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Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation stone for the second Ayurvedic College of Assam. Sonowal also laid foundation stones for construction of two 50 bedded Ayush hospitals at Mowamarirjhar in Kokrajhar and at Silbari in Baksa, virtually from here. The new college will be developed with an estimated cost of Rs 70 crores. The Ministry of Ayush approved the proposal for establishment of Ayurvedic College at Dudhnoi in Goalpara in 2022-23. It is to be noted that the first Ayurvedic College was established way back in 1948 in Guwahati by Bharat Ratna Lok Priya Gopinath Bordoloi. The 50 bedded Integrated Ayush hospitals will be developed with an investment of Rs 30 crores. The college will have one G+3 College building, one boy’s hostel, one girls hostel, staff quarter, principal’s quarter, among other equipment, furniture, books etc. The college, which will be adjacent to the Integrated Ayush Hospitals, inaugurated by Sarbananda Sonowal in July, 2023, will be developed in 93 bighas of land. The state PWD will be executing agency and will be completed within 30 months.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday asked GST officers to leverage technology to plug loopholes and provide better taxpayer services. Inaugurating the first-ever National Conference of Enforcement Chiefs of the State and Central GST Formations, Sitharaman advocated for sharing of the emerging best practices, emphasising the need for seamless coordination across states in the larger national interest. «The Union Finance Minister urged all the GST formations to leverage technology to plug the loopholes as well provide better taxpayer services,» an official statement issued after the meeting said. She also stressed that clarity on the classification of related issues should be looked into at the earliest through appropriate channels.

BJP) to perform a hat-trick in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the party and its leaders are increasingly talking of their plans for the third term. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken several times in the recent past how his party will form the government and what all it would do. While such statements before polls are considered a rhetorical ploy by a party to present the inevitability of its victory in order to swing the undecided voters, PM Modi has outlined the agenda of his next government. In the last formal meeting of the Union Council of Ministers on Sunday before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Modi chaired a brainstorming session on the vision document for 'Viksit Bharat (Developed India) 2047'. A 100-day agenda for immediate steps for quick implementation of policies after formation of the new government in May 2024 was also discussed. It signalled the government's confidence in its poll prospects as well as the eagerness to fast-forward policies that take benefit of the prevailing favourable factors. «Wait for bigger decisions in the third-term. I'm already working on a roadmap that will be completed soon,» Modi said at the ET NOW Global Business Summit last week. «There comes a time in the development journey of any country when all the circumstances are in its favour. This is the time when that country makes itself strong for many centuries to come. That's the time I see for India today,» said Modi.

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Mint. “Not only are we a major supplier of critical minerals, we're also home to a buzzing ecosystem that is developing lithium and is looking at the future of lithium-ion technology for batteries and vanadium redox flow batteries, which will be a very key opportunity to grow and address the demands—be it for vehicles or for storage," she added. While Japan, Korea and European nations have been Australia’s traditional partners, Choudhury sees an increasing opportunity for Indian firms.

NEW DELHI : Apparel retailers expect demand to pick up over the next two quarters, after witnessing lukewarm sales in the festival season and winter. A tepid wedding season coupled with a warmer December dragged down demand for clothing, said several top retailers. Consumers are also spending on other discretionary categories such as travel and eating out, straining demand for products such as clothing and electronics.

AU Small Finance Bank is planning to raise its stake with the farm sector through lending to farmers' producer organisations (FPOs), which are turning out to be the crucial agriculture linkage for several marquee conglomerates such as Adani Group, ITC and Reliance. AU is exploring possibilities to work with such corporates which promote FPOs and procure farm produce from them. The bank has so far supported about 500 early-stage FPOs covering some 1.6 lakh farmers and aims to grow the number about 10 times in the next three years

Kolkata Knight Riders as their mentor in the forthcoming Indian Premier League season, Gautam Gambhir has made it abundantly evident to the team that this is a competition about more than just Bollywood and post-partying; rather, he means business on the pitch. According to Gambhir, the Indian Premier competition is the «toughest league in the world» and offers young players a fantastic chance to establish themselves on the biggest platform. The former India opener, who led KKR to two title triumphs in 2012 and 2014 as skipper, returns to the franchise after a two-year stint as the mentor of Lucknow Super Giants.

fintech startup Wagely has raised $23 million, in a mix of equity and debt, as a part of its latest funding round. The equity portion of the round is led by Capria Ventures, which has invested in the likes of social networking platform, ShareChat, edtech Masai School and Cuemath in India.

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Investing.com -- Shares in DoorDash (NASDAQ:DASH) ticked higher in premarket U.S. trading on Monday after analysts at RBC Capital Markets raised their rating of the delivery service.

flat at $88 billion during April-January compared with the year-ago period. The total export value of petroleum products declined to $67.11 billion during the first 10 months of the fiscal year, down from $75.65 billion in the year-ago period.

Osaic is starting March on a strong note as it welcomes more than $240 million in assets from two former LPL advisors.

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Jair Bolsonaro, on June 15th. Hours later police announced that they had found human remains later confirmed to be those of Dom Phillips, a British journalist who was working on a book called “How to Save the Amazon". Other remains, still being examined, are likely to be those of Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous peoples.

Aditya Arora, Adlytick, says: “I would like to maintain a cautious view on the market because it is not a broad-based rally. It is a narrow rally and stock and a specific rally. Smallcaps are correcting and on the other hand, safe havens like gold and bullion are doing well and pharma is also doing well. I think money is to be made on the long side on the pharma space and on the short side on high beta counters.”

Last week finished on a high with breakouts in the Russell 2000 IWM, S&P 500 and Nasdaq.

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₹1,076.90 apiece on the BSE. ICICI Securities has a target of ₹1,250 per share for Gulf Oil Lubricants India, implying an upside of 25% from Saturday’s closing price.