Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday reviewed the current state of the economy at the meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC). FSDC is a body of financial regulators. There was no statement from the government on what was discussed precisely, ...
The railway station in prime minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency Varanasi will soon hear announcements in Tamil, Telegu, Malyalam and Kannada languages. The Railway is making special arrangements for the growing number of non-Hindi speaking people visiting the holy city....
Every state in the country is competing to attract business and investment, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday in his rebuttal of the continuous harping by the opposition that the economic situation has been bad. "Earlier, investors' summit like these used to happen in just few cities in the ...
The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd has decided to start a new scheme under which consumers can pay dues in instalments. Now consumers living in urban areas, having electricity connections up to a load of 5 KW can pay their dues in 12 easy instalments. For rural consumers the dues can be paid in 24 instalments....
Days after amateur shutterbugs on a shoestring budget thought they had lost their opportunity to capture the scenic beauty of Goa, the panchayat in North Goa's Parra, the ancestral village of former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, has scrapped a controversial tax levied on tourists....
Indian markets on Wednesday logged fresh highs on the back of strong inflow of foreign funds and earning optimism in select stocks. Banks like ICICI Bank, HDFC, IndusInd Bank gained the most. Sensex hit the record high of 40,606.91 while the Nifty surpassed the key ...
In yet another tax-friendly measure to contain harassment of taxpayers, the apex indirect tax body Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has directed all its officers to use Document Identification Number or DIN for issuing summons, arrest memo, inspection notices and search authorization. ...
A big chunk of Instagram's one billion users is young. But will the platform continue to be a favourite among young people when the Facebook-owned photo and video-sharing app launches direct shopping in the app is the question. To put it in perspective, 63 per cent of the platform's Indian users are ...
Global software major Infosys inked a six-year digital transformation deal with US-based mortgage bank Movement Mortgage, the company said on Wednesday. "Infosys will support Movement Mortgage's 650 locations in 47 states to ensure the smooth transition of business models in the company's transformation ...
In what could be a relief to the home buyers, the Supreme Court on Wednesday has ordered to complete Insolvency Resolution Process (IRP) of Jaypee Infratech Ltd within 90 days. A bench of Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari turned down the ...
