Mumbai, Feb 15 (PTI) The budget session of the Maharashtra legislature will be held in Mumbai between March 3 and March 25. The annual budget will be tabled on March 11, an official said on Tuesday. Earlier, a discussion was held to host the budget session in Nagpur but due to the MLA hostel there [...]
Nagpur, Feb 15 (PTI) Coal Secretary Anil Kumar Jain on Tuesday said the import of coal for thermal power generation will end in India by 2024 and the domestic production of the dry-fuel is expected to rise by 10 per cent. Jain was in Nagpur for a review meeting with Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL), a [...]
Bhopal, Feb 15 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually inaugurate the 550 TPD (tonne per day) capacity Bio-CNG plant at Indore in Madhya Pradesh on February 19, a state government official said on Tuesday. Besides inaugurating this plant, the prime minister will interact with Swacchata entrepreneurs of Bhopal, Indore and Dewas on the occasion, [...]
New Delhi, Feb 15 (PTI) Indian businesses have ranked fifth based on their concern for climate change and Indian companies are more likely to be implementing tougher climate actions compared with their global counterpart, advisory firm Deloitte said in a report on Tuesday. The Deloitte survey, done across 21 countries during September-October 2021, has found [...]
Equity indices staged a stellar comeback on Tuesday after suffering their worst losses in a year in the previous session as bargain hunters piled into energy, finance and IT stocks amid signs of easing Russia-Ukraine tensions. European markets clambered up following reports that some Russian troops near Ukraine were returning to their bases, which could [...]
New Delhi, Feb 15 (PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday asked Sebi to initiate the next generation reforms to improve the ease of doing business and also be prepared to deal with possible market turbulence in the wake of actions by the US Federal Reserve. Addressing the board of Sebi, Sitharaman appreciated the initiatives [...]
Despite retail inflation rising to 6.01 per cent in January, and likely to remain elevated till April, a foreign brokerage report expects RBI to leave key policy rates unchanged throughout the first half of 2022. Swiss brokerage UBS Securities India sees the policy to change only from the second half wherein the Monetary Policy Committee [...]
Mumbai, Feb 15 (PTI) India's IT sector is set to grow at 15.5 per cent – the fastest in over a decade – to USD 227 billion in FY22, as the pandemic pushes up demand for digitisation at companies across the world, industry grouping Nasscom said on Tuesday. The revenue growth is much higher than [...]
Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday welcomed the "superb" response from the industry for the government's semiconductor manufacturing initiatives. Speaking at the IT industry grouping Nassom’s strategic review press conference, Vaishnaw also exhorted the industry to "double down" on its efforts. The Union Cabinet had on December 15 approved a Rs [...]
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (NewsVoir) • LetsVenture rebrands with a new tagline - LetsVenture Together • Introduces an upgraded user experience & interface for angel investors • Aims to double investors & founders on the platform with programmes in 2022 LetsVenture, India’s leading early stage platform for investors and founders, that counts marquee investors such as [...]
