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three-language policy issue, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan asserted in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that the National Education Policy (NEP) does not seek to impose any language on anybody, and the whole controversy has been raked up by the Tamil Nadu chief minister and his party to revive political fortunes and score brownie points to hide its governance and welfare deficit. He said under the three-language formula, the medium of instruction till Standard V will be in the mother tongue and the other two languages will be a student's choice. In his reply to a debate in the Rajya Sabha on the working of the education ministry, Pradhan cited facts and figures while emphasizing that the Tamil language is nobody's monopoly.

global supply chains, said MP and former union minister Anurag Thakur. This, in turn, propelled India from being a part of the 'Fragile Five' to one of the world's top five economies, he added. Crediting the youth for building enterprises-160,000 startups and 117 unicorns-that compete on the global stage, Thakur said, «Over the past decade, India has risen from the 'Fragile Five' to one of the world's top five economies; and in the next three years, we are set to become the third-largest economy.» Thakur was delivering the keynote address on the theme 'Empowering India's MSMEs for Global Leadership' at IDFC First Bank presents ET NOW Leaders of Tomorrow Awards Season 12. Arguing that Indian MSMEs must leverage capital markets to increase credibility, secure funding and scale up their businesses, Ashishkumar Chauhan, chief executive of NSE, said, «India's thriving capital market is an anomaly, as traditionally, only wealthy nations develop strong investment ecosystems.

The majority of the stocks in the S&P 500 are already in correction territory as the sell-off on Wall Street continues to drag the benchmark closer to that key threshold.

Indian stock market will remain closed on Friday, March 14, 2025, in observance of Holi, the Hindu festival of colours. Trading will resume on Monday, March 17, following the extended weekend break, as per the holiday calendar issued by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the BSE. The closure will impact trading across all major segments, including equity, equity derivatives, securities lending and borrowing (SLB), electronic gold receipts (EGR), and currency derivatives.

India's run from the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup, which ended with a heartbreaking loss to Australia in the final after an unprecedented 10-match win streak, till the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 has been one of the finest runs by a team in white-ball cricket, 23 wins in 24 matches, one loss and two trophies won, reported ESPNCricinfo. India won both the last year's T20 World Cup at Barbados and the Champions Trophy in Dubai undefeated. Had they won the 2023 World Cup, they would have had all the ICC titles in white-ball cricket at the same time, that too undefeated, which no team has ever managed to do.

Kajol Devgan has purchased commercial retail space spread over 4,365 sq ft on the ground floor of a residential tower in Mumbai’s western suburb of Goregaon for over Rs 28.78 crore. The deal registered on March 6 values the commercial space at Rs 65,940 per sq ft. The purchase reflects a trend among high-net-worth individuals and celebrities investing in commercial real estate for stable rental yields and long-term capital appreciation. The transaction also includes stamp duty charges of approximately Rs 1.72 crore, and the agreement grants Kajol Devgan exclusive access to four designated car parking spaces, showed the documents accessed through IndexTap.com.

IndusInd Bank plummeted 26% on Tuesday, hitting a fresh 52-week low of Rs 720.50, as multiple brokerages downgraded the stock and slashed target prices in the wake of an accounting discrepancy in its forex derivatives portfolio. Mutual funds held around 20.08 crore shares of IndusInd Bank in their portfolios, with a total market value of Rs 19,884 crore as of February 28, 2025. Around 35 AMCs and around 360 schemes had exposure in IndusInd Bank as of February 28, 2025. Five AMCs had over Rs 1,000 crore exposure in IndusInd Bank. ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund had the highest exposure of around Rs 3,778 crore and had around 3.81 crore shares in its portfolio in February.

150th anniversary Test between Australia and England will be held under lights at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from March 11-15, 2027. Cricket Australia announced Tuesday that the historic match will be the first day-night men's test at the MCG. The famous stadium on the edge of downtown Melbourne hosted the first cricket test in 1877 and the centenary test between Australia and England in 1977. Australia won by a 45-run margin in both of those matches. «The 150th anniversary test at the MCG will be one of the great cricket events, and playing under lights will be a fantastic way to celebrate both our game's rich heritage and test cricket's modern evolution,» Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg said. «It will also help ensure more people are able to attend and watch what will be a fantastic occasion. »The Centenary Test created many iconic performances, including David Hookes' five consecutive boundaries off Tony Greig, Rick McCosker batting with a broken jaw and Derek Randall's defiant century, and I'm sure the 150th test will create its own lifelong memories." Australia is hosting the 2025-26 Ashes series against England starting in November.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The 15th edition of Aero India, a biennial air show and aviation exhibition, concluded earlier this month. Conducted across 42,000 sq m, with more than 900 exhibitors including 150 foreign companies, it was the biggest Aero India to date.

