Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
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| Fall in bank stocks drags Sensex down 1% | Mumbai, Aug 30 (TIWN) While seven of the 11 sectors in the Nifty ended in the red causing the Nifty50 to end up below 11,000 on Thursday, the Sensex lost 1 per cent dragged lower by financial sector stocks. | 30-Aug-2019 |
| Enterprise, automotive IoT endpoints to | London, Aug 30 (TIWN) The enterprise and automotive Internet of Things (IoT) market will grow to 5.8 billion endpoints in 2020 -- a 21 per cent increase from 2019 -- Gartner said on Thursday. | 30-Aug-2019 |
| 'Railways self sufficient in LHB coach p | New Delhi, Aug 30 (TIWN) Indian Railways has become "self sufficient" in the production of modern LHB coaches to provide more safer travel to passengers, Railway Board member Rajesh Agarwal said on Thursday. | 30-Aug-2019 |
| 'Govt determined to privatise Air India' | New Delhi, Aug 29 (TIWN) Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday said that the government is determined to privatise flag carrier Air India. | 29-Aug-2019 |
| Fitch firm lowers GDP forecast to six-ye | New Delhi, Aug 28 (TIWN) Noting that 'band-aid' measures would not help the economy as it faces several cyclical and structural issues, Fitch group firm India Ratings and Research has lowered its GDP growth forecast to six-year low at 6.7 per cent in the current fiscal as against 7.3 per cent projected earlier. | 28-Aug-2019 |
| Local news, differentiated content key t | New York, Aug 28 (TIWN) In order to woo more readers and keep subscribers intact, news outlets need to strongly focus on local news amid maintaining a regular reader habit, a new study has said, stressing upon the value of "differentiated content" to stay afloat in the digital era. | 28-Aug-2019 |
| Verma writes to CoA, calls for ad-hoc ar | New Delhi, Aug 28 (TIWN) With the Committee of Administrators (CoA) identifying the ongoing mess in Bihar cricket and stopping the release of funds to the Bihar Cricket Association (BCA), Cricket Association of Bihar secretary Aditya Verma has once again requested for the formation of an ad-hoc committee to run the show in the state till normalcy returns. | 28-Aug-2019 |
| Moody's lowers Yes Bank's foreign-curren | Mumbai, Aug 28 (TIWN) Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded private lender Yes Bank's foreign-currency issuer rating to 'Ba3' from 'Ba1', which sent the company's stocks plunging nearly 7 per cent on the BSE. | 28-Aug-2019 |
| US dollar declines amid economic data | New York, Aug 28 (TIWN) The US dollar declined as investors digested a batch of weak economic data. | 28-Aug-2019 |
| US dollar rises as risk appetite grows | New York, Aug 27 (TIWN) The US dollar rose in the late trading against Japanese yen and Swiss franc amid investors' growing risk appetite. | 27-Aug-2019 |
| Meghalaya to be helped to develop textil | Nongpoh (Meghalaya), Aug 27 (TIWN) Textiles Minister Smriti Zubin Irani here on Monday said the central government was committed to supplement all the endeavours of the Meghalaya government in the development of the textile sector. | 27-Aug-2019 |
| Tourism Minister to visit Kashmir, Ladak | Delhi, Aug 27 (TIWN) Days after IANS reported that the BJP's election in-charge for Jammu and Kashmir Avinash Rai Khanna wrote to Union Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel to fast track tourism in the valley, the effect has started to show. | 27-Aug-2019 |
| Ex-servicemen, spouses to get jobs at Am | Bengaluru, Aug 27 (IANS) Global e-tailer Amazon's Indian arm has launched a military veterans' employment programme to offer jobs to ex-servicemen and their spouses at its fulfilment, sort and delivery centres across the country. | 27-Aug-2019 |
| Johnson & Johnson to pay $572mn over opi | Washington, Aug 27 (TIWN) A US court has ruled that American pharma major Johnson & Johnson (J&J) must pay over $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis in Oklahoma that, according to the state, has resulted in more than 6,000 deaths over the past two decades. | 27-Aug-2019 |
| Sensex, Nifty advance 2% post Sitharaman | Mumbai, Aug 26 (TIWN) Both the key market indices on Monday surged over 2 per cent led by gains made by public sector banks (PSBs) and financial sector stocks, following a slew of measures announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last week. | 26-Aug-2019 |
| RBI Board meeting underway, focus on Jal | Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) A meeting of the RBI Board is currently underway to consider the Bimal Jalan Committee's recommendations on the Economic Capital Framework (ECF), or the quantum of reserves the central bank should retain, as also its dividend payment to the government, sources said. | 26-Aug-2019 |
| GDP growth pegged at 6% in Q1: FICCI sur | New Delhi, Aug 26 (TIWN) The latest FICCI Economic Outlook Survey has pegged first-quarter GDP growth at 6 per cent in 2019-20 while for the whole fiscal growth is seen at 6.9 per cent in 2019-20. | 26-Aug-2019 |
