New Delhi: Amid reports of ONGC’s inability to derive any benefit out of its HPCL acquisition, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Monday said the state-owned firm was free to sell its stake in the oil refining and marketing company. In its most expensive acquisition ever, Oil...
Read moreNew Delhi: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Monday made a vehement appeal to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for bringing jet fuel and natural gas under the ambit of GST to reduce multiplicity of taxes and improve business climate. When GST was introduced on July 1, 2017...
Read moreMumbai: The Indian rupee appreciated by 28 paise to 70.74 against the US dollar in early trade Monday as gains in domestic equity market and positive developments on the US-China trade talks front strengthened investor sentiments. At the interbank foreign exchange the rupee opened at...
Read moreMumbai: Equity benchmark BSE Sensex rose over 150 points Monday led by gains in HDFC Bank, ITC and HUL, amid positive global cues and foreign fund inflow. After opening on a volatile note, the 30-share index swung over 200 points in early trade. It was...
Read moreBhubaneswar: Operation at Ib Thermal Power Station (ITPS), a unit of Odisha Power Generation Corporation Limited (OPGC), was suspended Sunday for an uncertain period due to severe coal shortage and disruption in coal supply. The unit is located at Banharpalli in Jharsuguda district of Odisha....
Read moreMumbai: Facebook-owned instant messaging giant WhatsApp will be compliant with data localisation norms over the next two months, post which it can roll out its much-delayed payments service here, says the National Payments Corporation. Even after the launch of WhatsApp's payments service, it will take...
Read moreNew Delhi: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Sunday invited global energy majors to invest in the world’s fastest growing energy consumer, promising stable policy and regulatory regime. Speaking at CERAWEEK conference’s opening dinner here, he said as the government looks at New India of 2022, “I...
Read moreNew Delhi: Under fire for citing cinema box-office collections to negate economic slowdown in the country, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Sunday withdrew his statement and clarified that he made the comment as he was in Mumbai, which is the film capital of India and...
Read moreNew Delhi: The government plans a slew of reforms in the mining sector, including giving a big push to commercial mining to help attract investment and improve mineral production in the country. As part of this, highly placed sources said the government would discontinue the...
Read moreNew Delhi: In a major setback for India's economic outlook, a World Bank report Sunday estimated India's economic growth in the current fiscal at 6 per cent, lower than the Reserve Bank of India's latest revised outlook of 6.1 per cent. This comes as another...
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The House Committee of the Rajya Sabha, headed by Om Mathur of the BJP, has proposed that MPs be allowed...
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has lowered repo rate (the rate at which the central bank lends money to...
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It requires no additional stress that India attaches great importance to its ties with Bangladesh – a nation reborn by...
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Afghanistan is again at the cross-roads. Presidential polls on Saturday was not trouble-free but, significantly, Taliban fighters could not stage...
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