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Sensex, Nifty tumble over 1 pc on geopolitical worries

Mumbai, Jan 20 (PTI) Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tanked over 1 per cent on Tuesday due to heavy selling pressure in market heavyweights Reliance, Bajaj Finance and M&M amid escalating geopolitical tensions. Besides, ongoing weakness in the rupee and persistent foreign fund outflows dented investors’ sentiment. Extending its previous day’s decline, the 30-share BSE Sensex tumbled 1,065.71 points, or 1.28 per cent, to settle at 82,180.47. During the day, it dropped 1,235.6 points, or 1.48 per cent, to 82,010.58. The 50-share NSE Nifty tanked 353 points, or 1.38 per cent, to end at 25,232.50. From the 30-Sensex

No option ‘off the table’ as UK mulls social media ban for children

LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Britain will consider tightening rules on children’s use of social media with no option “off the table,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday, warning that they risked being pulled into “a world of endless scrolling, anxiety and comparison.” Starmer said his Labour government was prepared to take “robust action”, a day after it said it would examine whether features such as infinite scrolling and the age at which children can access platforms should be restricted. The government said it would examine evidence from around the world on suggested proposals including looking at whether a

Rahul accuses PM Modi of undermining MGNREGA, favouring corporates

Raebareli (UP), Jan 20 (PTI) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of seeking to centralise power and weakening welfare safeguards for the poor, alleging that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) had been undermined. Addressing party workers during his visit to Raebareli, his parliamentary constituency, the Congress MP said the government had “insulted” MGNREGA by changing its name and, more importantly, had withdrawn the security it provided to the marginalised, which he described as an attack on the roots of democracy. “The Congress is running a nationwide

PM Modi’s BJP elects youngest-ever president with eye on youth votes

MUMBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chose a little-known legislator from India’s poorest state as the party’s youngest president on Tuesday, a generational shift in the effort to retain young voters. Nitin Nabin, 45, takes over from outgoing president J.P. Nadda, 65, months before key state elections, one of them in the eastern state of West Bengal, which the BJP has never won and is strongly focused on. A five-time lawmaker from the eastern state of Bihar, Nabin was elected unopposed as the party’s 12th president after Modi and other leaders proposed him.

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