| Rajasthan govt to woo filmmakers in new | Jaipur, Aug 26 (TIWN) Rajasthan government will soon announce an attractive package to woo filmmakers in the state. This will be a part of the new Tourism Policy of the government which is on the anvil. | 26-Aug-2019 |
| After manic Friday, gold may cross all-t | Mumbai, Aug 26 (TIWN) Experts are seeing fresh support for gold prices leading it towards all-time highs in the international markets, even as an escalation of the trade-war between the two largest economies, US and China, saw the price of the yellow metal rally 700-800 points last week. | 26-Aug-2019 |
| Centre responsive to slowdown, but more | Mumbai, Aug 25 (TIWN) With the government announcing a slew of measures to boost the economy, a JM Financial report has suggested that although the government has been responsive to the issues of industry, the steps may not be sufficient and more measures might be needed to give a fresh start to the lending cycle of non-banking financial companies (NBFCs). | 25-Aug-2019 |
| RBI Board meet on Monday to mull over Ja | Mumbai, Aug 25 (TIWN) The RBI Board meeting on Monday to finalise its annual accounts, is also likely to take up the Bimal Jalan panel's recommendations on Economic Capital Framework (ECF) along with the dividend payment to the government, sources said. | 25-Aug-2019 |
| Xiaomi's Manu Jain tweets about meeting | New Delhi, Aug 25 (TIWN) Xiaomi's India Managing Director Manu Kumar Jain on Sunday tweeted about meeting Zhang Yiming, Founder and CEO of ByteDance which owns the popular short video-sharing platform TikTok, triggering talks of the app coming pre-installed with Xiaomi phones. | 25-Aug-2019 |
| BSNL landline turns lifeline for communi | Srinagar, Aug 25 (TIWN) BSNL landline phones have become a lifeline for the people of Kashmir since all cellular phones were snapped across Jammu and Kashmir on August 5. | 25-Aug-2019 |
| India needs single corporate tax rate of | New Delhi, Aug 25 (TIWN) The Indian government should move towards a simple tax structure with a single corporate tax rate of 25 per cent, without any surcharge or cess above it, global advisory KPMG has said in a report. | 25-Aug-2019 |
| 'Jaitley worked to boost Indo-US trade t | New Delhi, Aug 24 (TIWN) The United States Embassy here said former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will be remembered for the introduction of GST, efforts to improve ease of doing business, and measures to combat corruption. | 25-Aug-2019 |
| Growth steps, oil prices set to boost eq | Mumbai, Aug 25 (TIWN) Indian equities along with the rupee which have lately faced headwinds of massive foreign fund outflows along with disappointing quarterly earning results will get a boost via Central government's policy measures to prop up growth along with falling crude oil prices, experts said. | 25-Aug-2019 |
| FB bans news outlet from buying Trump-su | San Francisco, Aug 24 (TIWN) Facebook has banned conservative news outlet and US President Donald Trump supporter The Epoch Times from buying ads on its platform for violating its policies. | 24-Aug-2019 |
| Zomato CEO taunts NRAI President, latter | New Delhi, Aug 24 (TIWN) After a couple of letters from Zomato failed to pacify Rahul Singh, President of the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), to stop the #logout campaign, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal took to Twitter on Thursday in a bid to embarrass him for the "Gold" programme of The Beer Cafe. | 24-Aug-2019 |
| Rupee close to 6-month low at nearly 72 | Mumbai, Aug 24 (TIWN) Sell-off in the Indian equity markets and sustained outflow of foreign funds left the rupee weaker by 25 paise on Thursday. The Indian currency closed at Rs 71.81 to a US dollar, its lowest point this year. | 24-Aug-2019 |
| BDJS chief arrested in UAE in cheque bou | Ajman (UAE), Aug 24 (TIWN) Kerala politician Thushar Vellappally, head of Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS), BJP's key ally in the state, was arrested in a cheque default case in the UAE on Wednesday and later released on bail. | 24-Aug-2019 |
| Nirav Modi set to appear before UK court | London, Aug 24 (TIWN) Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi is set to appear before a UK court on Thursday regarding his extradition charges and will likely be informed of the dates of the hearings. | 24-Aug-2019 |
| CBI HQ turns into fortress as sleuths qu | New Delhi, Aug 23 (TIWN) The area around CBI headquarters building in New Delhi was virtually turned into a fortress on Thursday as top sleuths continued interrogating former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram inside its premises. | 23-Aug-2019 |
| 'Centre to complement RBI's efforts to b | New Delhi, Aug 22 (TIWN) The government is expected to take policy measures to complement Reserve Bank of India's rate cut for reversing the slowdown in economy, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar told IANS. | 22-Aug-2019 |
| Newbies, veterans owned Day 1 of LFW 201 | Mumbai, Aug 22 (TIWN) The Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2019 on its Day 1 on Wednesday was owned by newbies as well as veterans. Many young designers debuted in the industry with this edition of LFW that completed 20 years, while other celebrated their years-long journey in the industry. | 22-Aug-2019 |
