Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| 'India fastest growing economy', says PM | New Delhi, March 29 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that despite many global challenges, India is the fastest growing major economy today. | 29-Mar-2023 |
| Russia irked with Pakistan's slow progre | Islamabad, March 29 : Pakistans plans to import crude oil from Russia has hit a critical roadblock due to slow processing by Islamabad, which has irked and disappointed Moscow. | 29-Mar-2023 |
| US CFTC sues crypto exchange Binance ove | San Francisco, March 29 : The US Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) on Monday sued leading blockchain and cryptocurrency platform Binance for allegedly breaking trading and derivatives rules, media reports said. | 29-Mar-2023 |
| Lyft CEO, president step down as former | San Francisco, Mar 29 : Ride-hailing company Lyft's co-founders, CEO Logan Green and president John Zimmer will transition from their full-time roles into non-executive roles, and former Amazon and Microsoft executive David Risher will become the new CEO, the company has announced. | 29-Mar-2023 |
| Microsoft lays off 559 employees as Seat | San Francisco, March 29 : Microsoft has laid off 559 employees from its Bellevue and Redmond in Washington state in the US, bringing the company's total to over 2,700 job cuts in the area. | 29-Mar-2023 |
| Centre to seek LS nod for passing Compet | New Delhi, March 28 : Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will Tuesday move the Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 in the Lok Sabha for consideration and passing. | 28-Mar-2023 |
| '44 airports in country don't have night | New Delhi, March 27 : There are a total of 44 operational airports in the country which do not have night landing facilities for civil operations, the Rajya Sabha was told on Monday. | 27-Mar-2023 |
| Indian e-grocery market to witness growt | New Delhi, March 27 : The Indian e -grocery market, primarily dominated by slotted delivery, is set to witness growth in tier 2 and beyond regions, with horizontal players leading the way while the adoption of quick commerce is expected to remain steady, a report has shown. The significant growth in the Indian e-grocery market between 2019 and 2022 can be attributed to the adoption of quick commerce in cities. "The expansion of eGrocery is expected to continue in tier 2+ markets, driven by dominant players," according to RedSeer Strategy Consultants. e-grocery, which remained a minuscule fraction of the total grocery sales across regions until 2019, experienced a surge in demand due to the pandemic lockdowns. | 27-Mar-2023 |
| Kerala SC/ST petrol pump owners to stage | Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 27 : The Kerala Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe petroleum pump owners association will stage a one day token hunger strike in front of the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) office in Mumbai on May 15 to protest termination of petroleum dealership of SC/ST people. | 27-Mar-2023 |
| Direct flights from Lucknow to Goa, Ahme | Lucknow, March 27 : Akasa Air has started direct flights from Lucknow to Goa and Ahmedabad. | 27-Mar-2023 |
| Mid-air scare: Nepal asks Indian authori | Kathmandu, March 27 : Nepal's aviation authority has banned pilots of an Air India flight from flying in Nepali airspace after they brought down their airplane to 15,000 feet on Friday without the permission of the Air Traffic Controller (ATC), nearly causing a mid-air collision with a Nepal Airlines flight over Kathmandu. | 27-Mar-2023 |
| WhatsApp working on new 'audio chats' fe | San Francisco, March 26 : Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature called "audio chats", which will be available within conversations in a future update of the application on Android. | 26-Mar-2023 |
| Samsung chief visits chip parts manufact | Seoul, March 26 : Samsung Electronics' Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong has visited a semiconductor components manufacturing site in China run by a Samsung affiliate, the company said on Sunday, in the first such trip to the neighbouring country in three years. | 26-Mar-2023 |
| Musk will give Twitter workers stock awa | San Francisco, March 26 : Elon Musk has finally broken his silence on giving stock awards to employees, saying that they will get stock awards based on a roughly $20 billion valuation. | 26-Mar-2023 |
| Snap acquires Th3rd that creates digital | San Francisco, March 25 : Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has quietly acquired 3D-scanning studio called Th3rd for an undisclosed sum. | 25-Mar-2023 |
| Jindal Business School breaks into QS Wo | Sonipat, March 25, 2023: Writing a new chapter in its institutional history, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) has made it to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023 for two subject areas – Law & Legal Studies and Business & Management Studies. It is the fourth time in a row that QS has ranked JGLS as India’s No. 1 law school. | 25-Mar-2023 |
