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Annamalai promises to usher in new shift in Tamil Nadu politics

Chennai, Jun 5 (PTI) Former Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai, who quit the party on Friday, said he was beginning a new political journey aiming to usher in “common man politics,” distancing itself from traditional personality-driven politics and rejecting sycophancy and hereditary power. Emphasising the need for such a new political movement, he said it would not be about a name, but about an idea. “Let’s change ourselves, and change will happen naturally… the movement’s core principle is let’s change, let’s bring change (maruvom, maatruvom),” the former IPS officer said in his social media address, outlining his political approach.

National Conference will attend INDIA bloc’s meeting on June 8: Farooq Abdullah

Srinagar, Jun 5 (PTI) National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Friday said his party will attend the meeting of the INDIA bloc in Delhi on June 8. “The meeting is going to taking place. Omar (Abdullah) or I, one of us will go. Obviously, we are part of that. We will be there,” Abdullah told reporters in Hazratbal here. To a question on LoP Sunil Shamra’s remark about Article 370 having been “burried”, he said the party will keep the issue of the special status alive “till eternity”. “The day all of us get buried in Kashmir, it (Article 370)

Rupee rises 81 paise to close at 94.93 against US dollar post RBI policy decision

Mumbai, Jun 5 (PTI) The rupee appreciated 81 paise to close at 94.93 (provisional) against the US dollar on Friday after the Reserve Bank announced measures to support foreign capital inflows and strengthen forex liquidity. Forex traders said the announcements in the RBI policy boosted investor sentiments after the apex bank asserted that the country’s forex reserves provide a sufficient buffer against external shocks. The Reserve Bank on Friday expectedly kept interest rates unchanged for the second time in a row as it weighed the impact of rising energy prices and supply disruptions caused by the West Asia crisis. At

Stock markets hold on to gains post RBI policy, measures to support rupee

Mumbai, Jun 5 (PTI) Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty quoted higher on Friday afternoon after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept its benchmark repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent, and announced a raft of measures to attract foreign capital and support the rupee. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 269.93 points to 74,629.94 in opening trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty went up by 62.4 points to 23,478.95. Later, the BSE benchmark traded 105.04 points higher at 74,465.05, and the Nifty quoted 25 points up at 23,443.50. The RBI on Friday kept its benchmark repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per

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