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  Rajeev Jhawar’s Usha Martin is one of the leading wire rope manufacturers in the country. Rajeev Jhawar also the Director of Neutral Publishing House Ltd. Usha Martin underwent the incorporation process in the year 1986 under the name Usha Beltron Ltd. Since its inception, the company had been seeing immense growth and was elegantly walking up the ladder for the past 50 years. Some of its manufacturing units are set up in Ranchi, Hoshiarpur, Dubai, Bangkok and UK. Product innovation that meets the customers’ needs is a continuous process for Usha Martin. They are a major supplier of several OEMs. The market leader in India in wire ropes, Usha Martin has the capacity to produce a wide range — from 4.8 mm to 130 mm in diameter — of wire ropes. USP of Usha Martin is diverse quality products that cater to large customers. It is the concept of a ‘super market’, where one can pick up everything under one roof. Describing the advantages of the overseas operations, Rajeev Jhawar, Usha M...

 In an email, Elon Musk reportedly told Twitter employees that remote work would no longer be allowed and that they would be expected to be in office for atleast 40 hours per week. New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk emailed his workers for the first time late Wednesday to prepare them for “difficult times ahead” and ban remote work unless he personally approved it. Musk said there was “no way to sugarcoat the message” about the economic outlook and how it will affect an advertising-dependent company like Twitter, according to the email reviewed by Bloomberg News. The new rules, which kick in immediately, will expect employees to be in the office for at least 40 hours per week, he added. Read more

 Delhi liquor policy case: Businessman Dinesh Arora was granted bail by a Delhi court last week and the CBI had not opposed it New Delhi: A businessman who is an accused in the Delhi liquor policy case will become the government’s witness in the case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told a city court today. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia is also an accused in the case. Businessman Dinesh Arora was granted bail by a Delhi court last week and the CBI had not opposed it. Today, the CBI filed a petition in a city court saying Mr Arora would be their witness in the case. The CBI has said the businessman cooperated with investigators and gave key information. The Delhi government had come out with a new policy for selling liquor in the national capital. The Lieutenant Governor red-flagged it over alleged corruption and told the CBI to look into it. The Arvind Kejriwal government cancelled the new policy and reverted to the old one. The Delhi Chief Minister has ...

 CUET has provided equal opportunity to all as individual boards have their own rules, regulations and methods of evaluation, says DU Vice-Chancellor Students from Kerala Board of Higher Secondary Education, who formed the second highest number of candidates to be admitted to undergraduate courses at Delhi University last year, have slipped to the seventh position this admission season after the introduction of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET), according to admission data shared by the university. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which has affiliate schools across the country and therefore applicants from various States, remains at the top position this year as well, followed by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination. The State education boards of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana are placed higher than the Kerala Board, according to the admission data available after the second round of seat allocation. This year, DU has intr...

 Gandhada Gudi was Puneeth Rajkumar’s last film. In a statement, the late actor’s wife Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar said the prices of the film’s tickets in Karnataka would be reduced for some days. She added it was Puneeth’s wish that more and more children should watch Gandhada Gudi. Puneeth Rajkumar’s wife Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar on Sunday took to Twitter to announce that the ticket prices for her late husband’s last film Gandhada Gudi will be slashed from Monday till Thursday across Karnataka for all shows. The move seeks to ensure that more children come forward and watch the movie. Welcoming the move, fans called it a great initiative to take forward Puneeth’s legacy. Also read: Directed by Amoghavarsha JS, the film is a documentary on the wildlife of Karnataka. In the film, Puneeth and the director embark on a journey across the length and breadth of the state, exploring its rich bio-diversity. The film was released in the last week of October, and it was well received by the a...

 Fans of actor Prabhas criticised Netflix after a tweet from the streamer’s Indonesia division seemed to mock the actor and a popular action sequence from his 2019 action film Saaho. Fans of Prabhas were left rather unimpressed and miffed with Netflix when the official Twitter handle of Netflix Indonesia shared a clip of an action sequence from his film Saaho with a caption that was interpreted as sarcastic by many fans. The actor’s fans took the post as an insult to him and began trending ‘unsubscribe Netflix’ sharing screengrabs and videos of themselves cancelling their subscriptions and uninstalling the app.  Prabhas Saaho, directed by Sujeeth, was released in 2019, and starred Shraddha Kapoor apart from Prabhas. The film eventually began streaming on Netflix months after its release. On Tuesday, Netflix Indonesia shared a video from the film with the caption that roughly translates to: ‘what is this action?’ The clip shows a shirtless Prabhas jumping off a cliff after thr...

 The searches were carried out as part of the Enforcement Directorate’s probe into the Delhi government’s now-scrapped liquor policy. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday conducted searches at four places, including the house of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s personal assistant (PA), in connection with a money laundering probe it had launched on the government’s liquor policy. On Saturday, at 2.17 pm, Sisodia tweeted, “They got my house raided by lodging false FIR , searched bank lockers, also went to my village but found nothing against me. Today, they did not find anything in ED’s raid at my PA’s house, so now they have arrested him and taken him away. BJP people! So much fear of losing the election,” he tweeted in Hindi. Sources said Sisodia’s PA has been picked up for questioning after conducting a search at his home. “We have conducted a search at his home and picked him up for questioning in connection with destruction of evidence. But we have not...

 The frontline indices traded with minor gains in the mid-morning trade. The Nifty traded a tad above the 18,150 mark. PSU bank, metal and auto stocks advanced while pharma, healthcare and media shares were under pressure. At 11:29 IST, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, was up 40.25 points or 0.07% to 60,990.61. The Nifty 50 index gained 34.30 points or 0.19% to 18,151.45. The broader market outperforms the headline indices. The S&P BSE Mid-Cap index rose 0.44% while the S&P BSE Small-Cap index gained 0.50%. The market breadth was strong. On the BSE, 2,045 shares rose and 1,332 shares fell. A total of 196 shares were unchanged. Auto sales up 48% YoY in Oct: FADA: On YoY basis, total vehicle retail for the month of October 2022 saw a growth of 48%, the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) said its release today, 7 November 2022. All the categories closed in green. 2W, 3W, PV, Trac and CV were up by 51%, 66%, 41%, 17% and 25% re...