New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Severe slowdown in manufacturing activity in the country pulled India’s GDP growth rate in first quarter (Q1) ended June down to 5 per cent, marking the fourth successive quarter of…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) With India’s GDP growth in the first quarter of 2019-20 coming down to five per cent, many social media users rushed to blame demonetisation and speedy move towards a cashless…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) While a decline in GDP affects the poor worse as India is one of the most unequal societies, it hits your wallet each time a slowdown is recorded. It takes…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) In a sweeping bank reforms move, the government on Friday created PSU bank behemoths to spur the slowing growth which has now touched a six-year low of 5 per cent…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The consolidation of PSU banks announced by the government on Friday is a credit positive but there will not be any immediate improvement in their credit metrics as all of…
By Ravi Dutta Mishra New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The NDA government’s ambitious target of reaching the $5 trillion economy in the next five years just got a reality check. The county’s statistics organisation on…
Mumbai, Aug 30 (IANS) IL&FS on Friday received binding bids for ten road assets in its domestic roads transportation vertical. These 10 road assets, that account for total debt of over Rs. 17,700 crore (nearly…
Hyderabad, Aug 30 (IANS) Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday called for expansion of India’s aquaculture sector through diversification, value addition and penetration in the hinterland and non-coastal states. He said that the seafood…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) State-run power major NTPC on Friday said that it has commissioned India’s first “ultra-super critical” unit having a capacity of 660 megawatt (MW) at Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone. “This plant operates…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) In what gives a clue to why the country’s largest biscuit selling firm Parle has seen volume of their Rs 5 pack of glucose biscuits slowing, the agriculture and allied…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) A new survey on Friday revealed that 92 per cent of Indian youth are unaware of online placement services. It also found that government jobs rank highest among the first-time…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) has said that there is an in-principle agreement between the association and the two major online delivery aggregators, Zomato and Swiggy, to resolve…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The government on Friday announced Rs 55,250 crore upfront capital infusion in PSU banks for credit growth and regulatory compliance to support the merging lenders. The declaration came after the…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian on Friday said there is “some slowdown” in GDP as global headwinds and trade wars are contributing to the slackness, expressing hope of investment to…
London, Aug 30 (IANS) UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday warned MPs that they are damaging his chances of getting a deal with the EU by trying to block a no-deal Brexit. The former…
Sydney, Aug 30 (IANS) Satisfaction is the most popular factor for marketing decisions around the world, according to a new study. Satisfaction measures how satisfied a company’s customers are with a company and its product…
Beijing, Aug 30 (IANS) China had 494 million online game players by June, accounting for 57.8 per cent of all netizens in the country, according to a report on China’s Internet development released Friday. Among…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Severe slowdown in manufacturing activity in the country pulled India’s Q1 2019-20 growth rate to 5 per cent, the fourth successive quarter of decline in growth rate on the trot….
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The government on Friday announced the mega-merger of 10 PSU banks into four, where the Punjab National Bank, the Oriental Bank of Commerce and the United Bank to merge become…
Dhaka, Aug 30 (IANS) The Bangladeshi government has signed a $185 million financing agreement with the World Bank to add about 310 MW renewable energy generation capacity, which will contribute to reliable, affordable electricity and…