Strengthening demand conditions accelerated the pace of India's manufacturing sector output in May, a key economic indicator showed on Monday. As per the Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), the composite indicator of manufacturing performance showed an index reading of ...
TVS Motor Company Ltd. on Monday said it closed last month selling 307,106 units. The company in a statement said it sold 294,326 units of two wheelers and 12,780 three wheelers in May 2019 as against 309,865 units (two wheelers 298,135 units, three wheelers 11,730 units) in the month of May 2018....
A man has agreed to shell out over $4.5 million for lunch with Warren Buffett, breaking the previous record for a "power lunch" with the Berkshire Hathaway founder, the media reported. This is the 20th year that Buffett, famous for making it to age 88 on a diet of...
The allocation towards Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the flagship rural job programme, is set for a minimum 30 per cent hike in the Union Budget for 2019-20. Proposed in the wake of rising unemployment in the country, more funds for the scheme would bolster rural consumption which ...
Eid shopping reached a feverish pitch in Srinagar city and other towns of the Kashmir Valley on Monday as shoppers thronged markets, literally choking most of the traffic arteries in the old city. In a land plagued by violence for over 30 years, Eid is one festival during...
The key Indian equity indices opened on a positive note on Monday due to buying activity in banking, FMCG and oil and gas stocks. ...
A prolonged dry spell and abnormally high temperatures these days have set off alarm bells for the forest department in Himachal Pradesh over forest fires causing huge damage to flora and fauna every year. Though no major forest fires have been reported so far, smoke from fires has...
Did political patronage allow the IL&FS secret society to indulge in abashed and shameful abuse of power for years and years is a question that now has some answers. The damning Ministry of Corporate Affairs action expected to be taken report submitted (May 29, 2019) to SFIO on the ...
As he hardens his stand on trade, US President Donald Trump is ending India's $5.6 billion trade concessions under the Generalised Scheme of Preferences programme with effect from June 5. "I have determined that India has not assured the United States that India will provide equitable and reasonable access to its markets," he said in a ...
Veteran industrialist and Williamson Magor Group patriarch Brij Mohan Khaitan died on Saturday at his residence here. He was 92. He was suffering from old-age ailments, according to company sources. Khaitan had recently resigned as Chairman of the group's flagship companies, ...