New Delhi, Delhi, India (NewsVoir) The Convocation for the 3rd and 4th Batch of ISDM, which was initially postponed due to COVID-19, finally took place on 27th March, 2022 at the beautiful and sprawling TERI-Gram campus in Gurgaon. The bright ethnic hues of the graduates' apparel played beautifully against the lush green backdrop of the [...]
The government on Thursday extended stock limits on edible oils and oilseeds till December this year in order to check the soaring prices of the commodities due to the current global geopolitical situation. The order in this regard will come into effect from April 1, an official statement said. In October 2021, the Ministry of [...]
Investors' wealth jumped over Rs 59.75 lakh crore in 2021-22 fiscal, helped by a largely buoyant trend in domestic stocks with benchmark index Sensex surging over 18 per cent during the period. Braving many headwinds in the latter part of the current fiscal, Sensex closed the 2021-22 financial year with a gain of 9,059.36 points [...]
Exide Industries on Thursday announced an investment of Rs 6,000 crore in Karnataka. This is for setting up one of the largest giga factories for advanced cell chemistry technology. "Exide Industries MD & CEO, Subir Chakraborty, met with Chief Minister (Basavaraj Bommai) this morning for Rs 6,000 crore investment in a Lithium-Ion cell manufacturing giga [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) Public sector lender Canara Bank on Thursday said it has reduced its stake in India Debt Resolution Company Ltd (IDRCL) to 5 per cent. The bad bank or the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL) will acquire bad loans from banks to help clean up their books, while the IDRCL [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) The direct selling industry grew 7.7 per cent in the pandemic impacted FY21 to cross the Rs 18,000 crore mark for the first time, according to a report.The industry's sales stood at around Rs 18,067 crore in 2020-21, which is an increase of Rs 1,291 crore over Rs 16,776 crore [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) Aggrieved homebuyers of NBCC's Gurugram project 'Green View' project, which has been declared unsafe, on Thursday demanded refund of their money as well as compensation from the state-owned firm for the "harassment" faced by them. The homebuyers have sought refund of their investments along with a 15 per cent interest [...]
SOLAN, India, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shoolini University has added another feather to its cap by crossing the landmark number of 1,000 patents filed by its researchers and students. This is a remarkable achievement considering that the record has been achieved within six years of the creation of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Cell [...]
Bengaluru, Mar 31 (PTI) Molitics Infomedia has raised its first round of funding worth USD 1.5 million from businessman Dinesh Pandey's Saamag Group to expand its social, political, and media application business. Molitics Infomedia said in a statement it has developed two applications -- 'Molitics' for journalists, social activists and political commentators and 'Molitics+', a [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) The government on Thursday kept interest rates on small savings schemes, including NSC and PPF, unchanged for the first quarter of 2022-23 due to an elevated level of inflation.The interest rate has not been revised since the first quarter of 2020-21.Public Provident Fund (PPF) and National Savings Certificate (NSC) will [...]
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 [...]
MUMBAI, MAR 31 (PTI) FOLLOWING ARE THE DIRECT RATES OF EXCHANGE (DPE) AS ANNOUNCED BY THE STATE BANK OF INDIA HERE TODAY. ( ALL RATES IN RUPEES PER UNIT ).CURRENCY TTBUY TTSEL BILLBUY TTSEL CODE USD/INR 74.97 76.47 74.91 76.63 EUR/INR 83.10 85.93 83.04 86.09 GBP/INR 97.76 100.88 97.68 101.07 JPY/INR 60.91 62.92 60.86 63.04 [...]
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 [...]
Bengaluru, Mar 31 (PTI) Wipro GE Healthcare on Thursday announced the launch of its new manufacturing facility in Bengaluru, under the government's Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. The new plant, Wipro GE Medical Device Manufacturing factory (MDM), is aligned to the national agenda of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' and will further boost local manufacturing of medical devices [...]
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) German auto major Volkswagen group has crossed the cumulative production milestone of 15 lakh units in India across its three brands - Skoda Volkswagen and Audi, according to Skoda Auto Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (SAVWIPL). SAVWIPL, which manages the Indian operations of five Volkswagen Group brands -- Skoda, Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche [...]
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) Sanjeev Gupta-led conglomerate GFG Alliance on Thursday said it has appointed Sandip Biswas -- a top industry executive working with the Tata Steel Group -- as its Group Chief Investment Officer. Biswas will join the London-based business house from April 1, at its office based out of Dubai. In his [...]
Six years ago, the market for medicines related to Ayurveda was around Rs 22,000 crore which has risen to Rs 1, 40,000 crore as Yoga and Ayurveda are increasingly trending all over the world NEW DELHI, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NirogStreet, India's first and one of the world's fastest growing technology-led end-to-end Ayurveda doctor [...]