Chandigarh, Nov 15 (IANS) An owner of a small tyre repair shop in Haryana’s Faridabad town was handed over an electricity bill of over Rs.77 crore, leaving him utterly “shocked”. The owner of Surinder Auto…
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) With India experiencing spiralling pulse-prices, Assocham on Sunday called for close monitoring of food prices, warning that rice prices may soon reach “boiling point” with stocks falling fast as a…
Hyderabad, Nov 14 (IANS) The central government is planning to withdraw subsidy on cooking gas for people with annual income of over Rs.10 lakh, union minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said here on Saturday. “Why do…
Washington, Nov 12 (IANS) Calling the Indian economy a bright spot “in an environment of increased uncertainty”, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday said India’s growth will benefit from recent policy reforms, a consequent…
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) India’s factory output growth decelerated sharply to 3.6 percent in September from 6.4 percent in the month before, even as the annual retail inflation for October moved up significantly to…
Mumbai, Nov 12 (IANS) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) employees will go on a day’s mass casual leave on November 19 to protest the government’s move to take away from the central bank some of…
New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) India has more people who help strangers, donate money or volunteer their time for a good cause than any other country, a report prepared by an international non-profit organisation said…
Mumbai, Nov 10 (IANS) Samvat 2071 proved to be the worst in four years for a key Indian equities index, which shed over 1,100 points or 4.13 percent, as Diwali-to-Diwali Hindu fiscal year drew to…
Washington, Nov 10 (IANS) The Indian-American diaspora among the top ten percent earners in the US has the capacity to give to India at levels that could dwarf official US development aid there, according to…
New Delhi/Bangalore/Chennai/Kolkata/Mumbai, Nov 9 (IANS) Thanks to a dip in the prices of gold this year, brisk buying of the precious metal was seen on Monday as people opened their purse strings for Dhanteras. The…
Mumbai, Nov 9 (IANS) Investor sentiments were subdued on Monday, a day after the BJP-led coalition suffered a rout in the Bihar assembly polls. This led a barometer index of the Indian equities to provisionally…
Ankara, Nov 8 (IANS) Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz has booked an entire hotel in Turkey’s southern Antalya province during his 18-day visit to the city as part of the G20 Summit to be held…
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The government on Thursday approved a mega financial revival plan for the power distribution companies involving states, banks, electricity generation firms and Coal India. The salient features of the mega…
New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) Moody’s Investors Service on Monday upgraded its outlook for India’s banking system to “stable” from “negative” based on expectation of a lesser growth in banks’ bad loans in future. The…
New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said with real-time global automatic exchange of information system coming into effect in a couple of years, tax evasion and money laundering will become…
Chennai, Oct 30 (IANS) The belligerent provocation of various Indian minorities has raised ethnic tensions, says Moody’s Analytics in a report that warned of “a possible increase in violence”. In a report titled `India Outlook:…
San Francisco, Oct 28 (IANS) Technology giant Apple has announced a profit of $11.12 billion for the last fiscal quarter and posted earnings of $53.4 billion for the entire year. Figures for the last quarter…
Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) For the second time in six months, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has slapped a notice summoning Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in connection with the valuation of shares of his co-owned…
Vijayawada: Opulence is more visible in the capital villages these days. It is not just bikes and posh duplex houses that display wealth. It is more than that. Elevators in the residential houses and horses…
Domestic handset-vendor Lava will invest Rs.500 crore to set up a manufacturing plant in 20 acres in Tirupati. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation for a mobile manufacturing and electronics hub in…