New Delhi, Mar 29 (PTI) Banking services were impacted partially for the second day on Tuesday, as a section of bank employees came in support of the nationwide strike called by central trade unions.Transactions at many public sector banks were impacted as employees did not report for duty. Besides, there were delays in cheque clearances [...]
India-UAE ties to be a defining partnership for the 21st century Dubai, United Arab Emirates (NewsVoir) India’s Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs & Food & Public Distribution and Textiles, and Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, Shri Piyush Goyal yesterday said that the country aspires to become the largest startup ecosystem in [...]
Dubai, Mar 28 (PTI) The free trade agreement between India and the UAE has opened huge opportunities and businesses of both countries should look at taking the bilateral trade to USD 250 billion by 2030, Commerce and industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday. The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) was signed by India and [...]
New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI) More than 37,000 users have joined the digital payment service meant for feature phones while 21,833 successful transaction have taken place since its launch on March 8, 2022, Parliament was informed on Monday. The UPI123Pay service is available for feature phones without internet. Prior to the launch of this service, [...]
Kolkata, Mar 28 (PTI) The West Bengal government on Monday held a roadshow in Chennai to promote the sixth edition of a state business summit.The roadshow was organised in association with Assocham to highlight the state's unique business opportunities, strategic location advantage and availability of human resource capital with investor-friendly policies.The next edition of the [...]
Bhubaneswar, Mar 28 (PTI) Claiming that several units in steel, aluminium and other sectors are struggling to run their captive power plants with depleting coal stocks, an industry body in Odisha has sought intervention of the central and state governments to resolve the issue.Utkal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) wrote to Coal and Mines [...]
Chandigarh, Mar 28 (PTI) Public transport services were affected in Haryana on Monday as the Roadways employees joined the two-day nationwide strike call given by a joint forum of the central trade unions to protest against the Centre's alleged wrong policies that are affecting farmers, workers and the general public.Commuters had to face a tough [...]
New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI) The joint forum of central trade unions on Monday said that bandh-like situation prevailed in at least eight states due to the nationwide strike against various policies of the government. The two-day strike began on Monday. "There is a bandh-like situation in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, [...]
New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI) The joint forum of central trade unions on Monday said that bandh-like situation prevailed in at least eight states due to the nationwide strike against various policies of the government. The two-day strike began on Monday. "There is a bandh-like situation in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, [...]
New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI) India has no plans to pay in rupees for the Russian oil its public sector companies buy, Parliament was informed on Monday. India buys less than one per cent of its total oil imports from Russia. But western sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have given way to [...]