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Hyderabad: An acute shortage of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) in the city has been causing significant distress among nearly one lakh auto-rickshaw drivers, impacting their livelihoods. Besides, urban mobility across the city has been affected. The impact is visible across several areas in the city, where streets are empty of auto-rickshaws while long lines extending for kilometers are visible outside gas stations. Auto drivers continue to face problems due to a shortage of LPG gas. They compl ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Telangana Minister for Food and Civil Supplies N Uttam Kumar Reddy has written to Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri seeking urgent intervention to address a severe shortage of auto liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the state, warning that the supply crunch is disrupting public transport and threatening the livelihoods of around 1 lakh autorickshaw drivers. In a letter dated March 30, Uttam Kumar said a daily shortfall of around 55 metric tonnes of auto LPG has left a majorit ...Read More >
Sanand (Gujarat), March 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the start of production at Kaynes Semicon's OSAT facility in Sanand demonstrates the speed and growth of India's semiconductor ecosystem and its increasing integration with global supply chains. Speaking at the inauguration of the plant, the Prime Minister noted the close timing of developments in the sector. "On February 28, production began at Micron Technology's facility, and today, on March 31, pr ...Read More >
AAP MP Raghav Chadha urges legal paternity leave in India for shared caregiving post childbirth. ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * Raghav Chadha urged Parliament to make paternity leave a legal right in India * He emphasised caregiving after childbirth should be shared by both parents * Currently, only government employees get 15 days paid paternity leave under rules Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode New Delhi: Raghav Chadha has once a ...Read More >
New Delhi: AAP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha, who has lately emerged to be a poster-boy for a large section of the liberal wokes in the country, has once again come into the limelight during the Parliament session for calling for a paternity leave law in India. "When a child is born, both parents are congratulated, but the responsibility of caregiving falls disproportionately on the mother," Chadha said, calling for the need for a more egalitarian approach to parenting. "A father should not hav ...Read More >
The LMGs were handed over at the company's small arms complex in Gwalior. Gwalior: The Indian Army received the first batch of 2,000 indigenously manufactured 'Prahar' light machine guns (LMGs) from Adani Defence and Aerospace in partnership with Israel Weapon Industries on Saturday. The 7.62 mm-calibre weapons are part of a larger order of over 40,000 guns and have been produced in India under the 'Make in India' programme. With the delivery completed 11 months ahead of schedule, the LMGs w ...Read More >
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP, Raghav Chadha, Tuesday raised the issue of paternity leave in Parliament, urging the government to make it a legal right across sectors in India. Speaking during the session, Chadha highlighted what he described as a "societal failure enforced by law," pointing out that while both parents are congratulated at the birth of a child, caregiving responsibilities disproportionately fall on mothers, with legal provisions recognising only maternity leav ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI): Healthy manufacturing growth pushed up India's industrial output in February, even as rising energy prices and input cost pressures emerged as key concerns for the sector, according to a report by Crisil. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) grew 5.2 per cent year-on-year in February, slightly higher than 5.1 per cent in January, led by improved manufacturing performance. Also Read | Junos 2026 Highlights: From Rush's Surprise Act to Drake's Nelly Furtado ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI): Healthy manufacturing growth pushed up India's industrial output in February, even as rising energy prices and input cost pressures emerged as key concerns for the sector, according to a report by Crisil. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) grew 5.2 per cent year-on-year in February, slightly higher than 5.1 per cent in January, led by improved manufacturing performance. "The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) edged up to 5.2% on-year in February from ...Read More >
Lucknow, Mar 31 (PTI) BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday said effective implementation of reservation policies for Dalits, tribals and backward classes is not possible without a "Bahujan government", while accusing ruling governments of weakening these provisions. Addressing a meeting of party office-bearers at the BSP state office here, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister alleged that both central and state governments were making reservation "ineffective and inactive". "Without a government o ...Read More >
