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Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha leader Derek O'Brien on Wednesday submitted a privilege notice against Home Minister Amit Shah over his remarks on B R Ambedkar, a source said. According to the source, the notice has been filed under Rule 187 of Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business of the Rajya Sabha. The notice also quoted the statement the home minister made in the Upper House on Tuesday during his reply to a debate on the 75 years of the Constitution. Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha witnessed protests from the Congress and some other opposition parties over Shah's alleged insult of Ambedkar, resulting in both the Houses being adjourned.

Mohammed Bin Salman, MBS for his devout, it may be the biggest victory yet in his push to use sport as a way to lure tourists, build influence and improve the country's image. “This is huge for MBS and the Saudi state. Arguably the pinnacle of their sports strategy so far,” said Stanis Elsborg, head of Play the Game, a Denmark-based research body into ethical standards in sport told Bloomberg. “But for MBS, it’s not just about hosting a tournament.” ALSO READ: Elon Musk's net worth reaches record high. Here's how he built his venture

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Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has dubbed the proposal to introduce 35 per cent GST on «sin goods» like aerated beverages and tobacco products as a «bad idea» as it would lead to smuggling and loss of revenue for the country. Besides, other bodies like All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation (AICPDF) and Indian Sellers Collective — an umbrella body of trade associations and sellers across the country — have raised concerns on the recommendations of the GoM on GST rate rationalisation. Earlier this month, the Group of Ministers (GoM) recommended a special rate of 35 per cent on sin goods like aerated beverages, cigarettes, tobacco and related products. The GoM headed by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary also suggested rationalisation of tax rates on apparel. «Another slab in GST, in the name of luxury and sin goods is primarily a bad idea, which will defeat the very efficiency principle of taxation. Already, a need is being felt among economists that the present number of slabs should be reduced, and the highest 28 per cent slab be abolished,» SJM national co-convenor Ashwani Mahajan said.

Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) went up by 3% in October to 1.78 million compared to 1.72 million in October 2023, shows the provisional payroll data released by the ministry of labour and employment on Wednesday. Month-on-month, the formal jobs created under ESIC, however, fell by 13.2% when compared to 2.05 million formal jobs created in September 2024. As per the provisional payroll data, around 21,588 new establishments have been brought under the social security ambit of the ESI scheme in October compared to 23,043 establishments added in September, 2024.

Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Wednesday amid noisy protests by Opposition members seeking an apology from Home Minister Amit Shah for his remarks which they claimed were an insult to B R Ambedkar. When the House reconvened at 2 pm, the protests continued. Soon ministers and MPs tabled parliamentary documents amid the din. Following which P C Mohan, who was chairing the proceedings, adjourned the House for the day. When the House was adjourned for the day, most Opposition members excluding those from the TMC were on their feet raising slogan of 'Jai Bheem' and seeking an apology from Shah.

Volkswagen and German unions will most likely either reach a deal in the early hours of Wednesday or adjourn until the new year, a source familiar with discussions said on Tuesday, as the two sides strive to reach a cost-cutting pact before Christmas. After a 13-hour negotiation round on Monday ending after midnight, talks are expected to stretch even further into the early hours of Wednesday, the source said, declining to be named because discussions are private. Both Volkswagen and labour leaders have expressed a keen interest in a deal this year, but they remain far apart on key issues, including the possibility of plant closures, which labour representatives adamantly oppose but which the carmaker insists it cannot rule out.

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An election commission official said the meeting lasted for around half an hour and covered several topics. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar also reviewed poll preparedness for the upcoming Delhi elections.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal have both called for lower borrowing costs in recent months, and some economists have said the RBI could be doing more to encourage lending to boost growth. ALSO READ: RBI's MPC didn't cut rates this time around. But, there is more to this story...

Despite gaining four points to take their tally to 114 overall, India’s PCT slipped from 57.29 to 55.88 with only their second draw in the ongoing WTC cycle. Australia also had their PCT shrink from 60.71 to 58.88 with this edition’s second draw.

They raised slogans such as 'Jai Bhim', 'Sangh ka Vidhan nahi chalega' and 'Amit Shah maafi maango'. MPs of the Congress, DMK, RJD, the Left, AAP, among others, participated in the protest.

Zerodha and Upstox on Wednesday said that customers are facing difficulties in authorizing sell orders due to a temporary issue with Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL), affecting brokers across the industry. Zerodha informed its customers via X (formerly Twitter), stating, «Due to an issue at CDSL across brokers, you may face an issue with authorising the sale of your stocks. We are in touch with CDSL to have the issue resolved at the earliest. In the meantime, you can sell your holdings without the need for CDSL authorisation.»

Bajaj Holdings & Investment Ltd. traded 0.24 per cent down at Rs 11230.7 on Wednesday at around 11:56AM (IST), while the benchmark BSE Sensex declined 390.87 points to 80293.58. As many as 590 shares changed hands on the counter with a total value of Rs 0.67 crore. The stock quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 11515.1 and a 52-week low of Rs 7631.1.

high-end fashion brands and retailers, prompting further interest in offering cryptocurrencies as a means of payment to tap in to fresh pockets of wealth and build loyalty with crypto investors. Until recently, only a handful of luxury brands including LVMH watch labels Hublot and Tag Heuer as well as Kering-owned fashion brands Gucci and Balenciaga have experimented with crypto payment offers. In recent weeks, upscale French luxury department store Printemps announced it was teaming up with the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, and French financial tech company Lyzi to accept cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and ethereum in its stores in France — becoming the first European department store to do so. The move, coming as bitcoin rises, has been noticed by other brands and retailers who are showing interest in joining in.

Qualcomm grilled a former Apple executive on Tuesday about a key question for the future of the chip industry: Who owns the intellectual property built on top of Arm's computing architecture? At stake in a trial in U.S. federal court in Delaware this week is the fate of Qualcomm's push into the laptop business, where it is helping partners such as Microsoft try to regain ground that Windows computers lost to Apple after the iPhone maker introduced its own custom chips. Arm's flagship product is a computing architecture that competes against Intel's architecture and is ubiquitous in smartphones and increasingly used in laptops and data centers. Competing computing architectures are the reason that, until relatively recently, most smartphone apps did not work on most laptops.

one-in-a-billion egg was sold for 200 Pounds (Rs 21,000) at an auction in UK, reported BBC. Previously, Ed Pownell from Lambourn in Berkshire had bought the egg for 150 Pounds (Rs 16,000) after having a few beers. After buying it, Pownell donated it to the Iuventas Foundation — a charity that provides life coaching, mentoring and mental health aid to young people across Oxfordshire, where it was sold again.

«We are continuing to take steps to further knock down barriers to private sector cooperation, and importantly, we are in the process of finalising national security memorandum that will update our own export control policies under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR),» Finer said. Finer, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Indian Ambassador to the US Vinay Kwatra visited Houston on Tuesday and met the astronauts of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) who are training at NASA's Johnson Space Center to execute a joint effort of the International Space Station next year.

Kuwait is also home to a large Indian diaspora and was a key supplier of liquid medical oxygen to India during the deadly Delta wave of Covid in 2021. There are plans to put in place a maritime component to the partnership. Regional developments including the situation in Gaza and Syria are expected to figure in the discussion agenda during the PM’s visit.

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The NSE Nifty fell 332.25 points, or 1.35%, to close at 24,336. The BSE Sensex declined 1,064.12 points, or 1.3%, to end at 80,684.45.