Patna, Mar 31 (PTI) Over 3,880 utilisation certificates of various projects and schemes of the Bihar government totalling Rs 92,687 crore from 2019 to 2021 were not submitted till the end of FY21, according to a CAG report.The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India for the financial year 2020-21 was tabled [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) The government has taken very seriously the four incidents of fire in two-wheeler electric vehicles (EVs) in the past one week and will take appropriate action against the manufacturers after a forensic investigation, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari told Lok Sabha on Thursday.He also said that as on [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) The Centre's fiscal deficit at the end of February stood at 82.7 per cent of the full year budget target, mainly on account of higher expenditure, according to government data released on Thursday.In the last financial year, the fiscal deficit or gap between the expenditure and revenue was 76 per [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) The net office leasing in January-March 2022 jumped over two-fold to 11.55 million square feet across seven cities on better demand from corporates and co-working operators amid significant reduction in COVID-19 infections, according to real estate consultant JLL India. Net absorption of office space stood at 5.43 million square feet [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) State-owned National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is planning a cashless treatment facility for road accident victims on all four arms of the Golden Quadrilateral stretch, Parliament was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the success of the scheme [...]
The ongoing war in Ukraine, which is the world's largest sunflower grower, is likely to result in at least 25 per cent or 4-6 lakh tonnes shortage of crude sunflower oil supplies in India next fiscal, according to a report. Around 70 per cent of crude sunflower oil comes to India from Ukraine and about [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) As many as 37,078 accidents involving trucks or lorries occurred in 2019, causing 13,532 deaths, Parliament was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, the Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said that as many as 23,868 people were killed in road accidents in which impacting vehicles were trucks or lorries [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) As oil prices dived on news that the US was considering record release from the reserves, India on Thursday said it supports the initiative to let out from the strategic stockpile to cool rising oil prices. Oil prices plunged on Thursday on news that the United States was considering releasing [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) The number of women-led micro, small and medium enterprises in India has increased substantially by over 75 per cent in FY22 to 8.59 lakh units, against 4.9 lakh units in the previous fiscal, Parliament was informed on Thursday. "While 4.9 lakh women led MSMEs registered on the portal during the [...]
New Delhi/Mumbai, Mar 31 (PTI) American banking major Citi has joined a long list of foreign banks that have either exited or cut down on their business presence in India with the sale of its consumer banking business to Axis Bank for Rs 12,325 crore. Except for Singaporean lender DBS Bank, which has expanded its [...]
