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India’s services sector ended 2024 on a strong footing, PMI shows

BENGALURU, Jan 6 (Reuters) – India’s dominant services sector ended 2024 on a high note as sustained demand boosted activity to a four-month high and led to strong hiring in December, while inflationary pressures eased, a survey showed. The HSBC final India Services Purchasing Managers’ Index compiled by S&P Global, rose to 59.3 in December from 58.4 in November, its highest since August but lower than a preliminary estimate of 60.8. Activity in the sector has been in expansionary territory for more than three years. A 50-mark separates contraction from growth. The new business sub-index – a gauge of demand

Hillary Clinton, George Soros and Denzel Washington received the highest US civilian honor

WASHINGTON, January 5, 2025 (AP) — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly frigid Saturday afternoon, President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of the most famous names in politics, sports, entertainment, civil rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy and science. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aroused a standing ovation from the crowd as she received her medal. Clinton was accompanied to the event by her husband former President Bill Clinton, daughter Chelsea Clinton and grandchildren. Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington were also awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor in a

Row over BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri’s reference to roads citing Priyanka Gandhi

New Delhi, Jan 5 (PTI) Senior BJP leader and party’s candidate from Kalkaji, Ramesh Bidhuri, has yet again courted controversy by allegedly saying that after victory in the Delhi Assembly polls next month, he will develop smooth roads in the constituency like Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi’s “cheeks”. No reaction of Bidhuri was available over his remarks and the attack on him by the Congress. “I assure you that just as we made the roads in Okhla and Sangam Vihar, we will make all the roads in Kalkaji like Priyanka Gandhi’s cheeks,” Bidhuri is heard saying in the purported video, which

Days after Lalu’s offer, comes a snub from Nitish

Patna, Jan 5 (PTI) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday snubbed the RJD, headed by his arch-rival Lalu Prasad, stating that he had forged alliances “by mistake” with the opposition party which “did nothing” while in power. The JD(U) supremo made the remark days after Prasad, a former CM himself, had claimed that the RJD was keeping its “doors open” for the former ally, who is now back in the BJP-led NDA. Talking to reporters in the north Bihar district of Muzaffarpur, as part of a state-wide Pragati Yatra, Kumar said, “Those who were in power before us… did

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