NEW DELHI: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said India would achieve near doubling of per capita income in the next five years. She also said the country will witness the steepest rise in living standards of the common man in coming decades aided by structural reforms undertaken by the government in the past […]
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet Friday sanctioned a performance-linked bonus (PLB) equivalent to 78 days wages for over 1.17 million Railway employees. Railway and Information & Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced the decision which translates into a total financial outlay of Rs 2,028.57 crore and is aimed at providing a substantial boost to various categories […]
NEW DELHI: Union Cabinet has approved the National Mission on Edible Oil-Oilseeds (NMEO-Oilseeds) with a financial outlay of Rs 10,103 crore. The initiative, aimed at boosting domestic oilseed production and achieving self-reliance in edible oils, will be implemented over a seven-year period, from 2024-25 to 2030-31, the Cabinet said in a communique. It aims to […]
NEW DELHI: Amid growing fear of a wider Middle East conflict, the Indian stock market crashed in the morning trade and extended its losses in the afternoon on Thursday. The sensex was down more than 1300 points and Nifty fifty index shed around 0.97 per cent at 25,548.4 points. Most of the sectoral indices were […]
NEW DELHI: Zoom Phone service is now available in India. Using this service, customers can make outbound and inbound calls using the public switched telephone network (PSTN). It will work with native India phone numbers. The video communications company received the Unified License with Access – All/Pan India and Long Distance from the Department of […]
NEW DELHI: Leading automaker Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday said it sold 184,727 vehicles in the month of August, up from 181,343 units sold in the same month last year. The figure included domestic sales of 148,061 units, sales to other original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of 8,938 units and exports of 27,728 units, the automaker […]