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The Congress party has urged the Central government to disclose the full details of the India-US trade agreement, questioning its impact on farmers, industry, and the Make in India initiative. Concerns were raised over India reportedly agreeing to zero tariffs on US goods and potentially halting Russian oil purchases.

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Stock market today LIVE after India-US trade deal: Nifty50 and BSE Sensex soared in opening trade on Tuesday, reacting positively to the India-US trade deal announcement by US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The recently concluded India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks put pressure on the Donald Trump administration. In fact both India and the EU have termed the FTA a mother of all trade deals.

US President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with India in which the US will bring down tariffs on Indian exports to 18%. Trump also made a series of claims related to the trade deal such as India agreeing to stop buying Russian crude

A day after presenting her ninth Budget, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke at length on a range of topics with TOIs Sidhartha and Surojit Gupta . While she is confident the domestic situation is under control, she feels her biggest challenge will be external

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The deal comes seven years after L&Ts unsolicited bid to acquire 66% in Mindtree for up to Rs 10,700 crore, highlighting renewed consolidation among technology services firms seeking scale and differentiated capabilities. Zensar, whose key clients include Cisco, the City of San Diego, and Tesco Insurance, derives nearly 68% of its business from the US and 21% from the UK/EU.

The benchmark 10-year yield settled at around 6.77%, sharply higher than the previous session and its highest close since mid-Jan 2025. On Friday, it had ended near 6.7%, up from about 6.5% three months ago. Bond markets were shut on Sunday. The rupee rose about 47 paise to close at 91.51 to the dollar, marking its strongest single-day gain in over a month.

India Incs leaders also heaved a sigh of relief at the definite step towards a full-fledged India-US trade deal. The India-US trade deal has gone through ups and downs like a roller coaster. While the devil is in the details, it removes a hanging sword over the rupee, equity and rates market, said Nilesh Shah, MD of Kotak Mahindra AMC.

According to Siddhartha Sanyal, Chief Economist, Bandhan Bank, the news of reduction of US tariff on India is a major positive, especially soon after the trade deal with the EU. The end of the stalemate and the direction of the development is more important in this case than the quantum of the change in tariff as it opens room for further positive developments in near future.

Asked about Parth, Pune commissioner of police (CP) Amitesh Kumar said on Monday: Our investigation so far has not revealed any involvement. Although Parth has not been named in the FIR, Digvijay Amarsinh Patil, another of Amadeas partners, and arrested tehsildar Suryakant Yewale are mentioned. Tejwani and Patil were signatories to the deal last year.

The case involves the 2019 political killing of Youth Congress workers Kripesh and Sarath Lal in Periya, a village in Kasaragod district in northern Kerala. CPM workers were convicted and handed double life terms by a trial court. Tenth accused Ranjith T was granted 15-day parole Monday, barely two-and-a-half months after similar relief earlier.

The district administration conducted a thorough investigation and found that there was no record of these names. The health department raised the issue with state govt and informed the state registrar. Following directives from the state registrar, the health department started cancelling the certificates. So far, close to 3,000 certificates have been cancelled. The entire process will be completed in a weeks time.

NCP MP and state president Sunil Tatkare asked on Monday, We had taken a collective decision to join the BJP-led NDA and people of the state have stamped their approval of Ajit dadas decision in the 2024 assembly elections. Those speaking of a merger should answer whether they are fine with it.

Non-scheduled flights carry high-net-worth passengers with a fixed objective, an event, a meeting, a function. That creates immense pressure on pilots to land at the intended destination at all costs, even when diversion would be the safer option, said Capt Manoj Hathi, former senior flight operations inspector at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

The findings are based on an analysis of more than a century of lifespan data from large Scandinavian twin cohorts in Denmark and Sweden. Researchers studied identical and non-identical twins raised together and apart, as well as siblings of US centenarians. Most participants were born between 1870 and 1935, a period marked by high mortality from infectious diseases and accidents.

These dedicated spaces are meant to guide expectant parents through prenatal care rooted in traditional Indian practices, from positive thinking and lifestyle discipline to diet and emotional well-being. The idea: shape the mind of the unborn. CM Mohan Yadav announced the initiative Sunday in Indore, placing it under the Ayushman Bharat scheme and linking it to the Union ministry of Ayush.

Appearing for social activist Akash Goel, advocate Mukta Gupta told a bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi that the directorate of census operations, which has commenced preparatory work for Census 2027, has not disclosed any predetermined criteria or standardised methodology for recording caste identity of people belonging to SC, ST and OBC categories during census.

A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said that there cannot be punishment before trial and directed release of the accused who already spent 18 months in jail. They were allegedly involved in tampering of evidence by swapping blood samples of their kids with their own. Father of the main accused, who is a minor and was allegedly driving the case, is still in jail.

Days that once revolved around work, cuddles and caring for her breastfeeding child are now spent in a hospital bed, recovering from a brutal dog attack that has left her with more than 80 stitches across her face, throat and head and scars that go far beyond the physical. Early on Jan 26, Shalini had stepped out for morning walk near home in HSR Layouts Teachers Colony.

