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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday hit out at the BJP-led Centre while claiming that people in the country were not getting employment and were facing the wrath of inflation. Addressing a gathering in Chhattisgarh's Korba district during his 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra', Gandhi asked the people to wake up, claiming their pockets were being robbed and they were being misled. The backward classes, Dalits and Adivasis (tribals) comprise 74 per cent of the country's population, but not a single person from these communities is the owner or in the management of India's top 200 companies which are being given «all the money of the country», he claimed. The BJP calls it a «Hindu Rashtra», but 74 per cent of the population and the poor from the general country have been getting nothing. They are only for beating «thali» (steel plate), ringing «ghanta» (bell), showing mobile phones and dying in hunger, he further claimed targeting the Centre.

The white paper brought out by the government last week is an excellent document from a campaign perspective. As an assessment of the economic performance of the Congress-led UPA government (2004-2014), however, it falls short.

Satya Nadella told ET during his annual visit to the country last week. In an interview, the 56-year-old chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation called AI the new factor of productivity and said it will aid India's goal of being a $5-trillion economy. Edited excerpts: Congratulations on completing ten years at Microsoft. You're being talked about as the 'GOAT' of tech CEOs, the greatest of all time. Your success is partly due to the fact that you placed the right things at the heart of Microsoft 10 years ago, in terms of mobile, cloud, and so on. So, what is going to be Microsoft's paradigm ten years from now?

Satya Nadella, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft that has toppled Apple as the most valuable company, believes that India with its robust developer community will be able to compete with any developed country in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) in enterprises. In an interview during his visit to India last week, Nadella, who has completed 10 years as the company’s CEO, underscored the importance of keeping “humans in the loop" in AI-enabled projects, the value of India-specific large language models (LLMs), the need to regulate AI, and the need to create new value from technology to stay ahead.

Fintech firm One97 Communications, which owns the Paytm brand, has received support from merchants, and it assured them of continuity of services without any disruption, the company said in a blog on Sunday.The blog post came amid the recent crisis around Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL), an associate company of Paytm, which has been barred by the RBI from accepting deposits or top-ups in customer accounts, wallets, FASTags and other instruments after February 29.Withdrawal or utilisation of balances by its customers from their accounts, including savings bank accounts, current accounts, prepaid instruments, FASTags, and National Common Mobility Cards, are to be permitted without any restrictions up to their available balance.

₹25,938-crore production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for the sector have sought clarification on whether the investment timeline has been extended in line with the one-year extension of the scheme, according to industry executives. To align with the extended incentive disbursement period, companies have urged the government to also extend the investment timeline of the scheme by a year. The five-year PLI scheme for advanced automotive technologies (PLI-AAT), as it is formally known, was extended by a year in late December, after none of the participating companies could avail of benefits in the first year of the scheme ending March 2023 (FY23).

Section 144 prohibits mass meetings, and in response to the farmers' 'Delhi Chalo March' on February 13, prohibitive orders were placed in the national capital's northeast region on Sunday, according to an official. On Tuesday, thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh are anticipated to march in support of the Delhi Chalo March, which is being organized by about 200 farmer unions, in the direction of the nation's capital. Section 144 of the CrPC (prohibitory orders) has been enforced. We have learned that certain farmer organizations have called on their followers to rally or march to Delhi on February 13th in favor of their demands for an MSP bill. Joy Tirkey, the deputy commissioner of police for the northeast, has issued an order saying that no one will be permitted to violate the state of law and order.

Patna. Speaking to PTI, ADG Traffic said, “Sending e-challans to motorists for violating traffic norms through SMSes is not working properly. That is mainly because of frequent changes in the mobile phone numbers of offenders." “This is the only reason that we have decided to deliver e-challans to traffic violators via registered post.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is set to do away with the OTP (one time password) based authentication. As of now, the banking regulator has not issued any detailed guidelines. The plan has been shared in a Statement on Development and Regulatory Policies released on Feb 8 on the RBI's website.

iPhone 15 smartphone was launched in India at a price of ₹79,9990, but the smartphone has since received several price cuts and is currently available in India for under ₹65,0000 during the Mobile Bonanza days on Flipkart. The 128GB variant of the iPhone 15 is listed at ₹66,999 on Flipkart, but with an HDFC bank card discount, you can buy the premium device at a discount of ₹2,000, bringing the effective price of the smartphone to ₹64,999. There is also an additional discount of ₹1,500 when using cards from Citi Bank, HSBC, DBS and Bank of Baroda.

