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'Rating IDBI Bank as private is against | Chennai, March 20 (IANS) The All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) has demanded the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to reconsider its decision to categorise IDBI Bank as a private entity. | 20-Mar-2019 |
Tax payers' money to save Jet Airways: C | New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) The Congress on Wednesday said the government intended to bring a bailout package for the cash-strapped Jet Airways - partly owned by foreign investors - using Indian tax payers' money. | 20-Mar-2019 |
1 bn Indians live in water scarce areas: | New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) As many as one billion people in India live in areas of physical water scarcity, of which 600 million are in areas of high to extreme water stress, according to a new report. | 20-Mar-2019 |
CUJ teacher bags Rs 31 lakh project to r | Jammu, March 20 (IANS) For 31-year old Gowhar Rasool, a teacher in the School of Business Administration in Central University Jammu (CUJ), it is a dream project he has been conceptualizing for over two years now. | 20-Mar-2019 |
Political campaign spends on social medi | New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Despite all the efforts put in place by social media companies to show who is paying for the political advertisements on their platforms, the users may not know the actual amount spent to run political campaigns on these websites. | 20-Mar-2019 |
Jet has only 41 aircraft for flights: DG | New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Aviation regular DGCA on Tuesday said that Jet Airways only has 41 aircraft in its fleet for operations and that there may be further attrition in the fleet size and flights ahead. | 19-Mar-2019 |
US to begin accepting new H1-B visa peti | Washington, March 19 (IANS) The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) would start accepting new H1-B visa petitions for the fiscal year 2020 starting April 1, the media reported. | 19-Mar-2019 |
US dollar falls ahead of Federal Reserve | New York, March 19 (IANS) The US dollar fell against most major currencies ahead of a two-day US Federal Reserve meeting. | 18-Mar-2019 |
Anil thanks Mukesh, Nita as RCOM's dues | Mumbai, March 19 (IANS) Anil D. Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Communications, has thanked Reliance Industries Chairman, Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani for their support regarding payment of dues to Ericsson as all the RCOM's outstanding to the Swedish company stand cleared. | 18-Mar-2019 |
Rs 60 lakh unaccounted cash seized in Ko | Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Kolkata Police on Monday seized unaccounted cash amounting to Rs 60 lakh and arrested one person in this connection, a senior officer said. | 18-Mar-2019 |
GST to spur assessee base by 80%: Jaitle | New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The Narendra Modi government has introduced the much-needed second generation reforms with several game-changing decisions over the last five years, said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday, cheering the GST introduction, saying it will increase the assessee base in the first twenty-one months of its implementation by almost eighty percent. | 18-Mar-2019 |
Pakistan airspace closure hits internati | New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The closure of Pakistan's airspace, since the Indian Air Force (IAF) strikes in Balakot on February 26, has affected international flights to and from India over the last 20 days, with Air India being a major victim. | 18-Mar-2019 |
FAA's approval of Boeing 737 Max under p | Washington, March 18 (IANS) The US Transportation Department's Inspector General has opened an investigation into the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) approval of Boeing's 737 Max planes which were involved in two deadly crash just five months apart, The Wall Street Journal said in a report. | 18-Mar-2019 |
New Zealand firms to pull ads from Faceb | Wellington, March 18 (IANS) A collective of some of New Zealand's biggest companies is set to pull ads from Facebook and Google in the wake of the March 15 Christchurch mosques shootings in which the gunman live-streamed his massacre of 50 people. | 18-Mar-2019 |
AirAsia CEO quits Facebook over Christch | Kuala Lumpur, March 18 (IANS) AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes has deleted his Facebook account over the circulation of a video of the Christchurch mosques carnage that claimed the lives of 50 people, saying the social media giant needed to "clean up and not just think of financials". | 18-Mar-2019 |
New Fujifilm mirrorless digital camera n | New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Fujifilm India on Monday introduced a new mirrorless camera which is equipped with Next-Gen image sensor and processing engine, aiming to achieve 30 per cent share in the Indian mirrorless market in the next three-four years. | 18-Mar-2019 |
Boeing 'finalising' software update afte | Chicago, March 18 (IANS) Boeing has said it is finalising a software update and pilot training revision related to MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) in 737 Max, following two deadly air crashes in less than five months. | 18-Mar-2019 |
