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America’s two most powerful political parties will move closer to selecting their Presidential nominees for the upcoming 2024 election on Tuesday. In an event known as ‘Super Tuesday’, more than a dozen American states will vote in the primary elections for both the Democratic and Republican parties. Incumbent President Joe Biden is expected to comfortably march to the Democratic nomination, while former president Donald Trump is expected to defeat Nikki Haley for the Republican nomination.

₹19,600 crore at Chandikhole in Odisha's Jajpur district, and said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre was trying to complete projects ‘rapidly’. The new projects related to sectors such as oil and gas, railways, road transport, highways and atomic energy. During the event, PM Modi said the previous governments had never shown interest in the timely completion of projects, adding that those projects that remained stuck in the previous governments' time were completed under the tenure of the BJP-led Centre in the past 10 years.

SBI sought time until June 30 to disclose details of each electoral bond encashed by political parties. In its verdict last month, the Supreme Court had directed the SBI to furnish the details to the poll panel by March 6.

Investing.com-- Shares of Chinese electric vehicle makers fell on Tuesday, tracking an overnight slide in Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) after the world’s most valuable EV firm clocked a sharp sales decline in China. 

The United Nations says that women who run farms and rural households in poor countries suffer more from climate change and are discriminated against as they try to adapt to other sources of income in times of crises

China is increasing its defense budget by 7.2% this year, similar to last year's rise

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Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal said that the financial disparities imposed by the BJP-led Union Government on Kerala go beyond politics, posing a significant challenge to cooperative federalism, and called on the Central government to ensure fair treatment for all states. «The BJP-led Union Government's financial discrimination against Kerala is not just a political slogan but a question of cooperative federalism, and it is the duty of the Central government to protect the interests of the states,» the minister told PTI in an interview on Monday night. Balagopal, who has been challenging the BJP-led Centre for its alleged discrimination against Kerala on financial matters for quite some time, said that the issue has now been raised by other non-BJP ruled states, including Congress-ruled Karnataka, as the states are feeling strangled by the Centre.

power producers to import 6% of their coal requirements until June, despite adequate domestic availability, amid transport constraints and higher electricity demand, a power ministry note said on Tuesday. India last year had asked utilities to import 6% of their coal requirements until March due to an unprecedented surge in power and coal demand. Despite record production by state-run Coal India, which accounts for about 80% of India's domestic production of the fuel, constraints with the country's railway network necessitated imports, the note said.

paper leaks, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said his party will not allow anyone to play with the future of students and come out with a concrete plan to make government recruitment process transparent. The issue of paper leak has become a curse not only for the youth of Uttar Pradesh but also for the entire country, he said in a post on X in Hindi. Gandhi was apparently referring to the cancellation of a police recruitment examination in Uttar Pradesh following allegations of the question paper being leaked. The BJP-led state government, which has ordered a re-test, on Tuesday removed the chairperson of the UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board. In the last seven years, «more than 70 paper leak cases have shattered the dreams of more than two crore students», he claimed and added that this is «wasting precious years of building for the future». This also puts a financial and mental burden on the families of students, the Congress leader said.

Mercedes-Benz expects India to become its third biggest market in its 'Region Overseas' over the next 2-3 years with demand anticipated to remain strong for luxury products, according to a senior company executive. The Region Overseas for Mercedes Benz comprises 118 countries, excluding North America, Europe and China. India is the fifth largest market in the region after Japan, South Korea, Australia and Turkey. The sales gap between India and Turkey is around 8,000 units per year.

Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday charged the ruling BJP at the Centre with diverting public attention by "Modi ka Parivaar" rhetoric, which came as a response to his father Lalu Prasad's attack on the Prime Minister a couple of days ago. Talking to reporters here, Yadav said BJP leaders suffixing «Modi ka Parivar» to their names reminded him of «Main Bhi Chowkidar» rhetoric ahead of Lok Sabha polls of 2019 when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had coined a slogan "chowkidar chor hai". «I am glad that the words of Lalu ji have so much impact,» remarked the former Bihar Deputy CM sarcastically, adding: «But what about issues like poverty and unemployment that he had raised? He spoke of so many things». Prasad, who is the RJD's founding president, had on Sunday told a rally here that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had «no family» of his own, in a bid to rubbish the latter's criticism of «parivarvad» or dynastic politics.

Israel on Tuesday advised Indians working in Israeli border areas to relocate to safe zones within the country. The advisory comes a day after an anti-tank missile attack near Israel's border with Lebanon killed one foreign worker and seriously wounded two Indians. «In view of the prevailing security situation and local safety advisories, all Indians nationals in Israel, especially those working in or visiting border areas in the north and south, are advised to relocate to safe areas within Israel,» said the embassy in a post on X. «The Embassy remains in touch with the Israeli authorities to ensure the safety of all our nationals,» it added.

electric vehicles and aerospace market in the last few years has been on the rise, with a marked increase in volume and quality of high precision gears being exported from the country, American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) president President Matthew Croson told ET. Increased investment towards the manufacturing sector, both from government and private players, he added, was a major contributor towards this. “At the end of the day, you can't make the gears at the level without new equipment, and well trained people that can work those machines. Our member companies from India are doing a great job of demonstrating quality that’s coming out of India right now,” he said. AGMA, which has been accredited to write the US standards on gearing, counts 17 Indian companies among its members. A major emerging trend in the gear industry worldwide, Croson said, was vehicle electrification. “We've learned that because of the NVH, the noise and the volume, the vibration, and some of the issues there, electric vehicles need high precision gears. It requires new education and training, and we’re providing classes from our organisation for this…it is a net positive for the industry,” he said.

Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday critcised RJD chief Lalu Prasad's «no family» jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asserting that people do not expect such comments from a senior leader like him. Speaking to reporters in Patna, Sitharaman said there is a need to maintain dignity in politics. «What the PM said is correct, the entire country considers him their family. The entire country is the PM's family. Making such petty statements is not correct and is highly condemnable,» she said. «He (Lalu Prasad) has spent decades in politics and was also a CM of the state. People don't expect such comments from a senior leader like him. It disheartens the people. One has to maintain dignity in politics. The BJP has given a befitting reply to the RJD chief for making such comments against the PM,» she added.

«Caution: robot!» chirps the green self-driving delivery vehicle as it trundles down the street to a pork cutlet restaurant in Tokyo to pick up a meal ordered on Uber Eats.

Uday Kotak on Tuesday said that too much regulatory guardrails could impede economic growth and halt India's journey towards a developed nation. Regulators should not be too conservative and cautious but must respond fast to «accidents» in the respective sectors, he said while addressing a two-day event organised by National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA). «I feel very very optimistic for India's future but I am also very conscious that...unbridled focus on the opportunity without having the guardrails also runs the risk, and also too much guardrails will not get us there (developed nation),» he said. Observing that the aspiration of the fast growth of 7.5-8 per cent GDP over the next 20-25 years needs significant capacity building, he said, «it also requires a sense of dreaming. It requires a sense of creativity, entrepreneurship, and professionals (need to be) ready to take risks without fear.»

Home Office data from the UK reveals a dip in the number of study visas issued for main applicants by the country in 2023 compared to the previous year. In 2023, there were 4,57,673 study visas issued to main applicants, which represented a 5.5 per cent decrease compared with the previous year. Click & check your eligibility for immigration Find out The 2023 total was the second highest on record for a calendar year and was 70 per cent higher than the pre-pandemic year of 2019, the Home Office said.

China’s Premier Li Qiang promoted an image of confidence as he announced modest economic growth goals for the country at one of its most important political gatherings