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GAPKI sees zero tariff lifting US palm oil sales

Jakarta, Feb. 28 -- The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (GAPKI) expects exports to the US to climb toward 3 million tons within three years if tariffs return to zero, as trade negotiations continue fo... Read More


Special court accepts closure report in MSC Bank fraud case

India, Feb. 28 -- Nearly five years after the Bombay High Court directed the registration of an FIR into alleged massive irregularities at the Maharashtra State Cooperative (MSC) Bank, a special court... Read More


Opposition seeks audit of transit camps on civic lands; Worli sewage plot row sparks uproar in BMC

India, Feb. 28 -- In a move that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of families living in transit camps across Mumbai, the opposition in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on... Read More


Juwabairath residents complain they are remembered only during elections

Kapilvastu, Feb. 28 -- Mahadev Tharu, 86, has voted in every national election since the 1986 Rastriya Panchayat (national parliament) elections. As the country prepares to vote in the House of Repres... Read More


Clean chit for Kejriwal, Sisodia: Punjab AAP leaders hail verdict

Chandigarh, Feb. 28 -- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, cabinet colleagues and several other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders in the state on Friday hailed the discharge of party supremo and former D... Read More


The week in charts: GDP growth, national monetization plan, IT troubles

New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- From gross domestic product (GDP) growth easing in the December quarter, to the government outlining a nearly Rs.17 trillion asset monetization pipeline, IT stocks extending loss... Read More


Manmohan Singh: The quiet reformer who reshaped India's economic destiny

New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- In his parting speech as prime minister, Manmohan Singh hoped that history would judge him more kindly. He was right; he usually was, for this was a man who measured his words by... Read More


Best of the Week: To everyone who has ever lived through a song

New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- Best of the Week is a weekly newsletter by Siddharth Sharma/Shravani Sinha. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your inbox. MUSIC! It has never just been som... Read More


Supreme Court urges bilateral Nepal-UK deal on Gurkha recruitment

Kathmandu, Feb. 28 -- The Supreme Court has issued a directive order to the government to review and replace the 1947 tripartite agreement with a bilateral deal with the United Kingdom to safeguard Gu... Read More


CM, Sunetra fly VSR despite Sena boycott

India, Feb. 28 -- Even as the Shiv Sena led by deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde has decided to boycott flights operated by VSR Ventures after its Learjet 45 crash killed former deputy chief ministe... Read More