New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) About a dozen Finnish companies will be participating for the first time in the biennial IndiaWood exhibition that begins in Bengaluru from March 8. The decision by the Finnish wood…
Gandhinagar, Feb 20 (IANS) Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, who also holds the finance portfolio, on Tuesday presented a Rs 1,83,666 crore budget for 2018-19, without any new major taxes but also proposing a…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Reliance Jio earned the number 17 spot on the global list of Fast Company’s annual ranking of the worlds 50 Most Innovative Companies (MIC) for 2018, and also ranks at…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is probing 120 shell companies allegedly linked to jeweller designer Nirav Modi and Gitanjali Group chief Mehul Choksi even as Income Tax officials claimed to have…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The CBI on Tuesday questioned 10 Punjab National Bank (PNB) officials, including an Executive Director, and 18 employees of Nirav Modi and Gitanjali group of firms in Rs 11,300 crore…
Lucknow, Feb 20 (IANS) A robot created by a group of students engaged in a startup will welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inaugural session of the “Investors Meet” here on Wednesday, an official…
Hyderabad, Feb 20 (IANS) The closure of Gitanjali Gems Park here following the raid by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the multi-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam has hit about 600 families and…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday raised concern over disposal of sanitary napkins, saying improper disposal can lead to serious consequences. “They are often disposed of…
Hyderabad, Feb 20 (IANS) Nasscom, in partnership with the Telangana government, will establish a Centre of Excellence for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence here, it was announced on Tuesday. An MoU for this was signed…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Indian millennials – aged 18-35 and accounting for nearly 34 per cent of the population, have driven e-retail industry’s growth through their increasing internet usage, said global services firm Deloitte…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked a company, one of whose directors is Latha Rajinikanth – wife of Tamil superstar-turned politician Rajinikanth and one of the firm’s directors, to repay…
Mumbai, Feb 20 (IANS) Weak global cues, coupled with a declining rupee and prolonged outflow of foreign funds, pulled the key Indian equity indices lower on Tuesday. The key indices, which opened on a positive…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The newly completed stretch of Delhi Metro’s Pink Line is scheduled to undergo inspection by the safety commissioner between February 26 and 28 — the last of the procedures before…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) In the backdrop of several ponzi schemes duping gullible investors surfacing in recent years, the Union Cabinet on Tuesday decided to bring a bill in Parliament to ban unregulated deposit…
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) Taking a dig at the Centre, Trinamool Congress MP and the party’s veteran leader Saugata Roy on Tuesday said the alleged $1.8 billion banking fraud showed how much the country’s banking…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) National carrier Air India (AI) on Tuesday launched a non-stop flight from Amritsar to Birmingham. The twice-a-week direct flight is being operated on the Delhi-Amritsar-Birmingham-Amritsar-Delhi route with a Boeing 787…
Mumbai, Feb 20 (IANS) Shares of Gitanjali Gems on Tuesday tanked for the fifth straight trade session, a day after two senior officials of the company — Chandrakant Karkare and Pankhuri Warange — resigned following…
Hyderabad, Feb 20 (IANS) The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) expects India’s IT exports to grow at 7-9 per cent to be at $135-$137 billion in 2018-19. The IT exports during the…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday approved the six-laning of a 61-km stretch of the National Highway (NH)-275 between Mysuru and…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Despite so much noise around the “Digital India” initiative, the urban-rural divide is actually more acute than it appears when it comes to Internet penetration across the country, a new…