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Permission for Mekedatu project delayed due to political reasons: DK Shivkumar

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday said that the Mekedatu project, which seeks to store surplus water, offers more benefits to Tamil Nadu. He emphasised that the project had not received permission due to political reasons but expressed hope that the courts would provide justice soon. The Deputy Chief Minister also addressed the issue of surplus water flowing …

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River interlinking, the fount of environmental disaster

The Hindu

On December 25, 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Ken-Betwa River Link Project, which aims to solve the water scarcity in the Bundelkhand region that covers parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Initially termed the ‘National Water Grid’, this concept re-emerged as the ‘River-Interlinking Project’ from the Ministry of Water Resources to transfer surplus …

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2 days, 19 hours ago

Tiruchi records surplus rainfall in 2024

The Hindu

After the deficit rainfall in 2023, the Tiruchi district has surpassed the average rainfall in 2024. As per the records available with the agriculture department, the district has recorded 848.45 mm against the average rainfall of 788 mm. As against 427.37 mm of normal rainfall during the northeast monsoon from October to December, the district recorded 485.6 mm, which is …

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3 days, 21 hours ago

A flailing economy has left the EU exposed to Trumpian outbursts

Live Mint

Given the plethora of crises the European Union has faced in the past 15 years or so—from the euro-zone miasma to those on migration, Brexit, the pandemic, then the war in Ukraine and an ensuing energy-price spike—it can be hard to know when one emergency ended and the next began. At the start of the week—as long ago as it …

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Fountain Grains & Greens' Sauerkraut and Beet-Stem Salad

LA Times

Chef-owner Aric Attebery highlights the freshest produce of the season at his East Hollywood restaurant Fountain Grains & Greens, which specializes in grain bowls and salads made with farmers market ingredients. His bright, lightly tart sauerkraut captures one of his favorite ingredients: Cone cabbages grown locally in fields flourish in cold temperatures and yield a slightly sweet flavor. A standard …

1 week, 2 days ago

CM Siddaramaiah’s focus on getting revenue deficit grants for 2025-26 budget

New Indian Express

BENGALURU: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who is all set to start department-wise review meetings for the 2025-26 budget, is likely to chalk out a plan meticulously to draw the attention of the 16th Finance Commission to get revenue deficit grants from the Centre. Sources told TNIE that he may not stick to presenting a surplus budget, but would showcase the gap …

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1 week, 3 days ago

India’s Fiscal Deficit Stands at Rs 8.5 Lakh Cr, 52.5 PC of Budget Target

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: Crossing the halfway mark in the first eight months of the year, India’s fiscal deficit stood at Rs 8.5 lakh crore or 52.5 percent of the Budget target. “Net tax receipts for the first eight months of the current financial year were at Rs 14.43 lakh crore, or 56 per cent of the annual target, compared with Rs …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Post-Christmas food waste is a scandal – but fault doesn’t just lie with supermarkets

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But while food waste is a …

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2 weeks ago

India’s CAD likely to exceed 2 pc of GDP in Q3 FY25 amid gold import surge: Report

Live Mint

New Delhi, December 28 : India's Current Account Deficit is expected to rise above 2 per cent of GDP in the third quarter of FY25, driven by a surge in gold imports, according to a report by Bank of Baroda. However, resilient services exports and remittance inflows are likely to cushion the overall impact, keeping the CAD for FY25 within …

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2 weeks ago

China's external financial assets top $10 t

China Daily

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-12-28 12:49 A clerk counts yuan bank notes and US dollar bills at a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Huaibei, East China's Anhui province. BEIJING - China's external financial assets stood at $10.21 trillion at the end of September, official data showed on Friday. The external financial liabilities stood at over $7.03 …

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Is Too Good To Go too good to be true? Customers say anti-food waste app has become a 'rip off' with restaurants serving 'tiny portions' of 'mouldy food'

Daily Mail

An increasing number of customers are ditching the food waste app When it was launched in 2015, Too Good to Go looked set to revolutionise the food industry. But now customers are complaining of mouldy food Customers have taken to TikTok share pictures and clips of their food going out of date Others have said they've been given their 'worst …

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Services exports save the day for India’s current account deficit in September quarter

Live Mint

Mumbai: A rise in services exports helped narrow India's current account deficit in the September quarter, although this marked the second consecutive quarterly deficit after hitting a surplus in the final three months of FY24. In the three months prior to that—the fourth quarter of 2023-24 —India had registered its first current account surplus in about four years due to …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Ministers pledge £15m towards tackling food waste and feeding communities

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Charities have welcomed the government’s pledge to put £15m towards delivering …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

'A real cesspool': Watchdogs aghast by CEOs trying to 'curry favor' with Trump

Raw Story

Top business leaders and their companies have been trying to "curry favor" with Donald Trump by showering cash on his inaugural committee, according to government watchdogs. The committee has already landed reported $1 million planned donations from Jeff Bezos' Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta and OpenAI's Sam Altman, as well as $2 million from Robinhood Markets and $1 million each from …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

MP: PM Modi to launch Ken-Betwa River link project today in Khajuraho | Know all about it

India TV News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the Ken-Betwa River Linking Project on December 25 in Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh. Ken-Betwa project highlights With an estimated cost of Rs 44,605 crore, the project involves building a 77-meter-high, 2.13-kilometer-long Daudhan Dam on the Ken River within the Panna Tiger Reserve. The project will provide an annual irrigation facility in …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Surplus rain helps raise Chennai’s groundwater table: analysis

