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Samyukt Kisan Morcha on Saturday welcomed the conferring of Bharat Ratna on Chaudhary Charan Singh and MS Swaminathan but termed it an attempt to divert people's attention from government's failure to provide Minimum Support Price for crops as suggested by the Swaminathan committee. In a statement, the SKM also said Singh and Swaminathan will remain alive in people's memory for their contribution to farmers even without a Bharat Ratna and «denounced» Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to solve the crisis of farmers of India. «SKM welcomes BJP government's late recognition of Chaudhary Charan Singh and due recognition of Dr. MS Swaminathan for their contribution to agriculture and farmers in conferring Bharat Ratna on them. While Chaudhary Charan Singh had a role in implementation of Zamindari Abolition in UP leading to ownership rights for peasantry, as the Chairman of the National Farmers' Commission, Dr. MS Swaminathan made recommendations for income guarantee to farmers,» the SKM said in a statement. «However, the Modi government is honouring and decorating the leaders only to cheat the farmers and people. The PM has neither honesty nor sincerity and indulged in a poor vote catching gimmick intended to worsen farmers' misery and use tokenism to camouflage his services to big corporate forces associated with foreign companies in farming,» it said.

Narendra Modi is not OBC by birth, he has been made OBC by the BJP government of Gujarat. He can never do justice to the rights and share of the backward people" Rahul Gandhi had claimed. Responding to his allegations, Amit Shah said, “Rahul Gandhi has habit of telling lies and repeating lies.

Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, where local women held protests demanding the arrest of absconding TMC leader Sheikh Shajahan and his aides, police said on Saturday. Local women with sticks and brooms in their hands took out processions in different areas of Sandeshkhali as the protests intensified on the second day on Friday. «Section 144 of CrPC has been imposed and internet services have been suspended in parts of North 24 Parganas district,» a senior police officer said. Shajahan has been absconding since last month after a team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that went to raid his house in an alleged ration scam was attacked by a mob.

NASA said, "That’s the distance from the star that could give the planet the right temperature for liquid water to form on its surface." However, “Several other factors would have to line up, of course, for surface water to be present, especially having a suitable atmosphere." TOI-715 b orbits closely to its star in 19 days. However, scientists don't think its a hellish as unlike other hot exoplanets, its star, a red dwarf, is cooler and smaller than the Sun, suggesting different conditions. Researchers published the planet's detection in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Rahul Gandhi for questioning PM Narendra Modi's caste. The Home Minister was speaking at the ET Now-Global Business summit. Earlier on February 8 during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra Rahul Gandhi had claimed that PM Modi is not an OBC by birth.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The BJP will get 370 seats and the NDA more than 400 in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and form the government for a third consecutive term under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Saturday. Shah asserted that there is no suspense over the outcome of the Lok Sabha polls and even the Congress and other opposition parties have realised that they will again have to sit in the opposition benches. «We have abrogated Article 370 (of the Constitution, which gave a special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir). So we believe that the people of the country will bless the BJP with 370 seats and the NDA with over 400 seats,» Shah said at the ET NOW Global Business Summit 2024. Asked about the possibility of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), headed by Jayant Choudhary, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and some other regional parties joining the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the home minister said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) «believes in family planning but not in politics», giving an indication that more parties may join the ruling coalition.

money flowing into small cap and midcap funds has declined significantly (down 20%). And on the other hand, the fund flows into thematic/sectoral funds have increased dramatically (up over 80%). I am sure you can guess the themes and sectors that are pulling in all the money! Here’s what the Economist has to say on such sectoral/thematic funds: In 2022 Itzhak Ben-David, Francesco Franzoni, Byungwook Kim and Rabih Moussawi, four academics, published research suggesting that thematic equityETFs, which attempt to track a narrow industry or trend, underperform broaderETFs by about a third over the five years after their launch. That is because of a straightforward problem: when thematicETFs get going, the buzz around the investment is already extensive and the underlying assets are already pricey. In effect, while the retail investor may have got one thing right – incrementallyreduce exposure to small and midcaps, she has pivoted to investing in another poor investment idea i.e.

