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Congress leader Sachin Pilot slammed BJP stating that the party won't be able to win a single seat in Kerala or any southern state and expressed strong confidence in the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the INDIA bloc predicting a clean sweep for the coalition in the state. «I think the response is fantastic. People have decided to vote for the UDF. In Kerala, all people across community religion and across caste have decided to fully support the INDIA alliance and UDF will get 20 0ut 0f 20 seats here. BJP will not be able to open their account in kerala or in any other southern states,» Pilot told ANI. Kerala sees a straight face-off between the Congress and the Left in most of the 20 seats with the BJP hoping to dent the tradition by putting up a good show.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday claimed that if «Modi-Shah sarkar» comes back to power, then the democracy will end in the country. Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah while addressing a public meeting in Madhya Pradesh's Satna, Kharge further claimed that they will also scrap the Constitution made by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. «If you want to keep alive the Constitution, the right to vote for women, labourers and farmers, then vote for the Congress and its 'panja' (hand) symbol,» Kharge told the gathering. «Democracy will end if Modi-Shah's government comes to power,» Kharge claimed addressing the public meeting in Satna in support of Congress candidate Siddharth Kushwaha.

Bombay High Court on Tuesday ruled that public sector lenders do not have the power to issue Look Out Circulars (LOCs) against citizens and foreigners under the office memoranda (OM) of the Central government. The division bench of Justice GS Patel and Madhav Jamdar ruled this in a clutch of petitions challenging the LOCs issued to restrain people who are indebted to public sector banks from travelling abroad. A detailed order is awaited. The court, however, while terming empowerment of the managers of public sector banks to issue LOCs as ‘arbitrary’, clarified that OMs of the central government were not ultra vires to the Constitution. With this ruling, all such LOCs issued at the request of the public sector banks were quashed and set aside by the high court.

Sandeep Kalra, CEO, Persistent Systems, says “as we go ahead, as the market conditions stabilise, that will give us the opportunity to have the leverage of all the investments we have done whether they are in the next generation technologies like generative AI or increased sales and marketing investments, etc, and that should help us take the margin up. We still stand by our aspiration of growing the margins by 200 to 300 basis points over the next two to three years.” Your conference call commentary was that your FY25 margins will be similar to FY24, but that has missed Street expectations. What are the headwinds or are you being conservative? Sandeep Kalra: From a margin perspective, what we are saying is this. The margin has to be looked at in the context of the revenue growth that we deliver. So, if we are going to be looking at a revenue growth which is somewhere in similar lines as what we have done in this year, that is what our aspiration is, then at that point in time you have to optimise for one or the other.

Alex Popken was a trust and safety executive at Twitter, leaving in 2023 after a decade at the social media company focusing on content moderation

earnings arrive next week, right in time for investors looking for an artificial intelligence-powered rebound in the slumping S&P 500 Index, which just suffered through its worst week in over a year. Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Google parent Alphabet and Tesla, all of which are among the so-called 'Magnificent Seven' group of tech giants, will report next week. Technology stocks are selling off, with the Nasdaq 100 Index registering its biggest weekly drop since November 2022 in the midst of a four-week losing streak, its longest since December 2022. Even AI darling Nvidia Corp is getting hit, plunging 10% on Friday and wiping out $212 billion in market value for its worst day since the Covid pandemic in March 2020.

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Top news of the day: On 21 April, a series of events are set to take place right from politics to business. HDFC Bank faces the dual challenge of higher credit to deposit profile and lower core income.

Medical marijuana can now be legally purchased in North Carolina with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians opening its long-planned dispensary this weekend on tribal land

Congress on Sunday said its previous government in Rajasthan passed a series of visionary laws to meaningfully improve the quality of life of thousands in the state and asked why the current BJP dispensation is «rolling back» pro-people schemes. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh posed the questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of his rallies in Jalore and Banswara. «Why is the BJP Government rolling back the INC's pro-people schemes? Does the PM prioritise his businessmen friends over Rajasthan's rural communities? Why has ERCP not been designated a national project yet,» Ramesh asked in a post on X. Elaborating on what he said were «jumla details», Ramesh said when the Congress was in power in Rajasthan, it passed a series of visionary laws that would meaningfully improve the quality of life of thousands in the state.

Hanuman Jayanti, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that listening to Hanuman Chalisa also becomes crime under Congress rule. Addressing a rally in Rajasthan's Tonk, Modi trailed guns on the Congress party and its governance in the state. «In the rule of Congress, even listening to Hanuman Chalisa becomes a crime. Rajasthan has been its sufferer and for the first time on Ram Navami this time, Shobha Yatra procession was taken out in Rajasthan. In a state like Rajasthan where people chant Ram-Ram, Congress banned Ram Navami,» Modi said.

Vodafone Idea sailed through on Monday, the last day of the bidding process, driven by healthy interest from institutional and non-institutional investors, both of which are fully subscribed. However, there was little demand from retail investors as the category was booked at just 43%. The Rs 18,000 crore FPO, which opened on April 18, closes today.

Bharatiya Janata Party MP Hema Malini urged the people to convert their support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi into votes and come out in huge numbers to exercise their right to franchise. She also said that the people are showering their support to the party and the lotus will definitely bloom in this election. Speaking to ANI, Hema Malini said, «It was a huge gathering at Home Minister Amit Shah's rally. It shows the support of people. I urge the people to go out and exercise their voting rights. People do tell me that you'll be winning with a margin of 5-7 lakhs, it feels good. But, to make this happen, people should go out and vote.»

Germany. According to the European Union's official website, the rules have been updated in view of strengthened relations between European Union and India under EU-India Common Agenda on Migration and Mobility. This agenda seeks comprehensive cooperation on migration policy between the European Union and India, with facilitation of people-to-people contacts being of key aspect due to the importance of India as a partner for the EU.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live While addressing a public gathering in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha, Yogi Adityanath launched a veiled attack on Congress and said that in 1970, the party gave the slogan of 'Garibi Hatao', and, “poverty was not eradicated but one family got complete freedom to loot the resources of the country." The Lok Sabha constituency of Amroha will cast its vote during the second phase of elections on April 26. Other constituencies that will also vote on the same day include Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahr (SC), Aligarh, and Mathura.

Opening and managing a demat account has become more convenient with the widespread availability of mobile trading applications. The process of opening a demat account through a depository participant (DP) is straightforward and akin to opening a bank account.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has accused Australia of censorship after an Australian judge ruled that his social media platform X must block users worldwide from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church

Amid a flurry of deep fake videos by top bosses of NSE and BSE, how can investors stay cautious and safe 1. Stay away from Mr Market: The price quoted by Mr Market has no relevance if you don’t intend to sell your securities. It’s pointless to see the price every day unless you intend to buy or sell a stock that day.

Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) posted an overall return of 6.9 per cent in 2023, despite challenges in its real estate portfolio. The asset manager, which invests on behalf of pension, endowment, insurance, and government clients in Alberta, ended the year with $160.6 billion in assets under management.

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A U.S.-based rights group says the World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that allegedly caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers