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171,150 Indians Deported From 52 Countries In 5 Years

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Deportations of Indians have increased in recent years from several countries like the UAE, USA, Malaysia, Myanmar. IMAGE: An Indian immigrant deported from the US walks out of the airport in Ahmedabad, February 6, 2025. More than 171,000 Indians were deported from 52 countries between 2021 and 2025=. About 900 Indians per million overseas residents faced deportation in 2025 amid growing immigration enforcement across multiple regions.
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Crorepati MLAs Surge 32 Times In 20 Years

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
BJP witnessed steady growth in crorepati MLAs between 2016 and 2026. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party supporters celebrate the party's triumph in the West Bengal assembly elections in Kolkata, May 4, 2026. Over 21 per cent of candidates contesting five assembly elections between 2006 and 2026 declared crorepati-level assets. The share of crorepati winners in these assemblies jumped sharply from 11.8 per cent to 73.4 per cent.
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Political Parties Sees 1,123 Defections In 15 Years

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Most defections originated from three major parties -- the Congress, BJP and BSP. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Nabin offers sweets to Aam Aadmi Party's Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha at the party headquarters in New Delhi, April 24, 2026, after he, along with two other AAP Rajya Sabha MPs Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal, joined the BJP. More than 1,100 MPs and MLAs switched political parties across three Lok Sabha terms between 2009 and 2024.
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Kidnapping Cases Surge Over Million

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Abduction remains the most common motive, accounting for more than half of kidnapping cases, followed by abduction of women for marriage. Kindly note that this illustration generated using ChatGPT has only been posted for representational purposes. More than 2 million kidnapping and abduction cases were registered in India between 1953 and 2024. Over half of all kidnapping cases recorded during seven decades were reported between 2013 and 2024.
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UP, Haryana still below national wage line

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Despite recent minimum wage adjustments, Indian factory workers, especially in key industrial states, face stagnant real wages and a growing disparity with supervisory staff, as highlighted by recent analyses and global labour indices. Uttar Pradesh recently increased the minimum wage by 21 per cent in Noida and Ghaziabad following worker protests over low pay.
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Datanomics: India's energy diversification timely, but risks remain

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Business Standard
PM Narendra Modi highlights India's diversified energy import strategy as tensions in the Strait of Hormuz disrupt global oil and gas flows The share of Hormuz in India’s crude oil imports nearly halved in over five years Yash Kumar SinghalJayant Pankaj 1 min read Last Updated : Mar 23 2026 | 10:28 PM IST Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday highlighted how shipping of energy products through the Strait of Hormuz has become highly challenging.
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AI Misuse Fuels India's Growing Fake News Crisis

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
From 2022 to 2024, X, Facebook, and WhatsApp emerged as the primary platforms associated with the spread of fake news in India. Kindly note that this illustration generated using ChatGPT has only been posted for representational purposes. Between 2017 and 2023, 5,377 fake news cases were registered across India. Nearly 30% of all fake news cases were linked to social media platforms. Political themes accounted for 43% of fake news content between 2022 and 2024.
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Infiltration Surges Along India-Myanmar Border

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
23,926 infiltrators were arrested across various border regions between 2014 and 2025. Kindly note the image has been published only for representational purposes. The border with Myanmar remains the most porous, with a sharp spike in infiltration in over a decade. By comparison, the India-Bangladesh border saw a marginal hike from 159 to 176 during this period.
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Women Constitute 30% Of Trafficking Arrests in India

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Coastal states such as Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra recorded the highest number of immoral trafficking cases in India. Kindly note the image have only been published for representational purposes.
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Statsguru: 'Gigification' of Indian economy and the future of work

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Business Standard
What is often framed as flexible employment increasingly resembles regular work, raising questions around hours, pay and working conditions Shikha ChaturvediJayant Pankaj 3 min read Last Updated : Jan 11 2026 | 10:33 PM IST Recent protests by sections of gig workers across the country have drawn attention to the significance of platform work in India’s labour market.
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Demolitions Double in 7 Years; Rehab Remains Scarce

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
In 2023, Delhi accounted for the highest share of evictions at 53 per cent, followed by Gujarat at 30 per cent and Assam at 4 per cent. Kindly note the image have only been published for representational purposes. On December 29, 2025, the Karnataka government announced plans to rehabilitate residents whose houses were demolished in Kogilu, Bengaluru, amid sharp criticism from Opposition parties over the demolition drive.
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Bengal SIR: Muslim Districts See No Major Impact