The offer, which promised a $0 first-year salary with a small monthly stipend of $500, required apprentices to work 8-10 hours a day, five days a week. Ninovski framed the opportunity as unconventional but highly rewarding, stating that it would provide direct access to working alongside him as the CEO of three multi-million dollar companies. He justified the rigorous workload by citing a past success story—five years earlier, a 17-year-old named William Dodevski had taken the same apprenticeship, and today, he had grown into a key employee within one of the companies, no longer reliant on the CEO’s guidance and having forged his own path.

ICC Champions Trophy, the Indian skipper Rohit Sharma said that the future of Indian cricket is in safe hands, with plenty of young talent displaying the hunger, passion and talent needed on international level, reported ICC Cricket. India's winning Champions Trophy campaign witnessed plenty of present-day and future stars like Shubman Gill (188 runs in five matches with a century), Shreyas Iyer (243 runs in five matches with two fifties), Axar Patel (109 runs in five matches with five wickets) and Hardik Pandya (99 runs in four matches and four wickets), KL Rahul (140 runs in five matches at an average of 140.00), Varun Chakravarthy (nine wickets) play a crucial role in team's second successive white-ball title win. Sharma said the way his India side made it undefeated through the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is indicative of their passion and commitment — and it bodes well for the future.

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Sridhar Vembu, the chief scientist and founder of Zoho, believes that the current challenges in the software job market stem not from artificial intelligence replacing jobs—at least not yet—but from a deeper systemic issue. In a lengthy post on X, Vembu, who has been associated with the software industry for 30 years, said over the past few decades, enterprise software has accumulated massive inefficiencies due to an influx of venture capital, private equity, and IPO-driven funding. This overcapitalization led to an artificial expansion of the software industry, creating a market bloated with duplicated IT systems, excessive hiring, and misplaced incentives, he said. One of the primary drivers of this inefficiency, Vembu said, has been aggressive marketing by software vendors, adding that cCompanies have long relied on tactics that instill fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) in corporate customers, pushing enterprises to increase their IT spending without necessarily improving efficiency. «Software vendors applied liberal doses of marketing spending to spread Fear (of missing out) and Uncertainty (»tech is changing, you need us") and Doubt («are you confused? trust us») among corporate customers and the result was ever growing IT spending," he said.

Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer 2 launch. Despite fans still analyzing the first trailer 15 months later, everyone is eagerly waiting for the second glimpse of Leonida and Vice City. Many fans believe that the second trailer could drop on April 1, and while it may sound like an April Fool's joke, there are reasons why this theory could be more believable than it seems.

Indian banks are advancing more loans than they are incrementally garnering deposits, the latest central bank data showed, pointing to only a partial success for dedicated lender programmes aimed at boosting the deposit base and de-risking the credit environment. The banking sector's incremental loan-to-deposit ratio (LDR) on a three-month rolling basis reached nearly 126% as of February 7, 2025. The incremental LDR stands at 103% so far this fiscal year, pointing to the persisting weakness in deposit mobilisation despite more circumspect advances toward unsecured loans and non-bank financing. As of February 7, credit climbed 11.3% year-on-year, while deposits saw a more modest increase of 10.6%.

Denver Broncos are close to signing Evan Engram, one of the National Football League’s top pass-catching tight ends. The Broncos are meeting with Engram in hopes of finalising a deal to add him to their team.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Twenty-five years ago this week, the Nasdaq Composite Index hit its dot-com-era peak after soaring more than 500% in five years. Its subsequent collapse was swift and brutal.

In an email in October 2023, Richard Heys, deputy director at the ONS, said that the «sample size for the industry in the LFS survey has collapsed to only five individuals». As such, Heys told a swathe of senior recipients of the email that «there is little and falling merit in retaining the LFS».  He added: «The key point is not when the Transformed Labour Force Survey (TLFS) is perfect, it is when it is clearly superior to the LFS.» Cost of Labour Force Survey revamp nearly doubles in a year to £40.4m The emails were dated in the same month that the agency decided to pull the ...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. IndusInd Bank Ltd’s shares dropped to their lowest in nearly three years after the Reserve Bank of India cut the lender’s proposed three-year extension for managing director and chief executive officer Sumant Kathpalia to one year. This isn’t the first time RBI has disagreed with banks on the tenure of their top chief.

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