| National Public Radio lays off 100 emplo | San Francisco, March 25 : National Public Radio (NPR), a Washington-based nonprofit media organisation, has begun to sack 10 per cent of its staff, or about 100 employees, and stopped production of four acclaimed seasonal podcasts, as it struggles with financial woes. | 25-Mar-2023 |
| Srikanth Venkatachari new CFO of Relianc | New Delhi, March 25 : Srikanth Venkatachari has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL). | 25-Mar-2023 |
| Over 9L UP farmers get compensation for | Lucknow, March 24 : The Centre has released Rs 462 crore to be given as compensation to as many as 9,03,336 farmers in Uttar Pradesh who faced crop losses during the natural calamities last year. | 24-Mar-2023 |
| LG Energy to invest $5.5 bn to build new | Seoul, Mar 24 : LG Energy Solution Ltd (LGES) said on Friday it will invest 7.2 trillion won ($5.56 billion) to build what will be its second standalone battery manufacturing site in the United States, sticking to its earlier plan after a period of reconsideration. | 24-Mar-2023 |
| Hindenburg report wipes out $526 mn from | Tokyo, Mar 24 : Japan's Health Ministry has found that about 40 per cent of people as of last month had a type of coronavirus antibody which can only be acquired through infection, local media reported on Friday. | 24-Mar-2023 |
| PM Modi in Varanasi today, to unveil pro | Varanasi, March 24 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the much-awaited Rs 645-crore passenger ropeway during his visit to his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. | 24-Mar-2023 |
| Govt to seek Parliament's nod on finance | New Delhi, March 24 : The government will try and get the Finance Bill 2023 passed in Lok Sabha on Friday, even as the lower house is expected to witness disruptions over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remarks on democracy and Adani issue. | 24-Mar-2023 |
| SouthChemists & Distributors Association | Bengaluru, March 23 : The South Chemists and Distributors Association (SCDA) has slapped a legal notice on SONY TV, TV programme 'Shark Tank India' and E Pharmacy Company Pharmallam for violating Drug and Cosmetics Act 1940. | 23-Mar-2023 |
| Sitharaman to meet public sector banks c | New Delhi, March 23 : Amid the failure of banks in the US and the liquidity crisis being faced by Credit Suisse, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to meet chiefs of public sector banks on March 25. | 23-Mar-2023 |
| Govt to seek Parliament's approval for u | March 23 : Amid continued disruptions in proceedings of both houses of Parliament with both ruling BJP and opposition Congress refusing to climb down from their positions, the government will try to get the budget passed in Parliament on Thursday. | 23-Mar-2023 |
| First Vande Bharat train of Rajasthan re | Jaipur, March 22 : The first Vande Bharat train of Rajasthan will leave Integral Coach Factory, Chennai for Jaipur on the night of March 24 or 25 and cover the distance in three-four days. | 22-Mar-2023 |
| Foxconn investment proposal cleared by K | Bengaluru, March 22 : The State High Level Clearance Committee headed by chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday cleared a proposal from the Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), the biggest contract manufacturer in the world, to set up a mobile phone manufacturing unit near the international airport in Bengaluru at an investment of Rs 8,000 crore. | 22-Mar-2023 |
| 25,119 projects sanctioned by AIF, Rs 11 | New Delhi, March 22 : A total 25,119 projects of Rs 17,624 crore have been sanctioned from the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) in the country and Madhya Pradesh has a maximum 5,567 projects worth Rs 4,275 crore, the Parliament was told on Tuesday. | 22-Mar-2023 |
| SPVs formed by pvt parties for execution | New Delhi, March 22 : The Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) formed by private parties for the execution of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects are not subject to government audit. | 22-Mar-2023 |
| JP Morgan advising First Republic on ano | New York, March 22 : JPMorgan Chases investment bank has been hired to advise First Republic, as the embattled regional bank tries to ease concerns about its financial condition, a media report said. | 22-Mar-2023 |
| Parl panel urges govt to encourage mille | New Delhi March 21 : A high level Parliamentary panel has suggested that the government should encourage production and procurement of millets in all the states, specially those having significant tribal population like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh among others. | 21-Mar-2023 |
