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He said this during a 'Meet and Greet' interaction organised by Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya and Bengaluru Central MP P C Mohan with over 500 young voters, joggers and visitors at Cubbon Park here.

Delhi got only Rs 325 crore despite paying more than Rs 1.75 lakh crore income tax: Kejriwal on Budget 2023

Accusing the Centre of meting out step-motherly treatment to the national capital, he said the budget has offered no respite from the twin problems of inflation and unemployment.

Budget 2023 'anti-people', 'opportunistic': Mamata Banerjee

Addressing a government function at Bolpur in Birbhum district, she claimed that the changes in the income tax slabs will not help anyone.

Taliban criticises Prince Harry over Afghan killings comment

Harry's highly personal book "Spare" went on sale in Spain days before its global launch on Jan. 10. It discloses the depth of the rift between the prince and his brother William, the heir to the throne, and other revelations such as drug-taking and how he lost his virginity.

WEF didn’t order once a weeks baths to combat climate change, social media post misleading

The WEF, it found, had never made any such statement and the Twitter post, which used a screenshot of a report headlined "WEF Orders Public To Bathe 'Once a Week or Less' To Save the Planet", was misleading. The tweet had many thousand views and hundreds of retweets.

5G will take education to next level: PM Narendra Modi, says NEP will pull country out of English 'slave mentality'

The prime minister was speaking after launching the Gujarat government's Mission Schools of Excellence initiative at Adalaj town in Gandhinagar district.

Comment | Why Indian women are dropping out of workforce, but Bangladeshi women aren't

IMF research says India could boost its economy by 27 percent, by raising women’s participation in the workforce.

COMMENT - ICICI Bank: A board that failed

Indian boards of directors are failing; they are not exercising the necessary due diligence and loyalty to shareholders

Comment: Windfall tax on oil production unlikely to bear fruit

With India's oil production at less than 20% of consumption the windfall tax defies logic

WORLD VIEW: Geopolitical signals may be worrying, but global equities are largely blind to them

Global equities are in rude health, paying more attention to positive macro data coming out of the US and Europe.

COMMENT: In politics, Right ahead, Left behind, Neutrals nowhere

Somewhere along the line in the past thirty months, India cleaved into two, a second partition, a quiet but neat bifurcation that changed no maps, displaced no people and created no new countries.

Greenpeace criticises PM's remark on nuke energy, GM food

A green NGO today criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that issues like genetically modified food or nuclear energy cannot be settled by faith, emotion or fear but by structured debate.

Chances of snapback euro rally unlikely: Henderson Global

Christopher Palmer, Henderson Global Investors, says that today, investors will be looking for a green light from the politicians for the bond purchase program. Skeptics will look for more indications that structural reforms in Europe are also on the agenda or have been agreed to behind the scenes.

Mamata unfazed by case against her, blames media

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday continued to be defiant and stuck to her stand on the judiciary. She repeated her comment against the judiciary made in Assembly last week.

Thailand furious at Lady Gaga's fake Rolex tweet

Thailand's government is up in arms over a tweet by pop sensation Lady Gaga about buying a fake designer watch in a Bangkok street market and has complained to the United States.

Petrol price hike: Bollywood takes to Twitter

Bollywood celebrities took to Twitter to vent their ire over the steepest ever hike in petrol prices with many cracking jokes and taking jibes at the government's decision.

Unexceptional market session, disappointing end

CNBC-TV18‘s managing editor Udayan Mukherjee says that it was a disappointing session because in the morning it looked like the market was in pullback mode and then Europe opened up well.