Appearing before a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and P B Varale, solicitor general Tushar Mehta said the activist was appealing to Gen Z to come out on the street against govt to create a problem in Ladakh which is very sensitive as it shares borders with countries that are not very friendly. Responding to Wangchuks submission that he was holding a peaceful protest against govt on the line of Gandhian principles, the SG said, Gandhi was just a facade to hide his real intention of instigating v

Official sources said BJP MLAs are in the national capital and will be electing a new leader, who will be sworn in as the new chief minister. The party has not officially declared a date for the legislative party meeting and named its general secretary Tarun Chugh as the central observer for the election of the new leader.

While also listing blatant violations of ECs lawful directions by the Bengal administration, CEC Gyanesh Kumar on Monday firmly conveyed to Mamata that the rule of law shall prevail and anybody taking law into their own hands shall be dealt with strictly, as per provisions of law and powers vested in the Commission. No pressure, obstruction, or interference of any kind by anyone should be exerted on officers engaged in SIR work, it was underlined.

Talking to reporters later in front of Nirvachan Sadan where a heavy police posse had gathered she claimed to have warned the CEC that he will end up like Jagdeep Dhankhar, seen as a reference to the former VPs sudden resignation last year. She was accompanied by party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, MP Kalyan Banerjee, and 12 members from what they claimed were SIR-affected families from Bengal.

According to a complaint filed by the boys father, a temple priest, the child had grown fond of momo sold at the roadside stall. The vendors allegedly began feeding him free of cost, winning trust bite by bite. Soon came bigger offers food, small sums of money, loyalty. Then persuasion. Unaware of the stakes, the boy began removing jewellery from home and handing it over, police said.

Senior military officials, particularly those dealing with classified information, are subject to regulations under the Official Secrets Act that restrict the publication of books or information even after retirement to prevent such classified material from becoming public. While a general one-year cooling-off period exists for taking up commercial or private employment, regulations for publishing secret content require prior govt clearance.

Speaker Om Birla failed to defuse the situation even after he gave a ruling asking Gandhi not to refer to news articles or extracts from an unpublished book and speak only on what could be authenticated by placing it on record. The LoP maintained that he should be allowed to speak on the issue, saying excerpts of the unpublished book had been published in Caravan magazine and were authentic.

The SC order may end the prevalent practice harassing people by filing mulitple cases against those whose social media post is critical of govt or party in power, and safeguards fundamental rights. The guidelines say the police must verify whether the complainant qualifies as the person aggrieved in terms of law before registering a case and conduct a preliminary probe before lodging an FIR.

Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Budget contains a proposal to expand railway link between the region and the rest of the country to four tracks, fulfilling a long-felt need. Northeast Frontier Railway GM Chetan Shrivastava said the underground stretch would run from Tin Mile Haat to Rangapani stations within Bengal. During the 2017 Doklam stand-off, military planners had talked about the vulnerability of the Siliguri stretch of the corridor.

Latest budget data released Sunday shows that govt spent nearly Rs 1,730 crore on the three components of the programme in FY26, out of a total of Rs 33,830 crore allocated in the 2024-25 budget. With the internship scheme having seen only two pilots, the Centre spent Rs 526 crore of Rs 10,800 crore allocated during FY26.

With the trade deal announced, Indian goods are suddenly looking more competitive. This means that a product will face 18% additional tariff over the MFN or product-specific rate. At 18%, the levy on Indian garments will be marginally lower than the 20% faced by those made in Bangladesh or Sri Lanka.

While PM Narendra Modi, in a post on X, which followed US President Donald Trumps announcement on Truth Social, said he had a wonderful conversation with dear friend Trump and thanked him on behalf of 1.4 billion people for the reduced tariff of 18% on Indian goods, he did not mention the trade deal at all in his post on X that followed Trumps wonderful announcement.

J&K has no NLU at present but the demand for it to be located in Jammu gained traction after CM Omar said last year that it would come up in Kashmirs Budgam. Omar has rejected the recent BJP demands, calling the controversy politically motivated and pointing out that there were no protests in the Valley when Jammu was given both an IIT and an IIM.

On Jan 6, Punjab Police detained a minor in Pathankot on charges of spying and for allegedly sharing confidential information via social media to terror agencies, ISI, and Pakistan military officers. The detention prompted a statewide alert for similar espionage activities involving children. Under Operation Trashi-I, security forces have engaged in four encounters with terrorists in the past fortnight.

GTRI says that several important questions related to the India-US trade deal remain unanswered. In a note post post Trump and PM Narendra Modis posts on social media platforms, Ajay Srivastava, founder of GTRI said: Caution, not celebration, is warranted.

GIFT Nifty surged by nearly 800 points before paring some gains, indicating a widespread relief-driven rally across markets. The rise followed remarks by US President Donald Trump that Washington would lower reciprocal tariffs on Indian goods to 18%.

With this deal, India bags a place among countries facing one of the lowest tariff rates from the Donald Trump administration. Incidentally, the 18% tariff rate is lower than Pakistans 19%, Indonesias 19%.

Donald Trump has claimed that the trade deal has been agreed after India has agreed to reduce tariffs on US goods to zero, committed to stop buying Russian crude and step up oil purchases from America, and potentially Venezuela.