New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) Congress member Dean Kuriakose on Wednesday asked the government to roll back the price hike of over 10 per cent effected on some life-saving essential medicines. Over 800 drugs, including paracetamol and azithromycin, under the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) have become expensive, he said in the Lok Sabha [...]
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) India is likely to maintain its position as the fastest-growing major economy with the ADB outlook projecting a growth rate of 7.5 per cent for 2022-23 on strong investment prospects against 5 per cent for China in January-December 2022. The Asian Development Bank Outlook 2022 said that India's growth in [...]
India is likely to see around 48,000 additional electric vehicle chargers at an investment of around Rs 14,000 crore over the next 3-4 years amid an expected healthy electric vehicle (EV) penetration in the country, a report said on Wednesday. As the EV penetration is expected to increase in the two and three-wheeler as well [...]
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) Equitas Small Finance Bank (SFB) on Wednesday said its gross advances witnessed a 15 per cent year-on-year growth on a provisional basis to Rs 20,648 crore for the fiscal ended March 2022. The bank had gross advances worth Rs 17,925 crore in FY21. Total deposits during 2021-22, grew by 16 [...]
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday raised concern over road accidents and said that India tops the world in terms of number of persons killed in road accidents. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Gadkari said that based on the latest issue of the World [...]
Petrol and diesel prices on Wednesday were hiked again by 80 paise a litre each, taking the total increase in rates in the last 16 days to Rs 10 per litre or over 10 per cent. Petrol in Delhi will now cost Rs 105.41 per litre, as against Rs 104.61 previously, while diesel rates have [...]
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa late Tuesday night revoked the state of emergency he had declared on April 1 with immediate effect. In a gazette notification no 2274/10 issued late Tuesday night, the president said he has withdrawn the emergency rule ordinance which gave security forces sweeping powers to curb any disturbance in the country. [...]
New Delhi, Apr 5 (PTI) Demanding blocking of mobile game Battlegrounds Mobile India, NGO Prahar on Tuesday claimed that Chinese internet company Tencent and South Korean firm Krafton have misled the government and reintroduced the banned gaming app PUBG in India by changing its name. Krafton is the publisher of Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI). Earlier, [...]
Noida, Apr 5 (PTI) The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) on Tuesday said it has increased the minimum rate for buying farmland from Rs 3,500 per square metre to Rs 3,750 per sq metre with effect from April 1.The GNIDA also announced an increase of around Rs 5,000 to Rs 7,000 per square metre [...]
New Delhi, Apr 5 (PTI) Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said that though Russia-Ukraine war has impacted the fuel prices across the world recently, the increase in India worked out to be only 5 per cent during April 2021 and March 2022 as against over 50 per cent in some developed and developing [...]
