India
February 07, 2025
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Kerala Budget 2025: CM Pinarayi Vijayan terms Budget ‘an illuminating road map to a modern Kerala’

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday (February 7, 2025) stoutly defended the Kerala Budget 2025-26 as “an illuminating roadmap thoughtfully and empathetically calibrated to give a new impetus to the State’s aspirations.” He said the Budget sought to circumvent the Central government’s financial constraints imposed on the State to ensure sustainable development, social welfare, […]

India
February 07, 2025
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Sebi-registered non-bank brokers can directly access NDS-OM: RBI

The RBI on Friday (February 7, 2025) said non-bank brokers registered with market-regulator Sebi can directly access NDS-OM, an electronic trading platform for secondary market transactions in government securities, on behalf of their clients. Access to Negotiated Dealing System – Order Matching (NDS-OM), at present is available to regulated entities and to the clients of […]

India
February 07, 2025
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Cattle smuggling case: Enforcement Directorate attaches ₹25.86-crore assets allegedly involving former TMC district president of Birbhum

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached movable properties valued at ₹25.86 crore in a case of cattle smuggling from India to Bangladesh, allegedly involving a former Border Security Force (BSF) commandant and a former district president of Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Birbhum. The action has been taken under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act. […]

India
February 07, 2025
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Sexual assault of nine-year-old girl at Manapparai private school triggers tension

An alleged sexual assault on a nine-year-old girl studying in a private CBSE school near Manapparai in Tiruchi district sparked protests in the late hours on Thursday (February 6, 2025) with a group of people vandalising a nearby matriculation school belonging to the same management and staging a road roko on the Tiruchi – Dindigul […]

India
February 07, 2025
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Kerala Budget 2025: Opposition UDF terms Budget ‘a false and cruel construct with no significance’

Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan on Friday (February 7, 2025) termed the Kerala Budget 2025-26 a “false and cruel construct that rang resoundingly hollow and held no promise for the State” He said the Budget has “exacerbated” the cost of living crisis for working-class people by proposing an “unreasonably high” 50% increase in […]

India
February 07, 2025
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NCB seizes drugs worth ₹200 crore in Navi Mumbai, four held

The Narcotics Control Bureau has exposed a drug syndicate and seized various banned substances worth about ₹200 crore from Navi Mumbai after arresting four persons, an official said on Friday (February 7, 2025). According to an official from the NCB’s Mumbai zonal unit, a group of people based abroad are operating the syndicate and some […]