Manohar Lal Khattar-led Haryana government has prepared cement barricades, iron nails, suspension of internet, suspension of bulk SMS services, and heavy police deployment to block the farmers. In what seems like a possible repeat of the 2020 Farmers' Protest against implementation of minimum support price (MSP), farmers are planning to march to Delhi on Tuesday to press the Centre to accept their various demands. Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher on Saturday said the Centre has invited them for a meeting to discuss their demands on February 12.

Piyush Goyal, Arjun Munda and Nityanand Rai — will arrive in Chandigarh on February 12 to hold talks with a deputation of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha. The meeting will be held at the Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration in Sector 26 here, a day before the farmers' proposed 'Delhi Chalo' march. Pandher also shared the letter inviting them to hold the talks in Chandigarh.

electric vehicles and EV Battery Manufacturing Project. This ambitious initiative will unfold across two cities in Odisha.

For the fiscal year 2023–2024, the CBT suggested crediting members' EPF accumulations with an annual rate of interest of 8.25%. The interest rate earlier was 8.15%. According to the PIB release dated February 10, 2024, “The Board has recommended a distribution of historic income amount of Rs. 1,07,000 crores to EPF members' accounts on a total principal amount of about Rs. 13 lakh crores, which was Rs. 91,151.66 crores and Rs. 11.02 lakh crores in the financial year 2022-23, respectively. The total income recommended for distribution is the highest on record.” <div data-placement=«Mid Article Thumbnails» data-targ

₹40,000 crore investment. Through this MoU, the group made public its strategic entry into the state amid competitive offers from other states. This announcement is also a key component of the company’s plan to manufacture electric vehicles.

BLive, a startup that offers a wide range of EVs and related services through a digital platform. In his response to our questionnaire, Kholkar said that India's EV market has great potential. He also discussed EV subsidies, BLive's financials, and business plans. Edited excerpts: Tell us something about BLive At BLive, we are on a mission to drive the adoption of sustainable mobility. My co-founder Sandeep and I, come from corporate backgrounds and always had the vision of creating something that could drive positive and meaningful impact and we chose electric vehicles as they are a perfect fit to addressing the current growing transport need of our country.

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is looking to unlock about ₹5.45 lakh crore worth of spectrum for 5G and 6G needs through refarming or repurposing of existing frequencies, particularly in the mid-band or 3-6 GHz range, said officials familiar with the matter. «We are looking to make available additional spectrum for mobile use in the coming five years,» said one of the officials, who did not wish to be identified. The DoT believes there is a need to provide more airwaves, especially in mid-band, for upgradation of 5G technology and introduction of 6G, which is expected to be launched by 2030. Most of the spectrum is currently being utilised by domestic legacy users such as defence forces and satellites, which may be shifted to different frequencies.

Tether announced today that it led a $25 million Series A funding round for crypto mobile payments app Oobit.

artificial intelligence (AI) will change the anatomy of jobs, skills, tasks and occupations and create upward social mobility in the economy, Cognizant chief executive Ravi Kumar S said. Kumar said technology service companies like Cognizant pivot on «technological discontinuities» such as generative AI.

Nawaz Sharif on Friday claimed victory in national elections by declaring that his political party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has emerged as the largest in the vote. Sharif has also shown interest in forming a coalition to form the government. He announced that he has tasked his younger brother and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif to reach out to the Pakistan Peoples' Party's Asif Ali Zardari, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) chief Fazlur Rehman and Muttahida Qaumi Movement's Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui for the formation of a coalition government.

BEIJING — China is encouraging banks and local businesses to accept foreign bank cards and is considering other steps to make mobile pay for international visitors even easier, said Zhang Qingsong, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China.