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| Petrol, diesel prices reduced after 1 da | New Delhi, Feb 29 (TIWN) Petrol and diesel prices fell again on Saturday after a day's break. With the new dip, petrol prices have come down by seven paise in Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai, while by six paise per liter in Mumbai. Also, diesel has become cheaper by nine paise per liter in the four metros. | 29-Feb-2020 |
| India bright spot for HP Inc in Asia-Pac | Gurugram, Feb 29 (TIWN) For HP Inc, Asia-Pacific was the fastest growing market in its first quarter of fiscal 2020 and India is the bright spot owing to its rising millennial and aspirational young population, a top company executive has stressed. | 29-Feb-2020 |
| Black Friday: Sensex loses 1,448 pts ahe | Mumbai, Feb 28 (TIWN) Fears of larger than anticipated disruption due to an imminent pandemic caused the stock market to crash on Friday. Dalal Street mirrored global stocks headed for their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. | 28-Feb-2020 |
| COVID-19: India's forging industry sever | New Delhi, Feb 29 (TIWN) The supply disruption caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak has severely hampered the forging and auto component manufacturing industry in India, according to the Association of Indian Forging Industry (AIFI). | 29-Feb-2020 |
| People need not worry about ATM re-calib | New Delhi, Feb 29 (TIWN) Amid reports that around 2.4 lakh automated teller machines (ATMs) across the country are likely to be recalibrated in the coming months, Mahesh Ramamoorthy, Managing Director (Banking Solutions -- APMEA) at FIS, said consumers should not worry about it. | 29-Feb-2020 |
| Axis Bank appoints Puneet Sharma as CFO | Mumbai, Feb 28 (TIWN) Axis Bank on Thursday announced the appointment of Puneet Sharma as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with effect from March 6. | 28-Feb-2020 |
| Amid controversy of venue, Agartala Book | Agartala, Feb 26 (TIWN) Amid controversy over shifting of its venue outside the capital city, the 38th edition of the Agartala Book Fair, the second largest in eastern India after the Kolkata Book Fair, began on Wednesday. | 26-Feb-2020 |
| Spicejet flight makes emergency landing | KOLKATA, Feb 26: A SpicejetNSE 1.54 % aircraft with 183 passengers on board made an emergency landing at the Kolkata airport on Wednesday morning after the pilot suspected a leakage in the fuel tank, airport sources said. | 26-Feb-2020 |
| Gujarat presents Budget of Rs 2.17 lakh | Gandhinagar, Feb 26 (TIWN) Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Nitin Patel on Wednesday presented a Budget of Rs 2,17,287 crore for the financial year 2020-21. | 26-Feb-2020 |
| Indian retail market to reach $1 trillio | Mumbai, Feb 26 (TIWN) The Indian retail market is estimated to cross $1 trillion-mark by 2025 and top five retailers could take on a bigger slice of the industry, reaching over 10 per cent market share each in the next decade, a new report said on Wednesday. | 26-Feb-2020 |
| Markets open in red on Wednesday | Mumbai, Feb 26 (TIWN) The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Wednesday opened on a negative note during the morning session of the trade. | 26-Feb-2020 |
| 'India to embrace mixed energy basket, w | New Delhi, Feb 25 (TIWN) Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday said that India will target to have a mixed energy basket with both renewable and non-renewable sources of energy. | 25-Feb-2020 |
| Women leave Jafrabad metro protest site | New Delhi, Feb 25 (TIWN) The women protesters staging a sit-in at Jafrabad in north-east Delhi against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) called off their protest after elders of the community requested them, sources said. | 25-Feb-2020 |
| Nirav Modi's assets to be auctioned live | Mumbai, Feb 25 (TIWN) A collection of 112 lots of prized assets belonging to absconder diamantaire Nirav Modi shall be put up for live and online auctions starting here on February 27, officials said. | 25-Feb-2020 |
| Adani Group considers bidding for Air In | New Delhi, Feb 24 (TIWN) With the government pushing for the disinvestment of Air India, industrial conglomerate Adani Group may emerge as one of the bidders for the debt-laden national carrier, sources said. | 24-Feb-2020 |
| Cong raises pitch on trade deal, H1B vis | New Delhi, Feb 24 (TIWN) Questioning the interest of the government on the much-hyped Trump visit, the Congress has raised the issue of trade deal and H1B visas which have been reduced by the US administration. | 24-Feb-2020 |
| US-India Tax Forum to be launched on Feb | New Delhi, Feb 24 (TIWN) In a bilateral initiative intended to facilitate industry players and government agencies engage on global and local tax policies, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) will launch the US-India Tax Forum on Tuesday (February 25) . | 24-Feb-2020 |
