Raipur : Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday presented a Rs 91,542-crore budget for the financial year 2019-20 in the state Assembly, saying the budget is aimed at welfare of all. Baghel also holds the Finance portfolio. Presenting his government's...
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wrote to Union Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha urging him to take steps to regularise wage payments to contractual workers working in BSNL. "Thousands of contractual workers associated with different...
New Delhi : India's budgetary fiscal deficit for the April-December period stood at Rs 7.01 lakh crore or 112.4 per cent of the budgeted target of Rs 6.24 lakh crore, official data showed on Monday. The data furnished by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) showed...
Guwahati : The Assam Finance Department has decided to use social media platforms to inform and engage citizens on the state's 2019-20 Budget, Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a statement on Monday. Sarma said that social media is an...
Dehradun : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a senior manager of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) here for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 40,000 from a cement trader, CBI sources said on Sunday. Rajkumar, posted at the Tagore Villa branch on...
New Delhi : D Day has arrived yet again for Reid & Taylor at the National Company Law Tribual (NCLT), with its next hearing slated for February 5 in Mumbai. This is when the fate of the latest bidder Indian Gas Ltd will be decided. During the hearings, the NCLT...
New Delhi : President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday said that the 2016 demonetization was "an important step" in tackling black money and corruption in the country. Addressing a joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha at the start of the Budget Session, Kovind...
Mumbai : Mauritius Prime Minister P.K. Jugnauth inaugurated the SBM Bank (India) Ltd, which becomes the first foreign bank in India that was granted the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) licence to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary, an official said on Friday....
By Sundeep Pouranik, Bhopal : A week after the launch of the loan waiver scheme in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress government claims 19.54 lakh farmers have filed their applications in the six days till Sunday. While the opposition BJP has been calling the "Jai Kisan Rin...
New Delhi : With $100 billion of existing and proposed thermal power plants in financial distress and low cost but variable renewable energy capacity best able to meet targets, India has an opportune moment to transform its electricity sector by introducing day-ahead...