Monday, December 11, 2023
NEW DELHI — The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Girish Chandra Murmu, has been elected as the Vice-Chair of the UN Panel of Auditors for the forthcoming year. “This recognition underscores India’s commitment to the highest sta...
22 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — Tata-owned Air India has operated its first ferry flight of A350-900 aircraft from Singapore to Toulouse with its new livery. “Another step closer to the arrival of India’s most-awaited aircraft. Our @Airbus A350-900 takes o...
17 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — Asian investments in renewable energy are growing 23 per cent annually with $345 billion pumped into wind, solar and clean vehicles through 2022, an assessment of energy trends by Zero Carbon Analytics finds on Thursday. The region is a...
16 Nov 2023
MUMBAI — With growing air travel during the festival season, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) notched a new record of 1,032 Air Traffic Movements (ATMs) on a single-day on November 11, officials said here on Wednesday. ...
15 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — Rattan Keswani still remembers this embarrassing episode from his long association with the doyen of Indian hospitality, Prithvi Raj Singh ‘Biki’ Oberoi. It is worth recounting, for it tells a lot about the man who defined l...
14 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a petition seeking a direction to the Centre and others to frame guidelines for regulation of trading and mining of cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are blockchain-based digital or virtual cu...
11 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a sharp surge in malicious campaigns that use “Diwali” and “Pooja” domains to scam users this festive season via e-commerce websites, a new report warned on Thursday. The...
09 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — There are many collaboration opportunities between India and Japan in semiconductors and resilient supply chains, rare-earths extraction, space technology, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, said RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das in...
09 Nov 2023
The US had joined the Adani Group with a half a billion dollar loan to build a new deep water shipping container terminal at the in strategic Colombo Port COLOMBO — The US had joined the Adani Group with a half a billion dollar loan to build a new ...
08 Nov 2023
MUMBAI — The RBI has issued a new comprehensive Master Direction to banks and NBFCs on Information Technology Governance, Risk, Controls and Assurance Practices which spells out the role of Directors of these regulated entities to discharge their d...
08 Nov 2023
MUMBAI — The State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest bank, on Saturday reported an 8 per cent increase in net profit to INR 14,330 crore for the July-September quarter of the current financial year. The bank had made a net profit of INR ...
04 Nov 2023
CUPERTINO — Apple has achieved an all-time revenue record in India in the September quarter (Q3), said its CEO Tim Cook, adding that there is a lot of headroom to grow in the country where “a lot of people are moving into the middle class”. Dur...
03 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is looking at investing as much as $50 billion in India as part of its economic diversification plans to go beyond oil, a report said. Provisional pledges from the UAE could be announced early next year, t...
02 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — The Indian gaming market is likely to hit the $7.5 billion valuation mark by FY28 – a 20 per cent CAGR growth – driven by increasing in-app purchases and advertising revenues in casual and mid-core games, a new report said o...
02 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — Unified Payment Interface (UPI) transactions soared to an all-time high of INR 17.16 lakh crore in October with a 9 per cent increase from INR 15.8 lakh crore in September this year, according to data. In volume terms also the number of...
01 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — The Oil marketing Companies on Wednesday increased the prices of commercial LPG cylinders by INR 101.5 which are effective from November 1 itself. As per the revised rates, a 19 kg LPG cylinder will now be INR 1,833 from INR 1,731 earli...
01 Nov 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ ex-assistant Steve Ballmer is now ranked as the world’s fifth-richest person on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and close to surpassing his former boss in wealth. Ballmer’s fortune...
31 Oct 2023
NEW DELHI — The weighted average price of onion in Maharashtra across all the markets has declined by 4.5 per cent and similar decline was observed in consumption centres as well after the increase in the minimum export price, the Ministry of Consu...
30 Oct 2023
WASHINGTON — The World Bank reported Monday that oil prices could be pushed into “uncharted waters” if the violence between Israel and Hamas intensifies, which could result in increased food prices worldwide. The World Bank’s Comm...
30 Oct 2023
BENGALURU — The festive season is the perfect fusion of celebration, excitement, and boundless joy. To make this season even more special, Myntra has announced ‘Diwali Dhamaka’, set to start on November 1, to help immerse customers in the festi...
30 Oct 2023
NEW DELHI — Private equity funds managed by Blackstone have acquired a majority shareholding in CARE Hospitals from Evercare, a platform of TPG RISE funds. In addition, CARE Hospitals has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in...
30 Oct 2023
LUCKNOW — All registered farmers will now get payment within three days of selling their produce (pulses and oil seeds) to the government procurement centres at the minimum support price (MSP), a government spokesman said. “The government has...
30 Oct 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta-owned Instagram is testing a new collaborative feature that will allow your friends to add photos to your posts. The development was shared by Instagram head Adam Mosseri on his broadcast channel. “New test on Instagram. ...
29 Oct 2023
NEW DELHI — Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson on Saturday announced the launch of its ‘India 6G’ programme with the formation of a 6G research team at its Chennai R&D centre, as the government aims to make the country a leader in 6G...
28 Oct 2023
NEW DELHI — Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday held bilateral talks on trade and investment in separate meetings with Japan Trade Minister Nishimura Yasutoshi and the UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch i...
28 Oct 2023