NCR, MMR regions lead affordable housing | New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The National Capital Region (NCR) and the Mumbai Metropolitan Regions (MMR) lead the affordable housing segment in terms of launches and sales across seven cities in the country, a CII-Anarock report said on Sunday. | 17-Mar-2019 |
67.82 lakh farmers miss PM-KISAN scheme | New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Over 67.82 lakh farmers will be left out of the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme as West Bengal, Sikkim and Delhi have not uploaded their details on the PM-KISAN portal, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Sunday. | 17-Mar-2019 |
Health of Kolkata heritage buildings und | Kolkata, March 17 (IANS) The chunk of cement that fell from the ceiling of a heritage building missed an octogenarian former Union Minister -- a tenant -- but has brought to the fore the poor upkeep of the historic structures in the city, mainly due to the absence of proper laws. | 17-Mar-2019 |
ED's focus on Rs 234 cr received by Deep | New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) An amount of Rs 234 crore received in two bank accounts of Deepak Talwar is among multiple hidden money trails the Enforcement Directorate (ED) wants to establish during questioning of the corporate lobbyist who is in Tihar Jail over his alleged involvement in liaising for the purchase of 43 aircraft for Indian Airlines from French company Airbus in 2005. | 17-Mar-2019 |
How Motorola lost its grip in India | New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Lenovo-owned handset major Motorola may have become popular in the global smartphone market in recent years but it has failed to cement its position in India, which is the second largest smartphone market in the world. | 17-Mar-2019 |
Jet pilots seek government help to recov | New Delhi, March 16 (TIWN / IANS) Cash-strapped Jet Airways pilots' union has written to the government, seeking its help in recovering their pending salaries along with the accumulated interest. | 16-Mar-2019 |
Amazon PVD to pay royalty based on show | San Francisco, March 16 (IANS) To reward content according to performance, Amazon is introducing a new payment structure for its self-publishing programme "Prime Video Direct" (PVD) that would go into effect from April 1, starting with the US. | 16-Mar-2019 |
US jury awards Qualcomm $31 mn in Apple | San Francisco, March 16 (IANS) A US jury has decided that Apple needs to pay chip-maker Qualcomm $31 million for violating three of its patents. | 16-Mar-2019 |
Pollachi traders plan protest, shutdown | Pollachi/Chennai, March 16 (IANS) The trading community here is planning a protest shutdown on Tuesday and a rally demanding a court-monitored probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Pollachi serial sexual abuse-cum-blackmail case, said a shopkeeper. | 16-Mar-2019 |
Got RBI nod for Gruh Finance merger: Ban | Kolkata, March 16 (IANS) Bandhan Bank on Friday said it has received "no objection" from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for the proposed merger of Gruh Finance with it. | 15-Mar-2019 |
Boeing to halt deliveries of 737 Max air | Washington, March 15 (TIWN / IANS) Boeing has announced that it will temporarily halt deliveries of its 737 Max fleet after the aircraft were grounded for an indefinite period globally in the wake of the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane of the same model that killed all 157 people on board. | 15-Mar-2019 |
Banks need to raise own capital till Jun | New Delhi, March 15 (TIWN / IANS) Public Sector Banks (PSBs) may raise capital themselves to meet regulatory and growth capital needs because there is unlikely to be any fresh bank recapitalisation till the next government takes over in June, official sources said on Friday. | 15-Mar-2019 |
Sensex hits 38,000, Nifty at 11,400 | Mumbai, March 15 (IANS) The BSE Sensex on Friday touched the 38,000 mark for the first time since September, supported by healthy buying in the banking and finance stocks. | 15-Mar-2019 |
Trump pick only contender for World Bank | Washington, March 15 (IANS) US Treasury official David Malpass, who is President Donald Trump's pick to become the World Bank's new President, is the only contender in the race as a nomination deadline ended with no other challengers. | 15-Mar-2019 |
BSNL Finance Director replaced amid fina | New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Amidst the acute financial crisis at BSNL, the Department of Telecom (DoT) has handed over the responsibility of the Finance Director at the cash-strapped PSU to current Director Mobile as well as fixed line, Vivek Banzal divesting the charge from Sujata Ray. | 15-Mar-2019 |
Airfares soar over 100% as airlines canc | New Delhi/Mumbai, March 14 (TIWN / IANS) Air passengers face the grim prospects of high air fares and fewer flight choices as several airlines cancel operations due to a number of reasons including the grounding of 737-MAX aircraft. | 14-Mar-2019 |
India's February WPI rises to 2.93% | New Delhi, March 14 (TIWN / IANS) India's annual rate of inflation based on wholesale prices rose to 2.93 per cent in February from 2.74 per cent reported for the corresponding month of 2018, official data showed on Thursday. | 14-Mar-2019 |
