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DMK leader and Thoothukudi MP candidate Kanimozhi Karunanidhi said on Monday that the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party is not silent on the Katchatheevu island row, alleging that the BJP-led ruling government is raising issues for the election campaign and not for the people's welfare. «DMK is not silent on this issue. We raised this issue many times but PM Modi and the BJP government never replied. Speaking about Katchatheevu is just for election campaigning, not for people's welfare,» she said. DMK Deputy General Secretary Kanimozhi on Monday campaigned for South Chennai DMK candidate Sumathi, alias Tamilachi Thangapandiyan, in Tiruvanmayur.

₹47,000 in visa costs and agent fees as well as the charges for cancellation of flight tickets and hotel bookings. To add to her woes, the travel insurance was non-refundable. Ashar’s monetary loss was equal to what she had paid for the round-trip flight tickets.

Bandhan Bank's founder and managing director Chandrashekhar Ghosh will not be part of the bank's board in a non-executive role once he retires on 9 July. Speaking to analysts and investors on Monday, Ghosh clarified that the board will start the process of finding his successor and expects the names of candidates to be finalized by July. Explaining the rationale behind this sudden decision to step down, Ghosh clarified that it was a voluntary decision and that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had no role to play in his resignation.

China's electric vehicle companies do not rely on subsidies to gain a competitive advantage and accusations by the U.S. and Europe of «overcapacity» are groundless, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said on Sunday in Paris. Wang made the remarks at a roundtable meeting of Chinese firms in Paris, where he is set to discuss China's exports of EVs into the European market among other things.

LS polls: PM praises Madhavi Latha- the BJP candidate contesting against Owaisi Lok Sabha polls: PM Modi to lead roadshow in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur today Rahul Gandhi says Congress manifesto 'can change India' On Sunday, it was PM Modi's second rally in Bihar for Lok Sabha election 2024. On April 4, PM Modi campaigned for the saffron party in Jamui constituency.

Varun Gandhi will not be in the fray from the Pilibhit constituency for which the BJP is going full throttle with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to address a mega election rally here on Tuesday. The party has denied a ticket to sitting MP Varun Gandhi from the constituency that has been represented either by him or his mother since 1996. Instead, it has fielded Uttar Pradesh Minister Jitin Prasada from the seat. Pilibhit goes to polls on April 19 in the first of the seven-phase Parliamentary elections. Prasada, who won the 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha polls from Shahjahanpur and Dharura constituencies, respectively, on Congress ticket, crossed over to the BJP in 2021. So far, he is the only Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister to be fielded in this Lok Sabha polls.

Reddy came out all guns blazing at the BJP-led Centre saying that the upcoming Lok Sabha elections will pit two families against each other--the NDA and central agencies at its disposal and the Congress family, many of whose members sacrificed their lives for the country. Addressing people at the release of the Congress's 'Nyay Patra' or manifesto in the state during the 'Jana Jatara Sabha', Reddy said on Saturday, «Congress is a family. I want to tell Rahul Gandhi that the upcoming elections are not just electoral contests but a war that pits two families against each other. This is an all-out war between the Congress family and the one headed by PM Modi.» «Modi's family features EVMs, ED, CBI and the Income Tax Department. Our family has martyrs--Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and a leader who sacrificed the PM's chair, Sonia Gandhi. This is a family whose members, including Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, have selflessly dedicated their lives to the country,» the Congress leader added.

Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Group Chairman, Inditrade Capital, says: “The way I look at it, infra will come back with a strong set of numbers and so will defence. Apart from that, I am looking at a good set of numbers from BFSI as well as real estate. These are the four-five sectors which definitely will come back with good numbers. As far as other sectors are concerned, IT and FMCG will be a mixed bag. I do not think we will see a major pickup in earnings in IT. Cement, again, will be a little subdued.” What are you making of the resilience of India equity markets? The fact that crude is already at $91, but the Indian markets are not really absorbing that hit so far and even the central bank seems not perturbed by the sudden spike that one has seen. Sudip Bandyopadhyay: Crude at $91 does not augur well for India. However, this has just happened and crude prices have been benign for a very long time and this sudden shooting up is predominantly on the back of two things. One is what is happening in Russia and the Gulf and also the Chinese demand suddenly picking up with possible economic recovery in China. Now, the combined effect of all these factors and somewhere I am sure the calculations are that geopolitical tensions will ease and production in Russia as well as the Gulf will stabilise.

Lok Sabha elections scheduled to take place in seven phases beginning from April 19. The chief minister, on the sidelines of a Lok Sabha election rally in Jorhat constituency, condemned the Congress poll promise document, calling it a politics of appeasement. “In India, no one wants the revival of triple talaq or support child marriage or polygamy.

NEW DELHI : Banks not recognizing any interest income on bad loans by following RBI’s prudential norms does not absolve borrowers from the obligation to show the interest liability on their financial statements, audit regulator National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) said in a regulatory order. NFRA said defaulters are not free of the obligation to recognise interest liability as banks are required to maintain a record of accrued interest on bad loans and do not release the borrower from the contractual liability to pay interest.

