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BMC Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani at the presentation of the Budget 2025-26, in Mumbai, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), considered the richest civic body in the country, on Tuesday (February 4, 2025) presented its budget of ₹74,427 crore for the year 2025-26. The civic body is under an…
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Image used for representative purpose only | Photo Credit: PTI Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty bounced back sharply in early trade on Tuesday (February 4, 2025) in line with a recovery in Asian peers after U.S. President Donald Trump delayed tariffs on Mexico and Canada for a month. Imposition of tariffs on Canada, Mexico…
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Representational image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The rupee recovered 13 paise from its all-time low closing level to 86.98 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday (Feburary 4, 2025), after President Donald Trump agreed to pause tariffs on Mexico and Canada for 30 days. Forex traders said the US dollar index, which…
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File picture of Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday (February 3, 2025) said funds to railway projects in West Bengal have been increased three times since Mamata Banerjee was in charge of the Ministry of Railways. “The allocation which was in Mamata Didi’s (Banerjee) time…
Students celebrating their success after the announcement of the CBSE class 10th exam results, on May 12, 2023. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR There are 71 lakh women voters in Delhi, which is nearly half of the total electorate. Further, women have a high turnout rate as well. So, it is no surprise that…
A worker removing weeds from a maize field near Kanchikacherla in NTR district in 2024. | Photo Credit: RAO G.N. The story so far: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said that India will achieve its target of 20% ethanol blending of petrol in the next two months, at least a year ahead of what was originally…
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The amplifier remains a transformative invention for being able to receive the human voice and boost it so thousands of people can hear it at once. Without the microphone, politics itself may have evolved differently; the device has been ubiquitous in everything from public protests to political rallies. Amplifiers have also transformed entertainment, astronomy, search…
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During her time in a drug discovery lab, structural biologist Kavyashree Manjunath first started thinking about how much plastic her group used, even for a single experiment. From the smallest of tips used to draw solutions to pipettes, bottles, and more — the plastic waste from her lab alone was enough to shock the average…
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The government deserves credit for its commitment to develop the maritime sector, largely neglected by predecessor governments. This is reflected in the expenditure on the government’s flagship programme, Sagarmala, which, as on September 2024, had outlined 839 projects requiring an investment of ₹5.8 lakh crore by 2035. Of these, 241 projects, worth ₹1.22 lakh crore,…
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At a job fair in Kochi, Kerala, in 2023 | Photo Credit: The Hindu/THULASI KAKKAT The Union Budget has been presented, and this is the right time to outline the three kinds of jobs this writer believes India must create. Beyond reviving private consumption in urban areas, we must continue to strengthen long-term job creation…
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