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SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch has revealed her mantra: regulatory humility. “Markets today are so complex; any arrogant regulator is doomed to fail,” she said addressing an event in Mumbai, held by the Association of Mutual Funds of India this week. Obviously, she has seen how a ‘friendly neighbourhood regulator’ is the favourite of market players just as it is personally rewarding. She also tried to make light work of the allegations of conflict of interest against her, saying it only created unnecessary controversy.

KOLKATA: Tripura’s most prominent TIPRA Motha leader Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarman (ex-royal scion) and Chakma student outfits are in limelight following their successful protests to highlight atrocities against minorities and indigenous people in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh. The interesting part is that Debbarman himself leads from the front but he assigns the responsibility for organising solidarity rallies and other formats of agitation to Youth Tipra Federation (YTF) – TIPRA Motha’s young wing.

To strengthen India’s energy security and realise self-reliance under “Atmanirbhar Bharat” programme by replacing imported coal with domestically mined coal, India will increase its production from the provisional 997.25 million tonne (MT) in FY24 to 1.31BT in FY25 and 1.5BT inFY30.It has been planned to sustain rapidly expanding economy of the country and its ever rising energy requirement, though it has also committed itself to net-zero emission level by 2070.

West Africa, which had been largely under French colonial rule, never saw decolonisation of the sort that India did. For a start, the erstwhile French colonies’ currency continued to be linked to the French franc at a fixed exchange rate, which meant that they could not pursue any fiscal and monetary policy of their choice (for that would have threatened the fixed exchange rate). Not only were their foreign exchange reserves kept by France, as had been the case with colonial India where its gold reserves, acquired through enforced borrowing (since all its annual export surplus earnings were taken by Britain) had been kept in London; but France also effectively controlled their fiscal and monetary policy despite formal decolonisation. Control over their natural resources remained with metropolitan corporations.

In a move that has surprised corporate watchers, State Bank of India (SBI) will take a dual role in the debt restructuring of defaulter Supreme Infrastructure India Ltd (SIIL). This development marks an unprecedented step in India’s corporate debt resolution landscape, as the country’s largest public sector bank transitions from being SIIL’s primary creditor to becoming an equity stakeholder.

Does Congress general secretary (Organization) KC Venugopal know Himachal Pradesh more than Himachal Pradesh cabinet minister Vikramaditya Singh? For that matter, does Raebareli’s Congress MP Rahul Gandhi? Venugopal is Rahul Gandhi’s eyes and ears within the Congress framework but it would be naïve to believe he or Rahul Gandhi would have a better grasp of Himachal Pradesh matters than son-of-the-soil Vikramaditya Singh, who is Himachal Pradesh’s PWD minister and knows what the Wakf can do to landholding patterns in Himachal Pradesh if Muslims get to settle in big numbers in the hill-state.

In quick-paced developments, Myanmar’s ruling junta has invited the armed rebel groups to stop fighting and participate in political talks. “We invite ethnic armed groups, terrorist insurgent groups, and terrorist PDF groups which are fighting against the state to give up terrorist fighting and communicate with us to solve political problems politically,” the junta said in a statement.

Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar whom Rabindranath Tagore had hailed as the symbol of 'ajeya paurasha, akhanda manushyatva' meaning invincible manliness and indelible humanism was the tallest among the social reformers and educators in 19th century Bengal. His 71 year life from September 26, 1820 to July 27, 1891 was the story of an unparalleled journey for modernising the Bengali language, spreading the education to the lowest level of the population including the girls through the setting up of schools, colleges and institutions and simultaneously fighting for the social emancipation of the Bengali women, especially widows.

After unemployment rate in India officially reaching 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, which was 45 years high, PM Narendra Modi led government has been successful in reducing it to 3.2 per cent on paper by 2023-24 which wraps up increasingly disturbing level of labour market distortion in the country.

Everything about the Badlapur sexual assault case accused Akshay Shinde's encounter-killing is confusing except the reality that Akshay sexually assaulted two kindergarten kids in the school where he worked as a sweeper. Now, after he was killed in an encounter inside a moving police/prison van, there are questions about how could Akshay Shinde be killed in the closed confines of a moving van?