Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday indicated that no populist measures will come through for the railways when its budget will be merged with the general budget from the next fiscal. ...
If you are not physically with your family this Christmas, Facebook Messenger's latest group chat feature rolled out on Monday can mitigate the distance. ...
US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has said that the slow economic recovery has boosted the improvement in the job market. ...
Following RBI's announcement of stricter rules for depositing demonetised currency, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has clarified that no questions will be asked if any amount of old currency is deposited in one go, but repeated deposits may provoke queries....
The Congress on Monday termed the Narendra Modi government's decision to lower interest rate on Employee Provident Fund deposits from 8.8 per cent to 8.65 per cent and also putting a ceiling of Rs 5,000 on deposit of old notes, a "dual surgical strike" on employees and the common man and demanded a rollback of both decisions...
Mobile payment and e-commerce platform Paytm on Monday announced that it is setting up awareness camps in every district to help the country go cashless. The Paytm team is conducting sessions and workshops across schools, colleges, village panchayats and trade bodies to serve the dual purpose of informing customers about the benefits of dig...
Former union secretary E.A.S. Sarma has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to force people to use credit and debit cards as every transaction takes away a portion of their hard earned money. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Sarma said knowing the risk of hacking, the Finance Minister should not force the citizens to switch over t...
It was a year of mixed fortunes for the Indian automobile industry that faced growth as well as tax, legal and government policy challenges, industry experts said. "It definitely was a challenging year for the automotive sector in general and luxury cars in particular. The year was marked with market challenges in the form of 'infra...
Amnesty International (AI) has released a report on Monday saying the alleged attacks against the Rohingya Muslim minority by the Myanmar army may be considered crimes against humanity. The report came on the day the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' foreign ministers were to meet in Yangon to address the ongoing Rohingya crisis in the ...
There was no respite in sight for cash-strapped people on Monday as queues outside banks and ATMs for withdrawing money continued across the city with rising anger and pain. An IANS correspondent who visited about 10 banks and ATMs across the city, found over 150 people outside Punjab National Bank and State Bank of India in Kalkaji area...
