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Inside Dharwad's blue dot experiment
Dharwad's paradox: The district has over 3,100 MSMEs, generating 8,000-10,000 fresher openings a year. About 2,000 students pass out ifITIs annually. And yet, MSMEs report shortages, while placement rates for youth remain south of 25-30%. The gap isn't supply or demand. It's visibility and trust.
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October 06, 2025
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India to restart trade talks with Chile, Peru
The next round of negotiations between India and two South American countries, Chile and Peru, will be held in October and November, respectively, an official said.
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October 06, 2025
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Tata Steel capacity target faces analysts’ scepticism
Beyond Kalinganagar and NINL, company has no announced plans to meet 40mtpa target
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October 06, 2025
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Letting kids ask questions is a step to creating leaders
To teach children to question, think and work out answers will raise a generation of inventors rather than followers
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October 06, 2025
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Japan braces for shift to right under 'Iron Lady' fan Takaichi
Sanae Takaichi, the prostimulus conservative poised to become Japan's first female prime minister, is an energetic nationalist with a soft spot for the hard-nosed politics of Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher and the heavy metal music of Iron Maiden.
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October 06, 2025
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Tata Capital IPO: Safe bet or risky play on NBFC margins?
Investors must weigh brand strength, scale against concerns around profitability, asset quality
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October 06, 2025
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Vedanta to ramp up aluminium capacity
Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Ltd plans to pump in ₹13,226 crore to ramp up its aluminium capacity to 3.1 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) by FY28, people said.
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October 06, 2025
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India, EU to resume talks for trade pact today
Senior officials of India and the 27-nation European Union (EU) will start the next round of talks for a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) on Monday in Brussels to iron out differences on issues for early conclusion of the negotiations, an official said.
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October 06, 2025
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India, Australia to ink 3 deals this week
Defence minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a two-day visit to Australia beginning Thursday to explore \"new and meaningful\" initiatives to further expand bilateral defence and strategic ties.
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October 06, 2025
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Goyal to visit Qatar for FTA discussions
Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal will visit Doha from 6-7 October to co-chair the first meeting of the India-Qatar Joint Commission on Trade and Commerce with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Faisal bin Thani bin Faisal Al Thani in a bid to expand trade and cooperation with the Gulf region.
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October 06, 2025
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AI won't save dying languages but community efforts might
AI tools are letting down people who use less popular languages
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October 06, 2025
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BSNL 4G towers to be upgraded to 5G in 6-8 months: Scindia
The indigenously developed 4G network of Bharat Sanchar Nigam ltd (BSNL) will be upgraded to 5G in the next six-eight months, telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Sunday.
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October 06, 2025
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India's electronics plan needs greater ambition
The government's subsidy scheme for component making aims at a bigger slice of the global manufacturing pie but it's better to invest in frontier advances that will help us leap ahead
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October 06, 2025
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Augmented-reality creators are out-earning IIT grads
A new class of digital creators is out-earning top graduates of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) using a relatively basic set of skills.
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October 06, 2025
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Jane Goodall and our search for ourselves in animals
Not very long ago, humans saw themselves as special animals because they could use tools.
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October 06, 2025
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Foreign car firms weigh recovery plans
Despite the grand plans, experts are sceptical of how sustainably cos can invest at a time of global turbulence
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October 06, 2025
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Europe’s AI startups look stateside for bigger checks, quicker deals
Within a week of landing in San Francisco, Brandon Abreu Smith had something that had eluded him for months in London: $500,000 in pre-seed funding for his artificial intelligence-based workflow startup, Structured AI.
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October 06, 2025
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'Premium shift to drive Snapdragon 8 chipset adoption'
Chipset major Qualcomm expects the shift in the Indian market towards the premium device segment will drive adoption of the company's latest and premium smartphone processor Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in the country.
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October 06, 2025
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MALHOTRA: VALUING SERVICE ABOVE SELF
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra, who died recently, led a life of relentless hard work, determination and service.
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October 06, 2025
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A simple tip to grow at work: Ask for it
The ‘confidence gap’ is not about competence. Women underestimate their abilities and overestimate the risks of stepping into leadership
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October 06, 2025
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Public procurement from small biz soars
The Centre's procurement from MSEs on the GeM portal in the first half of FY26 totalled about ₹1 trillion
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October 06, 2025
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Portal for assistive devices proposed
The Centre has proposed setting up an online Assistive Technology Portal for certification, procurement, tracking, distribution, and grievance monitoring as part of the draft rules to regulate standards and accessibility of assistive devices for persons with disabilities (PWDs).
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October 06, 2025
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Russia remains top oil supplier to India
India's crude oil imports from Russia saw a marginal fall in September but still accounted for over one-third of the nation's total oil purchases, despite US pressure to curb the trade over Russia-Ukraine war concerns.
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October 06, 2025
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India targets safer, globally accepted medical devices
Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission will create standards for medical devices for the first time
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October 06, 2025
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Fourth-gen heir’s bold bioplastics bet over sugar
As Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd (BCML), a 50-year-old sugar producer in Uttar Pradesh, builds its first bioplastic plant, the company’s fourth-generation promoter already has ideas on how to further diversify beyond its sugar and ethanol business.
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October 04, 2025
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FM, RBI guv see India as global anchor amid flux
Local consumption, strong fundamentals position India as stabilizing global force
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October 04, 2025
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How the Trump administration learned to love foreign aid
Nobody expected President Donald Trump to save a country from financial crisis. Yet on October 14th he will meet Javier Milei, Argentina's president and an ideological ally, to discuss the details of a rescue package.
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October 04, 2025
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Margin trades soar amid weak returns
Retail investors borrowing money from brokers to buy shares have been doubling down on some of India's worst-performing blue chips, in the hope that these stocks will bounce back despite steep declines over the past year.
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October 04, 2025
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Lawyers keep close eye on first class action lawsuit
Law firms are closely watching the case of minority shareholders of Jindal Poly Films against promoters Shyam Sunder Jindal and Subhadra Jindal over an alleged “siphoning of assets” of more than ₹2,500 crore—the first corporate class action suit in India under a provision of the Companies Act that has never been used before.
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October 04, 2025
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India faces WTO scrutiny over import curbs, quality control
India has come under fresh scrutiny at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over its import restrictions and quality control orders, with several members questioning if New Delhi's measures related to pulses, tyres and air conditioners constituted trade barriers.
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