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India set to double investment limit for foreign individuals in listed companies

NEW DELHI, March 27 (Reuters) – India’s central bank is set to double to 10% a cap on investment by individual foreign investors in listed companies, as it aims to boost capital inflows, according to two senior government officials and documents reviewed by Reuters. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), pressured by poor earnings, high valuations and prospects of U.S. tariffs, have pulled more than $28 billion out of Indian stocks since September’s record high in the benchmark NSE Nifty 50. To boost foreign investment, India is widening to all foreign investors benefits it had until now restricted to overseas Indians, while

Rajya Sabha Chairman Dhankhar rejects privilege notice against Amit Shah

New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday rejected a privilege notice against Union Home Minister Amit Shah after he cited a 1948 government press release to authenticate his statement that a Congress leader was part of the management of Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh had moved the notice against Shah for “casting aspersions” on Congress Parliamentary Party head Sonia Gandhi. Dhankhar said Shah had, after making certain remarks while replying to a debate on the Disaster Management Bill, 2024 in Rajya Sabha on March 25, agreed to authenticate his statement.

Rise in antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea could become ‘untreatable’,

Cases of gonorrhoea infections that are resistant to antibiotics are on the rise in England, scientists have warned. Increased resistance could one day make the sexually transmitted infection (STI) “untreatable” if the problem is not tackled. Gonorrhoea is usually treated with the antibiotic ceftriaxone, readily available as an injection or tablets from your GP or a sexual health clinic. In some cases, this isn’t effective, as the bacteria has developed the ability to survive and multiply even when exposed to the antibiotic. But these are often remedied with a second line of treatment. A small number of cases are classed

ED conducts fresh searches in case against Bihar IAS officer Sanjeev Hans

Patna, Mar 27 (PTI) The ED (Enforcement Directorate) on Thursday carried out fresh searches against some Bihar government officials and engineers as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation against IAS officer Sanjeev Hans, official sources said. About six-seven locations in Patna are being raided. Some cash and documents have been seized, the sources said. The searches are being conducted on government officers and engineers who are facing allegations of bribery, they said. The money laundering case against Hans, a 1997-batch bureaucrat who last served as the principal secretary of the Bihar energy department, stems from a special vigilance unit

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