Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Collapse of telecom, aviation sectors to | New Delhi, July 30 (TIWN) Former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has hit out at the government over the looming economic crisis in the country and warned that collapse of the telecom and aviation sectors will cost thousands of jobs. | 30-Jul-2020 |
| China imports all-time high PVC from Ind | New Delhi, July 30 (TIWN) Giving rise to an anomalous situation, China imported record high PVC from India in June at a time when the two countries are locked in a tussle at the border amid calls for reducing trade flows. | 30-Jul-2020 |
| Disheartening impact on mind, health due | New Delhi, July 30 (TIWN) Air India service engineers have joined the unrest on pay cuts and told the management that the 40 per cent pay cut is leading to resentment among the employees leading to a disheartening impact on their mind and health. | 30-Jul-2020 |
| PM to discuss economic roadmap with bank | New Delhi, July 30 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday will discuss and deliberate the economic vision and roadmap for the future, in a brainstorming session with stakeholders from banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs). | 30-Jul-2020 |
| ED conducts searches at GVK Group in Hyd | Hyderabad, July 30 (TIWN) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting searches in Hyderabad on Tuesday against the GVK Group in connection with the money laundering probe in the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) case. | 30-Jul-2020 |
| Auto fuel price rise checked for second | New Delhi, July 29 (TIWN) As the global oil market remains flat for past few days, consumers in India have been spared a price rise in auto fuels for the second consecutive day. | 29-Jul-2020 |
| Most Indians aim to somehow retain jobs | New Delhi, July 28 (TIWN) There has been a modest rise in the overall confidence among professionals in India as retaining a job has itself become a strong booster for many in these tough times, LinkedIn said on Tuesday. | 28-Jul-2020 |
| No DBT on subsidised LPG for 3 months du | New Delhi, July 27 (TIWN) You may not have noticed it but the price of subsidised cooking gas rose by an average of just less than Rs 10 per cylinder per month in the July-June 2019-20 period, taking the price of common man's fuel closer to market rates. | 27-Jul-2020 |
| Single window clearance system for indus | New Delhi, July 27 (TIWN) The government will soon set up a single window system for clearances and approvals for industries in the country, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday. | 27-Jul-2020 |
| Hughes to invest $50 mn in Bharti-led co | New Delhi, July 27 (TIWN) Hughes Network Systems, the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, on Monday announced to invest $50 million in the Bharti Enterprise -led consortium of the UK government, to acquire the bankrupt satellite company OneWeb. | 27-Jul-2020 |
| IndianOil, Total form JV for high-qualit | Mumbai, July 27 (TIWN) OMC Indian Oil Corporation and broad energy company Total on Monday announced the formation of a 50:50 Joint Venture (JV) company for manufacture of high-quality 'Bitumen Derivatives'. | 27-Jul-2020 |
| Petrol, diesel price rise on hold again | New Delhi, July 27 (TIWN) Consumers have been spared of any further hike in fuel prices with oil marketing companies deciding to keep the pump prices of both petrol and diesel unchanged on Monday. | 27-Jul-2020 |
| IndusInd Bank to mull raising funds via | Mumbai, July 26 (TIWN) The Board of IndusInd Bank will on Tuesday, July 28, consider raising funds through equity shares on a preferential basis. | 26-Jul-2020 |
| Aditya Puri sells most of his stake in H | Mumbai, July 26 (TIWN) The MD of HDFC Bank, Aditya Puri has sold over 74.2 lakh shares, 95 per cent of his stake in the bank for around Rs 842.87 crore during the week gone by. | 26-Jul-2020 |
| Diesel prices up again, nears Rs 82/litr | New Delhi, July 26 (TIWN) Diesel prices rose for the second straight day on Sunday, nearing Rs 82 per litre in the national capital. | 26-Jul-2020 |
| Regulatory impact assessments needed for | New Delhi, July 26 (TIWN) Regulatory impact assessments are required by specialised bodies at central and state levels to reach out to the people at the grass root level and arrive at optimal solutions to improve the ease of living conditions, according to experts. | 26-Jul-2020 |
| Huawei's 5G equipment pose no security r | Seoul, July 26 (TIWN) Faced with mounting pressure to replace Huawei 5G equipment, South Korean telecom giant LG Uplus has stressed the Chinese firm's telecom equipment does not pose any security risks. | 26-Jul-2020 |