The Hindu

There has been a steady rise in groundwater level in Chennai since June owing to surplus rainfall both during southwest monsoon and ongoing northeast monsoon, according to an analysis by Chennai Rains, a weather blogging site. K. Srikanth, weather blogger, Chennai Rains said, “We digressed from weather analysis to Chennai’s water table to check the groundwater saturation level and flood …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Copper prices edge up in thinning trade after last week’s tumble

Live Mint

By Polina Devitt LONDON, Dec 23 - Copper prices edged higher in London on Monday as they recovered to recent technical averages from last week's fall, although dwindling pre-Christmas liquidity kept them in a tight range. Adding further pressure, the International Copper Study Group said on Friday that the global refined copper market was in a 287,000 metric ton surplus …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Oil prices ease on surplus concerns, dollar strength

Live Mint

By Nicole Jao NEW YORK -Oil prices edged lower on Monday in thin trade ahead of the Christmas holiday on concerns about a supply surplus next year and a strengthened dollar. Macquarie analysts projected a growing supply surplus for next year, which will hold Brent prices to an average of $70.50 a barrel, down from this year's average of $79.64, …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Rupee at 85 to a Dollar: Sinking Towards 100?

The Quint

India has indeed developed a strong export franchise in not only IT services but also in setting up global capability centers that employ over 1.5 million talented Indians for highly productive use. India, in contrast to its merchandise counterpart, import much less of services, and generate good surplus despite Indians’ itch to travel abroad and seek overseas education. India exported …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti says state is 'envy of the nation' with $3.1B budget surplus

ABC

Western Australia has a "strong economy" that's the "envy of the nation" with greater surpluses and less debt than forecasted, a review of its budget has revealed. "At a time when more Western Australians are falling into financial hardship and seeing their standard of living deteriorate, the state government needs to be delivering meaningful, targeted cost-of-living relief measures," Ms Giolitto …

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3 weeks ago

Faber seeks cooperation to address asylum housing shortfall

NL Times

The Dutch government is working to resolve a housing shortfall for asylum seekers after municipalities failed to meet targets set by the controversial spreidingswet. The law mandates the creation of 96,000 housing spaces, but only 90,000 have been secured, according to Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber. The spreidingswet, enacted to distribute asylum housing obligations fairly across municipalities, allows the minister to …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Mint Primer: How India’s trade gap soared, and how it might hurt

Live Mint

India’s gold imports jumped fourfold to nearly $15 billion in November, powering a 27% surge in goods imports. Prominent drivers of the trade deficit were higher gold imports and falling realizations from petroleum exports. Gold imports touched $14.86 billion, a fourfold increase from $3.44 billion in November 2023, driven by higher volumes, likely fuelled by festive and wedding season demand. …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

A ‘pro-America’ India could help New Delhi win over Trump

CNN

CNN — United States President-elect Donald Trump is staying true to his self-given moniker of “tariff man.” This time, he’s taking aim at some of the world’s fastest-growing major economies in the weeks before his inauguration. Like other countries, India has been targeted by Trump, who called New Delhi a “very big abuser” of the bilateral trading relationship during a …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

BRS slams Congress over financial mismanagement allegations in Telangana

The Hindu

BRS MLA and former Finance Minister T. Harish Rao has strongly countered the Congress government’s allegations of financial mismanagement during their tenure. However, Congress allegedly misattributed ₹87,000 crore of inherited debt from the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh to the BRS era and falsely claimed additional borrowings of ₹99,385 crore under BRS rule. Mr. Harish Rao dismissed Congress’s assertion of ₹6.71 lakh …

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Permission for Mekedatu project delayed due to political reasons: DK Shivkumar

River interlinking, the fount of environmental disaster

Tiruchi records surplus rainfall in 2024

A flailing economy has left the EU exposed to Trumpian outbursts

Fountain Grains & Greens' Sauerkraut and Beet-Stem Salad

CM Siddaramaiah’s focus on getting revenue deficit grants for 2025-26 budget

India’s Fiscal Deficit Stands at Rs 8.5 Lakh Cr, 52.5 PC of Budget Target

Post-Christmas food waste is a scandal – but fault doesn’t just lie with supermarkets

India’s CAD likely to exceed 2 pc of GDP in Q3 FY25 amid gold import surge: Report

China's external financial assets top $10 t

Is Too Good To Go too good to be true? Customers say anti-food waste app has become a 'rip off' with restaurants serving 'tiny portions' of 'mouldy food'

Services exports save the day for India’s current account deficit in September quarter

Ministers pledge £15m towards tackling food waste and feeding communities

'A real cesspool': Watchdogs aghast by CEOs trying to 'curry favor' with Trump

MP: PM Modi to launch Ken-Betwa River link project today in Khajuraho | Know all about it

Surplus rain helps raise Chennai’s groundwater table: analysis

Copper prices edge up in thinning trade after last week’s tumble

Oil prices ease on surplus concerns, dollar strength

Rupee at 85 to a Dollar: Sinking Towards 100?

WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti says state is 'envy of the nation' with $3.1B budget surplus

Faber seeks cooperation to address asylum housing shortfall

Mint Primer: How India’s trade gap soared, and how it might hurt

A ‘pro-America’ India could help New Delhi win over Trump

BRS slams Congress over financial mismanagement allegations in Telangana