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
More voter deletions recorded in draft SIR exercises than to the combined SSRs in the past 10 years. IMAGE: Special Intensive Revision officials distribute the SIR forms in the Karimpur assembly constituency in West Bengal's Nadia. The Election Commission of India temporarily removed 5.8 million voter names in the draft electoral rolls published after the recently concluded special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.
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Staff Behaviour Still Bugs Air Travellers

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
SpiceJet recorded the highest complaint rate per 10,000 passengers, rising sharply from 3.9 in November 2024 to 13.8 in October 2025. Kindly note the image has been published only for representational purposes. On December 19, an off-duty Air India Express pilot allegedly assaulted a passenger at Delhi airport, drawing renewed attention to passenger complaints in India's aviation sector.
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Lynching Sees No End

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Between 2014 and 2023, India recorded 189 lynching cases. Last month, a cloth vendor was lynched in Bihar allegedly over his religious identity. Between 2014 and 2023, India recorded 189 lynching cases -- less than 1 per cent of over 526,000 incidents of mob violence. As of 2025, only Manipur, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Jharkhand have anti-lynching laws. Mob violence cases slowing down Mob violence cases in India fell to 39,274 in 2023 from 66,044 in 2014.
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Violence Against Christians On Rise

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
There has been an increase in violence against Christians over the past 12 years -- from 147 cases in 2014 to 706 in 2025 (till November). Kindly note that this illustration generated using ChatGPT has only been posted for representational purposes. According to a Christian organisation, 5,048 alleged incidents of violence against the community took place during 2014-2025 (up to November).
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SIR Exercise Covers Half Of Electorates

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Since 2004, 12 states have added 160 million people to their rolls. IMAGE: Booth Level Officers and Booth Level Agents assess activities scrutinising the newly published Special Intensive Revision list at Ganabhaban in Kolkata, December 16, 2025. The Election Commission of India released preliminary Special Intensive Revision (SIR) data for 12 states, covering half of India's electorate, on December 16. In earlier years, 19 states underwent intensive revisions in 2002, followed by 7 states in 2003.
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Indian Pilots Fly 246 Hours A Year

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Most Indian airlines recorded a rise in average flying hours per pilot after the Covid period. Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. IndiGo's recent major flight disruptions stem from India's new Flight Duty Time Limitation rules, designed to combat pilot fatigue by increasing mandatory rest and capping night operations.
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India's Nuclear Power Push: Big Goals, Slow Build

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
India's nuclear energy share in total installed capacity remains limited, fluctuating between 1.9 per cent and 2.9 per cent from FY10 to FY24. IMAGE: A view of India's first indigenously developed 700-megawatt electric (MWe) nuclear power reactor that has been established at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPP) in Gujarat. World Nuclear Energy Day, December 2, is a reminder of India's steady but slow progress in the nuclear sector.
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Will White-Collar Terror Be the New Normal?

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
9 accused individuals have held white-collar job positions since 2017. IMAGE: Rapid Action Force personnel stand guard at the Red Fort car blast site, November 12, 2025. The November 10 terror attack near the Red Fort, in which 15 people died, has been identified by investigative agencies as the work of a 'white-collar terror module', with seven suspects having white-collar jobs.
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Why Do So Many People Die In Custody?

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Custodial deaths are a serious and long-lasting problem in India, with over 28,000 people dying in custody since 2009. On November 6, three Railway Police Force personnel were booked for alleged murder after a Dalit man died in custody. The case has once again drawn attention to a troubling pattern of custodial deaths across India.
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Alarming Rise Of Sexual Violence Against Dalit Women

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By Jayant Pankaj , Yash Kumar Singhal
| Rediff.com
57,766 cases of atrocities against scheduled castes were reported in 2023, the highest in the last three decades. The alleged gang-rape of a minor Dalit girl in Lucknow has yet again trained the spotlight on the growing incidents of violence against females of the community. In 2023, the share of rape incidents against scheduled caste women in overall incidents was over 14 per cent.
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Infra breakdown: AWS' global outage creates a moment of vulnerability

