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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman during a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday. (Photo: Asian Age)

FinMin to hold review meeting with public sector banks today

The finance ministry will also discuss ways in which PSBs can offer doorstep banking facility.

19 Sept 2019 8:50 AM IST

The Sensex closed at 39,784 with a gain of 168.62 points or 0.43 per cent while the Nifty-50 closed at 11,922.70 up 52.05 points or 0.44 per cent.

Nifty likely to be in the range of 10750-11100

The Sensex rose 82.79 points or 0.23 per cent to 36563, while Nifty gained 23.05 points or 0.21 per cent to 10840.65.

19 Sept 2019 2:26 AM IST

IIT Kharagpur had suspended whistle-blower professor Rajeev Kumar for misconduct in May 2011. (Photo: PTI/File)

Hang some clothes and light a bulb!

The whole process, or mechanism, is actually simple yet unique. The wall of any channel has some charges inbuilt in it.

19 Sept 2019 2:19 AM IST

Few large retail outlets have already started advertising the downward revised prices of FMCG items.

Consumers to spend less this festive season: Survey

Only 6 per cent will buy jewellery and even lesser 3 per cent will spend on property.

19 Sept 2019 2:16 AM IST

Income tax officials are unhappy with the mopup so far in this fiscal. They feel that the economic slowdown and the IT Departments strategy of going slow on the corporates, in the aftermath of the suicide of Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha in July, have impacted the over all tax collections between April 1 and September 17.

Taxmen blame pause in raids to weak collections

Some key IT regions like Delhi and Bengaluru have been impacted so badly that their growth rate stood at -7.0 and -2.9...

19 Sept 2019 1:52 AM IST

The government also said first-time offenders would face a prison term of up to one year and a fine of Rs 1 lakh. The proposed ban, promulgated through an ordinance, will make it illegal to manufacture, sell, transport, distribute, advertise, export or import e-cigarettes.

Centre bans use and sale of e-cigarettes

The government also said first-time offenders would face a prison term of up to one year and a fine of Rs 1 lakh.

19 Sept 2019 1:49 AM IST

Revenue collection from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) had slipped below the Rs 1 lakh crore mark for the first time in the current fiscal in June at Rs 99,939 crore. (Photo: File)

Fitment panel rejects GST rate cut for auto, biscuits; favours relief...

Automobile industry has long been demanding reduction in GST rate from the present 28 per cent to 18 per cent.

18 Sept 2019 7:51 PM IST

Manufacturing sector contracted by 0.4 per cent in November as against a growth of 10.4 per cent a year ago. (Representational image)

DPIIT notifies FDI relaxation norms in coal mining, contract...

It also notified the decision to allow 26 per cent FDI in digital media, a move over which certain industry and experts...

18 Sept 2019 7:18 PM IST

Rupee strengthened by 28 paise to close at 70 against the dollar on Thursday.

Rupee stems losses, rallies 54 paise to 71.24 vs USD on easing oil...

However, unabated foreign fund outflows capped the gains, forex traders said.

18 Sept 2019 6:49 PM IST

Govt doing everything possible to bring India back on high growth...

We need to think what kind of innovation we need to undertake to attain a high growth, said Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.

18 Sept 2019 6:16 PM IST

In view of Indias Neighbourhood First policy, the Railways is also doing international projects funded by Ministry of External Affairs.

11 lakh railway employees to get 78 days' pay as productivity bonus

It would benefit 11 lakh employees and would cost the exchequer Rs 2,024 crore, said Union Minister Prakash Javadekar.

18 Sept 2019 4:48 PM IST

LICs stake went up in seven Sensex companies during Q4. They are: Bajaj Auto; Mahindra & Mahindra; Kotak Mahindra Bank; HDFC Bank; ONGC; Coal India; and ITC.

Sensex rises 83 points; energy, metal stocks climb

The 30-share index ended 82.79 points, or 0.23 per cent, higher at 36,563.88.

18 Sept 2019 4:03 PM IST