New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI) National Startup Day is a validation of the role of startups in the growth of the country's GDP and strengthening India's position at a global stage, and will encourage young talent to see entrepreneurship as a primary career option, according to industry experts. On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced [...]
New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI) Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the nation's largest oil firm, on Sunday said it will invest over Rs 7,000 crore in setting up city gas distribution networks in the cities for which it has secured a licence in the latest bidding round. IOC secured 33 per cent of the demand potential [...]
New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI) National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) chairperson Priyank Kanoongo has advocated increasing taxes on tobacco products as well as on films, OTT platforms and other media that display use of such items in any form. He said affordability and easy availability of lethal tobacco products is harmful, especially [...]
Bengaluru, Jan 16 (PTI) Extolling the start-up policy of Karnataka, the state Minister for IT-BT and Skill Development Dr C N Ashwath Narayan on Sunday said that out of 46 start-ups chosen from across India for the National Start-ups Awards-2021, 14 are from Karnataka. Addressing a press conference on the achievements of start-ups from Karnataka [...]
New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI) The proposed merger of debt-ridden Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank with Unity Small Finance Bank (USFB) is being examined and the process of amalgamation will start after the government approval, sources said. Various aspects of the scheme of amalgamation have been examined and the government would soon send its suggestions, [...]
Mumbai, Jan 16 (PTI) Less than one-third of the people who cancelled their flights owing to the emergence of the Omicron variant-led third pandemic wave were able to receive refunds, according to an online survey.For those who were forced to cancel their hotel bookings on account of the same reason, 34 per cent of people [...]
New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI) Common Services Centers (CSC) has launched the ''Yogyata'' mobile phone application to provide vocational education and skill enhancement opportunities to youth and citizens in rural areas.The Yogyata app will leverage CSCs massive reach and penetration in the target group while providing an opportunity to access courses that add skills and [...]
New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI) Amid a clamour for allowing direct listing of Indian unicorns in overseas market without listing on domestic bourses, Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has said the remedy is worse than the disease as Indian authorities will not just lose the oversight but also the right to tax gains accruing from businesses [...]
Mumbai, Jan 16 (PTI) Sunteck Realty is on a Rs 22,000-crore potential revenue path by launching seven projects in and around the Mumbai metropolitan region over the next five to eight years.These projects are expected to make it one of the largest realtors in terms of the topline.The realty firm has built the first uber [...]
New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI) The government could consider in the upcoming Budget levying TDS/TCS on sale and purchase of cryptocurrencies above a certain threshold and such transactions should be brought within the ambit of specified transactions for the purpose of reporting to income tax authorities, Nangia Andersen LLP Tax Leader Aravind Srivatsan said. Also, a [...]
