Month: January 2025

‘Airlines To Cut Fares By 50% For Maha Kumbh’: Minister’s Big Announcement

January 31, 2025 admin

New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu has announced a 50 per cent reduction in airfare for passengers traveling to the Kumbh Mela in an exclusive interview with NDTV. The new reduced fares came into effect starting today. The government has already directed airlines to cut the ticket prices. Three meetings were held…

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Delhi Records Warmest January Since 2019, Air Quality Sees Improvement

January 31, 2025 admin

New Delhi: The national capital wrapped up a rather warm January with Friday’s maximum temperature reaching 27 degrees Celsius, making it the city’s warmest day in the month since 2019. The month’s average maximum temperature was 21.1 degrees Celsius, a notch above the long-period average of 20.1 degrees Celsius, marking it as Delhi’s warmest January…

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Rise in female labour force participation driven by rural push, says Economic Survey

January 31, 2025 admin

Village women work under MGNREGA scheme at Jagannath Prasad village in Ganjam district, Odisha on Saturday. | Photo Credit: PTI There had been a consistent increase in Female Labour Force Participation Rate (FLFPR) over the past seven years driven largely by a rise in women entering workforce in rural India, the Economic Survey for 2024-25…

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4th T20I: Ravi Bishnoi, Harshit Rana Star As India Seal Series With Thrilling 15-Run Win Over England

January 31, 2025 admin

Ravi Bishnoi (3-28) and debutant Harshit Rana (3-33) claimed three wickets each as India beat England by 15 runs in the fourth T20I at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Friday. India thus took an unbeatable 3-1 lead and sealed the series with the last T20I scheduled to be played at…

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“Proper Cheating …”: Controversial Concussion Substitution Sees Harshit Rana Replace Shivam Dube vs England, Internet Reacts

January 31, 2025 admin

Talented pacer Harshit Rana, who has played two Tests, quite surprisingly made a surprise entry into the India playing XI in the fourth T20I against England in Pune on Friday. Though initially not named in the XI, Rana was called upon to replace allrounder Shivam Dube as a concussion substitute after the latter…

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Economic Survey flags growing challenges in global trade

January 31, 2025 admin

Steady growth of exports — merchandise and services — in the first nine months of FY 25 to touch $ 602.6 billion indicates India’s resilience in the midst of global headwinds of economic and trade policy uncertainties, said the Economic Survey 2024-2025. However, challenges remained due to elevated geo-political risks, high freight costs, and imposition…

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Britain’s Ex PM Rishi Sunak Arrives In Jaipur, To Attend Literature Festival

January 31, 2025 admin

Jaipur: Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrived in Jaipur on Friday to attend the city’s annual literary event, the Jaipur Literature Festival, which began on Thursday. During the five-day event, which will end on February 3, Mr Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty, and her mother, Sudha Murty, who is a renowned author and Rajya Sabha…

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Congress says it will raise the issue of Maha Kumbh stampede in Parliament before Budget speech

January 31, 2025 admin

Indian National Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The parliamentary strategy group of the Congress on Friday (January 31, 2025) decided that it would raise the issue of the Maha Kumbh stampede before Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivers her Budget speech. “We will raise the issue of deaths at Maha Kumbh…

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Economic Survey 2024-25: CEA emphasises deregulation to spur growth, facilitate ease of doing business

January 31, 2025 admin

Presenting the Economic Survey on Friday (January 31, 2025), Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran, among other things, put forth a case for deregulation. According to him, “pervasive” deregulation would not only facilitate ease of doing business but also enable conditions for employment generation. He emphasised this an imperative, among other things, as a means…

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Textiles sector should address issues related to cost competitiveness: Economic Survey

January 31, 2025 admin

Photo used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Lack of localisation and complexity of the Indian textile value chain result in higher costs for Indian exporters in the textile sector, relative to global competitors. India’s textile production occurs across multiple independent and clustered Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) spread across the country….

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