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New Delhi , May 17   The Central government on Monday asked the States/UTs to direct all the stockholders, millers, traders and importers to declare the stocks of pulses while requesting to monitor the prices of pulses on a weekly…

Mumbai: Economic impact of Covid resurgence dented investors' sentiments during Friday's trade session. Both the key indices closed on a flat note. They opened slightly higher but kept seeing repeated bouts of sell-offs, followed by…

New Delhi: Buoyed by the continuous remote learning amid the pandemic, the online higher education market in India will grow 10 times over the next five years to reach $5 billion by the financial year 2025, a new report said on Monday.…

The steady, inexorable spread of the Covid-19 second wave and the inevitable lockdowns that follow have begun to sap the strength of India’s 5.5 million-strong truck fleet. According to industry bodies and research institutes, the road…

Pan-India power consumption data for the first fortnight of May (May 1-15) indicates that the expansion of Covid-19 lockdowns across the country has begun having an impact on electricity demand. While the month of April 2021 had recorded…

Oil marketing companies hiked petrol and diesel prices yet again on Friday, this time by a steep 29 paise per litre for petrol and 34 paise per litre for diesel. This latest hike, the fourth such increase this week, brings the total…

New Delhi, May 15 (UNI) The Goods and Services Tax Council will meet on May 28 after a gap of seven months amid calls from States for policy measures related to COVID-19 pandemic. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will chair the…

NEW DELHI: The GST Council will meet on May 28 and is likely to discuss tax rates on COVID-related drugs, oxygen equipment and vaccines. The meeting among other things is also likely to discuss the compensation mechanism for states' GST…

New Delhi: SAIL-Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) set a new single day liquid medical Oxygen (LMO) dispatch on May 14 by sending 28 number of tankers containing 499.16 tonnes of the life-saving gas. The highly motivated team of the Oxygen Plants…

New Delhi: The Centre has appointed former Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) CMD Tapas Kumar Nag as the head of a high-level committee on safety in coal mines formed earlier this year in January. Nag was earlier serving as one of the five…

New Delhi: P Sitaram has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Key Managerial Personnel of IDBI Bank. In a regulatory filing to the stock exchange of Saturday, IDBI Bank has informed that the Board of Directors of the Bank at…

Washington, May 16 (Sputnik) SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with yet another batch of Starlink satellites, as well as Tyvak-0130 and Capella Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, the company informs. The Falcon 9…

Gorakhpur, May 15 (UNI) Renowned USA based aircraft manufacturing company Boeing would be setting up a 200 bedded ICU Covid hospital here, the native place of chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Uttar Pradesh Chief minister Yogi Adityanath who…

New Delhi, May 15 (UNI) Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said that the country could hit the target of USD 400 billion in merchandise exports due to the performance of the sector in April this year and in fiscal…

Expected to be ‘healthy normal’ at 103 percent of the long period average (LPA) of 880.6 mm

MUMBAI: After being in the skies for 15 years, Wadia Group-owned GoAir has rebranded itself as 'Go First' as the airline focuses on ultra-low-cost business model amid the aviation industry grappling with pandemic headwinds. The…

NEW DELHI:Reliance Jio topped the 4G speed chart with data download rate of 20.1 megabit per second, while Vodafone was ahead of others in upload speed at 6.7 Mbps in April, according to the latest data from telecom regulator Trai. Jio…

New Delhi , May 13: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday handed over possession to home buyers upon completion of the first residential project of the Centre's Special Window for Affordable and Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH)…

Kolkata, May 08 (UNI) British Council has announced the eleventh edition of its popular Summer School program that helps parents from across India give their children the confidence and tools to succeed in an evolving world. Since 2010,…

Mumbai, May 13 (UNI) Torrent Pharma on Thursday entered into a royalty free, non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreement with Eli Lilly and Company, joining a group of leading Indian pharmaceutical companies for Baricitinib for Covid-19 in…