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MUMBAI: Economic growth across India’s private sector continued to strengthen in April. According to the HSBC Flash India PMI data, positive demand trends fueled new business intakes and output. In both cases, rates of expansion were the fastest in close to 14 years. The manufacturing industry led the latest upturn, as was the case in March, although softening growth at goods producers compared with accelerations at service providers. Sustained increases in new orders added pressure on the capacity of manufacturing firms and their service counterparts, which in turn underpinned recruitment. Job growth was notably stronger among the former. The survey’s…

MUMBAI: In a vitriolic jibe, Assam chief minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the Congress’s party manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections is meant for polls in Pakistan. “Congress party’s manifesto is prepared in a way that they win elections in Pakistan. The manifesto is more for the people of Pakistan and less for the people of India,” Sarma said in Kerala’s Ernakulam on Monday. Himanta Biswa Sarma, one of the most bitter critics of the Congress and Rahul Gandhi, claimed the party has promised it will snatch away resources from the masses for “appeasement”. “The Congress…

Goemkarponn desk Vasco: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing a public meeting at Vasco town in South Goa on April 27 to campaign for upcoming Lok Sabha election, a senior party functionary said. BJP Goa General Secretary Damu Naik on Monday told reporters in Vasco that the Prime minister would be addressing a public meeting on April 27 at Vasco. He said that the preparations for the public meeting are going on in full swing. This would be the second public meeting of PM Modi in Goa during this year. The first meeting was held on February 6 at Margao…

Amravati, Maharashtra: NCP (SP) leader Sharad Pawar on Monday claimed former prime ministers worked to make a new India but PM Narendra Modi only criticises others and doesn’t speak about what his government had done for the people in the last ten years. Addressing a campaign rally in Amravati for a Maha Vikas Aghadi candidate, Mr Pawar said former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s contribution to the country cannot be questioned. He claimed some BJP leaders had spoken publicly about changing the Constitution and appealed to the people to not allow autocracy to take shape in India. A high-profile poll battle…

Goemkarponn desk BAMBOLIM: According to Goa Medical College’s (GMC) report to Goa police, Suchana Seth, a data scientist and startup founder from Bengaluru who is accused of killing her four-year-old kid in Candolim earlier this year, does not have mental health problems. Following testing, GMC emailed the digital electroencephalogram (EEG) result to the Calangute police. Clinical neurophysiologist Dr. Shilpa Dessai stated, “The sleep-deprived awake and drowsy record doesn’t show any focal or generalised epileptiform discharges.” Prior to this, Seth’s father filed an application with the Goa children’s court asking for a directive to the police to have her evaluated by…

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was given insulin at Tihar jail on Monday night when his blood sugar level spiked to 320, when the ideal range should be between 70 and 100. The AAP leader, a diabetic, criticised the Tihar jail administration for allegedly failing to provide him with insulin despite his repeated requests. Mr Kejriwal’s accusations were met with a rebuttal from the Tihar jail administration, which claimed that during a video consultation with specialists from AIIMS, neither the issue of insulin nor its necessity was raised. “Today it is clear that the Chief Minister was right,…

New Delhi: Hearing the misleading ads case against Patanjali Ayurved, the Supreme Court today asked if the size of an apology it put out in newspapers today was similar to its full-page advertisements of its products. Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Patanjali founders Ramdev and Balkrishna, said they have filed a fresh set of apologies before the court. The bench asked why the apologies were filed yesterday and that it should have been done earlier. Mr Rohatgi said the apology was published in 67 newspapers at a cost of ₹ 10 lakh. “Has the apology been published prominently? Same font and size as your…