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Business Standard
Home / Companies / News / Infra breakdown: AWS' global outage creates a moment of vulnerability AWS suffers major global outage on October 20, affecting millions of users and services including Canva, Duolingo, and Snapchat amid its dominant cloud market presence Jayant PankajYash Kumar Singhal New Delhi 2 min read Last Updated : Oct 21 2025 | 11:19 PM IST The Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday experienced a major global outage that disrupted several of its widely used applications and...
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Datanomics: Rise in sexual violence against Dalit women raises alarm

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Business Standard
Home / India News / Datanomics: Rise in sexual violence against Dalit women raises alarm The total number of rape cases against SC women has shown a worrying upward trend over the years from 2,541 cases in 2016 to 4,214 cases in 2023 Jayant PankajYash Kumar Singhal 2 min read Last Updated : Oct 20 2025 | 10:47 PM IST The alleged gang-rape of a minor Dalit girl in Lucknow has yet again trained the spotlight on the growing incidents of violence against females of the community.
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Corn Tests India-US Trade Ties

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Between FY18 and FY25, India's annual corn imports from the US averaged just about $2 million. Kindly note the image have only been published for representational purposes. India's resistance to significantly increase the import of US corn has been one of the friction points in the ongoing trade talks. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently said that India has 1.4 billion people but it 'does not import a single bushel of corn from the US'.
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How Much Will Digital Census 2027 Cost?

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
The 2027 Census may cost a bit more due to the proposed use of apps and smartphones by the 3.4 million enumerators who will collect comprehensive data much more efficiently than in earlier times. The Registrar General of India (RGI) has reportedly sought Rs 14,600 crore (Rs 146 billion) from the Centre to conduct the Census 2027. If we adjust the money spent on conducting the Census in 2001 and 2011 for inflation, RGI should have asked for much less money.
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Rise and Fall Of Real-Money Gaming Firms

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
India has nearly 490 million online gamers, and an estimated Rs 10,000 crore is spent every month on online gaming transactions. Kindly note that this illustration generated using ChatGPT has only been posted for representational purposes. Parliament recently passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, which seeks to promote segments like esports and social online games but enforces a blanket ban on real-money games (RMG) in India.
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ED Recovers Rs 15,000 Cr In 7 Months

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
The ED probed 30 cases between August 2024 and March 2025, during which it recovered ₹15,261 crore, mostly from cases related to bank frauds. Reliance Infrastructure Chairman Anil Ambani was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate on August 5 in connection to a loan fraud case. This is one of the many such investigations by the ED related to bank fraud.
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Has TCS Sparked Job Cuts Across IT Firms?

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
While FY25 attrition rates remained below pre-Covid levels, most companies experienced a 1 to 3 percentage point increase compared to FY24. Tata Consultancy Services announced the sacking of around 12,000 employees on July 27, sending shockwaves in the information technology sector. Moreover, the industry witnessed even high voluntary attrition rate in the first quarter of FY26. TCS employed the highest number of workers in FY25, at 636,833 employees.
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54 MiGs Have Crashed In 17 Years

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Between FY09 and FY25, 101 IAF fighter jets have crashed, costing the lives of 28 pilots. IMAGE: A MiG-21 fighter jet. Russian-origin MiG-21 aircraft are set to retire from the Indian Air Force in September amid ongoing safety concerns, marking the end of their 62-year-long service in the IAF. Between FY09 and FY25, 101 IAF fighter jets crashed, costing the lives of 28 pilots.
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IndiGo Tops in Flight Cancellations

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
IndiGo, which operates the largest fleet among Indian carriers, has reported the highest number of serious engine-related incidents. On July 16, an IndiGo flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Mumbai airport following a reported engine failure. Two more similar incidents involving IndiGo took place within the same week. In the wake of the Boeing AI 171 crash, concerns over aircraft safety have intensified. However, these are not isolated cases.
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How Did Rajya Sabha Perform Under Dhankhar?

