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Reliance General, SBI General participate in govt’s doorstep crop insurance policy distribution drive

New Delhi, Feb 26 (PTI) Reliance General Insurance Company Ltd (RGICL) and SBI General on Saturday said they have participated in the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana's nationwide doorstep crop insurance policy distribution mega drive -- 'Meri Policy Mere Hath' under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav campaign. Reliance General Insurance Company Ltd (RGICL) said it has [...]

AI flight carrying Indian evacuees from Ukraine to arrive Mumbai in evening

Mumbai, Feb 26 (PTI) The campaign to repatriate Indian nationals from Ukraine has commenced as the first Air India flight, AIC-1944, from Bucharest in Romania carrying 219 Indian evacuees from Ukraine, is expected to arrive in the city late evening, an official statement said on Saturday. The Air India flight had departed from Mumbai at [...]

Taxpayers’ contribution to country remarkable; govt’s duty to protect them: Gadkari

New Delhi, Feb 26 (PTI) Terming the taxpayer's contribution to the country's reconstruction 'remarkable' and 'historical', Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said it is the duty of the government to protect the honest taxpayer. Addressing the '2nd TIOL National Taxation Awards 2021', Gadkari further said the government is constantly bringing reforms in the tax sector. "Today, [...]

SRM University-AP Launches Aadigyan: To Promote India’s Cultural Knowledge Tradition

Andhra Pradesh, India (NewsVoir) Aadigyan, the flagship initiative of the International Relations and Higher Studies office at SRM University-AP, has been launched in a grand ceremony held at the auditorium in hybrid mode on February 26, 2022. Chief Guest Shri G Kishan Reddy, Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Development of the North Eastern Region of [...]

Reliance takes control of around 200 Future Retail stores, offers jobs to employees

New Delhi, Feb 26 (PTI) Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd has taken over the operations of at least 200 stores of Future Retail and has offered jobs to its employees after the Kishore Biyani-led group failed to make lease payments to landlords, sources said on Saturday. Reliance Retail, the retail arm of the oil-to-telecom [...]

UK leads drive to exclude Russia from SWIFT banking network

London, Feb 26 (PTI) The UK government is leading the charge in Europe to exclude Russia from the worldwide SWIFT banking network, as part of tough sanctions designed to deliver a financial blow to President Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine.The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is the world’s main banking messaging [...]

India watching global energy markets, supports release of oil from strategic storage

New Delhi, Feb 26 (PTI) India, the world's third largest energy importing and consuming nation, on Saturday said it is closely monitoring the global energy markets to track any supply disruptions following the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and will support release of oil from strategic storages to cool prices. International oil prices climbed to an over seven-year [...]

VIL realigns consumer digital function to drive operational scale, pace of delivery

New Delhi, Feb 26 (PTI) Telecom operator Vodafone Idea is re-aligning and streamlining its consumer digital resources to sharpen focus on driving operational scale and pace of delivery. VIL is proposing to bring all digital resources from different functions under a more 'holistic and integrated' consumer digital product curation and delivery organisation, according to an [...]

Brakes India unveils high performance friction brake pads

Chennai, Feb 26 (PTI): Brakes India, engaged in the manufacturing of braking equipment for automotive and non-automotive applications, recently unveiled high-performance braking pads that offer enhanced braking at high speeds and in hilly train regions, the company said on Saturday. The new 'Elite' brake pads, launched under the TVS Apache brand are stripe coated with [...]

Sebi comes out with terms of usage of market data

New Delhi, Feb 26 (PTI) With an aim to enhance the ease of accessibility and usability of data disseminated in public by various data sources in securities market, Sebi has asked market intermediaries to make available such data to users, 'free of charge' both for 'viewing' and for download. Financial markets are traditionally data-rich and data-driven [...]