Lahore, Mar 13 (PTI) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that he did not join politics to check the prices of 'aloo and tamatar', as he attacked the Opposition parties for tabling a no confidence motion against him in Parliament, accusing him for mismanaging the economy amidst spiralling inflation.Addressing a political rally in [...]
Jabalpur, Mar 13 (PTI) Operations at Jabalpur airport in Madhya Pradesh resumed on Sunday night, a day after a plane with 55 passengers on board overshot the runway, an official said. The operations at the Dumna airport resumed around 8 pm, airport director Kusum Das told PTI. A DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) team [...]
Coimbatore, Mar 13 (PTI) City-based T Stanes and Company Ltd has taken another leap in its 160-year-old history by launching its Stanes Garden Centre to cater to the need of organic farmers. The garden centre, which is spread across a sprawling one acre land in the heart of the city, aims to promote urban agriculture [...]
Bhaderwah (J&K), Mar 13 (PTI) As many as 100 farmers from different villages of Chenab valley were on Sunday imparted basic technical know-how to grow aromatic plants under the Union Government's 'Aroma Mission 2', officials said. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM) Jammu organized the day-long training cum awareness [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) A special reserve fund set up in 2018 to deal with market fluctuations and other eventualities has acted as a saviour for Khadi institutions by cushioning them against the steep price hike of raw cotton, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission said on Sunday. In 2018, KVIC had decided to [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) The government is looking at creating a fund for agritech startups, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Sunday. The government is looking at significant participation of startups in defence R&D as huge opportunities are there in drones, defence and technical textile sectors for entrepreneurs, the minister said at [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) Government promoted CSC SPV on Sunday said its education and CSR wing -- CSC Academy -- has signed a memorandum of understanding with GD Goenka University to deliver higher education courses and skilling programmes to students across the country. With the partnership, the CSC Academy centres will be able to [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) The government is looking to overhaul the regulatory structure to facilitate development of technology and interaction with industry as a partner and not as adversaries, telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Sunday. Addressing the inaugural session of a TDSAT seminar, Vaihsnaw said that the system entangled everybody and some people [...]
Jammu, Mar 13 (PTI) Expressing concern over "unethical and allurement tactics" adopted by multi-brand companies involved in the medicine business, Jammu Pharmaceutical Distributors Association (JPDA) on Sunday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in safeguarding this "noble trade" in the interest of healthcare. JPDA President Rakesh Gupta claimed that "price war and massive [...]
Mumbai, Mar 13 (PTI) The fifth largest affordable housing player Shriram Housing Finance has set a target of doubling its loan-book to Rs 10,000 crore and become the third largest player by FY2024 on the back of a 45 per cent growth this fiscal at around Rs 5,300 crore. Shriram Housing Finance, promoted by Shriram [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) SpiceHealth and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) are putting the onus on each other for the "contamination" of COVID-19 testing machines at the Amritsar airport that led to approximately 64 percent of the passengers on two international flights falsely testing positive on arrival in January.SpiceHealth, which was then operating [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) The government's fertiliser subsidy bill in the current fiscal year may go up by about Rs 10,000 crore due to the Russia-Ukraine war, but higher tax revenues will help keep fiscal deficit close to the estimated 6.9 per cent level, an official said. The official further said the oil prices are [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) M1xchange, an online platform for discounting trade receivables of MSMEs, is targeting to double its customer base and hit transaction value of Rs 30,000 crore in the next fiscal year, as the market has huge growth potential, the company's top official said. The invoice discounting of the due payments of [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) Realty firm Birla Estates expects sales revenue of around Rs 11,000 crore from its newly launched luxury housing project in south Mumbai and has already sold properties worth Rs 1,000 crore, its CEO K T Jithendran said. Birla Estates Pvt Ltd, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BK Birla group's [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma was arrested and granted bail last month for allegedly ramming his car into the official vehicle of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), the Delhi Police said on Sunday. The incident took place on February 22. Sharma was arrested the same day and [...]
In the second week of March 22 between 7th March to 13th March 2022, the share market witnessed a rebound with Sensex going higher +2,706.53 (5.12%) to 55,550.30 points and NSE’s benchmark index Nifty reclaiming 16,630 points by rebounding +803.30 (5.08%) points. The biggest market actions in the second week of March’22 involved FPI Sellings, [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) India's economic recovery from COVID-19 is progressing well, with better than expected growth rates, and the trajectory will continue but persistently high oil prices can play spoilsport, eminent economist Ashima Goyal said on Sunday. Goyal, who is also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the RBI, further said [...]
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) State-owned gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd has declared a second interim dividend of 50 per cent (Rs 5 per share) for the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2022. The total dividend payout will be Rs 2,220.19 crore with a record date of March 22, the company said in a [...]
Toronto, Mar 13 (The Conversation) Western governments have united to bring in a number of serious economic sanctions against Russia in retaliation for its violence in Ukraine, including the latest announcement that the US is revoking Russia’s “most favoured nation” status that will impose new trade tariffs.The moves were not a surprise.The US and its [...]
Ottawa, Mar 13 (The Conversation) The wave of sanctions that has followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been described with adjectives such as “massive” and “severe.” Another word has also often been used to describe sanctions on Russia: “targeted.” Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, has even used both words side [...]
