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University of Oxford «From Gridlock to Growth How Leadership Enables India's PRAGATI Ecosystem to Power Progress» illustrates how Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Initiatives has transformed the problems, its monitoring and resolution of various projects of the government. The report says India's PRAGATI platform offers a compelling case study of how digital governance can drive progress. Pragati was launched in 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has become an acronym for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation of projects. It has transformed the way India manages its large-scale infrastructure projects and social sector programs.

The finance ministry had projected inflation would slow to 5.8%-6.8% in November and ease to 5.6%-6.5% in December, in a monthly economic report published last week. The South Asian country slashed interest rates by 250 basis points earlier in November to help revive a sluggish economy amid a big drop in the rate of inflation.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Indian-origin Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel is one of the Trump's most loyal enforcers and a conspiracy theorist — a 2020 election denier who wants to purge the so-called «deep state». He recently publicly pledged to investigate and prosecute Trump’s enemies in the media and government, according to The Rolling Stone. “I am proud to announce that Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday evening.

Digital payments major PhonePe has decided to discontinue its partnership with payment orchestration platform Juspay. Instead, the Walmart-backed company is opting for direct integration with merchants. This will also allow PhonePe to offer an integrated payment experience to its merchants from origination of the transaction to the final settlement. While PhonePe has been offering the direct integration service for quite some time now, going forward the company will stop all third-party integrations, a person in the know said.

retail fuel outlets, the government has implemented a comprehensive monitoring system leveraging cutting-edge technologies, according to a Parliamentary report tabled on Monday. The monitoring framework integrates advanced technologies including OTP-based calibration, magnetic self-destructive pulsers, and digital payment systems, enabling real-time data analytics across the country's fuel distribution network. The action taken report by the standing committee on consumer affairs, food and public distribution revealed that the monitoring system has been expanded nationwide, with special emphasis on high-risk areas. The regulatory mechanism, developed under the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 and Legal Metrology (General) Rules, 2011, provides a robust oversight framework.

The court suspended the sentence for 30 days to enable him to file an appeal against the order. Later, Raja told reporters that his team of advocates will face the matter legally.

Prosus, the Dutch-listed technology investment arm of Naspers, is gearing up for a ramp-up in its India IPO pipeline, highlighting five potential IPOs over the next 18 months. E-commerce firm Meesho, omnichannel jewellery retailer Bluestone, and fintech company PayU India are among the firms lining up for public offerings. Prosus CEO Fabricio Bloisi did not elaborate on the IPO timelines during a call with reporters on Monday. The company also disclosed that it had acquired an 11% stake in supply chain finance firm Mintifi for approximately $80 million. Additionally, it invested $100 million in housing finance company Vastu Finance, securing an 8.4% stake.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When it comes to investing for the long term, identifying stocks that consistently deliver a high return on equity (ROE) and return on capital employed (ROCE) can be a powerful strategy. ROE and ROCE are key financial metrics that measure a company's ability to generate profits from its capital, helping investors assess how efficiently a company is using its resources to grow.

Fiorentina midfielder Edoardo Bove is in a medically induced coma after collapsing on the field during his team’s Serie A match at home to Inter Milan on Sunday, with the game abandoned shortly afterward.Bove’s teammates immediately called for medical help and both sets of players surrounded the 22-year-old while he was being treated before he was swiftly stretchered off to an ambulance near the pitch and taken to Careggi Hospital in Florence.“Fiorentina and the Careggi University Hospital announce that the footballer Edoardo Bove … is currently under pharmacological sedation and hospitalized in intensive care,” Fiorentina said in a statement.“The first cardiological and neurological tests performed have ruled out acute damage to the central nervous system and the cardio-respiratory system.

