by PTI News | Feb 19, 2022 | 9:25 am | Economy, News
Chennai, Feb 19 (PTI) Sundaram Home Finance has pegged tier II and III cities to be the growth drivers over the next few years and has drawn up plans to recruit 200 people in the southern market, company Managing Director D Lakshminarayanan has said. The company was bullish on the long term prospects of the [...]
by PTI News | Feb 18, 2022 | 10:44 pm | Economy, News
New Delhi, Feb 18 (PTI) The comprehensive free trade agreement signed between India and the UAE would help the two-way commerce reach the USD 100 billion mark in over five years and create lakhs of jobs in both countries, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. The agreement, dubbed as the Comprehensive Economic [...]
by PTI News | Feb 18, 2022 | 10:38 pm | Economy, News
Dubai, Feb 18 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) signed between India and the UAE on Friday marked a milestone in the bilateral ties, which will lead to a glorious, shared future and enhanced investments. The path-breaking trade agreement was signed during a virtual summit between Prime Minister [...]
by PTI News | Feb 18, 2022 | 9:49 pm | Economy, News
New Delhi, Feb 18 (PTI) The Centre has made available 4.36 lakh tonnes of fertilisers to Chhattisgarh so far for the rabi (winter sown) season as against the requirement of 3.61 lakh tonnes. In an official statement, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers said as on February 17, 2022, 4.36 lakh tonnes have been made [...]
by PTI News | Feb 18, 2022 | 8:52 pm | Economy, News
Dubai, Feb 18 (PTI) Leading NRI businessmen on Friday hailed the signing of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and the UAE, saying the landmark deal will take the economic and commercial engagements to the next level and bring both the sides on a win-win position. CEPA, a comprehensive path-breaking trade agreement between [...]
by PTI News | Feb 18, 2022 | 8:20 pm | Economy, News
Mumbai, Feb 18 (PTI) Focus on domestic business will help the tourism and hospitality sector recover from the adverse impact of the pandemic, Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL) Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Puneet Chhatwal said on Friday. "We need to focus more and more on domestic business, leisure or non-leisure. If we do [...]
by PTI News | Feb 18, 2022 | 7:52 pm | Economy, News
Hyderabad, Feb. 18 (PTI) Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao will participate in an interactive session with co-founder of Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates during BioAsia, the largest annual global Biotechnology and Life Sciences convention of Asia, starting on February 24. “The highlight of the 2022 edition will be a fire-side chat between K.T. Rama Rao, Minister [...]
by PTI News | Feb 18, 2022 | 7:36 pm | Economy, News
Beijing, Feb 18 (PTI) Wary of the USD 500 million Millennium Corporation Challenge (MCC) programme of the US to Nepal which has resulted in sharp political polarisation in the Himalayan nation, China on Friday said it is against "coercive diplomacy" and aid at the expense of sovereignty. Wading into the political debate in Kathmandu over [...]
by PTI News | Feb 18, 2022 | 7:30 pm | Economy, News
Kolkata, Feb 18 (PTI) Plantation growers' body Tea Association of India (TAI) has requested the Tea Board to include bought leaf factories as stakeholders in the new law that will replace the existing Tea Act.A draft Tea (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2022, has been sent to the stakeholders for their feedback.The Bill has included blenders, [...]
by PTI News | Feb 18, 2022 | 6:29 pm | Economy, News
Mumbai, Feb 18 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday pushed for early completion of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project and said his government's focus is on creating infrastructure for the 21st century in the financial capital.He said the ambitious project (also called bullet train) is the need of the hour as it will strength [...]
