Lucknow: Samajwadi Party emerged victorious in byelection to the post of Mahmoodabad nagar palika parishad chairperson while the BJP registered a resounding victory in Misrikh Naimish nagar palika parishad on Wednesday. SP’s official candidate Aamir Arfat clinched the chairman seat by a narrow margin. He secured 8,906 votes, edging past independent candidate Atul Kumar Verma,…
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NEW DELHI: The commerce and finance ministries are in dialogue for the Rs 2,250 crore export promotion mission, with the Expenditure Finance Committee expected to take it up soon, an official said on Wednesday.The mission was part of budget announcements but has gathered urgency in the wake of the possible adverse impact of US tariffs…
MUMBAI: An RBI panel examining the responsible use of AI in finance has urged regulators to adopt a “tolerant supervisory stance” towards mistakes made by AI systems. The idea is to allow institutions some leeway for first-time errors if they have adequate safety measures in place. The aim, the panel argues, is to encourage innovation…
Lucknow: The UP Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has intensified its crackdown on financial crime, arresting five accused in two cases — one involving misappropriation of minority pre-matric scholarship funds in Meerut and the other related to Rs17.51 crore construction scam in Bahraich. The EOW arrested Abdul Rahman, principal of Madrassa Khadijatul Kubra Lil Banat in…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (AP photo) US treasury secretary Scott Bessent made his most explicit call yet for the Federal Reserve to execute a cycle of interest-rate cuts, suggesting the central bank’s benchmark ought to be at least 1.5 percentage points lower than it is now.“I think we could go into a series of…
Lucknow: Senior IPS officer Ajay Kumar Sahni, who led 52 encounters, was on Wednesday named for the President’s Medal for Gallantry this year. This is the third President’s Medal of his career.A 2009-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre officer, Sahni is known as an ‘encounter specialist’ in the police force. He was picked for the award for…
Lucknow: UP BJP state general secretary (organisation) Dharampal Singh on Wednesday said every worker of the party is the backbone of the organisation and their work at the booth level is the strength of the BJP.He said this during an interaction with regional office bearers of the Scheduled Caste Morcha in Aligarh and GB Nagar…
Representative image (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: The number of days taken for finalisation of the insolvency resolution plan has dropped from 752 days at the end of the March quarter to 694 days at the end of June, but remains significantly higher than the prescribed 180 days, which can be extended by another 90.According to…
Lucknow: Police arrested two men accused of gang-raping a 21-year-old mentally challenged deaf-mute woman after an exchange of fire with them in Balrampur district while they were trying to flee to Nepal early Wednesday.Harshit Kumar Pandey (23) sustained a bullet injury in his right leg during the encounter, while another accused, Ankur Verma (24), fractured…
