Bhopal, Apr 13 (PTI) The Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday said the state will organise an auto show from April 28-30. The first-ever 'Madhya Pradesh Auto Show 2022' will be held at the Super Corridor Square near Indore airport and National Automotive Test Tracks (NATRAX) in Pithampur near Bhopal. "Madhya Pradesh is all set to [...]
New Delhi, Apr 13 (PTI) The Centre is working on a scheme to promote natural farming and is mulling incorporating this traditional method of cultivation in the syllabus of agri-varsities, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Wednesday. The government wants to encourage different methods of farming techniques, including natural and organic, in order to [...]
Mumbai, Apr 13 (PTI) Sliding for the second straight session, the rupee dipped 4 paise to close at 76.19 against the US dollar on Wednesday, tracking a firm greenback overseas and weak domestic macroeconomic data. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened lower at 76.15 against the American currency, and slipped further to [...]
London, Apr 13 (PTI) The UK government on Wednesday announced further 178 sanctions on separatists, including the self-styled Prime Minister and Chair of the government of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, who it says prop up Russian-backed illegal breakaway regions of Ukraine in the ongoing conflict in the region. The move comes ahead [...]
Mumbai, Apr 13 (PTI) With the Reserve Bank of India prioritising inflation over growth, the repo rate is likely to be hiked by at least 25 basis points in June, SBI's Ecowrap report said on Wednesday. In its monetary policy announced last week, the RBI had left the repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent. [...]
Washington, Apr 13 (PTI) Russia's war in Ukraine is likely to result in a significant 1.3 per cent lower GDP growth for India and 2.3 percentage point lower income growth, a top World Bank official has said, even as the lending agency observed that India is emerging strongly from the COVID-19 crisis.Hans Timmer, World Bank [...]
New Delhi, Apr 13 (PTI) The Delhi High Court Wednesday observed that the court is not a platform to propagate any religion and asked lawyers to desist from taking names of any religion.The court made the point clear while hearing a batch of pleas by several account holders challenging their suspension and deletion by the [...]
New Delhi, Apr 13 (PTI) Automobile dispatches from factories to dealerships in India declined by 6 per cent in FY22, with the two-wheeler segment reporting its lowest wholesales in the last 10 years, auto industry body SIAM said on Wednesday. Total wholesales across categories in the 2021-22 fiscal declined to 1,75,13,596 units, as against 1,86,20,233 [...]
New Delhi, Apr 13 (PTI) Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday said the Centre is still awaiting names of members from farmers' unions for setting up a panel on minimum support price (MSP). While announcing the repeal of three contentious farm laws in November last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised that a [...]
Mumbai, Apr 13 (PTI) Equity indices gave up early gains to close in the red for the third session on the trot on Wednesday, weighed by selling in banking and finance counters amid inflationary pressures and persistent foreign fund outflows. A weak rupee and lacklustre global cues also kept buying sentiment in check, traders said. [...]
