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Power Minister RK Singh said on Monday that the nation’s thermal power plants had sufficient coal stocks to meet power demand and that stocks at the plants were rising. India’s coal-fired thermal power plants have been facing low coal…

Bharti Airtel on Monday became the second of the three private telcos to opt for the option to defer by four years the payment of spectrum as well as adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. In a notification to the exchanges, Airtel said it…

Petrol and diesel prices on Sunday were hiked for the fifth straight day by 35 paise per litre each, pushing pump rates to a new high across the country. The price of petrol in Delhi rose to its highest-ever level of Rs 107.59 a litre…

The country is set to become a reinsurance hub with the International Financial Services Centre Authority (IFSCA), India’s first single regulator for the Gujarat-based International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), announcing a new liberal…

As many as 16,570 new companies were registered in the country in September, taking the total number of active companies to more than 14.14 lakh, according to official data. Data from the corporate affairs ministry showed that a total of…

With demand coming back across markets, rural and urban, the September quarter saw corporate sales regain momentum. Larger players continued to take away market share from unorganised units. However, inflation in inputs weighed on profits…

Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have turned net sellers in the Indian market by pulling out Rs 3,825 crore in October so far. In the past two months, huge buying was witnessed in the debt segment when FPIs had Rs 13,363 crore in…

Srinagar, Oct 24  (Majid Jahangir reports) A ray of hope has been rekindled for the fledgling tourism industry here following months-long lockdowns induced by Covid, as Union Home Minister Amit Shah flagged off the first Srinagar-Sharjah…

Port Blair, Oct 24 (UNI) The A & N State Cooperative Bank added another feather in it's cap by achieving the milestone profit of Rs. 7.20 Crores in the year 2020-21, revealed Mr. Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Vice Chairman of the Bank in his…

NEW DELHI: The Non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) cannot lend more than Rs 1 crore to a borrower for funding purchase of initial public offering (IPOs). This is part of a comprehensive set of rules for NBFCs approved on Friday by the…

NEW DELHI: Even when the Reserve Bank of India decided to maintain accommodative stance to focus on growth, its external member Jayant R Varma voted against accommodative stance, arguing that risk to inflation and growth is more aggravated…

NEW DELHI: Though its legacy business — oil-to-chemical (O2C) operations — continues to rake in big moolah for Reliance Industries, it has made rapid progress in expanding its new age businesses. The O2C segment accounted for 63% of the…

NEW DELHI: India’s leading private sector lender — ICICI Bank — has posted a strong set of numbers in the second quarter of the current financial year, signaling a sustained recovery of the banking sector as well as the economy. ICICI…

Owning a vehicle in India is not only a matter of pride, but it also brings with it a sense of independence. You use it to commute to work, to run daily errands, to take your family out for movies and to the shopping mall, and even…

While the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) retained the accommodative stance and kept the main policy rates unchanged in the review earlier this month, Jayanth R Varma, a member of the MPC, has strongly argued for tightening…

One97 Communications, the parent entity of Paytm, has received approval of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to launch the $2.2 billion (around Rs 16,600 crore) initial public offering (IPO), the largest in India’s corporate…

The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) has turned down Future Retail’s plea to lift the interim stay on its Rs 24,700 crore deal with Reliance Retail, providing a boost to Amazon’s challenge that the deal was in violation of…

Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor M Rajeshwar Rao on Friday cautioned that the failure of any large non-banking finance company (NBFC) or housing finance company (HFC) may translate into a risk to its lenders with the potential to…

New Delhi, Oct 22 (UNI) Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd on Friday reported a consolidated net profit of ₹13,680 crore in the quarter ended 30 September, registering a 43% y-o-y jump over the ₹9,567 crore clocked in the…

There’s elation and there’s euphoria, and then there’s the unrestrained rapture that descends upon Bitcoin’s emboldened bulls whenever the cryptocurrency soars to a fresh record. Bitcoin was holding at about $64,650 as of 11:30 a.m. in…