BHUBANESWAR: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-Bhubaneswar will establish a regional centre of excellence for organ transplantation and artificial intelligence. This was announced during the regional continuing medical education (CME) programme on 'Organ Transplantation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare' held on Monday. Organised by AIIMS-Bhubaneswar in collaboration with the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), the CME and dissemination workshop witnesse ...Read More >
Aizawl: Mizoram Congress senior vice president Lalnunmawia Chuaungo on Monday said that a return to power for the Congress party would signal a total transformation of governance in the state. Speaking at a party event here, the former Chief Secretary said that the Congress would eliminate the inherent practice of the government acting as a 'business entity' and that many functions should be transferred to the private sector. "If Congress regains power, we will change the system of governance ...Read More >
Mumbai: Banks, with the largest collective weighting on Nifty, slumped Monday after the RBI Friday ordered net-position curbs on lenders to underpin the rupee that in FY26 lost the most in 14 years. All 14 constituents of the Bank Nifty lost, dragging the benchmark Nifty more than 2% lower. The Bank Nifty, meanwhile, retreated 3.8% to 50,275.35 - the lowest closing since April 9, 2025 - after the central bank set a $100 million end-of-day net position threshold for lenders. The newly-introduced ...Read More >
Mumbai: Banks believe mark-to-market (MTM) treasury losses are expected to be significantly larger than estimated due to a sharp rise in 10-year yield, which crossed the psychological mark of 7% on Monday - its highest level since 2024. The 10-year yield closed at 7.03% on Monday, the last trading day of this fiscal year, versus its previous close of 6.94%. The money market will be closed on Tuesday due to Mahavir Jayanti. The yield jumped 37 bps in March, the biggest monthly move since Februar ...Read More >
State minister for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and senior citizens' welfare, Adluri Laxman Kumar, tabled the Telangana Employees Accountability and Monitoring of Parental Support Bill, 2026 in the assembly. The bill is expected to come up for discussion and passage on Monday. According to Laxman Kumar, the Bill mandates a 15% deduction or ₹10,000, whichever is less, from the salary of employees found neglecting their parents, to be credited into the parents' accounts directly. Accordin ...Read More >
Mumbai, Mar 30 (PTI) Misselling of the AT-1 bonds, which led to a rap from the regulators, and under-performance of the country's largest private sector lender HDFC Bank were the reasons behind his resignation, said former chairman Atanu Chakraborty on Monday. Personal differences with the management are "overblown" and it was not the issue "by a long distance" for the resignation earlier this month, Chakraborty said, stressing that "incongruence" on values and ethics led him to quit the board. ...Read More >
Mumbai: Nifty Bank has recorded its worst monthly performance in six years, with the index falling more than 16 percent in March. This is the steepest decline since March 2020, when markets had crashed during the COVID-19 outbreak. What makes this fall significant is that every single one of the 14 stocks in the index declined, and all losses were in double digits. The fall ranged between 11 percent and 22 percent, showing broad-based weakness across the banking sector. Heavy Losses in Large B ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 12 (PTI) The Supreme Court has ruled that 'creamy layer' status for reservation of OBCs cannot be decided solely based on parental income and treating similarly placed employees of private entities and PSUs differently from government employees, for deciding reservation, would amount to hostile discrimination. A bench of justices P S Narasimha and R Mahadevan dismissed the appeals filed by the Union of India while upholding the decisions of the high courts of Delhi, Madras and Ke ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) Amazon India on Monday announced 'Zero Referral fee' on more than 12.5 crore products, a move, the ecommerce giant said, aims to accelerate growth for lakhs of sellers across the country. Building on last year's fee revision, the company has expanded zero referral fees coverage more than 10-times from 1.2 crore products in 2025 to over 12.5 crore products priced under Rs 1,000 across 1,800-plus categories, the company said in a release. In addition, Amazon has reduced Ea ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, India, March 2, 2026 /CNW/ - Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, met with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, in New Delhi. The leaders agreed that their joint efforts to renew and expand the relationship between Canada and India have achieved important results. During their meetings at Hyderabad House today, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Modi focused on how they can build on this progress through new strategic partnerships in energy, talent and innovation, and ...Read More >