Kuki communities in Manipur since May 3 last year, such a flurry of activity in the marketplace signals a revival of normalcy. “What normalcy?” Devi retorts with a poignant blend of anger and despair. “My daughter Mayuda is still confined in the shelters of a relief camp near Imphal. When the unrest erupted, she was just married, starting a new life with her husband in Churachandpur. The Kukis ravaged all their personal belongings, including the grocery shop they had taken on rent.” That’s just one side of the story. About 30 km northeast of Imphal, in Shangkai, Ngamminlen Haokip recounts a harrowing incident of armed Meitei assailants scaling up a nearby hill before launching a deadly assault on Thowai Kuki village. Shangkai is one of the 14 Kuki villages located in the foothills of Ukhrul district, “That’s Thowai Kuki,” he says, pointing towards a hill.

Congress on the issue of corruption, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the opposition party is in panic as he has shut their «shop of loot» and it was holding rallies not to win the elections but to save the corrupt. Addressing an election rally in Ajmer, Modi called the Congress a party of «dynasts and corrupt» that is bereft of both principles and policies. «Wherever there is Congress, there cannot be any development. The Congress never thought about the poor, marginalised and youths… These people considered looting public money as their ancestral right. In the last 10 years, Modi has provided a permanent cure for the disease,» the prime minister said. Modi said that the third term of his government is not far and the government is going to take even bigger decisions against corruption in the first 100 days.

If you're an investment banker who's been waiting for deals and hiring to revive so that you can find a new job, your time may soon come. Figures from Dealogic indicate that the first quarter of 2024 wasn't bad, but the recovery is geographically patchy and sector specific.

Lok Sabha polls are «not fair» with opposition parties being targeted but despite that, the INDIA bloc will get a clear majority in the elections due to the public response to its "five nyay, 25 guarantees", senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday. He also said the people of the country will «decisively reject» all attempts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make the elections «unfree and unfair». There is a strong undercurrent of «enough of das saal anyay kaal» (10 years of injustice), the Congress general secretary said. Ramesh also hit out at Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh over their recent remarks about the country being a «new India», which strikes inside enemy territory, saying these are «diversionary tactics» aimed at taking the focus away from the Congress' «real narrative» of «paanch nyay, pachees guarantees» and the manifesto.

Mamata Banerjee on Saturday blamed NIA officials of attacking villagers at Bhupatinagar in East Midnapore district and not the other way round. «The attack was not carried out by women of Bhupatinagar, it was by the National Investigation Agency (NIA),» she said at an election rally in South Dinajpur district's Balurghat. She claimed that the probe agency team had gone to the houses of villagers in the early hours over an incident of «bursting of crackers in 2022».

OpenAI is aiming to use its popular chatbot ChatGPT—it said 600,000 individuals pay for business versions of it—as a way to gain an entry into businesses and sell them its enterprise artificial-intelligence services. Those individuals are paying for ChatGPT Enterprise or ChatGPT Team, which make up what OpenAI calls its “business products," according to OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap.

Bajrangi Bhaijaan actor never decided to file a defamation case against comedian Kunal Kamra. Earlier reports emerged that Salman Khan planned to sue Kunal Kamra due to his comments made against him on personal matters. Bollywood Q1 2024 vs 2023: SRK factor, Siddharth Anand’s dominance and more However, a person close to the Hum Aapke Hai Kaun actor told Zoom that if Salman Khan sued everyone who abused him, he would only be in and out of courtrooms.

SUVs) are wildly popular in India, with the segment now accounting for every second car sold. But going by the official definition of an SUV, such vehicles account for only about a 10th of the total sales volume. That's because just a third of the 47 models with SUV branding sold in the Indian market have an engine capacity of 1,500 cc and above, a length of 4 metres and more, and ground clearance of 170 mm and higher. Those are the criteria based on which a vehicle is defined as an SUV for the purpose of computing goods and services tax (GST). Total car sales rose to a record 4.23 million units in the last financial year, up 8.7% from the previous year, with the big-time shift to SUVs — which crossed the 50% market-share mark for the first time in FY24 — having ostensibly underscored the surge.

SRH vs CSK IPL 2024: TheRajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad, is ready for a high-profile clash as World Cup-winning skipper Pat Cummins leads Sunrisers Hyderabad against young Ruturaj Gaikwad-led Chennai Super Kings. While SRH boasts of an array of explosive batters, CSK has just one player to match all the power- MS Dhoni. Pat Cummins spoke about the clash of titans ahead of the match, and admitted that SRK'S outing against CSK, which has the omnipotent presence of Dhoni, is going to be tough one.

Political films lose steam at the box office Besides, CM Vijayan has asked the DD not to become a "propaganda machine" for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP and the Rashtriya Sayamsewak Sangh (RSS). "Kerala will remain steadfast in opposing such malicious attempts to sow hatred," Vijayan said. Kerala opposition leader V D Satheesan wrote on the X platfrom, “The strategy of the Sangh Parivar administration led by Modi is to create division within secular society by screening the film 'The Kerala Story', which is a collection of untruth…The politics of division cannot be used in Kerala".

Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has started restoring complimentary blue checks to some of its users