| IL&FS firm used 'circuitous, illegal rou | New Delhi, Aug 21 (TIWN) Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s chargesheet in the money-laundering case involving top brass of now-infamous IL&FS group has revealed that its financing arm IFIN indulged in a "circuitous and patently illegal transactions" resulting in an unpaid loan of Rs 2,270 crore from 14 firms. | 21-Aug-2019 |
| FPIs buy Rs 31,700 cr equities in Q1: Ko | Mumbai, Aug 21 (TIWN) Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) bought equities worth Rs 31,700 crore in the quarter ended June 2019, broking firm Kotak Securities estimated. | 21-Aug-2019 |
| Chidambaram says baseless to call him co | New Delhi, Aug 21 (TIWN) Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said that the observation by the Delhi High Court defining him as the key conspirator in the INX media case was "baseless". | 21-Aug-2019 |
| Dollar ticks up amid rise in bond yields | New York, Aug 21 (TIWN) The US dollar increased on Monday, as investors got a brief relief from the rising yields of the US treasury bonds. | 21-Aug-2019 |
| ED arrests Ratul Puri in Rs 354 cr bank | New Delhi, Aug 21 (TIWN) The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's nephew Ratul Puri, the former Executive Director of Moser Baer, in connection with a Rs 354-crore bank fraud case filed by Central Bank of India, an agency official said. | 21-Aug-2019 |
| Amid slowdown, RBI Governor hints at sof | Mumbai, Aug 20 (TIWN) Indicating a softer approach on rate cuts in the wake of economic slowdown, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said growth is the top priority at a time when the Indian banking system is facing many challenges. | 20-Aug-2019 |
| Paytm promotes CFO Madhur Deora as Presi | New Delhi, Aug 20 (TIWN) Gearing up for the next phase of growth in consumer Internet and financial services, digital payments player Paytm on Monday announced the promotion of its Chief Financial Officer Madhur Deora as the company's President. | 20-Aug-2019 |
| Liquor sale from grocery shops proposed | Ranchi, Aug 20 (TIWN) The Jharkhand Excise Department has proposed to allow sale of liquor in grocery shops in the state. | 20-Aug-2019 |
| Sensex up 73 pts, Nifty above 11,000 | Mumbai, Aug 19 (IANS) The Sensex on Monday opened slightly higher over gains by finance and banking stocks. | 19-Aug-2019 |
| Trump defends China policy, says US econ | Washington, Aug 19 (TIWN) President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his strategy versus China, on whose goods Washington has imposed heavy tariffs as the two nations are engaged in high-stakes trade talks, and he called the US economy "the best in the world." | 19-Aug-2019 |
| Fake currency notes seized in Kolkata, 1 | Kolkata, Aug 18 (TIWN) The special task force of the Kolkata Police has seized fake Indian currency notes (FICN) of the total face value of Rs 1,92,000, a senior officer said on Sunday. | 18-Aug-2019 |
| Despite low demand, research firm G&R bu | Mumbai, Aug 18 (TIWN) Despite the lack of demand in the global markets owing to worldwide slowdown in economic activity, natural resource research firm Goehring & Rozencwajg (G&R) says that it expects oil prices to rise. | 18-Aug-2019 |
| Sectoral policy intervention in works, n | New Delhi, Aug 18 (TIWN) The Finance Ministry is holding back-to-back discussions with the Prime Minister's office and the Reserve Bank of India to come out with a sectoral policy package at the earliest but sources rule out any fiscal stimulus having direct revenue implications. | 18-Aug-2019 |
| Last narrow gauge line in Central India | Nagpur, Aug 18 (TIWN) The old world magic and excitement of travelling leisurely by trains on narrow gauge railway lines, is fast becoming a thing of the past world over, including India. | 18-Aug-2019 |
| Delhi-NCR to get 300 more EV charging st | New Delhi, Aug 18 (TIWN) The national capital and its surrounding urban centres will soon get 300 more electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the next five to six months. | 18-Aug-2019 |
| Mudra Loan under West Tripura District c | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): The MUDRA Loan are extended by Banks, NBFCs, NFIs & other eligible financial intermediaries as notified by MUDRA Limited. The Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) announced by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 8th April, 2015, envisages providing MUDRA Loan upto Rs.10 Lakhs to income generating Micro enterprises engaged in manufacturing, Trading & Services sector. The overdraft amount of Rs.5000 sanctioned under PMJDY has also been classified as MUDRA Loans under Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY). The MUDRA Loans are extended under following three categories: 1. Loans upto Rs.50,000 (Shishu) 2. Loans upto Rs.50,001 - Rs.5,00,000 (Kishore) 3. Loans upto Rs.5,00,00 - Rs.10,00,000 (Tarun) | 17-Aug-2019 |