New Delhi, March 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) India's coal production recorded a robust 18.51 per cent increase in February this year compared with the same month of the previous year, with the output of captive and commercial coal mines going up to 20.49 million tonnes (MT), while dispatches reached 17.72 MT, according to an official statement issued on Monday. The strong year-on-year growth in coal production reflects the sustained operational momentum and progressive scaling up of mining activities ac ...Read More >
Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini informed the state assembly on Tuesday that the entire amount deposited with IDFC First Bank has been recovered, including interest, within 24 hours of the fraud coming to light. Making a statement on the floor of the House immediately after Question Hour, Saini said that by Monday evening, the bank had returned approximately ₹556 crore, which includes ₹22 crore in interest, to government accounts. "The entire amount has been deposited back into our ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Monday said the central bank is keeping a watch on the development around Rs 590-crore alleged fraud at IDFC First Bank, and assured it was not a "systemic issue". Private sector IDFC First Bank had on Sunday disclosed a Rs 590-crore fraud committed by certain employees and others at a particular branch in Chandigarh in a specific set of Haryana state government accounts. "We are watching the development...there is no systemic is ...Read More >
Kolar: Gold mine district Kolar is set to witness a historic milestone with the inauguration of India's first Tata-Airbus mini helicopter Final Assembly Line (FAL) at Vemagal Industrial Area in Kolar taluk. The facility will be officially launched today at 4.20 pm by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron through a virtual ceremony. The event will also be attended in person by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and French Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin at the Ve ...Read More >
BENGALURU: Anthropic's business in India has doubled in just four months, according to its chief executive officer Dario Amodei, who pointed to rapid growth in developer usage and increasing government adoption of artificial intelligence tools. Speaking at Anthropic's Builder Summit in Bengaluru, Amodei said, "Anthropic's business, its run rate revenue within India, has doubled over the last four months since I last visited." He added that Claude Code "may have grown even faster with this set o ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy on Wednesday urged all stakeholders, including the private sector and state governments, to forge strong partnerships to attain self-reliance in coal production and significantly reduce imports. The statement assumes significance in the wake of the country's ongoing push to secure energy supplies amid rising demand from power, steel, and cement sectors. During the launch of India Chapter of FutureCoal, the global alliance for sustainable coa ...Read More >
New Delhi: Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to raise FDI in the insurance sector to 100 per cent from the current 74 per cent, which is expected to increase insurance penetration, lower premiums, and boost job creation. The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, was cleared by the Rajya Sabha with a voice vote, a day after it was passed by the Lok Sabha. The House also rejected several amendments made by the Opposition to the bill, including the one to send the ...Read More >
Under this partnership, Google will procure the project's energy attributes, such as carbon credits from ReNew, a company statement said. This long-term procurement is essential for the bankability of the project, and will also help Google make progress towards addressing its value chain emissions. Decarbonisation solutions company ReNew Energy Global Plc on Tuesday said it has partnered with technology giant Google for the development of a 150-megawatt (MW) solar project in Rajasthan. Under t ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17: Lok Sabha, on Wednesday, passed the nuclear energy bill with Union minister Jitendra Singh asserting that it would help India achieve its target of 100 GW atomic energy generation by 2047. The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, which seeks to open the tightly-controlled civil nuclear sector for private participation, was passed by voice vote amid a walkout by the Opposition. Singh termed the bill a "milestone legisl ...Read More >
India's Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is expanding its reach into states, strengthening public-private partnerships, and embracing emerging technologies to empower women-led development. Launched in 2018, WEP continues to address underrepresentation and aims to boost entrepreneurial initiatives with state-specific programs and support for women in AI. India's Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is taking significant strides in extending its influence across states and bolstering its p ...Read More >
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