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During the June 2025 quarter, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), the country’s largest state-owned insurer, played a key role in supporting Indian equity markets amid volatility. LIC made net equity purchases worth over Rs 25,000 crore, increasing stakes in 94 companies while reducing holdings in 72. By June-end, LIC’s portfolio included 345 listed stocks valued at Rs 16.84 lakh crore, up 10% from Rs 15.26 lakh crore in March. Significant additions included Reliance Industries (2.56 crore shares worth Rs 3,840 crore), Info Edge India, and Tata Consultancy Services, with purchases valued at Rs 3,285 crore and Rs 2,890 crore, respectively. Other notable buys were Coforge, Infosys, Hindustan Unilever, HCL Technologies, Tata Motors, and Larsen & Toubro. On the sell side, LIC...

On Wednesday PM Narendra Modi met the winners of the 45th Chess Olympiad and lauded them saying, India’s chess future is very bright. During the interaction, the players actually presented PM with a chessboard, after which Praggnanandhaa and Erigaisi played a quick game of chess. On Sunday, both the men’s and women’s teams actually clinched their maiden gold medals for India. This is very important news and all Indians are very proud to hear this news. Today in India cricket is very important game and Indian people follow it highly. But with cricket we need to give importance to other games and make India proud in every way. In fact chess is very interesting game and in all over the world it is played. Actually in India there are many good chess player and globally India is very good i...

Recently India’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.2% in 2023-2024 as compared to the year-ago period, according to the government’s annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). Actually the data showed that the unemployment rate in males saw a marginal decline from 3.3 % during July 2022-June 2023 to 3.2% during July 2023-June 2024. However, it actually increased from 2.9% to 3.2% among females. This is very important news and we can know many things about people who are unemployed. Today India has huge population and for this reason India also has a huge population of youth who actually want job. In fact without job their life will be miserable and they will be not able to survive. Actually for every country it is very important to give jobs to their youth and give a good ...

Recently a 25 year old college student was intercepted at Mumbai airport after immigration officials discovered that four pages were missing from her passport. Actually the student was intercepted when she was boarding flight to Singapore. As per police, the student had actually torn off the pages to hide her trip to Thailand. Right now the student has been charged with cheating and violations under Passport Act. This is actually bad news and people should take it seriously so that this thing doesn’t happen. Actually India has huge population and among this population there are many people who want to go abroad for different reasons. Because of this thing these types of incident happen and it actually make image of the country bad. In fact we Indians need to take this matter very s...

Delhi is actually India’s most populated city in 2024 with 3.38 crore people, Indian Express reported while citing data from United Nations (UN). In fact Mumbai is second-most populated with 2.16 crore people. Actually it is followed by Kolkata (1.55 crore), Bengaluru (1.4 crore), Chennai (1.2 crore), Hyderabad (1.1 crore), Ahmedabad (88.5 lakh), Surat (83 lakh), Pune (73 lakh) and Jaipur (43 lakh). Today population of India is increasing very fast and for this reason it becomes a need to manage it. Today India has the highest population in the world compare to others countries. But it is actually a difficult thing for a country to manage this huge population and all Indian actually need a good standard of living. Actually from this data we can get that India has many big cities and pe...