New Delhi, April 3 (IANS): Oil marketing companies on Saturday continued on the pause mode and decided against revising the petrol and diesel after cutting its retail rates on Tuesday. Accordingly, pump price of petrol and diesel remained at previous days level of Rs 90.56 and Rs 80.87 a litre respectively in the capital. Petrol and diesel fell by 22 paisa and 23 paisa per litre respectively on Tuesday in the wake global softening of oil prices. OMC have decide to pause price rev

New Delhi, April 3 (IANS): The government has allowed further flexibility to tax filers operating under the Quarterly Return Filing and Monthly Payment of Taxes (QRMP) scheme of GST. These tax filers will now be permitted to declare invoices pertaining to movement of goods and services in their quarterly return form GSTR 1 to be filed in the last month of each quarter. As per an advisory issued by the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), the taxpayer must ensure that any saved

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Oil marketing companies on Friday continued on the pause mode and decided against revising petrol and diesel after cutting its retail rates on Tuesday. Accordingly, pump price of petrol and diesel remained at previous days level of Rs 90.56 and Rs 80.87 a litre respectively in the capital. Petrol and diesel fell by 22 paisa and 23 paisa per litre respectively on Tuesday in wake global softening of oil prices. OMC have decide to pause price revision as cr

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Even as the country looks at electric vehicles to provide pollution free transportation options, a study has suggested that auto LPG can be a better and cleaner fuel option than regularly used petrol and diesel. Tailpipe emissions from Auto LPG have been found to be significantly lesser than even BS-VI compliant petrol vehicles, according to the results of the latest emission tests conducted by Indian Auto LPG Coalition. The tests validate Auto LPG as on

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Bharti Airtel has commissioned a 14 MWp captive solar power plant to meet the energy requirements of its data centres in Uttar Pradesh. The facility in Tilhar (Shahjahanpur) is the first of the two solar plants being set up by Airtel in partnership with AMP Energy. The second plant at Begampur, is expected to become operational in the next quarter, said a company statement. "This will provide a major boost to Airtel's initiatives to reduce its c

NEW DELHI, APRIL 1 (IANS): Base effect accelerated the sales growth of automobile major Maruti Suzuki in March 2021. Accordingly, the company on Thursday reported a growth of 99.31 per cent in its overall sales during March 2021 on a year-on-year basis. The firm sold 167,014 units of vehicles last month, against 83,792 units sold in March 2020. On a sequential basis, the company sold 164,469 units of vehicles in February 2021. "Maruti Suzuki India Limited posted total

NEW DELHI, APRIL 1 (IANS): Mahindra & Mahindra sold a total of 40,403 units of its vehicles last month both in the domestic and the international markets. On YoY basis, the sales numbers are multiple times higher than the 6,679 units sold in the pandemic-struck March last year, when India was moving towards a lockdown and Covid-19 cases surged rapidly. The statement noted: "The growth in March 2021 over March 2020 has been unprecedented and is not comparable given the on

NEW DELHI, APRIL 1 (IANS): India's gross GST revenue collection reached a new record high of over Rs 1.23 lakh crore in March 2021. Accordingly, the GST revenues during March 2021 are the highest since the introduction of the tax. "In line with the trend of recovery in the GST revenues over past five months, the revenues for the month of March 2021 are 27 per cent higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year," the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI): The government on Wednesday extended the deadline for linking PAN with Aadhaar by three months till June 30. The income tax department said it has received representations from taxpayers that the last date for intimating the Aadhaar number may further be extended in the wake of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Keeping in view the difficulties faced by the taxpayers, the Central Government has issued notification today extending the last date for the intima

Bengaluru, March 31 (IANS): A taxi driver succumbed to severe burn injuries after he attempted to self-immolate inside his cab at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) allegedly over his dwindling income due to drastic increase in fuel prices over the last one year. According to the police, the deceased, Pratap Gowda, 35, from Ramanagara bordering district of the Karnataka capital set himself ablaze on Tuesday midnight. The police said that he had sustained over 70 per cent burn

