Agartala : The Tripura government has taken a Rs 500 crore loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Hudco to execute the Rs 1,000 crore Smart City project here, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said here on Wednesday. "The state government has taken Rs 500 crore...
By Arun Kumar Das, New Delhi : Indian Railways' long-awaited and ambitious project to set up a waste-to-energy plant at Jaipur railway station has run into Goods and Services Tax (GST) hurdles, causing a delay in the commissioning of the first such municipal solid...
Mumbai : HDFC Bank on Thursday welcomed the government's approval of Rs 24,000 crore foreign direct investment (FDI) into the bank. In an official statement, the bank said: "This decision comes against the backdrop of an expected pick-up in credit growth driven by...
Bhubaneswar : Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the contribution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund (CMRF) by amending the Companies Act 2013. "The Odisha CMRF,...
By Arun Kumar Das, New Delhi : Howrah Division in Bengal is the worst performer as far as trains running on time is concerned, with a punctuality performance of only 34 per cent for the week ended June 3. It is closely followed by Lucknow Division with 39 per cent....
Panaji : Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that lengthy land acquisition procedures were delaying major infrastructure projects in Goa and has advised the state government to hire retired officials to hasten the process. "I suggested...
By Arul Louis, United Nations : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has held up the India-United Nations Development Partnership Fund as a model of deepening South-South cooperation that helps the poorest countries by working with them on their priorities....
New Delhi : Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the new ordinance amending the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) to treat home buyers as financial creditors will eliminate "fly by night" operators and will force the real estate industry to eventually...
Mumbai : Public sector banks (PSBs) will soon create a dedicated mechanism for managing stressed accounts, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday following a meeting with PSB chiefs on the issue of banks' non-performing assets (NPAs), or bad loans. The...
New Delhi : The task force on shell companies set up by the government has identified more than 2.25 lakh such firms which will be removed from the register of companies in the current financial year, an official statement said on Friday. A Finance Ministry release...