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Source, stock and transport: Centre's plan for private firms in onion logistics
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Steep prices, rotting stocks and cartel concerns - The heartburn that comes with onion harvests every year may become a thing of the past, with the government looking to sign up private firms for efficient storage and transport of the kitchen staple to supplement its own buffer stocks. Selected companies will source and store onions from hubs in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh at a pre-agreed price, to be delivered across the country when needed, a person aware of the plans said on the condition of anonymity.
20.01 / 19:59
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Rahul Gandhi writes to Nadda over patients' plight outside AIIMS, seeks better facilities, infra
AIIMS vicinity here last week amid the peaking Delhi election campaign, has now written to Union health minister JP Nadda, lamenting the lack of adequate infrastructure facilities for outpatients and also seeking adequate budgetary allocation for the healthcare sector. He also wrote to Delhi CM Atishi seeking her government's efforts for improving the AIIMS infrastructure.
20.01 / 19:03
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As Trump 2.0 begins, the world is poised for change — India must find new paths to manage shifts
Trump victory felt like a bit of a fluke, this time, it’s deadly serious. Donald Trump has come in not only with a comprehensive victory, but at the vanguard of a discernible cultural shift in America.
20.01 / 18:35
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India-US spark stands defused?
Joe Biden's administration released 'Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion', which aims to establish export and security regulations for the global AI market. It divides countries in three groups based on the trust they enjoy with the US. While this is an outgoing US president's rule-making, it reflects behavioural elements of the new Donald Trump administration's transactional foreign policy approach.
20.01 / 16:01
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Trump trade memorandum won't impose new tariffs on day one
President-elect Donald Trump is poised to sign a flurry of executive orders as soon as he's sworn in, but imposing tariffs on U.S. trading partners won't be one of the actions Monday.
20.01 / 14:57
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Donald Trump to issue a series of executive orders to remake immigration policies
Donald Trump is going to issue a series of orders aimed at remaking America's immigration policies, ending asylum access, sending troops to the southern border and ending birthright citizenship, an incoming White House official said.
20.01 / 14:11
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What will it take for Indian marathoners to set a new record?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 2004, Kenya’s Paul Tergat held the marathon world record with a timing of 2:04:55, which he had set in Berlin a year earlier. That was the year India witnessed its first serious mass participation road race — then called Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon.
20.01 / 14:11
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Trump’s tariffs: How India can escape a dumping flood from China
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chennai: The most recent dream run for poly vinyl chloride (PVC) and steel manufacturers in India, ironically, coincided with the pandemic. Global supply lines were disrupted, imports dropped, and domestic prices rose sharply.
20.01 / 13:21
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Can India transition to a single income tax rate?
The slab rate system of taxation has been a cornerstone of India’s tax framework since its inception.
20.01 / 13:19
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I spent lonely, hungry, cold, angry 21 hours in goods compartment...: Narayan Murthy shares an anecdote from his job in Paris
Infosys, on Monday shared his insights on 'Compassionate Capitalism' at the Kalichand Memorial Lecture in Mumbai. During his speech, the 78-year-old said, the question of stark poverty and inequity in India has been troubling him right from that day when he spent lonely, hungry, cold, angry, and introspective 21 hours in the goods compartment on a freight train from Nis in now Serbia to Istanbul, way back in 1974 on his hitchhiking trip, returning back to India after his job in Paris.
20.01 / 10:23
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Why married couples should be allowed to file taxes jointly
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The taxation framework in India primarily focuses on individuals whose income is being assessed on an individual basis. Income earned from jointly owned property is taxed proportionately among co-owners based on their share in the ownership.
20.01 / 08:01
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Trump’s second presidency signals the end of the Washington Consensus
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The second US presidency of Donald Trump will be the most consequential for any president after World War II. This assessment, shared by many analysts, is best articulated by conservative columnist David Brooks.
20.01 / 04:53
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Why Trump sees a Chinese threat at the Panama Canal, and locals don’t
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President-elect Donald Trump’s reasons for wanting control of the Panama Canal can be found at either end of the interoceanic waterway. Every day, dozens of cargo ships pass by blue cranes at a port near the Pacific Ocean entrance, the towering skyline of Panama City visible across the horizon.
20.01 / 02:57
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Indo-US pharma alliance: Time to up the game
health security, with affordable medicines being vital for both India and the U.S., particularly in managing chronic conditions. Indian pharmaceutical companies are key to providing cost-effective and quality-assured medicines, improving outcomes, and ensuring sustainability within the U.S. healthcare system. In FY 2023-24, Indian pharma exports to the U.S. reached $8.7 billion, making it the largest market for Indian companies. For the U.S. Indian companies are supplying 47% of U.S. generic prescriptions and 15% of biosimilars.
20.01 / 00:51
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Indian techies on the edge as Trump returns to office
Indian IT professionals in the US are jittery on the eve of Donald Trump's official oath of office as the 47th President of the United States on January 20. These are mostly in the entry to mid-level employees and are anxiously waiting for clarity on H1B visas and Green card policies to unfold with the new President taking charge, experts said.
19.01 / 20:25
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Bengaluru company launches low-cost treatment for blood cancer
Immuneel Therapeutics, the Bengaluru-based cell and gene therapy company, has launched India's second CAR-T cell therapy Qartemi to treat patients with B-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (B-NHL) — an aggressive form of blood cancer — at less than one-tenth of the price of similar therapies available in Western countries.
19.01 / 17:57
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Wake up & smell the Covfefe
Trump takes charge at the Oval Office, a fair bit of din, thunder and dramatic prognosis is being heard and read. Some of it may well turn out to be true. Even so, to what degree this will be a presidency like no other and an absolute break from much of 20th century-or, at least, post-war-US foreign policy is, quite honestly, debatable.
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