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Thousands of young job aspirants lined up outside a recruitment camp with their resumes in South Mumbai on September 7, 2026. | Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre The five-week Gen Z sit-in at Jantar Mantar has prompted a remarkable series of government responses: a change at the helm of the Union Education Ministry, a task force…
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Japan is now Maruti Suzuki’s second-largest export market by volume. Maruti Suzuki-manufactured vehicles accounted for nearly 100% of imports by Suzuki in Japan during FY26, the company said. | Photo Credit: Reuters Maruti Suzuki India Ltd said it has achieved one lakh units of cumulative exports of Made-in-India Jimny 5-door, FRONX and e VITARA to Japan considered one of the…
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India’s Power Ministry affirmed the approval would help flood-hit Nepal meet their power requirements. File | Photo Credit: Reuters India’s Ministry of Power have given their go-ahead for exporting power to Nepal to help recover from devastating floods which, among other things, destroyed their hydropower infrastructure and took lives of more than 1,300 people. The…
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An Essar spokesperson declined to put the value. File | Photo Credit: PTI EET Retail Limited, the retail division of Essar Energy Transition Fuels, the U.K. based company of the Essar Group, has announced an agreement to acquire 100% of SGN Retail, U.K.’ independent forecourt operator founded by Graham Peacock and Susan Tobbell for an…
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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation was 4.45% in July. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Retail inflation increased to 4.82% in August, largely driven by higher food prices, according to government data released on Monday (September 14, 2026). The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation was 4.45% in July. Food inflation in August increased…
Representational file image. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Wholesale price-based inflation rose to 9.92% in August, compared to 9.78% in July, on rising prices of food, manufactured items, and fuel and power, government data showed on Monday. Inflation in the food index rose to 7.05% in August, from 6.65% in July. In manufactured items,…
In May 1795, English magistrates met at the Pelican Inn in Speenhamland, Berkshire. With food prices rising and the French Revolution unsettling the English establishment, they decided to top up agricultural wages from parish funds, linking payouts to bread prices and family size. Hungarian economic historian Karl Polanyi later saw this as an early assertion…
Joint Committee of Tiruppur Knitwear and Textile Cluster has urged the Union government to fix a minimum floor price for yarn. This was one of the decisions taken at a recent meeting of garment manufacturers in Tiruppur and some of the textile mill associations in Tamil Nadu. With the garment manufacturers saying that they were…
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The United Planters’ Association of Southern India (UPASI) will organise a three-day event in Coonoor from September 21 to 23 bringing together experts, policy makers, and stakeholders of the plantation sector. Vice President of India C.P. Radhakrishnan will be the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of the centenary conference of the UPASI Tea Research…
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Image used for representational purposes only. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Foreign investors pulled out ₹13,138 crore from Indian equities in the first half of September, as heightened global uncertainty pushed crude oil prices higher, while rising U.S. bond yields and a firm dollar weighed on risk appetite. The latest outflow comes after Foreign Portfolio…
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