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
His term saw the lowest average of 57 hours. IMAGE: Then Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar conducts the proceedings of the House on his last day in office, July 21, 2025. Former vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned on July 21 with 751 days remaining in his tenure, citing health reasons. Before Dhankhar, two vice presidents -- V V Giri in 1969 and Ramaswamy Venkataraman in 1987 -- resigned from office before completing their term. As Chair of the Rajya Sabha, Dhankhar's legacy is a mixed bag.
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Hit-and-Runs Cause 1 In 5 Road Deaths

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Overspeeding remains the leading cause of road accidents in India. It accounted for 72 per cent of all road accidents. Kindly note the image have only been published for representational purposes. The world's oldest marathon runner, 114-year-old Fauja Singh from Punjab, died in a 'hit-and-run' accident on July 14. The case has once again brought the rising number of such accidents and other road safety issues in India into the spotlight.
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India's Aging Bridges Under Scrutiny

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Among India's 150,746 railway bridges, 25.8 per cent are over a century old. IMAGE: A truck stuck on the Gambjira bridge after it collapsed on the Mahisagar river at Padra in Vadodara, July 9, 2025. The recent collapse of the Gambhira bridge in Gujarat, which killed 17 and injured nine people, highlights a broader crisis in India's infrastructure, particularly in urban areas.
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71% Of Train Mishaps Linked To Derailment

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Between 2015 and 2023, around 543 train accidents occurred, resulting in 805 deaths, with derailments accounting for 71 per cent of the accidents and 35 per cent of the fatalities. IMAGE: Rescue operation underway after the coaches of the Dibrugarh-Chandigarh Express derailed in Gonda. Three weeks ago, a passenger train running from Hazrat Nizamuddin to Ghaziabad derailed near Shivaji bridge station in New Delhi.
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Indian Detentions In US See A Surge

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
Despite relatively smaller Indian populations in cities like Seattle and Buffalo, the proportion of Indian nationals detained in these locations remains disproportionately high. Kindly note the image has been published only for representational purposes. A video of an Indian student being handcuffed and pinned to the ground at Newark airport in the United States has once again brought attention to the treatment of illegal Indian emigrants by US authorities.
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Can UP Triple Its Exports By 2030?

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
UP has progressed steadily: its exports increased from $13 billion in FY15 to $17 billion in FY20, and to around $22 billion in FY25. IMAGE: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath offers chocolate to a boy during the 'Janta Darshan' program at Gorakhnath Mandir, in Gorakhpur, May 27, 2025. The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government in April announced a plan to triple exports by 2030, setting an ambitious target amid competition from other Indian states and global tariff tensions.
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Pakistan's Economy On Tenterhooks

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By Shikha Chaturvedi, Jayant Pankaj 
| Rediff.com
With general government debt now approaching three-quarters of GDP, and only incremental reform efforts visible, Pakistan risks prolonging its economic stagnation unless fundamental governance, regulatory, and industrial overhauls are undertaken. IMAGE: Laborers along the roadside eat a donated meal by a local charity in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 18, 2025.
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An economy on life support, strained by debt and weak reforms

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By Shikha Chaturvedi, Jayant Pankaj 
| Business Standard
Pakistan is currently teetering on the edge of a fragile economic recovery, weighed down by tensions with India and deepening fiscal dependence on international lenders. Hostilities with India reignited following a terrorist attack on April 22 in Jammu & Kashmir's Pahalgam, in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed. India has since appealed to international financial institutions to reassess their support for Pakistan, citing Islamabad's complicity with terrorist groups.
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India levies the third highest import tariffs on agri products

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
There has been a great deal of controversy following the Trump administration pointing out that India has one of the highest import tariffs globally, especially on agricultural products. This claim is not too off the mark. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), India had the third-highest applied Most Favoured Nation (MFN) tariff on agricultural products in 2023, averaging 39 per cent.
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Tata Motors, the top R&D spender among Nifty100

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
Research and development expenditure is a prerequisite for driving business growth. Tata Motors has been spending the highest sum on research and development expenditure in FY24 and FY25 among Nifty 100 companies. Among sectors, autos and pharma lead. A businessline analysis of the annual reports of Nifty 100 companies reveals that Tata Motors spent ₹29,398 crore on R&D in FY24, recording a growth of 45 per cent over the amount spent in FY23 of ₹20,265 crore.
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Oscars awards, a rewind

