New Delhi, Apr 11 (PTI) The Supreme Court Monday sought a response from the Centre on a plea seeking the endorsement of 10 years old diesel buses, which have now been converted to CNG in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh.A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai issued notice to the Ministry of [...]
New Delhi, Apr 11 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to look into public interest litigation against the “fit and proper” status accorded to the promoters of Hinduja Group's IndusInd Bank. A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi directed the RBI to treat as representation [...]
New Delhi, Apr 11 (PTI) Gujarat has topped Niti Aayog's State Energy and Climate Index-Round 1 (SECI) among larger states, which ranks states and Union territories (UTs) on six parameters, including discoms' performance, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Gujarat was followed by Kerala and Punjab, according to the government think tank's report. Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh [...]
Bhubaneswar, Apr 11 (PTI) JSW Utkal Steel Ltd (JUSL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of JSW Steel Ltd, has got the environmental clearance for setting up a 13.2 MTPA green-field integrated steel plant near Paradip from the union ministry of environment and forest and climate change, a senior official of the company said. The mega crude steel [...]
Mumbai, Apr 11 (PTI) Companies are not able to pass on the pressure from rising input costs to buyers, and this is likely to result in a compression in corporate profit margins for the March quarter, a report said on Monday. Operating profit margins for companies are set to fall by as much as 3 [...]
Mumbai, Apr 11 (PTI) India's domestic air passenger traffic is estimated to have grown by around 59 per cent year-on-year to 84 million in FY22, although it is still about 40 per cent lower as compared to the pre-pandemic level, credit ratings agency Icra said on Monday. It also expects elevated Aviation Turbine Fuel [...]
Jaipur, Apr 11 (PTI) The Commercial Tax Department of Rajasthan earned a record revenue of Rs 50,883 crore in last financial year.According to an official statement, the department collected revenue of Rs 50,883.48 crore in 2021-22, registering a growth of 25.91 per cent as compared to the previous fiscal year. The department earned Rs 4,574.17 [...]
India's GDP increased in real terms by 5.4% y/y in Q4 2021 (Q3 FY2022), the growth decelerating from 8.5% y/y in Q3 2021. CEIC's proprietary GDP nowcast projected a growth of 5.6% y/y for Q4 2021 , closer to the actual figure than RBI's projection of 5.8% y/y. MUMBAI, India, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- [...]
Kolkata, Apr 11 (PTI) West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar on Monday said that in the face of incessant rise in oil prices, people should reduce the usage of petroleum products as an antidote to such price hikes. After a spate of price rise of oil products for the last 16 days, the price of petrol [...]
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has met senior executives of American aerospace and defence majors Boeing and Raytheon and asked them to take advantage of policy initiatives in India to steadily march from ‘Make in India’ towards ‘Make for the World’. Singh along with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrived in the US capital on Sunday [...]
