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Amid the escalating West Asia crisis, the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is beginning to ripple through India’s real estate sector, sharply increasing construction costs, delaying supplies

HDFC Bank chairman resigns, stock tumbles
HDFC Bank’s part-time chairman, Atanu Chakraborty, resigned abruptly, citing differences over the bank’s governance and his ethics. The stock fell nearly 7%

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Israel acted alone against Iran's gas compound, Trump asked us to hold off on future attacks and we're holding that: Netanyahu

Israel did promise to avoid further attacks on Iran's South Pars gasfield the day after an Iranian retaliatory strike on Qatar caused damage

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Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 20: The Indian Foundation for Quality Management (IFQM) convened its first MSME Symposium at Anna University, Chennai, bringing together over 250 MSME CEOs, CPOs and CEOs of large companies, quality experts, and academic leaders to deliberate on making India's Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) globally competitive and export-capable. The symposium, themed - India Needs... A Resurgent MSME Sector - called for a 'national quality sprint' to integrate with the global value chains. 

IFQM\'S First MSME Symposium Calls For A \'National Quality Sprint\' To Integrate With Global Value Chains

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The Trump administration has sued Harvard, alleging civil rights violations over antisemitism and seeking to recover billions in federal funding

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Israeli jets' bombing of Iran's South Pars field and associated infrastructure on Wednesday prompted a fresh wave of Iranian strikes against oil and gas works across the region

Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin, Netanyahu, Israel PM

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HDFC Bank spent Thursday trying to explain why Chakraborty, a former senior bureaucrat in PM Narendra Modi's administration, left after almost five years as part-time chairman of the lender

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Israel killed two senior Iranian security officials in a major blow to the Islamic Republic's leadership as it faces its greatest test in decades, and Iran responded Wednesday with renewed missile and drone attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors and Israel.
Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, was considered one of the most powerful figures in the country since Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an airstrike on the first day of the war. Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani was the head of the Revolutionary Guard's all-volunteer Basij.
Iran confirmed the killings of both men, who were key to Iran's violent crackdown on protests in January that challenged the theocracy's 47-year rule.
Iran launched a barrage of missiles toward Israel on Wednesday as sirens sounded across central Israel and loud booms were heard in Tel Aviv. Israel's medical service, Magen David Adom, said two people were killed in Ramat Gan, a district east of Tel Aviv.
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UAE, Iran war

Mocking again with a "I am alive" video, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to continue to kill more Iranian leaders named on his "punch card".
Earlier on Tuesday, Netanyahu claimedto have eliminated Iranian leader Ali Larijani, the Secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council and Basij force CommanderGholamreza Soleimani.
There was no word from the Iranian government on the fate of the two senior officers.
Larijani had effectively evolved as the in-charge of Iran's war management following the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by Israel on February 28 in the opening strike of the war, which is now in its eighteenth day.
Continuing with his series of videos debunking rumours of his death, the Israeli Prime Minister posted yet another one on the social media platform X from his personal account while meeting US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
Huckabee, in the video, tells Netanyahu that the US President Donald Trump has asked him to "

To secure supplies, 13 tankers carrying around 3.5 lakh tonnes of LPG are currently headed from the US to India

Brent crude, crude oil

The US hasn't been targeting Iran's energy assets in the war, he said. With regard to Kharg Island, a key Iranian export hub, it mounted a "precision strike" against the military assets

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India built crude reserves for energy security but LPG was never treated the same way even as demand surged. Experts explain what held back storage planning

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