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₹50,000 crore more fund under SWAMIH to complete stalled housing projects across the country, saying this will benefit consumers as well as the industry. The National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) has suggested the finance ministry to come up with a second tranche of the Special Window for Affordable and Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH) fund with ₹50,000 corpus in the upcoming Union budget for 2024-2025 fiscal year. In 2019, the Centre had created SWAMIH fund to complete stalled projects.

ANI. Meanwhile, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge will be holding a meeting with top party leaders today to discuss the party's strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The meeting will be attended by Sonia Gandhi, and Rahul Gandhi and this will be the first meeting of the top Congress leadership after the party's debacle in recently held assembly elections in five states.

To placate a war-weary population, Russia has doled out billions of dollars of cheap loans for its citizens to buy new homes. That money is now creating an economic headache that few predicted: a fast-building housing bubble. A debt-fueled surge in housing prices, along with fast-rising inflation, has exposed stark divisions among Russia’s leaders even as the battle rages on in Ukraine.

Evidence is mounting that the Bank of Canada’s benchmark interest rate is high enough to bring inflation all the way back to the two-per cent target, deliberations from the central bank’s latest rate decision show.

Ayodhya on January 22, even foreign countries have witnessed an increase in demand for replicas of the Ram Mandir models in Ayodhya. Aditya Singh, owner of the factory that is involved in the manufacturing of Ram Mandir models, said while speaking to ANI, «We have been doing this work for the past three years. Earlier, the orders used to come from within India; now they are coming from outside, as well as from multiple departments like the police, court, electricity department and CBI branch.

Stock market today: Extending the bearish trend for second straight session, key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market are trading red in early morning deals on Thursday. However, small-cap and mid-cap indices are in green terriroty that may give a sigh of relief to the loss-making investors. Nifty 50 index today opened lower and went on to hit intraday low of ₹20,976 levels, logging around 475 points loss in last two sessions.

Spurn point would be a desolate place to die. Stretching five precarious kilometres into the North Sea, the constantly shifting finger of East Yorkshire coast is little more than a narrow sand bank held together by sea grass, the only obvious signs of human habitation a long-abandoned lifeboat station and lighthouse, both now given over to the winds and the rain. It is a permanent home solely to wading birds and the bugs they feast on, perhaps to the odd vole.

ANI, Sunil Kumar Pintu said, "In the meeting yesterday, big leaders of several parties had come for sharing in the alliance. But no discussion on the same could be done. Yesterday's meeting was restricted to tea and biscuits." Pointing out Congress statements that they are short on funds, JD(U) MP said, "They are seeking donations of ₹138, ₹1380 or ₹13,800.

INOX India IPO: Listing date of initial public offering (IPO) of INOX India Limited has been fixed on 21st December 2023 i.e. today. As per the information available on BSE website, INOX India share price will list on BSE and NSE in special pre open session during Thursday deals.

Gyanvapi mosque complex to the district court in a sealed cover, the court has set the next hearing for Thursday. As reported by PTI, on Wednesday, Maulana Arshad Madani, the President of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, said that the Muslim party plans will appeal to the Supreme Court. This decision comes after petitions contesting the validity of a 1991 lawsuit, which seeks the "restoration" of a temple beneath the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, was rejected by the Allahabad High Court.

Catch Live Market Updates here The domestic indices witnessed a sharp sell-off on Wednesday with the Nifty 50 registering its biggest one-day fall in a year. On December 20, the Sensex slumped 930.88 points to end at 70,506.31, while the Nifty 50 ended 302.95 points, or 1.41%, lower at 21,150.15.

Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules within the next fortnight and may notify the final version of the bill by the end of January 2024, sources said. A meeting of senior executives from social media and internet intermediaries was held with senior officials from the ministry of electronics and information technology on Wednesday during which important points such as child gating, the consent architecture to be framed as well as the rights and obligations of data principals were discussed, a source said.

Narendra Modi used Bhashini, the Government of India’s national public digital platform for languages that develops services and products for citizens by leveraging AI, at two recent public events to enable travellers and students from southern India to understand his speech. Bhashini counts among its various products and technologies, real time speech to speech machine translation, and automatic speech recognition, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi used on December 19 to interact with students in various parts of India via video conferencing.

The artificial intelligence model-based chatbot known as ChatGPT, which was created by OpenAI, was formally released on November 30, 2022. In a very short amount of time, it has emerged as an essential component of the AI revolution that will take place in 2023. The fact that its Wikipedia page became the English article on Wikipedia with the most views in 2023 is illustrative of the relevance of the topic. This accomplishment exemplifies the growing interest and curiosity of the general public about artificial intelligence and the ways in which it is extending its influence into our everyday lives.

Immutable, a Web3 game publisher, has introduced its “Immutable Passport,” a new wallet infrastructure enabling users to generate and restore their wallets using a Google or Apple account or through an email address.

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INDIA bloc, the alliance leader and JD(U) MP Sunil Kumar Pintu on Wednesday said that the meeting was just restricted to tea and biscuits and concluded without any discussion on any serious issue. Speaking to ANI, JD(U) MP Sunil Kumar Pintu said, «In the meeting yesterday, big leaders of several parties had come for sharing in the alliance. But no discussion on the same could be done.

labour codes new composite laws covering wages, social security, industrial relations and worker safety hangs in the balance as at least 10 states and union territories are yet to frame rules for two or more codes. Labour, being a concurrent subject, the Centre wants the rollout of the codes only when all states are on board to avoid legal issues after implementation. Here’s a look at the state-wise progress. What are the four labour codes: Labour Code on Wages, 2019

Google has agreed to pay $700 million and offered several other concessions to nearly 102 million customers in the US as part of an antitrust payout over fees the tech giant charged through its app store. Most of that money will be given to people who purchased something through Google's Play Store.

Billionaire Charlie Munger, who passed away in November at the age of 99, spent many decades alongside Warren Buffett at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Together, they grew Berkshire from a small textiles firm into a massive and diversified conglomerate with a market capitalization of about US$780 billion at the time of Munger’s passing.

It’s tempting to dismiss the outcome of COP28, the recent United Nations climate change conference in the United Arab Emirates, as mere verbiage, especially the “historic” UAE Consensus about transitioning away from fossil fuels. After all, this is the 28th such conference and the previous ones all pretty much came to nothing. On a chart showing the steady rise in global CO2emissions since 1950 you cannot spot when the 1997 Kyoto Protocol entered into force (2002), with its supposedly historic language binding developed countries to cap their CO2 emissions at five per cent below 1990 levels by 2012, which they didn’t do. The 2015 Paris Agreement also contained “historic” language that bound countries to further deep emission reductions. Yet the COP28 declaration begins with an admission that the parties are not on track for compliance.