| US bank First Republic's shares crash mo | San Francisco, March 21 : Shares in the troubled First Republic Bank crashed more than 46 per cent after reports the San Francisco-based bank may need to raise more funds despite a $ 30 billion rescue last week. | 21-Mar-2023 |
| Smuggled gold worth Rs 1 crore seized fr | Kolkata, March 21 : Smuggled gold and unaccounted cash worth over Rs 1 crore were seized from Howrah railway station in Kolkata and one person was arrested in this connection. | 21-Mar-2023 |
| SC declines to stay NCLAT order to hold | New Delhi, March 21 : The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal's (NCLAT) order to hold a second round of auction for RCap assets. | 21-Mar-2023 |
| Aggregators can't wash hands off truant | New Delhi, Mar 21 : In February this year, Delhi's Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission issued a notice to delivery company Dunzo for alleged sexual harassment by its delivery partner, who showed up drunk at a womans address at midnight and later even threatened her over WhatsApp to withdrew her complaint. | 21-Mar-2023 |
| Online boom, or bane? Customer gripes al | New Delhi, March 20 : "I miss you lot, nice your beauty, wonderful behaviour," a Delhi woman received these messages on her WhatsApp from a Swiggy agent, who had delivered groceries at her doorstep in June last year. | 20-Mar-2023 |
| IMF to approve $2.9 bn bailout package f | Colombo, March 20 : Sri Lankan central bank governor Nandalal Weerasinghe told media on Sunday that the country's "dollar crisis" is over, as the IMF is set to approve a $2.9 billion bailout package for the country on Monday. | 20-Mar-2023 |
| Power consumption in April-Feb of 2022-2 | New Delhi March 20 : India's power consumption during the current fiscal (till February 2023) has already crossed the levels of supply for the entire 2021-22. | 20-Mar-2023 |
| 5 lakh food delivery persons must get le | Chennai, March 19 : Call them partners or self-employed or entrepreneurs but in a real sense, the food delivery people are workers and have to be brought under the organised network, say experts. | 19-Mar-2023 |
| Number of air-passengers benefitting fro | New Delhi, March 18 : Number of air-passengers benefitting from the government's Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) has come down in 2022-23. | 18-Mar-2023 |
| India's gig economy in a limbo as online | New Delhi, March 18 : With a spurt in online food and grocery delivery, especially in the pandemic years, India saw a meteoric rise in the gig economy, giving millions of people job opportunities. | 18-Mar-2023 |
| A bumpy journey from hopelessness in Bih | Gurugram, March 18 : Suraj Kumar, a 22-year-old from Bihar who ekes out a meagre living by delivering food to the towering residential complexes of Gurugram -- over a thousand kilometres from home -- is one such face. | 18-Mar-2023 |
| iPhone 15 Pro Max may feature thinnest s | San Francisco, March 18 : Tech giant Apple's upcoming iPhone 15 Pro Max smartphone will reportedly "break record" of the thinnest screen bezels to date. | 18-Mar-2023 |
| Banks drag down Wall Street stocks | London, March 18 : Sliding bank shares dragged Wall Street down on Monday with investors worried about contagion from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, but trade was choppy and the Nasdaq composite actually ended higher as some sectors benefited from hopes the Federal Reserve could ease up on interest rates hikes. | 18-Mar-2023 |
| YouTube hikes price of its TV services t | San Francisco, March 17 : Google-owned YouTube has announced that it's raising the price of its TV subscription from $64.99 per month to $72.99 per month due to rising "content costs". | 17-Mar-2023 |
| Indian crude oil basket price rose 23% b | New Delhi, March 16 : The price of the Indian crude oil basket, in rupee per barrel terms, rose by 23 per cent from December 2021 to March 2023, but compared to this, the increase in retail selling price of petrol and diesel in Delhi has only been 1.08 per cent and 3.40 per cent, the Parliament was told on Thursday. | 17-Mar-2023 |
| Salesforce expands Centre of Excellence | New Delhi, March 17 : As tech companies go through churning at a global level, enterprise software major Salesforce on Thursday announced to spread its India footprint by expanding the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Hyderabad. | 17-Mar-2023 |
| UIDAI makes online document update in Aa | New Delhi, March 17 : The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has decided to allow residents to update documents in their Aadhaar online free of cost for the next three months. | 17-Mar-2023 |
| India at G20 showcases its strength in r | AMRITSAR, March 17 : Highlighting India's opportunity to establish itself as a leader in research and innovation, India's G20 Presidency took centrestage at Khalsa College here in Punjab on Wednesday, where IIT Ropar under the Union Ministry of Education hosted a seminar on 'Strengthening research and promoting innovation through richer collaboration'. | 17-Mar-2023 |