PI Industries Ltd. traded 0.0 per cent in Monday's trade at 12:51PM (IST). Around 3,487 shares changed hands on the counter. The counter opened at Rs 4065.60 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 4072.95 and Rs 4034.70, respectively, in the session so far. The stock of PI Industries Ltd. quoted a 52-week high of Rs 4801.40 and a 52-week low of Rs 3060.00.

central government fiscal deficit stands at 46.5 per cent of its budget estimates in the first seven months of the current financial year 2025, highlights a report by Union Bank of India. The report also noted that the capital expenditure of the government in the first seven months of the current fiscal stands at only 42 per cent and it will be a challenge for the government to spend the remaining 58 per cent in the remaining five months. It said,«It would be a daunting task for the govt. to achieve the Rs 11.11 lakh crore budgeted target for the fiscal as the govt. has only five months left to spend the remaining 58 per cent of the full-year capex budget».

Marburg, also termed as the 'Bleeding Eye's virus due to one of its symptoms, has killed 15 people in Rwanda and has left hundreds of them infected, reports The Mirror. ALSO READ: Delhi reports first case of Japanese Encephalitis: check symptoms of this viral disease

Narendra Modi is set to watch the film Sabarmati Report on Monday evening at the Balyogi Auditorium in the Parliament Library Building. Officials confirmed that the screening will feature the prime minister as part of the audience. The film, directed by Dheeraj Sarna and starring Vikrant Massey, delves into the events surrounding the tragic fire incident on the Sabarmati Express in Godhra on February 27, 2002.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine

Tech Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.33 per cent), MphasiS Ltd.(up 1.13 per cent), Persistent Systems Ltd.(up 0.79 per cent), Infosys Ltd.(up 0.6 per cent) and LTIMindtree Ltd.(up 0.57 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Ambuja Cements Ltd. traded 0.27 per cent up at Rs 533.25 at around 11:28AM (IST) on Monday. The stock had closed at Rs 531.80 in the previous session. Equity benchmark Sensex traded 0.1 points at 79802.69 around the same time.

Adani Green Energy shares surged 9% to Rs 1,445, recovering all losses since the U.S. indictment on November 21. This sharp rebound follows allegations against the group's billionaire founder, Gautam Adani, over an alleged $265 million bribery scheme. The recovery in stock value came after the company issued a clarification denying the bribery accusations against Gautam Adani and other group officials, boosting investor confidence. In recent trading sessions, Adani Green has emerged as one of the top performers, dispelling concerns related to the allegations.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India, the third largest electricity producer, is gradually shifting to renewable sources of energy to meet its rising power demand. The country's installed solar power capacity stands at 92.19 gigawatts (GW), a 35x growth since 2014, according to the data as of October 2024.

Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com, says net-net, 2025 should be a reasonably good year overall because today the consensus trade is long dollar, long US equities, and the overweights on that are so excessive that normally and the consensus view is so drastic on that side, normally the reverse plays out and we could actually see emerging markets and emerging market currencies do better in 2025. In auto, among two-wheelers, TVS has done better than expected, Hero MotoCorp has done less well. Maruti numbers seem to be pretty good and they are the ones who actually corrected the delay in inventories and the management said that we are back to normal last month. So, the positives seem to be from TVS and Maruti. What do you make of the GDP slowdown because people are trying to find reasons around it as to whether one should look at the nominal number or if it is just manufacturing or a backward-looking data and all of that. What is your key takeaway on consumption right now? Sandip Sabharwal: GDP data, whenever it is released, is obviously backward-looking because the reports of the companies have already come in. So, the second quarter results in general were disappointing and those by themselves reflected a growth slowdown. All of us knew that there was a growth slowdown. It was just RBI, which was maintaining a very high forecast of growth, which looked very improbable. So, that reporting has come in.

After making landfall near Puducherry on November 30, Cyclone Fengal weakened on Sunday, but torrential downpour under its influence paralysed the union territory, with the Army stepping in to evacuate stranded persons in inundated streets. Four people died, officials said without divulging further details.

Shriram Finance Ltd. 2.16 per cent to Rs 3083.10 in Monday's trade as of 10:05AM (IST). The stock hit a high price of Rs 3088.55 and low of Rs 3000.00 during the session.