Tax. (IANS Photo)   New Delhi, February 19 (IANS): The Union Budget for 2020 contains direct tax proposals in the Finance Bill to tax the retirement fund of an employee, which has been called a retro

Mumbai, February 19 (IANS): Vodafone Idea (VIL) saw a sharp surge in its stock price on the BSE over reports that the government is unlikely to invoke its bank guarantees for now.   At noon, its shar

New Delhi, February 19 (IANS): The Union cabinet on Wednesday decided to make the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) voluntary for farmers, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said.   Add

Vodafone. (IANS File Photo)   MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 18 (IANS): Vodafone Idea scrips on Tuesday plunged over 16 per cent to trade below Rs 3 a stock after India Ratings downgraded its rating on non-co

LPG cylinder. (IANS File Photo)     NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 18 (IANS): Consumers of subsidised cooking gas may have to pay more for buying domestic LPG cylinders as the government is exploring

New Delhi, February 18 (IANS): A day after the Google announced that it is gradually winding down its free public WiFi Station programme, currently available at 415 railway stations in India, the Railways has a

Workers unload coal from a supply truck at a yard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on April 15, 2015. (REUTERS File Photo)   BAMBOLIM, February 18 (Reuters): India’s annual electricity generation

The Apple Inc. logo is seen hanging at the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, US on October 16, 2019. (REUTERS File Photo)........     New York, February 18

New Delhi, February 18 (IANS): Women in entrepreneurship can generate transformational employment in India and generate 150-170 million jobs, which is more than 25 per cent of the new jobs required for the enti

New Delhi, February 18 (IANS): A new survey report on Tuesday said that India will see the lowest salary increase in a decade this year and even the real estate and transport sector -- the top national job gene

New Delhi, February 17 (IANS): Montek Singh Ahluwalia, a former Deputy Chairman of the now- defunct Planning Commission, on Monday said that many welfare schemes of the government needed to be reviewed to

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 17 (IANS): The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has recommended a slew of measures to the government including subsidies to overcome the adverse impact of disruption in

The Authentication Solutions Providers' Association (ASPA) has urged the government to eliminate illicit tobacco trade as only 10 per cent of tobacco consumption in the county constitutes legal cigarettes. (IAN

New Delhi, February 17 (IANS): After Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Tata Teleservices made part payments of their AGR dues to Department of Telecom, furnishing Rs 2,500 crore and Rs 2,200 crore, respectively, o

A girl checks her mobile phone as she walks past the Bharti Airtel office building in Gurugram on April 21, 2016. (REUTERS File Photo)   New Delhi, February 17 (PTI): With the government coming

A coffee grower collects coffee beans on December, 25 2019 at her plantation in Chiang Rai, Thailand. (Thomson Reuters Foundation File Photo)   CHIANG RAI, February 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): A

Pedestrians walk past a store of Vodafone Espana in Madrid, Spain, on June 15, 2019. (IANS File Photo)   New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Vodafone Idea could be the largest bankruptcy ever in India as t

New Delhi, February 16 (IANS): After launching premium flagship Galaxy Note10+ last year that saw a tremendous response in India, Samsung has now brought the 'Lite' version of the same device with the same expe

New Delhi, February 16 (IANS): Budget carrier SpiceJet expects to finalise a compensation deal with Boeing for grounding of its 737 Max aircraft by the end of the current quarter.   The proposed deal

New Delhi, February 16 (IANS): The government may take action in terms of encashing the bank guarantees of Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) in case they "immediately" fail to pay their spectrum usage charges an