Новости за 02.12.2019

Delhi government on Sunday recommended that the mercy petition of the 2012 Nirbhaya murder case convict, Vinay Sharma, be “rejected” and “exemplary punishment” given to “deter” others from committing such “atrocious” crimes.

On the CAB, the opposition is hoping that its controversial nature may hold out a lifeline, despite BJP's numbers in Parliament. It is believed that BJP’s allies from Bihar, Tamil Nadu and north-east will have reservations on the legislation, which the government has said will be followed by a pan-India National Register of Citizens (NRC).

A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 14-year-old boy in Gola village of Lakhimpur Kheri district on Saturday. After returning from school, the girl went out to play with her friends when the accused, who is a Class VIII student, offered her chocolates and convinced her to visit his house to play.

Congress and NCP may have joined forces with Shiv Sena on the latter’s promise that it will commit to secularism, but just a day after clearing the floor test, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said in the assembly that he would never abandon Hindutva. He also took a swipe at Devendra Fadnavis, hinting at that the latter didn’t keep his “promise” to Sena. “To keep a promise is also part of my Hindutva."

In the first slot of the inaugural day of placement drive at training and placement cell of Indian Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU), 33 companies came up with 188 offers. As per IIT-BHU, most of the offers ranged from Rs 10,00,000-58,21,000 while four international positions were given the highest offer of Rs 1.53 crore (2,14,600 USD).

Congress on Sunday latched on to Rahul Bajaj’s remarks at the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence on Pragya Thakur, tax terrorism and fear of criticising the government on Saturday night to say, “It can be difficult to speak truth to power.

Since this was perhaps the first time that a high-powered team from the Modi government was talking about the economy amid a slowdown, India Inc was in full attendance at the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence here on Saturday

A majority of economists polled by TOI expect the RBI to cut its repo rate — at which the regulator lends to banks — by 25 basis points (100bps = 1 percentage point) to 4.9%. A cut in the repo rate would, however, be immediately transmitted to retail borrowers as the RBI has forced banks to link loans to an external benchmark instead of a self-determined reference rate.

These long-pending projects, collectively worth over Rs 3.5 lakh crore, are either stuck or still meandering through different stages, without the final contracts to launch production being inked. The relatively new project to manufacture around 7,50,000 Kalashnikov AK-203 assault rifles in a joint venture with Russia at the Korwa ordnance factory in UP, in fact, is the one poised to kick off first.