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Congress rebels and independent MLAs who voted in favour of the BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan in Rajya Sabha elections, the BJP State President Rajiv Bindal on Monday said that the Congress is taking dictatorial decisions. Raiding the houses and business outlets of MLAs, taking various types of actions against them and people associated with them, sending people to instigate fights and creating an atmosphere of fear in the entire state is unacceptable and will not be tolerated, he said in a statement issued here.

cricket only. "I made it very clear on Day 1 that IPL, for me, is serious cricket. It's not about Bollywood, it's not about you, it's not about after party and stuff.

The Economic Times said. He added, "I have committed publicly to my shareholders that in FY26, I will deliver an 18-20% EBITDA margin, which should roughly translate to over ₹2,000 crore of EBITDA on a cash basis". Further Goenka explained through "frugality, optimisation and sharp focus on quality and decisions based on the return of investment" Zee will be able to achieve ₹2,000 crore EBITDA by FY2026.

RK Swamy IPO: The initial public offering (IPO) of RK Swamy Limited is going to hit the Indian primary market today. The public issue will remain for subscribers till 6th March 2024. The integrated marketing communications company has fixed the RK Swamy IPO price band at ₹270 to ₹288 per equity share.

Spanish woman in Jharkhand sent shockwaves around the country, Chairperson of National Commission for Women has criticised a writer from US who said that he never met a female traveler who had not been groped or assaulted or worse, even if they had only been in country for mere days. «Did you ever report the incident to Police? If not than you are totally an irresponsible person. Writing only on social media and defaming whole country is not good choice,» said Rekha Sharma. Rekha Sharma was responding to a journalist who narrated his experience of visiting India.

lettuce from E. coli contamination, but not kale and collards — types of saag — a new research has found. Seeing outbreaks on lettuce but not on kale and other brassica vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, collard greens and others, researchers analysed the tendencies of leafy greens to get infected with E. coli, or Escherichia coli, a bacterium species found in lower intestines of humans. While generally harmless, some of its strains are occasionally responsible for food contaminations and can cause food poisoning. The researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, infected whole leaves from five leafy greens — romaine lettuce, green-leaf lettuce, spinach, kale, and collards — with E. coli (serotype O157:H7) and observed what happened after storing them under these temperatures — 4 degrees Celsius (refrigeration), 20 degrees Celsius (room temperature) and 37 degrees Celsius (normal body temperature). Overall, a combination of both temperature and leaf surface properties such as roughness and the natural wax coating were found to govern susceptibility to the bacterial contamination, the researchers found.

GDP growth print for 3Q contrasts the grim reality of household consumption and income situation. The latest national expenditure survey (2022-23), released after a lag of 11 years shows real consumption grew modestly at 3% over the past 11 years and the PLFS data indicates flat real incomes over the past four years. Also, most consumer companies have shown a lackluster demand situation. What is not surprising is that the persisting discordance has accentuated in the 3Q print and reflects in a) the large contribution of the discrepancy component, b) a sharp rise in net indirect taxes translating into enlarged expenditure GDP, and c) a disproportionate decline in imports relative to the decline in consumption.

BJP candidate list Lok Sabha 2024 LIVE In a post on X, Pawan Singh wrote, “I express my heartfelt gratitude to the top leadership of Bharatiya Janata Party. The party trusted me and declared me as the candidate from Asansol but due to some reason I will not be able to contest the elections from Asansol." In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, singer Babul Supriyo clinched victory in this seat on a BJP ticket by defeating TMC's Moon Moon Sen. However, two years later, Supriyo resigned from the seat and joined the TMC.

Microsoft. While categorically denying Musk's claims about OpenAI, Kwon said the billionaire "regrets not being involved with the company today," according to an internal memo cited by Bloomberg.

World Economic Forum says AI-driven misinformation could interfere with electoral processes in various countries, including India. Sam Gregory, executive director of Witness, a global human rights organisation, which uses video and technology to expose human rights abuses and has worked on the threats of AI and deepfakes, spoke to ET about AI related challenges and strategies in elections. Edited excerpts: Can you quantify the risk of deepfakes in elections? We are entering a challenging moment in terms of deepfakes. This year, we have made technical progress that makes it easier and cheaper to make them. We are going to have an election year where synthetic media tools will be used for positive purposes such as voter outreach, and for negative ones.

195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections here in the national capital on March 2. While at least 42 of the candidates who were elected to Parliament in 2019, have been replaced with new names, the party has also fielded at least ministers who are currently Rajya Sabha members. Among the big BJP ministers, who are Rajya Sabha members and will contest elections include Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya who will be contesting from Porbandar in Gujarat and junior IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who will contest from Thiruvananthapuram seat, which is held by the Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.

