Kolkata, February 23 (PTI): Representatives of the bidi industry and labour organisations have called for an immediate reduction of tax on the indigenous smoke, contending that high taxes threatened the surviva
Mumbai, February 21 (PTI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday rued that women are reluctant to join company boards and she has herself struggled to convince candidates.
The remarks come even
Mumbai, February 21 (PTI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said banks need to focus more on being customer-friendly so that the process of availing credit becomes more hassle-free for borrow
Mumbai, February 21 (PTI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said the government wants a sustained recovery and the budget proposals on infrastructure building are an attempt to create the mul
Houston, February 19 (PTI): Noted Indian-American engineer Sanjay Ramabhadran has been named as the next chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, becoming the first from the community to
New Delhi, February 18 (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday emphasised the need for bridging the infrastructure funding gap and developing innovative financing mechanisms for an inclusive growth
New Delhi, February 17 (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday urged multilateral financial institutions to increase funding especially to low and middle income countries to prepare them to deal
New Delhi, February 16 (PTI): The country's wheat production is likely to touch a record 111.32 million tonnes in the 2021-22 crop year (July-June), the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.
Besides wh
New Delhi, February 16 (PTI): The ED has registered a criminal case of money laundering against ABG Shipyard Ltd, its former promoters along with others for allegedly cheating a consortium of banks of over Rs 2
Mumbai, February 16 (PTI): Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday called for global coordination to make big tech companies like Facebook and Google accountable to the societies they serve and asserte
Guwahati, February 15 (PTI): Mobility start-up Automovill has introduced a mobile application for registration and processing of accidental claims for all motor insurance agents and brokers across the country,
New York, February 15 (PTI): A signature 'Made in India' perfume inspired by Indian spices and traditional scents, developed in the country's perfume capital Kannauj was launched in New York, in a f
New Delhi, February 14 (PTI): Driven by rising prices certain food items, retail inflation soared to a seven-month high of 6.01 per cent in January, breaching the upper tolerance level of the Reserve Bank.
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Washington, February 14 (PTI): A 28-year-old Indian-origin former employee of Amazon has been sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment for his involvement in an international bribery scheme to steal confidentia
New Delhi, February 14 (PTI): The Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said that the "momentum of inflation is on a downward slope" and the central bank would continue to strike a
New Delhi, February 14 (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said discussions with regard to central bank-backed digital currency have been going on with the Reserve Bank and a decision will be t
New Delhi, February 13 (PTI): EPFO's apex decision-making body Central Board of Trustee will take a call on interest rate on employees' provident fund deposits for 2021-22 in its meeting next month.
New Delhi, February 13 (PTI): Country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) is expecting to recover around Rs 8,000 crore from written-off accounts, including from NCLT resolved cases, in the current f
New Delhi, February 13 (PTI): Amid allegations of delay in filing of complaint against the country's biggest bank fraud totaling Rs 22,842 crore, State Bank of India (SBI) on Sunday said it has been diligen
Mumbai, February 12 (PTI) Former chairman of the Bajaj Group Rahul Bajaj died in Pune on Saturday, a company official said.
He was 83.
Bajaj had been admitted to the Ruby Hall Clinic hospital in Pune.