NEW DELHI: Engineering exporters have cautioned against imposition of safeguard duty on steel, arguing that it will increase prices in the domestic market and make exports uncompetitive. Steel makers are lobbying hard for protection from imports, arguing that cheap imports from Asean nations, which have a free trade agreement, are hurting the domestic players. Arguing…
NEW DELHI: It was the ubiquitous ‘Sikh moderates vs radicals’ tug-of-war on display as history-sheeter and highly-radicalised pro-Khalistan terrorist Narain Singh Chaura aimed his weapon at former Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, scion of the ‘moderate’ Badal family.According to an ex-IPS officer from Punjab, the sensational assassination attempt by a terrorist who has been…
NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old Delhi University student, Arjun Tanwar, was arrested for murdering his father, a retired Armyman, mother and his sister at their residence in south Delhi’s Neb Sarai. Tanwar allegedly committed the murders early on Wednesday, the couple’s wedding anniversary. In a bid to mislead cops, he went for his usual early morning…
MUMBAI: Climate risks have started to impact the financial system and could pose systemic problems in future, according to RBI. Besides damage to assets, risks include business disruption, increase in loan losses, and transition risks arising from the shift to a low-carbon economy, which create uncertainty for firms and investors.Speaking at a conference organised by…
A 32-year-old woman died and a boy was injured in a stampede outside Hyderabad’s Sandhya Theatre when police tried to disperse an unruly crowd that had gathered for a glimpse of actor Allu Arjun during the premiere show of his new film Pushpa 2: The Rule. The woman, who was with her husband and two…
NEW DELHI: CM-designate Devendra Fadnavis visited Varsha – the chief minister’s official residence, on Wednesday evening to once again persuade caretaker CM Eknath Shinde to join govt as deputy chief minister and finalise the power-sharing formula. Sources said that Shinde agreed to take oath as deputy CM with Fadnavis’s assurance that the portfolio allocation would…
NEW DELHI: CM-designate Devendra Fadnavis visited Varsha – the chief minister’s official residence, on Wednesday evening to once again persuade caretaker CM Eknath Shinde to join govt as deputy chief minister and finalise the power-sharing formula. Sources said that Shinde agreed to take oath as deputy CM with Fadnavis’s assurance that the portfolio allocation would…
CHENNAI: A product test conducted on students of Vana Vani Matriculation Higher Secondary School run by IIT-M on its campus sparked a controversy as parents said their consent was not obtained prior to the test. After an inquiry, IIT-M removed school principal M Sathishkumar from the post.Some parents complained that on Aug 19, the students…
Telecom giants Reliance Jio Infocomm and Bharti Airtel are reportedly at fighting again. According to a report in Economic Times, telecom operators Reliance Jio Infocomm and Bharti Airtel are once again at odds over waiving the licence fee for direct-to-home (DTH) operators, with the former advocating for retaining the fee and the latter calling for…
Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar NEW DELHI: Even as Congress and other parties latched on to Vice-President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar’s statement on Tuesday that farmers were in distress, Dhankhar turned down the opposition’s adjournment notices on the farmers’ issue in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday and accused them of doing “drama” by pointing…