| FM asks G-20 to enhance global risk moni | New Delhi, Feb 24 (TIWN) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday called upon the G-20 countries to enhance global risk monitoring and explore the scope for policy co-ordination to deal with such risks. | 24-Feb-2020 |
| Indian Bank ATMs to go user-friendly, ve | Chennai, Feb 24 (TIWN) City based Indian Bank has decided to load more of 200 rupee notes and stop loading and dispensation of Rs 2,000 notes in its ATMs as a customer friendly move, a senior official told IANS on Saturday. | 24-Feb-2020 |
| DoT clears Bharti Infratel-Indus Tower m | KOLKATA, Feb 22: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is learnt to have cleared Bharti InfratelNSE 0.49 %’s mega merger deal with Indus, sources said, paving the way for creating one of the world’s largest telecom tower companies with over 1,63,000 towers, and also offering a much needed avenue for beleaguered Vodafone IdeaNSE 4.76 % to raise funds to clear a portion of its massive AGR dues to the government. | 22-Feb-2020 |
| 25% climate change messages on Twitter w | New York, Feb 22 (TIWN) A lot of messages denying the effects of global warming might actually have been written by bots as new research from Brown University in the US found that about 25 per cent of the tweets about climate change that they analysed were produced by automated accounts. | 22-Feb-2020 |
| Flight crew, air traffic controllers to | New Delhi, Feb 22 (TIWN) The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will from now on test flight crew members and air traffic controllers for use of drugs. | 22-Feb-2020 |
| Govt hopeful of completing BPCL stake sa | New Delhi, Feb 22 (TIWN) The disinvestment department is hopeful of completing the sale of government stake in state refiner BPCL by the first half of next fiscal and is working towards that timeline where prospective bidders would be given enough time for due diligence. | 22-Feb-2020 |
| Revenue impact from trade agreements ris | New Delhi, Feb 21 (TIWN) The revenue impact on Centre's coffers from trade agreements increased by 35 per cent, despite a decline in imports, a research report showed. | 21-Feb-2020 |
| Muthoot Finance raises $550mn from Inter | New Delhi, Feb 21 (TIWN) Muthoot Finance Ltd on Friday said it has raised $550 million from International Bond Markets for a 3.5-year tenor at 4.4%. | 21-Feb-2020 |
| 'Sovereign funds may invest directly in | New Delhi, Feb 21 (TIWN) Sovereign wealth funds are likely to change their investment strategy for Indian infrastructure projects and are expected to use the direct investment route more in the near future, compared to the current trend of investing through investment platforms, according to recent report. | 21-Feb-2020 |
| Oil prices rise on hopes for deeper outp | New York, Feb 20 (TIWN) Oil prices settled higher on Wednesday as investors' concerns for oversupply eased. | 20-Feb-2020 |
| Sanyal cautions against stringent regula | New Delhi, Feb 20 (TIWN) Principal Economic Adviser Sanjeev Sanyal has cautioned against stringent regulations on non-banking financial companies (NBFC), saying it may lead to a shortage of capital towards a "significant" part of the economy. | 20-Feb-2020 |
| Fintech funding in India doubled to $3.7 | New Delhi, Feb 20 (TIWN) India became world's third largest financial technology (fintech) centre -- behind only the US and the UK -- in 2019 as fintech investments nearly doubled to $3.7 billion from $1.9 billion in 2018, an Accenture study said on Thursday. | 20-Feb-2020 |
| Vodafone Idea condition extremely precar | New delhi, Feb 20 (TIWN) Vodafone Idea's situation remains extremely precarious given its net debt/EBITDA of 20 times, analyst firm Citi has said in a report. | 20-Feb-2020 |
| Former Bank of Maha manager gets 10 year | Pune, Feb 20 (TIWN) A special CBI court here has sentenced, to 10 years rigorous imprisonment, a former branch manager of the Bank of Maharashtra for causing a loss of Rs 2.56 crore to the bank. | 20-Feb-2020 |
| Markets snap losing streak; Sensex, Nift | Mumbai, Feb 19 (TIWN) The benchmark Sensex closed over 1 per cent higher on Wednesday owing to a decline in the rate of new coronavirus cases. Moreover, speculation that the government may soon announce steps to rescue the ailing telecom sector also gave boost to the investor sentiments. | 19-Feb-2020 |
| Trump hints trade deal unlikely during I | New York, Feb 19 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has indicated that a full-fledged trade agreement with India was unlikely during his visit there next week -- or even this year -- but a "very big one" was in the offing. | 19-Feb-2020 |
