With rising incomes, education, and health awareness in India, especially in the big cities, droves of people are saying no to sugar.
The precious metal spurted by Rs 270 at Rs 15,700 per 10 gram, a level last seen on February 18.
Is it surprising that the favourite food of our manic Mumbai city has achieved a world rank?
Two-time chief minister and five-time MLA Janata Dal-Secular leader H D Kumaraswamy has once again demonstrated his political acumen by bagging a seat in the union council of ministers, despite his party joining the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance just last year.
'Is the Agniveer scheme or their post-retirement re-employment in paramilitary forces or in the state governments the BJP's answer to the crying need on the job front?' 'Or, even Finance Minister Sitharaman's one-year internship scheme in the public and private sector, is it a permanent solution, either?', asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
'There are legions of unemployed degree holders across rural and semi-urban belts in Maharashtra. Now, they aren't finding brides.' 'This issue has now snowballed into a social crisis. In 2014 and 2019, they had voted for the BJP.'
'The BJP alliance needs to handle the Maratha quota issue skilfully and address its root cause, which is agrarian distress. Then there is stalled industrialisation. If these issues are addressed, caste fault lines would wither away. But, this is next to impossible in a short span of three-four months.'
Selling gathered momentum as gold dropped in global markets before a report that may show US employers added more jobs last month, reducing the appeal of bullion as a haven, traders said.
The directorate said money was hidden inside books and greeting cards and could not have been easily detected by X-ray machines. The incident came to light after ED officials, acting on a tip-off, searched the regional office of the courier service in Naraina in Delhi.
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The situation in the district worsened on Friday with the flames reaching the high court colony in the Pines area.
'Currently, our individual first premium would be in the Rs 3,000-Rs 3,200 crore range. We want to take that to about Rs 6,000 crore in three years.'
High drama was witnessed during the Himachal Pradesh Cabinet meeting on Saturday with ministers Jagat Negi and Rohit Thakur leaving midway following a 'heated debate' over policy decisions, sources said.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Centre's decision to confer Bharat Ratna on his political mentor Karpoori Thakur.
Hours after taking a 'U-turn' by informing the high court that it is withdrawing its notification dissolving all gram panchayats in the state, the Punjab government suspended two senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers on Thursday for a 'technically-flawed' decision.
Gold price declined Rs 305 to Rs 56,035 per 10 grams in the national capital on Thursday amid a fall in rates of precious metal in the overseas markets, according to HDFC Securities. The yellow metal had settled at Rs 56,340 per 10 grams in the previous trade. Silver also plummeted Rs 805 to Rs 65,095 per kg.
The upsurge was further supported by a firming global trend.
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A marriage of stuffed eggplant or brinjal and South Indian-flavoured rice has a new outcome.
You don't prep for 2028 but for 2040, or even 2044. Sustained sporting excellence is based on mass support, grassroots development, and funding - and it is this trifecta India needs to work on, systematically, asserts Prem Panicker.
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Traders attributed the rise in prices to higher demand of precious metals for the coming festivals like Rakshabandhan compared with supply, which has tightened because of fall in imports following government measures.
'It is the best avenue for investors who would like to take long-term exposure to gold.'
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Of the 20,831 voters in this assembly constituency, an overwhelming majority of around 18,000 are not tribals.
It's the Maharashtrian version of kadhi pakoras.
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology-Palakkad (IIT-Palakkad) have introduced a pioneering method of generating renewable energy from human urine.
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Along with the Russian nationals, local citizen Akash has also been arrested, the official said, adding that further investigation was on.
Gold is an excellent asset class for diversification and should be included in all long-term portfolios.
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Jarange had also claimed that a poisoning attempt was made against him through saline, though he did not elaborate on it.
'Gold prices thrive on volatility and more so when the stock markets trend downward.'
A delicious fast, no-fuss one-pot dinner.
The worker said there was a natural source of water in the tunnel but they had no clothes to change.
The Special Investigation Agency (SIA) has arrested two more persons, including a policeman, for allegedly being part of a cross-border narcotic syndicate involved in terror funding in Jammu, officials said on Wednesday.
A TMC worker, identified as 52-year-old Jiyarul Molla, was shot dead in Phulmalancha area in Basanti in South 24 Parganas district late on Saturday night while he was returning home, a police officer said.
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