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Imran Khan, the Lahore High Court on Wednesday upheld the rejection of his nomination papers for the February 8 general elections, Dawn News reported. The high court upheld the decisions of the returning officer (RO) and appellate tribunal given against acceptance of the disqualified former premier's nomination papers from NA-122 and NA-89 constituencies.

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Congress has termed BJP government's move to cancel Centre for Policy Research's FCRA licence as a «petty act of cowardice». The main opposition party said it was «sad and amusing» that the scholars of a think tank could scare the government. In a written statement released by the party, All India Professionals Congress chairman Praveen Chakravarty said: «For a government that often boasts of leading the nation to a global superpower status, it is both sad and amusing that a think tank of scholars should scare them.

Uttar Pradesh from Samajwadi Party, a demand which the regional party found 'unreasonable'. The two parties are likely to meet again on Thursday to take talks forward, according to some leaders. According to people present at the second formal round of seat-sharing talks on Wednesday, Congress and SP discussed a seat-sharing formula and agreed 'winnability' should be the main criterion for deciding which party gets which seat. Congress won only Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in 2019. A senior leader, who did not wish to be identified, told ET: «The exact number of seats were discussed.

TAINAN, Taiwan—More than a decade ago, some residents of this southern Taiwanese city got a lesson in the character of the man who is now set to be Taiwan’s next president. Lai Ching-te, then Tainan’s mayor, wanted to move a section of railway underground. Residents whose homes would have to be demolished blocked bulldozers with their bodies and accused him of selling them out to property developers.

global economy is on everyone’s mind. In 2023, global growth was quite resilient and inflation also toned down. Several countries such as the US and China did relatively well in the second half of 2023.

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food and fertilizer subsidies for the next fiscal year, indicating fiscal caution ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections, said two government sources as quoted by Reuters. During the current fiscal year, which concludes on March 31, India's total budget spending is 45 trillion rupees, of which approximately one-ninth comes from subsidies on food and fertiliser. They said the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has projected that the cost of food subsidies in 2019 will be 2.2 trillion rupees ($26.52 billion).

'Ek thi Congress': AAP's Bhagwant Mann narrates 'shortest story' in Delhi, Punjab AAP candidate Kuldeep Kumar Tita will contest the polls for the mayor's post while Congress nominees Gurpreet Singh Gabi and Nirmala Devi will fight for the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor respectively. But with Bhagwant Mann exuding confidence of winning all Lok Sabha seats, the seat-sharing talks with Congress are likely to hit brakes yet again.

Bengaluru, A good show by the ruling Congress in the coming Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka would enable Siddaramaiah to continue as Chief Minister for a full term of five years without any hindrance, his son Yathindra said on Wednesday, sparking a debate on the vexed leadership issue. After the Congress swept the Assembly elections in May last year, Siddaramaiah, who was engaged in a stiff competition with senior party leader D K Shivakumar for the Chief Minister's post, was chosen to lead the government.

Donald Trump registered a huge victory with an unprecedented margin. At the Iowa caucuses, Trump established his dominance over the party and its followers as he prepared for a 2020 rematch with incumbent Joe Biden.

interim budget, as seen in the past few decades, has whetted interest in how Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is going to structure it. Read our full Budget 2024 coverage here Coming right before the Lok Sabha elections, an interim budget is an effective vehicle on which an incumbent government's poll priorities can ride. Being a top national event, it gets a lot of eyeballs and remains in the public mind as the responses and debates it generates in different quarters echo for several days. It is the last big government event before elections to please chosen voter segments. On the face of it, the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre seems to be free of the kind of pressures, or promises, an interim budget can generate for a ruling party facing elections just a few months later. It has scored surprising victories in three key states just last month which many see as a strong voter endorsement for the coming Lok Sabha elections, especially when the opposition's alliance has yet to take a potent shape.

Maharashtra and Karnataka states, a leading industry body said on Wednesday. Maharashtra's sugar production fell to 5.1 million tons from 6.09 million tons, while Karnataka's production dropped 12.7% to 3.1 million tons, the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories said in a statement. Production in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh rose 14.8% to 4.61 million tons as mills started operations early there, it said. India has decided to allow mills to divert up to 1.7 million tons of sugar for ethanol production, government and industry officials said last month, as New Delhi aims to reduce disruptions in its ambitious biofuel programme. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to face elections in a few months, India, which is highly sensitive to food inflation, is likely to ban sugar exports, the first restriction on exports since 2016.

Taiwanese voters have shrugged off warnings by China that the election of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Lai Ching-te to the presidency would increase the risk of conflict in the Taiwan Strait, including a potentially violent takeover of the island nation. China’s strong-arm tactics under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Xi Jinping, who has vowed that the island’s ‘reunification’ with the mainland is a historical inevitability, have failed for now. But that does not mean that these tactics will not continue or that regional geopolitics is any less precariously placed.

Gautam Adani's conglomerate signed four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the Telangana government for an investment of over Rs 12,400 crore at the World Economic Forum 2024, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Telangana's newly elected Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani inked this deal in Davos during the ongoing World Economic Forum.

Saurabh Mukherjea, Founder, Marcellus Investment Managers, says My reading is that selling abates and as the company stabilizes, as the numbers stabilize, we will see institutional appetite returning. Remember, merger synergies have not yet kicked in. Without merger synergies kicking in, HDFC Bank is doing around 1.9% ROA. If that trickles up to 2% ROA, assume gearing of nine times. We are looking at an 18% ROE bank, even without meaningful merger synergies kicking in. And an 18% ROE bank growing consistently at 20% at this scale, we do not have too many other lenders operating on this scale, at this level of profitability anywhere in the world. When HDFC bank falls by 5%, that has to be the first question. Saurabh Mukherjea: It tells you a lot about the world that a bank of this scale can report 20% growth in loan book, improvement in asset quality and still fall 5%.

Vivek Ramaswamy pulled out of the race after he marked a distant fourth rank in Iowa. Ramaswamy, however, also endorsed rival and fellow Republican Donald Trump for the US Presidential Polls. Hours after Vivek Ramaswamy announced pulling out of the presidential bid, he appeared on stage with Donald Trump.

Pakistan has said that if orders keep coming to change party symbols ahead of the crucial general assembly elections, the poll body would have to postpone the elections. General elections are scheduled to be held in Pakistan on 8 February 2024 to elect the members of the 16th National Assembly.

overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the leaders of most of America’s biggest corporations were only too happy to see the back of him. They wore their moral outrage like a badge of honour. Sure, they had conveniently put aside their earlier scruples about Mr Trump’s suitability for the White House, bought off by generous corporate and personal tax cuts in 2017.

elected as Taiwan’s president. He thus secured a third term for his pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The vote will shape relations between self-governing Taiwan and China, which wants the island to be governed from Beijing.