By Sarwar Kashani, New Delhi : India has an ambitious target of providing higher education to 40 million students by 2020 and to achieve the goal it should allow foreign universities to operate in the country -- either through partnerships or letting them open their...
Mumbai : The Indian Railways on Monday flagged off the country's first air-conditioned suburban local train for Mumbai commuters, 150 years after the first suburban local was hauled by a steam engine in 1867, officials said. The Christmas and the pre-New Year bonanza...
Kolkata : Raising concern on the mechanism for GST refund to exporters, West Bengal Finance Minister and GST Council's member Amit Mitra said a parliamentary panel pointed out "no interface" among the GST Network (GSTN) and Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT)...
By Rohit Vaid, New Delhi : India's civil aviation sector soared in 2017 as passenger traffic continued to rise on the back of more regional flights and higher disposable income levels. Addressing industry chamber Ficci's 90th AGM here earlier this month, Prime...
Agartala : The Tripura Gramin Bank (TGB), one of India's 56 regional rural banks (RRBs), posted net profit of Rs 35.98 crore up to September in current fiscal (2017-18). The bank has been notching profits successively for the past 17 years, the bank's chairman said...
New Delhi : The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) continued deliberations on employment generation and boosting economic growth during its third meeting on Wednesday. Taking forward the agenda of the last meeting held in November -- when it...
New Delhi : The Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved a new skill development scheme, covering the textile sector's entire value chain excluding spinning and weaving in the organised sector, from 2017-18 to 2019-20 at an outlay of Rs...
By Aparajita Gupta, New Delhi : It was a year of turmoil for the hyper-competitive Indian telecom sector as the balance-sheets of many major players kept bleeding, prompting the government to form an panel to chalk out plans to bail out firms. Reliance Industries' Jio...
By Arun Kumar Das, New Delhi : The Indian Railways has cleared a Rs 12,000-crore proposal to equip electric locomotives with the latest European train protection system. At its meeting on December 15, the Railway Board cleared the proposal to equip 6,000 electric...
Mumbai : The Central Railway is on way to install energy-saving LED lights at all its 438 stations by March 2018, and exploit solar and wind power in a big way to cut on electricity bills, an official said here on Saturday. The CR and Energy Efficiency Services Ltd...