| Any pilot targeted will be compensated t | New Delhi, July 25 (TIWN) Guarding against penal action by the Air India management against the pilots, the Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA) on Friday passed a resolution that if any pilot is targeted by the management, he will be compensated through contribution. | 25-Jul-2020 |
| Diesel costlier as oil firms push pump p | New Delhi, July 25 (TIWN) Oil marketing companies on Saturday raised diesel prices by 15 paisa/litre as OMCs revised pump prices. This rise in price came after the prices were held steady for sometime. | 25-Jul-2020 |
| Covid to shrink power sector growth, tak | New Delhi, July 25 (TIWN) The Covid-19 pandemic will have a wider impact on the country's power sector in the current financial year with the acute slowdown witnessed in the first quarter period continuing well into the year affecting both demand and supply. | 25-Jul-2020 |
| Banks' GNPA ratio may surge to 14.7% in | Mumbai, July 25 (TIWN) The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to worsen India's bad loan scenario, as the latest Financial Stability Report of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) predicts that gross non-performing assets (NPA) ratio of Indian banks may increase to 14.7 per cent by the end of the current fiscal, in case the stress scenario severely worsens. | 25-Jul-2020 |
| Halted amid lockdown; vehicle registrati | New Delhi, July 25 (TIWN) Vehicle registration in Delhi got a sudden boom last month when Unlock-1 was implemented after a halt of people's movement for almost 68 days during nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of novel coronavirus or Covid-19 pandemic. | 25-Jul-2020 |
| South Africa is Africa’s most aff | Addis Ababa, July 25 (TIWN) The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases across the African continent reached 768,978 on Thursday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. | 25-Jul-2020 |
| Global cues push equities higher, health | Mumbai, July 24 (TIWN) Progress in anti-Covid-19 vaccine development along with better than expected quarterly results pushed the key domestic equity in dices higher on Thursday. | 24-Jul-2020 |
| Bharti AXA Gen bags Rs 800cr crop insura | New Delhi, July 24 (TIWN) Leading non-life insurer Bharti AXA General Insurance has received Rs 800 crore worth crop insurance mandate from the Governments of Maharashtra and Karnataka to insure their farmers under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). | 24-Jul-2020 |
| Odisha govt to go for market borrowing t | Bhubaneswar, July 23 (TIWN) With Odisha witnessing a decrease in revenue collection due to the impact of Covid-19 pandemic, the state government has decided to go for market borrowing to meet this extraordinary stress on the budget, said an official on Wednesday. | 22-Jul-2020 |
| Never been a better time to invest in In | New Delhi, July 23 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called upon the US industry to take advantage of the scale, opportunities and recent reforms in India by investing in sectors as diverse as space and healthcare. | 22-Jul-2020 |
| Railways' first Cargo Express to run on | Hyderabad, July 22 (TIWN) In an initiative aimed at increasing the market share of Indian Railways in the movement of general cargo across the nation, the South Central Railway (SCR) will be launching its first Cargo Express train on August 5. | 22-Jul-2020 |
| Foreign cos among 16 entities in pre-bid | New Delhi, July 22 (TIWN) Even as the Indian Railways plans to introduce the first set of 12 private trains in 2023, followed by 45 more in the next fiscal, according to an initial timeline drawn by the Railways, the national transporter held a pre-bid conference and several international companies showed interest in the project. | 22-Jul-2020 |
| Oil companies hold Diesel, petrol prices | New Delhi, July 21 (TIWN) A day after diesel prices increased to extend its gain over petrol in Delhi, oil marketing companies decided to keep the pump prices of the two petroleum products unchanged on Tuesday. | 21-Jul-2020 |
| Stock market rallies, Nifty reclaims 11, | Mumbai, July 21 (TIWN) The Indian equity indices surged on Monday with the Nifty50 on the National Stock Exchange reclaiming the 11,000-mark. | 21-Jul-2020 |
| India's debt-to-GDP ratio may rise to 87 | New Delhi, July 21 (TIWN) The economic turbulence due to Covid-19 is expected to push India's debt-to-GDP ratio higher, according to a SBI Ecowrap report on Monday. Together with the declining GDP growth, debt-to-GDP ratio has been adversely affected in all countries. | 21-Jul-2020 |
| Okinawa plans to add more dealers this y | New Delhi, July 21 (TIWN) Despite Covid-19 pandemic hampering the economic revival, electric two-wheeler manufacturer Okinawa on Monday announced aggressive dealership expansion plans. | 21-Jul-2020 |
