Month: September 2024

Centre Gives Absolute Powers To Delhi Lt Governor To Constitute Any Authority, Board

September 3, 2024 admin

Article 239 of the Constitution relates to the administration of the Union territories (File) New Delhi: The Centre has given absolute powers to the Delhi lieutenant governor to constitute any authority, board and commission such as the Delhi Commission for Women and the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission. In a notification, the Union Home Ministry said…

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Did corporate tax cuts increase wages?

September 3, 2024 admin

For representative purposes. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In the years prior to the pandemic, two of the largest economies in the world — the U.S. and India — cut corporate tax rates in an attempt to stimulate growth. While the pandemic caused an unprecedented shock to the economy, enough time has passed for us…

Business

UP Man Appeals To President, PM Modi To Save Daughter Facing Death Sentence In UAE

September 3, 2024 admin

Shabbir said he has sent a letter to the President and Prime Minister Modi through email. Banda (Uttar Pradesh): Shahzadi, a resident of Banda district in Uttar Pradesh, may be hanged in the UAE any time after September 20. The 29-year-old woman has been in Abu Dhabi jail for a long time for the murder…

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Russian leader Putin challenges international warrant for his arrest with visit to Mongolia

September 3, 2024 admin

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Mongolia on Tuesday (September 3, 2024) with no sign that the host country would bow to calls to arrest him on an international warrant for alleged war crimes stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The trip is Mr. Putin’s first to a member country of the International Criminal Court…

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Canada Approving Fewer Visas, Turning Away More Foreigners Amid Border Crackdown

September 3, 2024 admin

Canada is closing its doors to more visitors and temporary residents by approving fewer visas Toronto: Canada is closing its doors to more visitors and temporary residents by approving fewer visas and turning away more people who reach its borders with official documents, according to government data obtained by Reuters. The spike in rejections…

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Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje Apologises To People Of Tamil Nadu Over Controversial Remark

September 3, 2024 admin

She had moved the court seeking to quash the criminal proceedings against her. Chennai: Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje on Tuesday filed an affidavit before the Madras High Court, apologising to the people of Tamil Nadu for her remarks made in light of the Rameshwaram Cafe blast in Bengaluru earlier this year. Post the March 1…

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Man Stabbed To Death After Refusing To Share Mobile Hotspot Connection In Pune

September 3, 2024 admin

The accused then attacked him with sharp weapons, police said (Representational) Pune: A 47-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death on the road after refusing to share mobile hotspot connection with strangers in Hadapsar area in Pune, police said. A man was arrested and three minors detained in connection with the incident that took place…

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Olympic Runner Rebecca Cheptegei Suffers 75 Per Cent Burns After Partner ‘Sets Her On Fire’

September 3, 2024 admin

A Ugandan Olympian is in intensive care in a Kenyan hospital after being doused with petrol and set on fire allegedly by her partner, officials said Tuesday, the latest horrific incident of gender-based violence in the East African country. Long-distance runner Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, was assaulted after her Kenyan partner Dickson Ndiema Marangach…

Sports

TotalEnergies deepens ties with India’s Adani Green with $444 mln JV

September 3, 2024 admin

TotalEnergies will form a joint venture (JV) with India’s Adani Green Energy Ltd. in a deal in which the French oil giant will contribute an equity investment of $444 million, it said on Tuesday. The two firms had formed a JV in September 2023 worth $300 million, which gave Total “direct access to ownership of…

Business

Israel PM unbowed by pressure as Gaza war rages on

September 3, 2024 admin

Concerns grew on Tuesday (September 3, 2024) over the chances of securing a Gaza truce, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected making any “concessions” in stalled talks towards a hostage release deal. Mr. Netanyahu told a televised press conference at the end of a day of nationwide protests that he would “not…

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