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Users free to keep or delete Sanchar Saathi: Jyotiraditya Scindia
According to the direction dated November 28, all mobile phones...
Messaging Apps like WhatsApp to work only with active SIM, DoT tightens cyber norms
The Centre's latest directive means that these messaging services...
Govt planning to use AI for identifying mule accounts to check cybercrime: Amit Shah
Amit Shah, Union Home Minister Union Home Minister Amit Shah said efforts are underway to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for identifying mule accounts, in coordination with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and all banks to establish a system for their detection, an...
Due diligence of qualified bidders for IDBI Bank underway: MoS Finance
The government, along with LIC, is selling nearly 61 per cent stake in IDBI Bank. This includes a 30.48 per cent stake of the Government of India and 30.24 per cent of LIC New Delhi: The due diligence of qualified bidders for IDBI Bank, which is up for privatisation,...
Disaster Recovery: Rebuilding Turkiye with resilience
Shaken by a series of devastating earthquakes,Türkiye has integrated climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction into national development plans and institutional frameworks are being strengthened to enhance preparedness. Nevertheless, urgent action is needed to...
Govt looking at procedural easing to further promote FDI, says official
The department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) has held stakeholder consultations with different government departments, regulators, industry associations, advisory and law firms, pension funds, private equity and venture capitals. New Delhi: The...
New Income Tax Bill set to be tabled in Parliament next week
Before the Income Tax Bill was cleared by the Cabinet, people in the know said that the legislation would likely provide directions to widen the tax net, given the contraction in the tax base following the exemption limit being raised to Rs 12 lakh in the Union Budget...
RBI cuts repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25%,first in nearly 5 yrs
Sanjay Malhotra,Governor,Reserve Bank of India The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which consists of three RBI and three external members, favoured a rate cut to provide stimulus to the sluggish economy, which is expected to grow at its slowest pace in four years in...
ESG Backlash: Investors with 6 trillion euros warn EU not to weaken green rules
The warning coincides with mounting pressure from Germany and France, the European Union’s two largest economies, to scale back planned ESG regulations on concerns the requirements are preventing companies in the bloc from competing freely with their peers in the US...
India has received USD 1.16 billion in climate finance so far: Govt
Several measures, including the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture, have been taken up to deal with the impact of climate change on agriculture, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav New Delhi: India has so far received USD 1.16 billion for climate...
New law in the works for safe, orderly migration
Underlining the need to spread awareness about safe migration, the the Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs, chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, has recommend that the “Ministry should collaborate with local civil society groups, media outlets in the most...
Employer needs to prove case on preponderance of probabilities in disciplinary proceedings: SC
The significant verdict could be a shot in the arm of public employers which can dismiss employees from services in pursuance of the disciplinary proceedings even if the employees are acquitted in consequential criminal cases New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said...