NIFTY crosses 21,000 mark for the first time creating new high #Economy

#agriculture #Policy #ethanol

For the first time since eight former Indian Navy personnel were handed death sentences by a Qatari court in October, the Indian ambassador in Doha met them in prison on December 3.

This consular access was granted just a couple of days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on the sidelines of the COP28 summit in Dubai on December 1. #ForeignAffairs

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Deloitte is planning to hire 50,000 new employees mostly from India to its existing team, which currently stands at over 1.2 lakh employees - CEO Romal Shetty. #IT #Jobs

RBI hikes India’s GDP forecast for 2024 by 0.5% to 7%.

#Economy

#Meme of the day

Indian Banks Association(IBA) submits a proposal to Finance Ministry, seeking a shift to 5-day work week. #Policy

Tata Group has announced plans to invest a staggering Rs 40,000 crore in a greenfield #semiconductor processing plant in Jagiroad, Assam.

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Ministry of Defence signed a contract worth ₹588.68 crore with Telecommunications Consultants India Limited for a digital project of the Indian Coast Guard, which would enable centralised monitoring and management of deployed applications and assets.

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India's foreign exchange reserves continued to remain high for the straight third week and rose to more than a four-month high of $604.04 billion as of December 1, data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed. #Economy

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IITs are experiencing a 30% decline in job offers for class of 2024 compared to previous year.

#Jobs
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India has told the World Bank that it has reduced the average waiting time at toll plazas to 47 seconds from 714 seconds due to FASTag and lowered the export release time at land ports to 22 hours in 2022 from 101 hours in 2021. #Policy

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LIC has now become the 4th largest Insurer in the world. With $503 Billion in Reserves. #Economy

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, in partnership with South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL), has initiated a project to develop #drones for open-cast mine surveillance.

#Mining #Reforms
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Under new anti-India President Muizzu, Maldives skips India backed high level security dialogue for IOR in Mauritius, but sends top ranking official to China's Indian Ocean forum at the same time. #Indiansubcontinent #Geopolitics

Global toy retailer Toys ‘R’ Us will start manufacturing private label in India by mid next year as it plans to expand aggressively to make India among the top five markets for the company.

#MakeInIndia
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