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Finance Secretary TV Somanathan said in an interview to Anuradha Shukla and Deepshikha Sikarwar. Edited excerpts:

Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth on Wednesday said the Budget has assumed a reasonable nominal GDP growth rate of 10.5 per cent as higher assumption could have led to a larger fiscal deficit. «As far as the current year is concerned, fiscal prudence places the demand on us that we are realistic or a bit conservative in assuming what the potential revenues may be while at the same time provide adequate provisions for productive priorities of the government. That is what this Budget does,» he told PTI in a post-Budget interview.

Keanu Reeves, who is well-known for his famous roles, disclosed that he thinks about dying all the time. Reeves, aged 59, admitted in an interview with BBC News that he often thinks about his own death. Though these ideas may be strong, he stressed, they also foster a greater respect for relationships and life in general. Reeves wanted to say that this knowledge, even if it sounds scary, can lead to a life that has more purpose, as per the reports of MSN.

Elon Musk has strongly refuted the report by Wall Street Journal that he is donating $45 million every month to Trump campaign. Musk will continue supporting the Republicans and Trump’s election campaign. He also spoke out against developing a ‘cult personality’. Musk was speaking to Jordan Peterson and this interview was shared on X (formerly Twitter).

NITI Aayog vice chairman Suman Bery on Wednesday said the review of the direct tax and the custom's duty rates as announced by the Finance Minister in her Budget speech will prepare the ground for long term reforms. Bery further said that the Budget for 2024-25 was a structural budget, which will help in improving labour productivity by building a relationship between the workforce and the private sector.

Elon Musk is having nightmares about ‘woke mind virus’, a type of infection that poisons the victim with progressive thinking!

The 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs drew up a timetable for the contest, with the Conservatives opting to use their party conference as the concluding interview round of the final four candidates. Nominations for the next leader will open tomorrow (23 July) and close before the House of Commons starts its summer recess on Tuesday next week. Reeves' fiscal lock legislation deemed 'largely performative' Successful candidates will require nominations from ten fellow Tory MPs to enter the race. The nominations will narrow down to a final two candidates, which will be announced ...

Goldman Sachs Asset Management wants its star hire from rival JPMorgan Asset Management to provide a shot-in-the-arm to the firm’s public-market franchise.

Godfrey Phillips director Bina Modi on Monday withdrew her contempt petition filed against her sons — Lalit and Samir Modi – in the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON—What a year these past few weeks have been. President Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 campaign caps off a historically tumultuous stretch in American politics, as a series of unexpected events—from a presidential debate for the ages to a near-assassination—have shaken up the political landscape and thrust it into uncharted territory. Until recently, the 2024 presidential election was shaping up as a snoozer of a rematch, with the same candidates who battled each other in 2020 ignoring the electorate’s pleas for change and slogging joylessly toward a November grudge match.

Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chasma’ star Gurucharan Singh, who created quite a furor by going missing for 25 days earlier this year, finally spilled the beans on the mystery behind his disappearance.

Malayalam crime thriller 'Thalavan', featuring Biju Menon and Asif Ali, has been capturing the attention of streaming enthusiasts. Released in theaters on May 24, 2024, the film garnered a respectable response at the box office. Now, viewers are eager to know when they can catch it on OTT platforms.

battery electric vehicles, Suzuki Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Kenichi Ayukawa said. First, the goal is for Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., the Japanese carmaker’s subsidiary, to grab 50% market share by 2030, from around 40% for the fiscal year through March. “We’re confident that the Indian market will expand in the mid to long term,” Ayukawa said in an interview. The emergence of India as an economic powerhouse and its expanding middle class present a clear opportunity for the Hamamatsu-based manufacturer, which has been active in the South Asian nation since 1983 and has found success as the top-selling automaker with models such as Swift and Brezza. In order to keep its lead, Suzuki plans to introduce its first-ever EV in India, as well as in Europe, next year after exhibiting its mass production model at the upcoming auto expo in India in January, according to Ayukawa.

budget should arm the central bank with a time-tested tool to deal with a potential surge in bond flows on the nation’s entry into a key global index, according to the nation’s largest asset manager. “Rather than selling long bonds from their book and distorting the market, you can issue short-term government securities,” Rajeev Radhakrishnan, chief investment officer for fixed income at SBI Funds Management Ltd., said in an interview. “The market stabilization scheme is the right tool to have and at some point, at least in this budget, they should have that.”

Interim budget, the government should continue on the path of fiscal consolidation. D-St could be pencilling in some added populist measures in this budget,” says Jaspreet Singh Arora, CIO, Equentis — Research & Ranking. In an interview with ETMarkets, Arora said: “The budget may look at adding some populist measures which address unemployment and rural stress. This is considering four state elections coming up in the next one year,” Edited excerpts:

Zomato delivery agents in Bengaluru, revealing that their income can surpass that of many IT engineers in India. Kamath, who runs the 'Full Disclosure' YouTube channel, shared insights from her discussions with two delivery agents, highlighting the disparity between their earnings and those of average IT professionals.

Lounge story titled, Is There A Perfect Way To Stretch?This piece is about whether those 90-120 seconds which we take to catch our breath between sets, might also be a good time to ease the muscles before using them again. One of the most cited researches on this was published in the Journal Of Strength And Conditioningfive years ago. Titled, Interset Stretching Vs. Traditional Strength Training: Effects on Muscle Strength and Size in Untrained Individuals, the study concluded that the interset stretching group gained more muscle mass than the group which did not stretch between sets.

Mohammed Shami has finally addressed the swirling rumors linking him to tennis player Sania Mirza. Recently, social media was abuzz with manipulated images and baseless claims suggesting that Shami and Mirza were about to get married. These rumors surfaced following Sania Mirza's divorce from Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik. In a candid interview with YouTuber Shubhankar Mishra, Shami expressed his frustration and issued a stern warning to those spreading false news.

wedding filmmaker Vishal Punjabi, the man behind capturing some of the most iconic celebrity unions, has spilled the beans on a dramatic incident that unfolded behind the scenes of a high-profile Bollywood wedding. Among his clientele are Bollywood power couples like Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, Kiara Advani and Siddharth Malhotra, and Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli. However, in a candid conversation with DJ Simz on YouTube, Vishal recounted a shocking incident involving one of the celebrity weddings he filmed. In the interview, Vishal revealed, «It happened with a celebrity couple. Just two months after their wedding, the groom was caught cheating. His wife walked in on him in a compromising situation with a Bollywood actress in his makeup van on a film set. She caught him red-handed and said, ‘I don’t want our wedding film’.»

In early 2022, Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal wrote on social media that “reporting on Russia is now also a regular practice of watching people you know get locked away for years.”

Tucker Carlson was back on Fox News Channel airwaves Thursday