Ranchi : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah said on Saturday central funding to Jharkhand has increased under Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. "The central government under leadership of Modi is supporting...
Chennai : Housing mortgage lender LIC Housing Finance Ltd on Friday said it will be raising about Rs 55,000 crore through issuing non-convertible debenture this year for business purposes. "We will be raising Rs 55,000 crore issuing non-convertible debentures this...
New Delhi : Following the demonetisation of high-value Indian cuurency notes in November last year, Nepal on Tuesday sought a mechanism whereby such notes that were in circulation could be exchanged. Delivering a talk on "Nepal Today" organised by the Foreign...
By Meghna Mittal, New Delhi : The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is mulling pumping in $1.5 billion (Rs 9,599 crore) in six new projects in India that includes Rs 1,279 crore in India's National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), a top AIIB...
New Delhi : Twentyfour years after its introduction in the government, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday decided to extend the concept of creamy layer in OBC reservations to Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and financial institutions. The Cabinet, which had last week...
By Porisma P. Gogoi Mumbai : Continuing the bull run for the second consecutive week, key Indian equity indices -- the Sensex and the Nifty50 -- closed with minimal gains as short covering in healthcare and banking stocks coupled with continuous purchasing activities...
New Delhi : The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received a whopping Rs 705.81 crore from 2,987 corporate donors between financial years 2012-13 and 2015-16, a report by election watch body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) revealed on Thursday. A total of...
New Delhi : The proportion of revenue expenditure in the total expenditure which is budgeted to be 85.6 per cent in the current fiscal, is projected to be roughly the same in 2018-19 and decrease to 85 per cent in 2019-20, according to the Medium-Term Expenditure...
By Meghna Mittal, New Delhi : With the sudden demonetisation decision exposing its chinks, the country's currency printing system is undergoing a complete overhaul, officials say. The system's capabilities were put to the severest test during last year's...
New Delhi : Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday asked the government why it had not named six secretaries of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) if the 2007 clearance given to a media house for receiving foreign funds was wrong. The case...