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By Yashaswani Chauhan, Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
SENSEX   72,989.93 -96.01 NIFTY   22,082.65 -36.65 CRUDEOIL   5,899.00 -90.00 GOLD   85,921.00 + 537.00 SILVER   94,122.00 -411.00 SENSEX   72,989.93 -96.01 NIFTY   22,082.65 -36.65 NIFTY   22,082.65 -36.65 CRUDEOIL   5,899.00 -90.00 CRUDEOIL   5,899.00 -90.00 GOLD   85,921.00 + 537.00 Updated - March 04, 2025 at 10:14 PM. Oscars have been the most coveted award for movies over the years.
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Funds released under MPLADS down 65% in 2019-24 period due to Covid

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
The latest data on the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) show that the total funds released by the central government covering the period of 17th Lok Sabha (2019 to 2024) was around ₹4,510 crore, registering a decline of 65.2 per cent over the funds released in the previous Lok Sabha. This is primarily because no fund released under the scheme in the two years of the pandemic.
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Sleep and healthcare take back seat as time spent on work rises

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By Jayant Pankaj , Sindhu Hariharan
| The Hindu Business Line
Self-care and maintenance activities such as sleeping, personal hygiene, and healthcare among others is being allotted less time in a day as other priorities like employment and leisure activities come to the fore. As per the Time Use Survey (TUS) 2024 conducted by The National Statistics Office (NSO) released on Tuesday, the average daily time spent on self-care and maintenance dropped 2.5 per cent from 726 minutes to 708 minutes.
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Can the new BJP government in Delhi deliver its freebies?

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By Sindhu Hariharan, Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
As the Bharatiya Janata Party returned to power in Delhi with a decisive mandate, all eyes are on its ability to deliver on the plethora of promises the party made in its three-part manifesto titled ‘Viksit Delhi Sankalp Patra’.
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Luxury hotels record strongest growth in average room rate in December 2024 quarter

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
The strong growth in domestic tourism has resulted in the highest-ever average room rate (ARR) in the December quarter of 2024. A businessline analysis of eight of the largest hotel stocks shows that the luxury hotels have recorded a higher increase in the third quarter of this fiscal year, compared to the year-ago period. They also have the pricing power to hike prices sharply on a sequential basis.
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Budget allocation for Census and other surveys 57 per cent lower than revised estimate for FY25 

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
The delay in doing the latest round of census has been a matter of much debate. But the Budget allocation for ‘Census, survey and statistics/ registrar general of India’ received allocation of just ₹574 crore for FY26. This is just 6.5 per cent of the government’s recent projections for cost of conducting census and also down 57 per cent from the revised estimate of ₹1,341 crore in FY25.
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Budget figures suggest census may remain on hold

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
Budget documents show that both the budget estimates and actual spending on the census survey have declined  in recent years. The Budget estimate for FY26 was just ₹R574 crore, down from ₹1,341 crore of revised estimates in FY25. This seems to imply that census activity may not gain traction next fiscal year either. After COVID-19, both estimates and actual spending on census have continuously declined. In FY22, ₹3,768 crore was estimated, but actual spending was only ₹505 crore.
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India’s PMI far above the US, China and Brazil indicating optimistic outlook of businesses

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
The monthly survey data on the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) show that India’s PMI across manufacturing and services is growing faster than most of the global economies, such as the US, China and Brazil, as of January. Particularly, India’s PMI manufacturing recorded six-month high in January, showcasing optimistic outlook of companies regarding the future.
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USAID shutdown may not have a significant impact on India

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
Following the recent decision by the newly appointed Trump administration to dismantle the humanitarian aid agency, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), data show that this decision will not impact India substantially. From 2015 to 2024, India received around $1.5 billion from the USAID, and the share of funding to India remained flat in this period in the range of 0.2 per cent to 0.4 per cent of USAID’s total global funding.
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Chugging along

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By Jayant Pankaj 
| The Hindu Business Line
SENSEX   77,505.96 + 5.39 NIFTY   23,482.15 -26.25 CRUDEOIL   6,359.00 + 9.00 GOLD   82,100.00 + 212.00 SILVER   93,250.00 + 36.00 SENSEX   77,505.96 + 5.39 NIFTY   23,482.15 -26.25 NIFTY   23,482.15 -26.25 CRUDEOIL   6,359.00 + 9.00 CRUDEOIL   6,359.00 + 9.00 GOLD   82,100.00 + 212.00 Updated - February 01, 2025 at 11:35 PM.
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