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The long-pending bill to reserve seats for women in India’s national and state legislatures could give a much-needed boost to women’s role in the country’s electoral politics. Women’s representation in the Lok Sabha has increased gradually over the years, but India hasn’t quite kept pace with the progress in the rest of the world, a Mint analysis of data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) showed. A total of 82 members of the lower house, or 15.2%, are women at present.

Investing.com — The U.S. dollar traded largely unchanged in early European trade Tuesday, drifting ahead of the start of the latest two-day Federal Reserve policy meeting, the highlight of several key central bank rate decisions this week.

Recent data in Europe, such as the purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data, shows that the European economy is weakening. In fact, the Eurozone Composite PMI in August reflected the deepest contraction in nearly three years, while nearly every economy in the region reported weaker readings, led by Germany.

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India-Canada News: The India-Canada relationship is hitting new lows as both countries have announced the expulsion of diplomats of the other country after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Indian government agents of having linkages in the killing of a Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Hours after Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat over Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar's killing, India asked a senior Canadian diplomat to leave the country, said the Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday.

Arjun Ram Meghwal on Tuesday tabled the women's reservation bill termed as 'Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam' which aims to reserve 33 per cent of seats in Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for women. The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023, was listed for introduction in the Lower House through a supplementary list of business. The Union Cabinet earlier approved the women's reservation bill in a meeting after the first special session of Parliament. prime Minister Narendra Modi said the bill aims to expand women's participation in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha.

₹1,028 crore in August, making it the highest inflow since April 2022, data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) showed. This came following an inflow of ₹456 crore in the segment in July. Gold ETFs are units representing physical gold which may be in paper or dematerialised form.

antitrust body has appointed three new members to oversee cases, including a former government official from the commerce ministry and a former interim compliance officer of WhatsApp, according to sources with direct knowledge. The new members appointed are Anil Agrawal, a former police official who recently worked at India's commerce ministry and worked on various startup initiatives. He confirmed the appointment to Reuters, but declined to elaborate. Two other appointments include Sweta Kakkad, a lawyer whose LinkedIn profile showed she is a former interim chief compliance officer at WhatsApp.

YouTube said on Tuesday it had blocked Russell Brand from making money from his online channel after the British actor and comedian was accused of a string of sexual assaults. Brand, once one of Britain's most high-profile comedians and broadcasters, said on Saturday he had never had non-consensual sex. That came as the Sunday Times newspaper and Channel 4 TV's documentary show «Dispatches» reported that four women had accused the 48-year-old of sexual assaults, including a rape, between 2006 and 2013. London police said on Monday that since then they had received an allegation of sexual assault dating from 2003. Brand, the former husband of U.S. singer Katy Perry, has repositioned himself in recent years to build a more than 6 million-strong following to his YouTube channel. Recent videos included an interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and discussions on everything from COVID to UFOs, censorship and wellbeing. YouTube, owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc, said it had suspended monetisation on Brand's channel after he violated its creator responsibility policy. «If a creator's off-platform behaviour harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action to protect the community,» a YouTube spokesperson said. Brand issued a video message on social media on Saturday to deny the «very serious criminal allegations» hours before they were published. «These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies.

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Greater Noida — the Uttar Pradesh International Trade Show (UP ITS) and the MotoGP race. Dharmveer Singh, the district inspector of schools, issued two separate orders, one concerning schools and the other addressing colleges, universities, and other educational institutions. He emphasized that the UP ITS 2023 event is scheduled to be held at the India Expo Centre and Mart from September 21 to 25.

If there is one sector where there is a consensus among the analysts that stocks are not to be bought at this point of time, it is the IT sector. While they are shying away from giving sell recommendations, the mean price target is clearly showing they expect IT stocks to slide from current levels.

Forbes shared this exciting news. This incredible phenomenon is created by an enormous storm in space called a geomagnetic storm, which is triggered by a massive burst of energy known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). This explosion occurred on the sun's surface on Saturday, September 16, and it is now traveling straight for Earth. The CME is projected to impact Earth on Tuesday, September 19, but we don't know when. The storm is expected to be at its fiercest between 06:00 and 09:00 UTC on September 19, according to specialists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center.

Google. The government claims that Google bribed and bullied smartphone producers such as Apple and Samsung and the browser-maker Mozilla to be their featured search engine, funneling far more data to Google and cutting off competitors.

₹3,000 crore to boost Jio Cinema’s subscription and advertising revenues, according to the estimates of film trade experts. Earlier this year, Jio Studios announced a plan to create a repertoire of 100 movies and web originals to bolster the streaming platform’s standing and retain customer engagement after the end of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season.

Account Aggregator framework was expected to be a watershed moment, not unlike UPI, for financial services. So far, its enormous impact has been evident in consumer lending, but with the inclusion of Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) on the Account Aggregator framework, credit access to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) is also expected to be eased. The MSME sector has long been denied adequate credit due to a variety of reasons.

US Federal Reserve will opt to maintain its current interest rates during the meeting on September 19-20 despite persistent inflation levels exceeding the central bank's target range while the US economy remains resilient. The two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting begins today (September 19) and its outcome is due on Wednesday (September 20). The US Fed has been raising rates since March 2022 and this could be the second time since then that the Fed may maintain a pause on interest rate hikes.

BEIJING — In the years since Alibaba's U.S. listing in 2014, early-stage investing has drawn tens of billions of dollars into China with relatively little to show for it.

IPOs) in the Indian market has ensured that investment banks (i-banks) have seen better fee income generation in recent months. Bankers have seen their fee income grow by a sharp 36% to ₹509.2 crore in H1FY24, data analysed by ET showed. So far this fiscal, 19 companies have raised ₹17,419.7 crore through IPOs, as per data available with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). In H1FY23, investment banks managed to garner IPO fee income of ₹373.6 cror across 13 IPOs, which raised ₹34,758 crore.

Trudeau on Tuesday stating in his country’s parliament that the security agencies were investigating a link between the “agents” Indian government and the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar earlier this year. Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said that a top Indian diplomat posted in the country has been expelled based on the “investigations” in what would be the first such action against an Indian diplomat posted in the West. The Indian government is expected to react strongly during the course of the day on these developments. «Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar,» Trudeau said while speaking at the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday. "Canada has declared its deep concerns to the top intelligence security officials of the Indian government. Last week, at the G20, I brought them personally and directly to Prime Minister Modi in no uncertain terms," the Canadian Prime Minister said. Trudeau urged the Indian government to «cooperate with Canada to get to the bottom of this matter» and reiterate its position on «extra-judicial operations» in another country. «If proven true, this would be a great violation of our sovereignty and of the most basic rule of how countries deal with each other,» Joly said.