Heavy snowfall over the past 36 hours has caused massive damage to apple trees as life was thrown out of gear in the Kashmir Valley for the second day on Friday. The valley remained cut off from the rest of the country since Thursday as both surface and air traffic remained suspended due to snowfall....
India's oilmeal exports have dropped 55 per cent year-on-year in October, said the Solvent Extractors Association of India (SEA). The country exported 105,085 tonne of oilmeal during the month this year against 233,867 tonne in October 2018, said SEA....
Indian markets opened lower at 40,630.56 on Friday after hitting record levels during the past sessions. The Sensex had closed 40,653.74 on Thursday. At 9.29 a.m. on Friday, the Sensex was down 70.05 points at 40,583.69, while...
US stocks ended mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow little changed, as Wall Street digested decreased US labour productivity in the third quarter and a speech of Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans....
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 ...