| Sensex ends below 41,000 after Apple's w | Mumbai, Feb 19 (TIWN) Indian markets, in line with its global peers, slipped on Tuesday after Apple, one of the most valuable companies in the world, said that the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak is hurting its business more than previously expected. | 19-Feb-2020 |
| Travel chaos after technical failure at | London, Feb 19 (TIWN) Flights are continuing to be disrupted at Heathrow Airport on Monday due to a massive technical failure of the system handling check-in and flight information in all four passenger terminals. | 19-Feb-2020 |
| Yogi's budget fucuses on infrastructure, | Lucknow, Feb 19 (TIWN) The Yogi Adityanath government, on Tuesday, tabled its fourth budget for the year 2020-2021 of Rs 5.12 lakh crore. | 19-Feb-2020 |
| Telecom Ministry to decide on AGR dues: | Bengaluru, Feb 18 (TIWN) Passing the buck, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said the Telecom Ministry would decide on the payment of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) arrears by the defaulting telcos as directed by the Supreme Court recently. | 18-Feb-2020 |
| This time, no problem in Air India's div | New Delhi, Feb 18 (TIWN) Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday expressed confidence that this time around, there will be no problem in Air India's divestment. | 18-Feb-2020 |
| NCLAT allows JSW Steel to acquire BPSL, | New Delhi, Feb 17 (TIWN) In a major relief to JSW Steel, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal on Monday permitted the steel major to acquire the bankrupt Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd and provided it immunity from prosecution by Enforcement Directorate (ED). | 17-Feb-2020 |
| Markets feel the pinch of SC order on te | Mumbai, Feb 17 (TIWN) Indian markets closed lower as fresh growth worries emerged after global rating agency Moody's revised down India's growth forecast. Sensex lost over 200 points on Monday, led by fall in banking and telecom stocks over the SC order in the AGR case. | 17-Feb-2020 |
| Mizoram's 2019 growth at 14.82% one of I | Aizawl, Feb 17 (TIWN) Mizoram Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai on Monday said that the northeastern state's economic growth at 14.82 per cent last year was "one of the best" among the Indian states. | 17-Feb-2020 |
| Vodafone Idea could head for bankruptcy | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN) Vodafone Idea could be the largest bankruptcy ever in India as the inability to pay dues under the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) may push the Vodafone Plc and Aditya Birla joint venture in that direction. | 16-Feb-2020 |
| CREDAI's new app to help connect home bu | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN) In a bid to ease the process of buying properties and connect home buyers and developers, the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) has come up with a mobile application, ‘CREDAI Awaas app. | 16-Feb-2020 |
| Modi flags off Kashi Mahakal Express fro | Varanasi, Feb 16 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off the third train operated by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) between his parliamentary constituency Varanasi and Madhya Pradesh's Indore. | 16-Feb-2020 |
| DoT may encash bank guarantees of telcos | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN) The government may take action in terms of encashing the bank guarantees of Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) in case they "immediately" fail to pay their spectrum usage charges and the license fees in compliance with the Supreme Court order of October 24 last year. | 16-Feb-2020 |
| SpiceJet to finalise compensation deal w | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN) Budget carrier SpiceJet expects to finalise a compensation deal with Boeing for grounding of its 737 Max aircraft by the end of the current quarter. | 16-Feb-2020 |
| Vodafone Idea should either recapitalize | New Delhi, Feb 15 (TIWN) Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Saturday that Vodafone Idea should either recapitalize or follow the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (INC). | 15-Feb-2020 |
| US says it will hike tariffs on European | Washington, Feb 15 (TIWN) The US has said that it would hike tariffs on planes imported from the European Union (EU) to 15 per cent from the current 10 per cent, apparently in a move to build pressure on Brussels in a long-running dispute over aircraft subsidies. | 15-Feb-2020 |
| Over 17cr PAN cards to become inoperativ | New Delhi, Feb 15 (TIWN) More than 17 crore PAN cards will become inoperative if not linked with the Aadhar by end of March. | 15-Feb-2020 |
| US dollar ends higher on improved consum | New York, Feb 15 (TIWN) The US dollar inched up in late trading on Friday as US consumers' sentiment in February improved while the gross domestic product (GDP) in euro zone grew slower in the final quarter of 2019. | 15-Feb-2020 |