The Grand Musee de Parfum, Paris' first perfume museum, opened its doors here, inviting visitors to discover perfume history through a quite innovative sensory and olfactory exhibition. The Grand Musee du Parfum, which opened for public on Friday, is created after noting the absence of an emblematic place of French perfumery in Paris despite the sector's flouris...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the world needs to press ahead in the struggle against climate change. In his final press conference as Secretary-General, Ban on Friday said the UN must maintain the impetus that resulted in the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change, Xinhua news agency reported. "Climate action means...
Automobile manufacturer Honda Cars India (HCIL) on Friday proposed a price hike of up to three per cent across all its models....
The government wants public help in its crackdown on black money -- on Friday it set up an email-ID and encouraged people to give information about hoarders of illicit cash....
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley laid the foundation stone of a new domestic airport at Adampur near Jalandhar in Punjab on Friday. Spread over 40 acres, the airport terminal will cater to the air connectivity needs of Punjab's Doaba belt, the area between Beas and Sutlej rivers comprising the districts of Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur,...
Christmas is a week or so away but the cash crunch in the wake of the November 8 demonetisation has cast a long shadow over the Yuletide spirit in Kerala. The winter chill has set in, cakes and other goodies begun to be displayed in shops while Christmas decorations like stars, garlands, baubles, tinsel and other knick-knacks have ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday strongly defended demonetisation, a decision he said should have been taken in 1971 when Indira Gandhi was heading the government. "We needed to do it in 1971. We have caused huge losses by not doing this since 1971," Modi told BJP MPs, lashing out at the Congress for not taking effective measures to curb b...
Tata Sons on Friday said that its interim Chairman Ratan Tata has no plans to step down from the chairmanship of the Tata Trusts. "Further to news reports that have appeared in the media today, Ratan Tata, Interim Chairman, clarified that there are no plans for his stepping down from the chairmanship of the Tata Trusts at this point in ti...
The total number of e-governance transactions in the country has crossed Rs 1,000 crore this year, the government web portal eTaal said on Friday. The portal -- which disseminates e-transactions statistics of national and state level e-governance projects -- said the e-transactions increased by 33 per cent from last year's Rs 760 crore. ...
The central government's Finance and Appropriation Accounts for 2015-16 along with an audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) were presented in parliament on Friday, the Finance Ministry said. The Appropriation Accounts present the actual expenditure incurred by ministries/departments in relation to the appropriations ...
