age merger thresholds (alongside more traditional turnover-based thresholds) assumed significance after Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp escaped antitrust scrutiny despite its deal value being $19 billion.

trade deal, namely the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), considered the world’s largest free trade bloc, covering around 30% of the world’s population, gross domestic product (GDP) and trade. The RCEP came into full force on 2 June.

Digital India journey has yielded substantial impact at scale. Insights from it were shared with the G20.

₹4.5 crore -- in posh Sector 30 of Noida on Sunday, while his wife Renu Sinha (61) objected to it.Sinha allegedly strangled his wife to death around 9.30 am after the heated argument. Such fights had become frequent between them. The wife suffered from cancer and had a fragile health condition while their son worked and lived in the US, officials said.

In the end, the 2023 G20 Leaders Summit was over almost before it started. Halfway through Day 1, Indian negotiators had hammered out a consensus on the Leaders’ Declaration that, in the words of India’s G20 Sherpa, had “absolutely no dissent, no footnotes, no chair summaries." It was that rare example of a well-achieved global consensus. With 112 outcomes and presidency documents, India’s was arguably also the most productive G20 presidency, having more than tripled the substantive output of previous presidencies.

Rajnath Singh on Tuesday called upon domestic defence companies to invest more in research and development for India to keep pace with the evolving world. Addressing the North-Tech Symposium, jointly organised by the army's Northern Command, the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM) and IIT-Jammu, Singh described the country's defence manufacturing sector as «imaginative, innovative, dynamic and progressive». «Though research and development (R&D) is a risky venture as it requires out-of-the-box thinking and sometimes does not give desired results, it still remains one of the basic elements for the development of any country,» he said.

Raghav Chadha on Tuesday condemned DMK leader Udayanidhi Stalin's remark on the Sanatan Dharma, but said statements made by some «small» leader from any party cannot be considered the official stand of the INDIA bloc. «I am from Sanatan Dharma. I condemn and oppose such statements. Such kind of statements should not be made.

airport during his return. The India visit was far from smooth for the Canadian delegation as it came amidst the rough patch in Indian-Canada relations due to Canada's non-committal and soft stand on anti-India activities in various parts of Canada. In a bilateral meeting with Justin Trudeau, PM Modi expressed strong concerns about anti-India activities in Canada.

TORONTO—The Canadian government is considering capping the number of international students it allows into the country as it scrambles to address a growing housing shortage. The move would mark a shift by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has made boosting immigration central to his economic agenda.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Tuesday said several parts of the country including the northwest, central and south India are likely to witness light to heavy rainfall in the coming days due to low-pressure condition building over the northwest and west-central Bay of Bengal. The weather department said the low-pressure condition is likely to intensify and move further towards the coasts of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, leading to widespread rain in northwest India.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday waded into the debate over the criminal charges faced by Republican election candidate Donald Trump, saying the cases against the former U.S. president amount to political “persecution" and expose U.S. weakness.

Rajasthan recording the highest inflation rate at 8.6%, easing from 9.7% in the previous month, whereas Delhi had the lowest rate at 3.1%. However, Rajasthan was not the only state to record high inflation, as three others, Haryana, Telangana and Odisha, also noted 8%+ numbers. Rajasthan and Telangana are among the five states headed for election later this year. An ET analysis shows that 13 of 22 states for which data was available recorded a higher number than the national average of 6.8%--a worse situation than last month when 12 states had recorded higher than national average inflation. Economists indicate that states taking measures to supply subsidized tomatoes had something to do with inflation variances across states. “Delhi has lowest at 3% with the state taking measures of supplying tomatoes at subsidized prices to the people contributing to this low number,” said Madan Sabnavis, chief economist, Bank of Baroda. Further analysis indicates that two of the 22 states recorded an increase in retail prices as inflation declined across the country.

world economy. It argues a renewed drive towards integration - "re-globalization" - is the way to tackle current problems of security, poverty and climate change.

climate change was “satisfactory", even if it was not all that may have been hoped for. “But when you see that you have to compromise in this very heterogeneous group of countries, it's a fabulous text," he said of the declaration.

Pierre Poilievre spent last weekend at the Conservative convention offering Canadians hope for a better and more affordable country after Justin Trudeau’s time as prime minister ends. Meanwhile, Trudeau’s Liberals are taking a well-deserved public opinion thrashing — the inevitable backlash against their failed policies and unwavering insistence that the miserable outcomes they have produced are in fact splendid results. The Liberal caucus is said to be frustrated, discouraged, angry and disillusioned.

The Good Ship Canada is taking on water, and bringing in far too many unproductive crew, and its Captain Justin Trudeau simply re-arranges the deck chairs.

CALGARY — Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) is opening its first Asian office, but the Edmonton-based fund manager says it will steer well clear of China to focus instead on markets with less geopolitical risk.

Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said Mughals, British and other rulers failed to wipe out the Sanatan Dharma from the country in the past, but eradicating it is now the agenda of the INDIA alliance, and hence Hindus need to wake up and show the opposition bloc its place. Referring to Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin's remark calling for eradication of Sanatan Dharma, and blaming it for promoting division and discrimination among people, he said the statement was a «planned» one. Addressing a press conference at Gwalior, around 430 km from here, Sawant also said the 'one nation, one election' will ensure that the country develops at a faster pace as imposition of the model of conduct due to frequent elections creates hurdles in development at present. When asked about the use of the name 'Bharat' during the G20 summit, the Goa CM said the name Bharat is already there in the Constitution and it is already being used everywhere since Independence. «The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) changed its name to INDIA alliance, which is actually new wine in an old bottle.