| Joss powder import from Vietnam raises s | New Delhi, July 21 (TIWN) The central government has taken a serious note of a surge in the illegal transfer of raw incense sticks from Vietnam to India under the garb of import of joss powder, which attracts zero per cent duty and is a raw material used in making 'agarbatti' or incense sticks, ever since the import of such incense sticks was put under the 'restricted' category in August 2019 by India. | 21-Jul-2020 |
| Oil companies again hold diesel, petrol | New Delhi, July 19 (TIWN) A day after diesel prices were increased to extend the price gap vis-a-vis petrol in Delhi, oil marketing companies on Sunday decided to keep the pump prices of the two petroleum products unchanged. | 19-Jul-2020 |
| Downgrading credit rating amid pandemic | New Delhi, July 19 (TIWN) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday made a strong case for rating agencies to refrain from frequent rating downgrades during the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic, which has put economies across the globe under stress and raised the need to increase spending even at the cost of enlarging deficits. | 19-Jul-2020 |
| Alliance Air to bring remote Bastar area | New Delhi, July 19 (TIWN): Accordingly, the airline will commence flights from August 5, 2020 with all inclusive one way fares for Jagdalpur-Raipur starting at Rs 1,300 and for Jagdalpur-Hyderabad starting at Rs 1,649. | 19-Jul-2020 |
| Alliance Air to bring remote Bastar area | New Delhi, July 19 (TIWN) Air India's regional subsidiary Alliance Air is all set to bring the remote Bastar area of Chhattisgarh on India's aviation map by connecting Jagdalpur to Raipur and Hyderabad. | 19-Jul-2020 |
| FDI boost: Rupee to gain strength via in | Mumbai, July 19 (TIWN) The Indian rupee is expected to strengthen as healthy FDI inflows along with FII funds pour into the country. | 19-Jul-2020 |
| Smartphone shipments decline nearly 50% | New Delhi, July 18 (TIWN) Smartphone shipments in India fell 48 per cent in the second quarter this year to just 17.3 million units, as the country faced an unprecedented lockdown owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. | 18-Jul-2020 |
| Vodafone Idea pays Rs 1,000 cr more towa | New Delhi, July 18 (TIWN) Vodafone Idea on Saturday said that it has paid additional Rs 1,000 crore to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) towards the AGR dues. | 18-Jul-2020 |
| US GDP in Q2 to contract by annualized r | Washington, July 18 (TIWN) US GDP is expected to contract by an annualized rate of 37 per cent in the second quarter and by 6.6 per cent for 2020 as a whole, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff said on Friday. | 18-Jul-2020 |
| Assam Police arrested two youths with He | PATHARKANDI, July 18 (TIWN): On a secret operation Patharkandi police caught two heroin smugglers on Friday. | 18-Jul-2020 |
| HDFC Bank's Q1FY21 net profit up 20% to | Mumbai, July 18 (TIWN) Lending major HDFC Bank on Saturday reported a 19.6 per cent increase in standalone net profit for the quarter ended June 30 of FY21 on the year-on-year basis. | 18-Jul-2020 |
| AI cites 'challenging financial situatio | New Delhi, July 17 (TIWN) National carrier Air India on Friday said that it is in a "very challenging financial" situation and is taking recourse to several initiatives with a view to ensuring the continuance of its operations. | 17-Jul-2020 |
| TDSAT stays TRAI interim order blocking | New Delhi, July 17 (TIWN) In interim relief for Vodafone Idea Ltd, the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has stayed the TRAI's interim directive to withhold the telco's premium plan 'RedX' with immediate effect. | 17-Jul-2020 |
| Covid trend: IndiGo offers double seat b | New Delhi, July 17 (TIWN) To shore-up market share, airline major IndiGo has launched an offer whereby passengers will be able to book two seats for a single passenger. | 17-Jul-2020 |
| 'No-confidence' dagger hangs on Vijayan | Thiruvananthapuram, July 17 (TIWN) Stepping up pressure on the already beleaguered Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala that is presently passing through its worst-ever crisis with even the office of the Chief Minister under a cloud in the gold smuggling case, the Congress-led-opposition on Friday gave a notice to move a no-confidence motion, when the assembly meets on July 27 to pass the Finance Bill. | 17-Jul-2020 |
| Diesel getting expensive while petrol ho | New Delhi, July 17 (TIWN) Unexpected rise in diesel prices despite slower demand has extended the gain for the transport fuel over petrol in Delhi. | 17-Jul-2020 |
| Air India plans to institute 60% pay cut | New Delhi, July 16 (TIWN) National carrier Air India's pilot unions have alleged that the airline's management under the guidance of the Centre plans to institute a 60 per cent pay cut on a retrospective basis. | 16-Jul-2020 |