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Citizenship Amendment Act on Monday, March 11, weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha 2024 elections. The Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024, enabling the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed by the Parliament in 2019, grant Indian citizenship to refugees who had sought shelter in India before December 31, 2014, due to religious persecution in three countries - Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Follow Live Updates on CAA Rules here The contentious Act passed in 2019 faced many delays amid criticism for excluding Muslims.

ANI. He questioned the need for CAA while saying that there was no need for a law to grant citizenship as the Centre can give citizenship even today if someone seeks it. Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar termed the implementation of CAA a ‘wrong decision’ as he said, "The timing of taking this decision is completely wrong.

initiated the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019. As per the law, India will grant citizenship to “persecuted" non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The implementation has stirred strong reactions from all corners, with many accusing the Act of violating the Indian Consitution.

It is hard to find a word that is more relevant to the world’s greatest challenges and policy priorities than ‘inclusion.’ Inclusive, green economic growth that benefits all of society is an essential component of sustainable prosperity, social cohesion, competitiveness and geopolitical stability. Supporting a ‘just transition’ that includes all members of our societies is crucial to ensure that climate action and the digital transformation lead to a more sustainable and secure world.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif picked a former banker from JPMorgan Chase & Co. as finance minister to help bolster the cash-strapped economy after a contentious election. Muhammad Aurangzeb, 59, was appointed to the position, the Finance Ministry confirmed in a post on X.

Barrons Roundtable discusses the price of oil and the demand for natural gas.

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Modi government notified the Citizenship (Amendment) Act's (CAA) rules, preparing for its implementation. With this move, GoI makes it easier for minorities from neighbouring countries who came to India before December 31, 2014, to become citizens of this country.

Tata Motors, which harnessed increasing demand for electric cars to reclaim automotive market-capitalization leadership in India, has urged New Delhi to extend incentives on electric taxis for another three years and also include personal cars in the government's flagship demand support program FAME, citing global EV leader China's example. Tata Motors, which has seen a near-six-fold surge in its stock price through the past five years that helped establish its domestic EV leadership credentials, wants New Delhi to help replicate an enabling environment similar to that in Beijing that has pledged to support adoption of EVs until unit sales touched at least a fifth of all new cars sold. «Globally, major economies (China, Germany) have continued to support EV adoption with demand subsidies until achievement of at least 20% EV adoption,» Shailesh Chandra, managing director, Tata Passenger Electric Mobility and Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, said in the letter dated March 9. «The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry had also recommended in 2023 that the Government broaden the scope and extend FAME by at least three more years to make the scheme more inclusive,» Chandra said in the letter, a copy of which has been seen by ET.

On Sunday, India signed the India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement, our first trade deal with any Western nation or group. It was signed with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which comprises Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. It’s an innovative and well-balanced pact that covers two-way trade in goods and services as well as bilateral investments.

Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 before Lok Sabha polls, the central government notified the CAA-19 rules on Monday. With the implementation of the CAA, non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan can easily get Indian citizenship. The law applies to all the people who came from the three countries on and before December 31, 2014.

ANI reported. So far, the BJP the first list of 195 candidates from 16 states and two union territories. However, it withdrew two of its candidates - Bhojpuri singer-actor Pawan Singh and Upendra Rawat, after the choice sparked controversies.

Don’t count on that housing market recovery just yet.

CAA notification India Live Updates: The Modi government on Monday i.e. March 11, 2024 notified the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The demand for residential real estate has grown exponentially over the last few years. However, the most noteworthy development is the remarkable rise in the number of women who are making a mark in the real estate sector with their visionary approach and strong business acumen. Real estate has undergone a sea of change in the country with changes in gender diversity, putting to rest the earlier norm of real estate being a male-dominated industry.

EAM S Jaishankar Exclusive: Our next guest at #Expressadda is Dr Jaishankar who has been the face of India’s diplomacy in the fast-changing world in the last five years. The first Foreign Secretary to become the Foreign Minister of the country, he has been key to shaping India’s foreign policy in the past few years, where challenges like then COVID-19 pandemic, an assertive China in India’s neighbourhood, the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas conflict, have upended the global world order.

Microsoft software breached EU privacy rules and the bloc's executive also failed to implement adequate safeguards for personal data transferred to non-EU countries, the EU privacy watchdog said on Monday. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) ordered the Commission to take measures to comply with privacy rules and to halt data transfer to the U.S. company and subsidiaries located in third countries which do not have privacy deals with the EU, setting a deadline of Dec. 9 for both orders.

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India will have the option of temporarily withdrawing customs duty concessions on EFTA country goods under the trade agreement between the two sides, if the four European nation bloc would not fulfil its USD 100 billion investment obligations. Though the investments have to flow in 15 years — USD 50 billion in the first 10 years (counted after implementation of the pact) and another USD 5 billion in next five years, the trade deal also provides for a three-year grace period to the EFTA bloc to meet the obligations, according to the documents accompanying the agreement. India and four-nation European Free Trade Association (EFTA) bloc signed Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) on March 10 under which New Delhi received a foreign direct investment commitment of USD 100 billion in 15 years from the member countries of the grouping. The EFTA members are Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.

«In the last 11 months, we have sold 7.56 lakh units in passenger, commercial including three-wheelers. The trend indicates we are crossing the eight lakh mark by March 2024,» M&M's national sales head Baneswar Banerjee told PTI on the sidelines of the launch of a dealership by Landmark group. The company without any timeline stated that it will introduce three pure electric utility vehicles, amid the EV charging ecosystem still evolving in the country.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the candidate of the BJP-led NDA in Thiruvananthapuram, on Monday announced the establishment of 10 Artificial Intelligence Labs in 10 colleges within the constituency. These labs will be operated with the technical help of a 'Global AI giant', the Minister told a press conference here. «We have got applications from 17 colleges, and as a first phase, AI labs will be allocated to 10 of them. The names are yet to be finalised,» Chandrasekhar said. He said these labs are allotted under the new India AI Mission.