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The SEBI Board raised the monetary threshold to define large corporates, and removed the penalty for not meeting the mandate of raising at least 25 per cent of incremental borrowings for a financial year through the capital markets. It also decided to introduce incentives and moderated disincentives.A media statement released after the SEBI Board meeting stated, “With the view to facilitate ease of compliance and ease of doing business, the Board also decided to retain the requirement that compliance with the framework will be met over a contiguous block of three years. Further, it has been decided to dispense with…

With no member voting against the Bill, it received a total of 215 votes in the Upper House.Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also present in the Rajya Sabha during the voting.Earlier, on Thursday evening, he had requested the Rajya Sabha MPs to pass the Women’s Reservation Bill unanimously.PM Modi on Thursday thanked all the members of Lok Sabha for their participation in the discussion and passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill on September 20.Speaking just after the commencement of the day’s proceedings, the Prime Minister said that the passage of the bill was a golden day in the history of…

Interacting with media persons in Rajgir, he said that elected MPs of Lok Sabha will choose the prime minister. Yechury had come to Rajgir to participate in the three days training session of the CPI-M. “We have an alliance INDIA but the Prime Ministerial candidate is not selected yet. It will be chosen post Lok Sabha election and the elected MPs will choose the PM candidate of INDIA alliance,” he said. “We will have an alliance in some states but some states are also where no alliance will take place,” he said. On Wednesday, Yechury came to Patna and met…

“It has made it clear that Delhi Assembly Research Fellows will continue to serve their posts. LG is arbitrarily misusing his powers. Delhi will not be run by those who coerce and misuse their powers. And the fact that LG had expelled the fellows by going against the laws. All of this was a part of his ongoing campaign to stop all the work being done in the interest of Delhi’s citizens,” it said. The contracts of the Delhi Assembly Research Fellows were terminated on July 5, as per the orders of the Lt Governor V.K. Saxena. Subsequently, 17 Fellows…

Buriram (Thailand), Sep 21 (IANS) India succumbed to their second defeat in as many matches in Group A of the AFC U17 Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers Round 2, losing 0-3 to host Thailand, here on Thursday.The U-17 women had earlier suffered a similar fate at the hands of defending champions Korea Republic (0-8).The hosts were on the front foot from the very start and took the lead just beyond the quarter hour mark through a penalty by captain Rinyaphat Moondong, after Madison Jade Casteen hit the woodwork.It took Thailand just a couple of minutes more to double their lead, when…

He said he wished to address the audience in Urdu as he witnessed a lack of proficiency in language usage and customs, which troubled him. “My customs, firmly rooted in the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna, are purely and solely Hindustani. As much as they are Hindi, they are Urdu, and just as much, they are Braj Bhasha or Awadhi. I believe that our Hindustani languages are sufficient to give voice to our nation, and we should not need Western or Eastern languages for communication,” he said. “I would like to mention the coincidence that made me a devotee…

Bombay High Court Justice Gautam S. Patel will be the chief guest for the event while IBF executive committee member and leading banker Deepak Parekh. A legendary IPS officer of the 1953 batch, Ribeiro, 94, was the Mumbai Commissioner of Police (1982-1986), and also served as the Director-General of CRPF (1973-1979). He was appointed the Director General of Police of Punjab at the height of the extremism there and also Gujarat, besides holding the post Special Secretary in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. Post-retirement, he was appointed India’s Ambassador to Romania (1989-1993), when he survived an assassination attempt in…

Addressing a Parivartan Yatra rally at the Nayapura Stadium in Kota on Thursday afternoon, Sarma said: “Had an incident like Kanhaiya Lal’s murder happened in Assam, I would have settled the score within 10 minutes. Within a few minutes, news of another incident would have been aired on TV. But people like Ashok Gehlot are only sitting on their chair, doing nothing.”Lal, a tailor by profession, was brutally hacked to death in Udaipur in June 2022, for allegedly insulting Islam. The NIA had filed a charge sheet against 11 accused persons in the case in December last year.The gruesome killing…

According to a report in Reuters, citing sources, the electric car-maker proposed supporting the country’s battery storage capabilities with its “Powerwall” during recent meetings. Powerwall is an integrated battery system that stores solar energy for backup protection when the grid goes down. The system detects outages, powers your home and electric vehicle with backup energy and automatically recharges with sunlight to keep appliances running for days. The government may help Tesla create a “fair business model for the company by offering subsidies to those purchasing such products”, the report mentioned. According to Tesla, Powerwall is a compact home battery that…

Two men were killed in the blast on Wednesday at a factory which grind empty plastic cigarette lighters into pieces. The deceased were identified as Harveer, Ashok and Bhanu Pratap, all residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Etah. The official said that Bhanu Pratap was in critical condition due to approx 60 per cent burn and he had died on Wednesday night while being transferred from MV Hospital to Safdarjung Hospital. According to police, a police control room call was received at Bawana police station at 4.43 p.m on Wednesday regarding a fire at a factory in O-Block, Sector-3, Bawana and that…