Chennai, March 31 (IANS): Two- and three-wheeler maker TVS Motor Company Ltd on Wednesday said its two-wheeler exports clocked 1,00,000 units in March 2021. "It is a momentous occasion for TVS Motor as our international two-wheeler business achieved a sales milestone of 100,000 units in March," Sudarshan Venu, Joint Managing Director, TVS Motor Company was quoted a saying in a statement. TVS Motor also said the UK based Norton Motorcycles is currently finalising the con

Shenzhen (China), March 31 (IANS): Despite operational difficulties brought about by US sanctions, Chinese conglomerate Huawei's sales in 2020 reached 891.4 billion yuan ($136 billion), up 3.8 per cent year-on-year, and its net profit reached 64.6 billion yuan ($9.86 billion), up 3.2 per cent (on-year). Nearly 66 per cent of Huawei's revenue came from China, up from 59 per cent the previous year. However, revenue from the Americas plunged 24.5 per cent amid the sanctions.

New Delhi, March 31 (IANS): India's budgetary fiscal deficit for the April-February 2020-21 period stood at Rs 14.05 lakh crore, or 76 per cent of the revised estimates (RE). The 2020-21 deficit -- the difference between revenue and expenditure -- had been enhanced to Rs 18.48 lakh crore, as compared to the earlier target of Rs 7.96 lakh crore for the last fiscal. As per the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) data released on Wednesday, the fiscal deficit during the corresp

New Delhi, March 30 (IANS): India's civil aviation regulator has advised airport operators to take punitive action by imposing 'spot fines' against passengers violating Covid-19 safety protocols. In a circular issued on Tuesday, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said: "The possibility of taking punitive action, such as levy of spot fines in accordance with law, shall also be explored with the local police authorities so as to serve a deterrent for vio

Lucknow, March 30 (IANS): The fear of Covid has started casting a shadow on the mango growers in Malihabad who fear that restrictions may affect business for the second consecutive year. Last year, mango trade was adversely affected due to lockdown which prevented transportation and exports of the fruit. Business was hit further due to unavailability of labour and pesticides. "We had a bad business year in 2020 and now when the mango season is approaching, the fear of Covid

Mumbai, March 30 (IANS): Oil marketing companies reduced fuel prices on Tuesday after a four-day halt. Prices of the transportation fuel declined in the range of 22-19 paise across the four metros. In the national capital, petrol was sold for Rs 90.56 per litre, 22 paise lower than the previous level of Rs 90.78. In the other key cities of Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, the fuel was priced at Rs 96.98, Rs 92.58 and Rs 90.77 per litre, respectively, against the previous levels of

Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), March 30 (IANS): From traditional crops to exotic fruits like dragon fruits and strawberries, farmers in Uttar Pradesh are now spreading their wings beyond age-old ruts as they initiate into pearl farming. Following the concept of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat', farmers in Pratappur and Chakka blocks of Prayagraj district have started pearl farming with the help of the soil conservation department. The ponds owned by villagers have become breeding gr

San Francisco, March 30 (IANS): Swiss automation and technology company ABB has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create a Cloud-based platform for the real-time fleet management of EVs. According to the companies, the platform will optimise the efficient use of EVs and speed up the electrification of transport fleets, helping operators worldwide maintain 100 per cent business continuity as they transition to fully electric. "This new solution will

NEW DELHI, MARCH 29 (IANS): LG on Monday launched a new TV 'OLED48CXTV' with an aim to provide a seamless and immersive gaming experience. Priced at Rs 1,99,990, it is powered by NVIDIA G-SYNC and offers responsive gaming with no tearing and stuttering. The new TV also features LG's Alpha 9 Gen 3 processor which claims to deliver balanced sound effect through AI Acoustic Tuning and supports the latest gaming-focused features like higher frame rate, VRR (Variable Refre

SEOUL, MARCH 29 (IANS): Samsung Electronics reclaimed the top spot in global smartphone sales in February, a report showed on Monday, after it narrowly beat Apple on the back of the early release of the Galaxy S21 series. Samsung shipped 24 million units of smartphones for a 23.1 per cent market share last month, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics, outpacing Apple which sold 23 million units for a 22.2 per cent share. China's Xioami came in third with an 11.5 p