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Communist Party of China to amend the state constitution to remove term limits for the President of the state. Lack of reforms and not Xi's unshackled power will be responsible for the gap between India and China.

Xi as Prez for life: As China gets assertive, India must focus on reforms

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 19: Real-time payments boosted India's GDP by $50 billion in 2023, making it the world's largest market in terms of GDP growth, according to the Real-Time Payments: Economic Impact and Financial Inclusion report published by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, in collaboration with The Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr). This is equivalent to the output of approximately 6.8 million workers. India is one of the top three countries globally for financial inclusion uplift.

Real-Time Payments Projected to Boost India GDP by $76.5 Billion, Bring Banking Access to 25.5 Million Indians by 2028 - ACI Worldwide Report

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 19: Universal Sompo and Sompo Care have been successfully making collaborative efforts at enhancing health and wellbeing across borders, in alignment with the Skill India Mission. The project under this collaboration is being implemented throughout 2024 and will continue through 2025. This project involves providing Indian nursing care personnel with nine months of comprehensive training in India. Upon completion of the training and the acquisition of a residence status as a specified skilled worker in Japan, these professionals can work as full-time employees at Sompo Care facilities in Japan.

Universal Sompo General Insurance and Sompo Care Inc Partner to Drive Global Health Initiatives

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 19: Firstsource Solutions Limited (NSE: FSL) (BSE: 532809), a leading global provider of specialist domain-led Business Process Services (BPS) and an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, has been recognized as a 'Leader' in Avasant'sMortgage Business Process Transformation 2024 RadarView™. Companies classified as 'Leaders' demonstrate consistent excellence across all key dimensions of the RadarView assessment--practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments in innovation--while driving superior marketplace impact, setting industry standards through creativity, thought leadership, and best practices, and showcasing exceptional execution with depth and breadth across verticals.

Firstsource recognized as a \'Leader\' in Avasant\'s Mortgage Business Process Transformation 2024 RadarView™

Virat Kohli was involved in a heated discussion with Australian media at the Melbourne Airport ahead of the boxing day test. He was unhappy with the cameraman filming his children

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Delhi polls: The 2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections for all 70 constituencies are likely to take place by February 2025

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Markets Today LIVE: Markets in India are likely to come under heavy pressure on Thursday, following the significant decline on Wall Street after the US Fed's hawkish commentary about future rate cuts

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The key benchmarks - Sensex, Nifty faced another bear attack on Thursday, with the BSE Sensex crashing 1,162 points or 1.44 per cent to its intraday low of 79020

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Fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya questions excess recovery claims, seeks relief from authorities

Indian businessman Vijay Mallya leaves the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Britain February 11, 2020. (REUTERS/File Photo)

Analysts believe the largely expected adjustment is a bid by the Fed to nudge cash out of a facility that's widely viewed as a proxy for excessive liquidity in the financial system

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Dhaka has been behind on payments to Adani Power since supply started in July 2023

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A decline in the yuan and elevated US bond yields had weighed on the rupee through the session and the currency declined further after the trade data was released

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The latest promo shows Vivian confronting his close friends Avinash Mishra and Eisha Singh. He ends his friendship with Karan Veer and nominates him and Shilpa

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New Zealand is reviewing the visa's investment requirements, with announcements by immigration minister Erica Stanford expected soon

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NSA Ajit Doval is expected to visit Beijing soon to represent India at the Special Representatives dialogue with Chinese FM Wang Yi on the India-China boundary after nearly five years

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On Vijay Diwas, PM Modi honoured Indian soldiers whose sacrifices secured victory against Pakistan in the 1971 war, leading to the liberation of Bangladesh

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Allahabad High Court judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav, who purportedly gave controversial statements at a Vishwa Hindu Parishad function, appeared before the Supreme Court collegium on Tuesday, sources said.
According to the sources, Yadav appeared before the collegium headed by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and was asked to put forth his version on the statements made.
The top court on December 10 took note of news reports over the statements and sought a report from the Allahabad High Court on the issue.
"The Supreme Court has taken note of newspaper reports of a speech given by Mr Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav, a sitting judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad. The details and particulars have been called from the high court and the matter is under consideration," an official statement had said.
According to the established norm, a judge, against whom a report is sought by the apex court collegium on any controversial issue from the high court concerned, is given opportunity to 

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The shift will comprise women employees for all the mining activities of the shift, including heavy earth-moving machinery

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The policies of the first decade-and-a half of planned development are better characterised as Nehruvian Humanism

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To counter China's trade dominance and boost US manufacturing and jobs, a strategy beyond high tariffs is essential

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