Though the fledgling real estate sector facing a slowdown due to the weak residential segment showed signs of recovery this year with affordable and mid-segment housing driving sales amidst largely stagnant prices, the liquidity crisis gripping NBFCs, a major source of funding for realty, put the brakes on recov...
After assistant loco pilots, technicians and gangmen, Indian Railways is expecting another heavy rush of applicants as it will soon recruit over 14,000 junior engineers (JE) in mostly safety-related semi-supervisory posts. The national transporter will offer job opportunities to diploma holders in all ...
To show the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it is reigning in Elon Musk from sending out irresponsible tweets, the electric car company Tesla has named Oracle heavyweight Larry Ellison and top-ranked HR executive Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to its board....
Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu here on Friday agreed to establish a strategic partnership between the two countries. "More than an association, we want to be brothers in the future, in areas such ...
US stocks ended mixed in another wild trading session as volatility continued to rattle investors amid economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday fell 76.42 points, or 0.33 per cent, to 23,062.40. The S&P 500 was down 3.09 points, or 0.12 per cent, to 2,485.74,...
The Italian government backs a halt to the selling of arms to Saudi Arabia and intends to announce its position the issue "soon", populist premier Giuseppe Conte told reporters in Rome on Friday. "We are not in favour of the sale of these weapons," Conte said at his end-of-...
Tracking overnight gains in the US markets, the key equity indices -- the BSE Sensex and the Nifty50 -- closed on Friday with 0.75 per cent gains. Taking cues from the Asian markets both indices stayed comfortably in the green throughout the days' trade. Finance stocks, which have the highest weightage among all the sectors on the ...
The financial sector led the gains on the major indices -- BSE Sensex and Nifty50 -- during the Friday afternoon trade, as Asian markets advanced, tracking overnight gains in the US markets. Finance stocks, which have the highest weightage among all the sectors on BSE, rose 1.24 per cent....
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), which turned two this month, remains a work in progress despite creditors getting record recoveries and a rise of never-before opportunities to exit and buy businesses in India. To explain IBC's birth, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) ...
Chinese stocks opened higher on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.02 per cent to open at 2,483.62 points. The Shenzhen Component Index opened 0.20 per cent higher at 7,229.87 points, Xinhua news agency reported....
