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Banerjee, however, didn't clarify whether any other minister of her cabinet would attend the meeting on her behalf or not.
Vidarbha piled up a mammoth 511 in their first essay and then reduced Mumbai to 169 for six on the second day of their Elite Group A Ranji Trophy Game in Nagpur on Monday.
A round-up of Day 1 in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final matches.
Several leading industrialists, including Reliance Industries CMD Mukesh Ambani, Vedanta Resources Limited executive chairman Anil Agarwal, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata, Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra, Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Welspun Group chairman and Assocham president B K Goenka, attended the swearing-in ceremony.
Daredevils can be the banana peel and Mumbai Indians will be wary after Chennai Super Kings slipped in their penultimate game. The last time the two teams faced off, the Daredevils won by seven wickets in a last-over thriller.
At the pre-Budget meeting at Niti Aayog, Modi called for a focussed effort from all stakeholders in order to achieve the target of $5 trillion economy. The participants urged the government to focus on credit expansion, exports growth, governance of PSBs, increasing consumption and job creation.
The move followed after certain startups complained about facing harassment and the taxman breathing down their neck on the angel tax issue.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The politics of hate does not pay. The people are too sensible to fall for such a ruse, says Amulya Ganguli.
Revenue foregone on account of corporation tax exemptions is estimated to grow by 16 per cent in 2018-19 (FY19) versus 8.7 per cent in the previous year and 12 per cent in 2016-17, show the Budget documents.
Among the states due for election next year are AP, Haryana and Odisha, which have a fair share of agri credit. If these states individually announced debt relief, the combined waiver would be at least around Rs 600 bn to Rs 700 bn. Clearly, this will be a frightening challenge for Indian banks.
Scholars and students have cautioned that the proposed divisive and discriminatory changes would harm the country.
Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'The court has awarded me the capital punishment by wrongly holding that the case falls in the category of rarest of rare.'
Need of the hour is to spend to grow more, the study said.
The hits and misses of the week.
Government officials say a shareholding structure has been mandated to discourage non-serious bidders from accessing Air India's data room
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Gagan Narang, Jitu Rai and young Mehuli Ghosh failed to make the Indian shooting squad for the upcoming Asian Games, even as a few unheralded faces were picked for the quadrennial extravaganza, starting in Indonesia, from August 18.
'Genuine' share transfer gets relief; CBDT lists three scenarios where tax would be levied
'Our honourable CM is so shameless that she will say the state is among the safest for women.'
According to NSSO, more than half of India's working-age population is out of labour force. In 2017-18, the youth unemployment rate was in the range 13.6-27.2 per cent.
'After a longish time being on the defensive on the Muslim issue, Mamata found in the Centre's surgical strike just the kind of battle in which she specialises -- hand-to-hand combat.' 'Having routed the once formidable Marxists by her trademark, no-holds-barred belligerence, she is now ready to employ the same tactics against the BJP,' predicts Amulya Ganguli.
'If she contests it, then these people will have to fight it in court.'
Royal Challengers Bangalore will have rise to the occasion when they take on the already-eliminated Delhi Daredevil
A summary of Wednesday's play in Ranji Trophy matches across the country.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday "strongly disapproved" incidents of vandalism of statues in certain parts of the country and spoke to Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the matter.
'Rather than encouraging transparency, the opacity of electoral bonds adds to the murkiness,' argues Amit Tandon.
'The curtain is coming down on India's leadership role as a regional power even before the drama of the Asian Century truly began,' warns Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'The UP election results show that people voted not on caste and religion lines; they went above that and voted for development, honesty, pride in the country, etc.' 'If UP can show the way, the rest of the country also can follow.'
Varun Dhawan's winning streak at the box office continues.
'The government has given up its focus on economic growth because it it not something Modi has been able to fully understand.' 'This explains the extraordinary focus on divisive politics by the BJP even at a time when the world's most important man in visiting India,' notes Aakar Patel.
'If the chief minister says there are areas in her home state where she cannot enter, where has she driven the state to!'
Bankers said the SC verdict might prolong the resolution process and force lenders to bring back cases to the drawing board.
The home ministry said the West Bengal government is not cooperating with the central teams visiting the state to assess the ground situation and are specifically restraining them from interacting with health workers and touring the affected areas.
'How many Indian parents, still alive, really have documents of, their parents's date and place of birth? Not more than 27% of still alive Indians have got birth certificates,' points out Mohammad Sajjad.
Sitting atop the points table, Kolkata Knight Riders would look to consolidate their position when they clash with an equally confident Delhi Daredevils in what promises to be a thrilling IPL encounter, in New Delhi, on Monday.
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