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Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI/File)

PM Modi launches Kisan scheme, over 1 crore farmers get 1st instalment

PM-KISAN scheme under which Rs 6,000 per year will be given in three instalments to 12 cr small and marginal farmers.

24 Feb 2019 1:55 PM IST

Maharashra CM Devendra Fadnavis

Maharashtra farmers to get Rs 500 per quintal paddy bonus: Fadnavis

NDA govt at the Centre had last year hiked MSP of paddy by a sharp Rs 200 per quintal for the 2018-19 crop year.

24 Feb 2019 1:43 PM IST

As the downward spiral of the rupee continues, its effect will be felt in the government not being able to hold the fiscal deficit, inflation in oil and other imports, the fall of investments made in the stock market and the increased cost to companies in repaying foreign loans.

Unregulated Deposit Ordinance bans only ponzi schemes not regulated...

Ordinance also provides for severe punishment ranging from 1 year to 10 years and pecuniary fines ranging from Rs 2 lakh...

24 Feb 2019 1:12 PM IST

The RS will be generously costly contrasted with the standard top-spec Baleno.

MSI starts service campaign for 3,757 units of Baleno to inspect ABS...

The service campaign will cover Baleno manufactured between December 6, 2018 and February 4, 2019.

24 Feb 2019 12:47 PM IST

The key findings of surveys and recommendations have been submitted to the RBI Committee on Deepening of Digital Payments. (Photo: ANI)

Digital payment apps need to be more user-friendly: report

Around 44 pc of aware disadvantaged groups and 50 pc of aware advantaged groups are users of digital payments.

24 Feb 2019 12:39 PM IST

Apart from tourism, the islands my also witness development related to infrastructure, renewable energy, organic agriculture and fisheries.

Oman eyes double-digit growth in Indian tourist arrivals in 2019

As part of its 2040 strategy, Ministry of Tourism is undertaking major steps to develop and promote a series of...

24 Feb 2019 11:57 AM IST

Anti-dumping duty has also been imposed by the Government on flat base steel wheels.

ACMA seeks minimum import price levy on two-wheeler alloy wheels...

MIP is a temporary measure to provide protection to domestic farmers and industry from predatory pricing of imports.

24 Feb 2019 11:52 AM IST

TRAI has also asked platform operators to revert, in two days, with special schemes and plans for households with multiple TV connections.

Trai asks distributors to ensure a channel appears only at one place

The provision of Trai's service quality regulations that came into effect in July 2018.

24 Feb 2019 11:45 AM IST

Foreign portfolio investors (FPI) have pulled out more than Rs 7,300 crore from the equity markets in August.

Foreign portfolio investors pull out over Rs 1,900 cr from debt market...

Depositories showed that overseas players pumped in Rs 2,039 crore into equities even as they dumped debt during Feb...

24 Feb 2019 11:25 AM IST

Scheme will provide an assured pension based on a guaranteed rate of return of 8 per cent per annum for ten years.

PFRDA working on minimum assured return scheme for NPS subscribers

NPS is a contributory retirement savings scheme and seeks to inculcate the habit of saving for old age among the...

24 Feb 2019 11:19 AM IST

Survey was conducted during October to Dec 2018 in 23 states across the country with 37,680 respondents. (Photo: ANI)

MSMEs created 2.46 lakh more jobs post-demonetisation, GST: Survey

Only 28 pc of MSMEs held the introduction of GST responsible for MSMEs going out of business or for GST making business...

24 Feb 2019 10:51 AM IST

The electric vehicle draft policy is currently in public forum and up for discussion.

Fuel cell EVs may be complementing tech in India's future mobility:...

India produces close to four million passenger cars and roughly about 30 million mobility products.

24 Feb 2019 10:31 AM IST