Mumbai, Feb 28 (PTI) National airports operator AAI will provide air traffic services at the upcoming Noida International Airport at Jewar in Greater Noida, the first phase of which is expected to be commissioned by 2024, a statement said. An agreement to this effect was signed between the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Yamuna [...]
New Delhi, Feb 28 (PTI) Production of eight infrastructure sectors expanded by 3.7 per cent in January against 1.3 per cent in the same month last year on better show by coal, natural gas and cement industries, according to official data released on Monday. Crude oil and fertiliser production recorded negative growth in January. The [...]
New Delhi, Feb 28 (PTI) Shares of biotechnology major Biocon on Monday tanked over 11 per cent after the company said its subsidiary Biocon Biologics has inked a pact to acquire Viatris Inc's biosimilars business.On BSE, the shares closed 11.47 per cent lower at Rs 348.95. During the day, it touched a low of Rs [...]
28th February, 2022, New Delhi: India Science Festival celebrates India’s National Science Day with the announcement of SciWo:Science Word of the year! SciWo is a globally unique initiative to bring to limelight a word or phrase which has caught or ought to catch the imagination of the scientific community and also, the public eye. This [...]
New Delhi, Feb 28 (PTI) Infrastructure investment trust PGInvIT will acquire stakes in various assets of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) for Rs 644.15 crore, a regulatory filing said on Monday. The Board of Directors of POWERGRID Unchahar Transmission Ltd – the investment manager to PGInvIT, in its meeting held on Monday, February [...]
New Delhi, Feb 28 (PTI) The leasing of office space by startups is expected to rise 30 per cent during 2022-24 across six major cities compared to the previous three years, according to a report.In its joint report, real estate consultant Colliers India and data analytic firm CRE Matrix said that startups are expected to [...]
New Delhi, Feb 28 (PTI) Sebi's first woman chief Madhabi Puri Buch has held a number of top positions in the private sector, including at ICICI Bank, and was also among the corporate leaders who were holed up in a Mumbai hotel on the fateful night of November 26 in 2008 when terror struck the [...]
Benchmark BSE Sensex recovered from early lows to close higher for the second straight session on Monday, mirroring a rebound in Asian equities, even as the Ukraine crisis continued to roil western markets. After a weak opening, the 30-share BSE barometer plunged more than 1,025 points to the day's low of 54,833.50, before staging a [...]
New Delhi, Feb 28 (PTI) The central government's fiscal deficit at end-January worked out at 58.9 per cent of the annual budget target for 2021-22, according to official data released on Monday. The fiscal deficit was 66.8 per cent of Revised Estimate (RE) of 2020-21 during the corresponding period of the last fiscal. In actual [...]