Covid vaccine is not responsible for heart attacks, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said today citing a study done by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). While speaking at ANI Dialogues 2024-Navigating India's Health Sector, Mandaviya said, «If someone has a stroke today, they think it is because of the Covid vaccine. ICMR has done a detailed study that the (Covid) vaccine is not responsible for heart attacks.» He added, «There are multiple reasons for heart attacks, like our lifestyle, tobacco and liquor consumption… Sometimes, misinformation goes among the people and a perception is formed for some time… But whatever decision we make, it should be data-based and scientific research-based.»

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in Krishnagar, West Bengal, to launch multiple and lay foundation stone for multiple projects, said despite being the doorways to the east, “Bengal remained left behind" "...From the infrastructure point of view, railways is a part of the glorious history of West Bengal, but the historical progress that Bengal had achieved could not be utilized properly after independence. That is why despite all the possibilities, Bengal remained left behind." “In the last 10 years, we have laid a lot of emphasis on the rail infrastructure here to bridge that gap, today our government is spending more than twice as much as before for the rail infrastructure of Bengal..." PM Modi on Saturday inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth ₹15,000 crore in Krishnanagar city in West Bengal's Nadia District on Saturday.

Mukka Proteins IPO: Subscription for the initial public offering (IPO) of Mukka Proteins Limited opened on 29th February 2024 i.e. on Thursday last week. the public issue will remain open till 4th March 2024, which means the primary market investors have just one day in hand to apply for the public issue.

China said the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reforms “should benefit all member states rather than serving the selfish interests of a few”, comments that come days after external affairs minister S Jaishankar said “one non-Western country” was blocking UNSC reforms. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Thursday said member states need to seek the broadest possible consensus for a package solution through serious and thorough consultations when it comes to UNSC reforms.

₹700 crore. These guidelines are necessary to be followed “to preserve the tranquil ambience and ensure the orderly management of our premises," the temple authorities said.

First, the good news: Canada’s economy closed 2024 in slightly better shape than was expected, with real gross domestic product growth inching up to a one per cent annual rate (consensus was 0.8 per cent) in the fourth quarter, while the third quarter was revised to a “less negative” print of minus 0.5 per cent from minus 1.1 per cent in the initial report.

political turmoil, numerous voices have advocated for boycotting products, services, brands and even nations as a mark of protest. Take the BDS — boycott, divestment, sanctions — movement, which wants to pressure Israel to change its policies towards Palestinians through various forms of economic and political actions. It first gained international attention in the early 2000s. It has targeted global business entities such as Nestle, Burger King, Disney, Siemens, HP, Puma, Carrefour and others for supporting Israel, covertly or overtly. Many governments have also taken this route. Last year, Turkish parliament withdrew Coca-Cola and Nestle products from restaurants in parliament for supporting Israel. India has done things more subtly. It used BJP's social media arm to mobilise people to boycott Chinese products after border skirmishes, and to boycott the Maldives as a tourist destination after a minister made uncharitable remarks about India.

Despite the recent solid equity performance so far this year, Citi analysts feel the current bubble is not yet overly large in terms of price appreciation, duration, valuation, or sentiment.

Wakeel Hassan, a rat-hole miner who was part of the Silkyara tunnel rescue operation, sitting on a footpath where he and his family spent their second night after losing their house in a demolition drive. «My family and I continue to spend the night in the open. Some locals are providing us with food and water, etc.,» Hassan said on Friday, a day after he refused an offer by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to move him and his family to an EWS flat in Narela. «We have now accepted the night as a challenge,» he said, adding the family has not received any help from the government so far. Hassan was part of a team of miners who rescued 41 workers trapped inside Uttarkashi's Silkyara tunnel by manually drilling through the debris in November last year.

Deepak Shenoy, Founder, Capital Mind, says: “We would like to buy more when the stocks go up rather than just on declines. But we are still very positive on a few themes that are very specifically India, because of the infrastructure changes, because of the focus on a lot of Indian local domestic improvements where adding more players in logistics for instance allows us to see the urban and rural consumption divide narrowing down over a period of time because of accessibility, roads, rail, and cargo infrastructure. We are adding a few players. We have very little changes from last time but we have added a couple of special situations. Indian manufacturing space is where we are targeting. From semiconductors to a bunch of players around infrastructures, around domestic manufacturing, auto ancillaries we have added.” I understand you were part of that meeting where the finance minister met the fintechs. What really came out of it, was Paytm top of the heap? Deepak Shenoy: No, we were talking more about the problems faced by the fintech industry in general from a perspective of what could be done to improve the situation. Some of them involve a deeper consultation with the RBI, some of them are issues around how the taxation laws are created, some of them were ideas about new products.