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Hindustan Times Ranchi
India's Palm Oil Imports Hit 14-Year Low as Rival Oils Gain
India's palm oil imports in January plunged to their lowest level in nearly 14 years as refiners replaced the tropical oil with cheaper rival soyoil because of negative refining margins for palm oil, five dealers said.
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February 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
China Strikes Back With Limited Tariffs After Trump's New Levies
As Trump's tariff took effect, China imposed a 15% levy on US coal and LNG, and 10% on crude oil, farm equipment, select trucks and sedans
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February 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Dehradun Admin Seizes ₹16-Crore Asset to Recover Mining Dues
In a crackdown on mining royalty defaulters, Dehradun district administration has seized an asset worth ₹16.21 crore near Ajabpur Khurd area, officials said.
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February 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Trade with Nepal via land custom station at Valmikinagar fails to yield desired result
Even a year after its establishment, the absence of a plant quarantine facility at the Nepal border, among other factors, has begun to hinder trade promotion between the two countries through the land customs station at the Valmikinagar border in Bihar's West Champaran district, officials said.
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February 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Budget promise on BITs calls for five key changes
In her budget speech, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced an important update regarding bilateral investment treaties (BITs). She stated, \"To encourage sustained foreign investment and in the spirit of 'first develop India,' the current model BIT will be revamped to be more investor-friendly.\" This declaration carries three significant messages.
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February 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Five Killed In 2 Separate Incidents In Patna
Five persons, including a woman, were murdered at two different places under separate police stations in Patna on Tuesday morning, police said.
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February 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Fall of High Mast Light on NH-23 Claims Two Lives
Two died while five sustained injuries after a high mast light installed near a toll plaza in Nagri on NH-23 came crashing down on an auto rickshaw in the afternoon on Tuesday.
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February 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Guj govt sets up panel to prepare draft bill for UCC
The BJP government in Gujarat on Tuesday formed a committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to assess the need for the Uniform Civil Code in the state, and also draft a bill for the same.
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February 05, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Sensex, Nifty Fall Amid Weak Global Cues on Trade War Fears
Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed lower on Monday tracking weak global markets amid concerns over US President Donald Trump imposing tariffs on some of its trading partners.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Factory Activity Growth Hits 6-Month High in Jan
India's factory activity started 2025 on a positive note, growing at the quickest pace in six months in January largely buoyed by resilient demand and strong output, a private survey showed on Monday, encouraging firms to hire at a record rate.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Trump to Cut Funding to South Africa Over Contentious Land Law
US President Donald Trump has said he will cut all funding to South Africa and has launched an investigation into the country's policies, claiming a \"massive\" human rights violation is happening over a new land expropriation law.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
19 Killed in Car Bomb Explosion in North Syria
A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city on Monday, killing at least 19 people, all but one of them women, and leaving more than a dozen wounded, hospital workers said.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Samra, Anthony Bag Gold at Natl Games
Punjab's Sift Kaur Samra and Karnataka's Jonathan Anthony secured gold medals in women's 50m 3 positions and men's 10m pistol events respectively at the ongoing 38th National Games here on Monday.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Govt to further relax rules for FDI in insurance sector
The government plans to further liberalize foreign investment rules for insurance companies by removing the condition that mandates the presence of Indian residents in the boards and top management of insurance entities, said top finance ministry officials.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Govt To Spend Less On Fertiliser Subsidy In FY26
India will reduce its fertiliser subsidy bill next year in a move that may help the government prune its budget deficit.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
JMM's unit seeks UCC, NRC and CAA rejection in state
The Santhal Parganas unit of the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has sought the rejection of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Uniform Civil Code (UCC), and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state, people aware of the development said on Monday.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Myanmar faces a fragmented future
Five years after the coup and a protracted civil war, the junta and pro-democracy rebels have failed to consolidate power
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Cracking the whip on AI-enabled child abuse
The dark side of Artificial Intelligence (AI) portends harm for children, a demography whose inchoate psychosocial and physiological development leaves them vulnerable even otherwise.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Consolidating I-T tailwinds
The tax base and its narrow geography need to expand for India's income tax rally to keep going
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
OpenAI Introduces 'Deep Research' Tool
US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called \"deep research\" that can produce detailed reports, as China's DeepSeek chatbot heats up competition in the artificial intelligence field.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Rubio Warns Panama Over Chinese Influence in Canal
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday threatened action against Panama without immediate changes to reduce Chinese influence on the canal, but the country's leader insisted he was not afraid of a US invasion and offered talks.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Marcus Rashford: Man Utd fallout ends in divorce
Marcus Rashford was once hailed as Manchester United's golden boy and the social conscience of the Premier League, but the misfiring forward leaves Old Trafford for Aston Villa with his reputation tarnished after a precipitous fall from grace.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
FIITJEE officials booked for fraud
Jharkhand Police has registered an FIR (first information report) against coaching institute FIITJEE under sections 316 and 318 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for allegedly duping crores of rupees from students in the name of providing academic guidance, an official close to the matter said on Monday.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Anurag Gupta Named J'Khand DGP: Notification
Anurag Gupta, a 1990-batch IPS officer serving as the acting Jharkhand director general of police (DGP), has been appointed as regular to the post, a notification issued by the home, prison, and disaster management department on Monday afternoon stated.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Drone Found Circling in Naxal-Hit Dumaria; 1 Held
Police and paramilitary forces in Maoist-affected Magadh zone are on high alert after recovery of a powerful spy drone that was found circling over Dumaria police station on Sunday night in Gaya district, police said on Monday.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Told Hrithik, if you'll sing that on screen, people might laugh
Lucky Ali; (inset) Singer Mohit Chauhan with Lucky at the Kathakar International Storytellers Festival
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
SC seeks forensic report on clips against Manipur CM
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) to submit a report on leaked audio tapes allegedly featuring Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh, in which he is purportedly heard saying that the ethnic violence in the state was instigated at his insistence.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Can the budget unlock labour market potential?
India's labour market has made notable strides in recent years, bolstered by a strong post-pandemic recovery and increased formalisation of employment.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
People Abroad Celebrate JMM Foundation Day
A group of people living in Dubai marked the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)'s 46th foundation day, on Sunday, expressing their desire to actively participate in the development of their home state under the leadership of chief minister (CM) Hemant Soren, people close to the development said on Sunday.
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February 04, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Rupee falls 55 paise to an all-time low of 87.17
India's forex reserves increase $5.574 bn to $629.557 bn in the week ended Jan 24
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