Imran Khan on Saturday posted a pre-recorded audio-visual message created using artificial intelligence in which he also claimed victory. In the video shared on his official X (formerly Twitter), Imran Khan can be seen speaking in front of the camera, but his voice does not appear to sync with his lip movements. “Chairman Imran Khan's victory speech (AI version) after an unprecedented fightback from the nation that resulted in PTI’s landslide victory in General Elections 2024," he wrote in the caption.

ITC shares are likely to underperform in the near term amid the overhang of excess supply stemming from a likely stake sale by British American Tobacco (BAT), possible risk from two budgets in one year, and a slowdown in tobacco volume growth, analysts said. The stock price has come down 13% in the past one month but is still double compared with a year earlier. On Friday, the shares ended flat at ₹415.50 on the BSE.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif changed tack Friday and said he would seek to form a coalition government after his party trailed independent candidates backed by his imprisoned rival, Imran Khan, in parliamentary election results. Sharif told supporters he was sending his brother and former premier, Shehbaz Sharif, to meet the leaders of other parties and invite them to join a coalition.

Reliance Consumer Products (RCPL) has acquired the trademarks, recipes, and all intellectual property rights of sugar-boiled confectionery maker Ravalgaon for Rs 27 crore, according to a stock market disclosure by Ravalgaon Sugar Farm Ltd. Ravalgaon owns nine confectionery brands such as Pan Pasand and Coffee Break. This fits RCPL's strategy of acquiring old Indian brands which are under distress and relaunching them, like it had acquired the Campa soft drink brand. The deed was signed between both the parties on Friday. It excludes the slump sale of all assets and liabilities of Ravalgaon. “It is clarified that while 100% of the revenue of the company (Ravalgaon) is ascribed to the intellectual property being sold, the company will continue to hold all other assets such as property, land, plant, building, equipment, machinery, etc. post completion of the proposed transaction,” as per the disclosure.

Light Brigade': 'Cannon to right of them/ Cannon to left of them,/ Cannon in front of them/ Volleyed and thundered.../ Rode the six hundred.' Our Enforcement Directorate (ED) may not be the British light cavalry that charged to its doom in 1854 against the Russian artillery in the Crimean War. But, this week, in Tennyson's words, 'someone had blundered' within the economic law enforcement agency.

Indigo Books & Music Inc.’s chief executive says the retailer’s last year has been “challenging” and it could be a while until its financial results recover.

Lesson one when regulating Canada’s financial system is ensuring the cure isn’t worse than the disease.

Meta surged more than 17 per cent on Friday as the Facebook parent’s first dividend declaration and robust results increased expectations of strong returns from its investments in “metaverse” technologies and artificial intelligence infrastructure.

BitMEX co-founder and former CEO Arthur Hayes earlier posted on X a scenario where he sees Bitcoin price touching $1 million.

A company’s plan in southeast Utah to extract lithium is adding to an anxiety familiar in this part of the arid American West: how the project could affect water from the Colorado River

Georgia's ruling Republicans are moving to make it harder for workers at companies that get economic incentives to join labor unions, in what could be a test of current federal law

NCP MP Supriya Sule on Friday alleged that apps like Google Pay and PhonePe are «two ticking time bombs» and sought to know what steps the government is taking to check money laundering. Participating in a discussion on 'The White Paper on Indian economy' in Lok Sabha, Sule said whatever happened in Paytm Payments Bank Ltd (PPBL) is «very alarming» and is almost like money laundering. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last month directed PPBL to stop accepting deposits or top-ups in customer accounts, wallets, FASTags and other instruments after February 29.

world cricket committee (WCC) of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the custodians of laws of the game. The WCC met in Cape Town last week on the sidelines of SA20. In a statement, the Committee rued the lack of a series decider in the drawn series between Australia and West Indies following the visitors’ stunning win at the Gabba. India and South Africa too drew a fiercely contested two-match series in December.

German chemical company BASF says it's speeding up the sale of stakes in two joint ventures in China after its local partner was accused in media reports of human rights abuses