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A drone view of people gathering during the arrival of the freed Palestinian prisoners, after they were released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hamas and Israel…
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO The country’s higher education system ranks among the largest globally with 4.33 crore students enrolled in 2021-22, a 26.5% increase from 3.42 crore in 2014-15. The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) for the 18–23 age group also increased from 23.7% to 28.4% during this same…
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Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran during a press conference on Economic Survey 2024-25, in New Delhi on Friday. | Photo Credit: ANI India’s equity market has rapidly grown particularly after the pandemic, but its debt market remains undercapitalised, according to the Economic Survey for 2024-25 tabled in Parliament on Friday. Corporate bond issuances in India…
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The secondary markets have delivered positive performance amidst significant volatility witnessed since the commencement of FY25 and on a longer-term basis, Indian markets have been among the best-performing markets in the world the Economic Survey 2024-25 has stated. “The compounded annualised returns of Nifty 50 for…
Ottawa: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada’s response will be “forceful but reasonable” if US decide to impose 25 per cent tariffs as threatened by President Donald Trump, The Globe and Mail reported. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on its neighbour Canada and Mexico as early as Saturday. “If the president…
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Congolese Major-General Somo Kakule Evariste walks as he arrives to assume office as the new military governor of the conflict-hit North Kivu province amid tensions following clashes in Goma between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo January 31, 2025. | Photo…
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New Delhi: A local court has ordered the registration of an FIR against a Delhi Police officer for alleged hate crime during the February 2020 communal riots in the city’s northeast. The court also deprecated the conduct of the investigating officer (IO) for failing to inquire about the alleged role of former MLA Kapil Mishra…
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The real challenge in school education is to maintain the retention rates for all classes, from primary to higher secondary levels, the Economic Survey 2024-25 said on Friday. Retention rate is the percentage of students who enrol in a school and continue over a specific period of time. “Retention rates stand at 85.4% for primary…
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The U.S. military said it killed a senior operative of Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch in an air strike on northwestern Syria on Thursday. The area was the stronghold of interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group before it led the rebel offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad in December. “US Central Command forces conducted a precision…
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New Delhi: Apple is very keen on India where it has seen record business during the December quarter with iPhone emerging as the top-selling smartphone model, a top company official said on Friday. During the company’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said India offers a huge growth opportunity for the company. “We have had…
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