US affirms plan for 6 nuclear plants in | New York, March 14 (TIWN / IANS) The slow-moving US plans to set up six nuclear power plants in India have received a boost as the two nations reiterated their commitment to strengthen security and civil nuclear cooperation during the 9th India-US Strategic Security Dialogue. | 14-Mar-2019 |
China's yuan edges higher against US dol | Beijing, March 14 (TIWN / IANS) The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 105 basis points to 6.7009 against the US dollar on Thursday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. | 13-Mar-2019 |
Japan's Nikkei rises at open on Wall Str | Tokyo, March 14 (TIWN / IANS) Tokyo stocks opened higher on Thursday as solid data in the US for durable goods orders helped Wall Street advance overnight, which saw risk appetite for issues here improve. | 13-Mar-2019 |
SpiceJet scrip fall 8% as Max 737 aircra | Mumbai, March 13 (IANS) The stock of Budget carrier SpiceJet, which operates the largest fleet of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in India, fell 8 per cent during the early trade on Wednesday, a day after the Indian civil aviation regulator ordered grounding of all such planes. | 13-Mar-2019 |
Google probing Gmail, Maps global outage | San Francisco, March 13 (IANS) Several Google users on Wednesday reported problems with accessing Gmail and other services in large parts of the world. The company said it was investigating the problem. | 13-Mar-2019 |
76% Indian companies hit by cyber attack | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Over 76 per cent organisations in India were hit by cyber attacks in 2018 as IT security continued to be a major issue across the globe, global cyber security major Sophos said on Wednesday. | 13-Mar-2019 |
Cabinet nod for joining Nice, Vienna, Lo | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) In a move to boost foreign investor confidence in relation to protection of intellectual property (IP) in India, the Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal for Accession to the Nice, Vienna and Locarno Agreements, which will allow India an opportunity to include Indian designs, figurative elements and goods in the international classification systems. | 13-Mar-2019 |
BAT tanks in Britain, as ITC flourishes | New Delhi, March 13 (TIWN / IANS) British American Tobacco or BAT which is ostensibly the parent of Indian heavy hitter ITC with 29.54 per cent share holding has suffered a massive meltdown in its parent market in recent times. While the stocks of standalone tobacco majors have seen a decline, BAT's year-on-year market cap erosion between December 2017 and December 2018 was down sharply from 115 billion pounds to 59 billion GBP, an erosion of 48.7 per cent. | 12-Mar-2019 |
Kashmiri trader got funds from 26/11 mas | New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate has identified some 24 properties across India, including in the national capital, that belong to Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmed Watali and were bought with money received from alleged 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed. | 12-Mar-2019 |
Chinese yuan edges higher against US dol | Beijing, March 12 (TIWN / IANS) The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 74 basis points to 6.7128 against the US dollar on Tuesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. | 12-Mar-2019 |
Sensex up over 400 points, Nifty crosses | Mumbai, March 12 (TIWN / IANS) The domestic equity indices surged over 1 per cent on Tuesday, with the BSE Sensex gaining over 400 points after the European Commission and the UK agreed to "legally binding" changes in the Brexit deal ahead of the vote in the British parliament. | 12-Mar-2019 |
Only Srinagar to Jammu traffic allowed | Jammu, March 12 (TIWN / IANS) The Jammu-Srinagar highway was restored for one-way traffic on Tuesday after it remained closed for several hours, a traffic official said. | 12-Mar-2019 |
US threatens Germany against using Huawe | Washington, March 12 (TIWN / IANS) US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell has sent a letter to the German government threatening to curtail access to American intelligence if Berlin decides to issue contracts to Chinese tech giant Huawei to build their 5G communications networks, the media reported. | 12-Mar-2019 |
DGCA issues safety directives for Boeing | New Delhi, March 11 (TIWN / IANS) A day after an Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 737-800 MAX flight crashed killing all 157 people on board, India's civil aviation regulator on Monday issued fresh safety directives for operations of this make of aircraft in the country. | 11-Mar-2019 |
Jet's Goyal seeks inmmediate funding fro | Mumbai, March 11 (IANS) Cash-strapped Jet Airways' outgoing Chairman Naresh Goyal has sought an immediate funding of Rs 750 crore from the equity partner Etihad Airways. | 11-Mar-2019 |
B-737 Max Planes Technical Faults force | AGARATLA / NEW DELHI, March 11 (TIWN): India has sought information from Boeing after a second B737 Max crashed on Sunday. While on Sunday an Ethiopian Airlines B737 crashed in Africa, just over four months back on October 29, 2018, Indonesian carrier Lion Air's B737 Max had crashed into the Java Sea killing all 189 people on board. | 11-Mar-2019 |