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Congress and BJP continue the blame-game as passengers protest massive fare hike that is hitting short-distance commuters hardest.

Migration And Unemployment Major Concerns For Voters As Jharkhand Heads To Polls, Say Experts

The Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand, comprising 18 assembly segments, is set to play a crucial role in determining the outcome of the upcoming assembly polls.Political observers and senior journalists believe that migration for jobs and unemployment are the most pressing issues for voters in the region. Social activists say that the lack of education and healthcare facilities in the region are also major concerns. The elections for the 81-member assembly in Jharkhand will be held in two phases on November 13th and 20th.

Protests over sex assault at school, SC set up a National Task Force to ensure safety of doctors

The Supreme Court has set up a National Task Force to ensure the safety of doctors and asked them to file an interim report within three weeks. Two days after the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) called applications for lateral entry into the government service, the Centre on August 20 rolled back the decision, the first such instance in the Modi 3.0 government. Two four-year-old girls were sexually assaulted at an English medium school by a cleaning staff in Maharashtra's Thane. Watch here for more details...

BJP wants to remove Hemant Soren from CM's post, accuses Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on August 19 accused BJP of attempting to delay assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand. He alleged that BJP wants to remove Hemant Soren from the CM post, break his party and bring instability in Jharkhand

Union Cabinet raises MSP for 14 kharif crops, approves Rs 76,220-cr mega port in Maharashtra

Get the latest updates from Union Cabinet briefing: Increased MSP for Kharif crops to Rs 2 lakh crore and gave nod for a major port at Vadhavan, Maharashtra, which is set to become a top 10 global port. Details on these significant developments and their implications

India-Maldives row: Indian airlines not looking to reduce flights to Maldives yet

IndiGo has 28 flights to the Maldives this week, while Vistara and SpiceJet have seven flights each and Air India has six flights to Maldives, data shared by Ciricum, an aviation analytics company, show

Live News Highlights: Ukraine conflict must be resolved through dialogue, diplomacy: Quad

Business and Political news highlights: The Quad leaders on Saturday called for the resolution of the Ukraine conflict through dialogue and diplomacy while asserting that it must not be an era of war, a formulation that echoed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's position.

Congress faces crisis in Rajasthan as 90 MLAs loyal to CM threaten to resign

These MLAs are against Sachin pilot becoming the next CM. Crisis erupts after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot senses trouble on a remark by Rahul Gandhi that the party will follow the ‘one man, one post’ rule.

Political temperature rises as Amit Shah set to address rally in Telangana's Munugode

Munugode Assembly segment in Nalgonda district fell vacant after sitting legislator K Rajgopal Reddy tendered his resignation.

Lack of trust, political will shackling Myanmar peace process, ASEAN envoy says

Prak Sokhonn, Cambodia’s deputy prime minister and chair of this week’s regional foreign ministers’ meetings, said he would not give up on Myanmar, even though he had seen no willingness from any party to give up their fight.

Congress splits in Goa: Here's what we know so far

This took the BJP’s tally in the 40-member Goa Legislative Assembly to 27

Lok Sabha polls 2019: How TRS and YSRCP could play kingmakers in Delhi

Despite a lukewarm response to his Federal Front plan, KCR is hoping to play a kingmaker in an event where the Lok Sabha election yields a hung House

Not bad time for AAP: Saurabh Bhardwaj after 2 leaders quit party

He said these professionals have their liabilities and interests that they seek to pursue.

India's economic, political systems yet to mature: Subramanian

Voicing concerns that judiciary has acquired more authority than legislators, he said the society has become highly litigious and vouched for independent regulatory institutions that are free from political interference.

HSBC says 2016 net profit plunged 82% to $2.48 bn

The net profit of USD 2.48 billion compared with USD 13.52 billion recorded in 2015, with group chairman Douglas Flint saying geopolitical changes contributed to "volatile financial market conditions".

Economic survey advocates reforms to unleash economic dynamism

The Survey lists the some of the challenges that might impede India‘s progress. These challenges are classified by the Survey as follows: ambivalence about property rights and the private sector, deficiencies in State capacity, especially in delivering essential services and inefficient redistribution.

HR Innovation Awards: Critical factors in building organisations

In today‘s challenging business environment with economic, political and geo political uncertainties, employees in various organisations are more often than not at the receiving end. The human resource department plays a crucial role in managing employees and in the overall transition of each organisation.

UN meet calls for combating climate change on urgent priority

The "Marrakesh Action Proclamation", which was agreed upon by all the parties -- 196 nations and the EU bloc -- taking part in the summit, was read out at the Conference of Parties (CoP) Plenary session which said it was an "urgent duty to respond" to global warming.

BRICS Summit: Decoding importance of interbank cooperation

The interbank mechanism for the BRICS Summit is an important part of the entire BRICS cooperation movement while the political & the economic issues have their ups & downs, bankers put their head down & think of cooperation contracts and commerce. Latha Venkatesh of CNBC-TV18 discusses this with the people who are spearheading this cooperation.

Brexit fears, White House race cause $72 billion slide in M&A

In the first nine months of 2016, global merger and acquisition (M&A) volumes slipped 22 percent on-year to USD 2.55 trillion, from USD 3.27 trillion in the same period last year, Dealogic revealed in a new report on Tuesday. This ended a three-year streak of on-year increases, the financial data platform said.

Congress has no future: Ramachandra Guha

Watch the interview of Ramachandra Guha Writer & Historian with Ronojoy Banerjee on CNBC-TV18, in which he shared his views on Congress party's future and whole host of political issues.

Rajnath hails Modi as 'first' PM playing social, political role

"Normally a person active in politics is concerned with political role but it's for the first time that the country is witnessing a Prime Minister not only playing his political role but is also not behind in playing a social role," Singh said while launching an integrated waste management project in South Delhi.

Need of the hour: Integrating risk and business management

Managing risk and growth is a way o life for today‘s CEOs. Businesses are exposed to the intrinsic risk of political, economic and market development both global and regional.

Agitation to intensify, police indulging in violence: Patel

Rejecting suggestions that the protesters started the violence last night, he alleged that the police were trying to "disrupt" the "movement" at the behest of the political establishment.

No reason why India can't resume 8 or 9% growth: IMF

No reason whyThe IMF has at least at this stage pegged a kind of medium-term growth for India at around "7 3/4 percent if, a lot of the structural reforms can be introduced". India can't resume 8 or 9 pc growth: IMF