Mumbai, March 11 – A benchmark index for Indian equities Thursday made a weak start and was ruling 36 points lower, about 28 minutes after the opening bell.
At 9.28 a.m. the 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 17,087.63 points, was ruling at 17,062.37 points, 35.96 points or 0.21 [...]
New Delhi, March 10 – A cabinet panel Wednesday cleared the $2.35 billion fresh price for the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov that India has purchased from Russia, an official said. The clearance comes a day before Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrives here on a two-day visit.
‘The cabinet committee on security (CCS) has given its [...]
Kolkata, March 10 – Vikram Solar Private Ltd. has invested Rs.100 crore at its plant at Falta, a special economic zone (SEZ) in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, for producing solar modules of 50 MW capacity per annum, the company said Wednesday.
‘Vikram Solar has invested around Rs.100 crore in this project, with an initial [...]
New Delhi, March 10 – The culture ministry Wednesday said it could not set a timeline for implementing a recommendation on the development of libraries across different sectors in the country.
The National Knowledge Commission had proposed a separate National Commission on Libraries and recommended modernising library management and providing modern amenities to libraries for the [...]
New Delhi, March 10 – A day after her party boycotted voting on the women’s reservation bill, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday asked why a third of the Rajya Sabha seats too should not be kept for women.
‘Why there is no 33 percent reservation for women in the Rajya Sabha?’ a visibly upset Banerjee asked [...]
New Delhi, March 10 – Ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi met Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday and sought an assurance that her Trinamool Congress will vote for the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha, Congress sources said.
The meeting at Gandhi’s 10 Janpath official residence that Congress sources described as ‘cordial [...]
New Delhi, March 11 – A day after the historic bill to reserve one-third of all legislative seats in India for women was cleared by the Rajya Sabha, the government’s flagship legislation Wednesday continued to disrupt the Lok Sabha where ministers said it would be passed by March 16.
After smelling the first victory in the [...]
New Delhi, March 10 – India’s trade with the Arab countries dropped to Rs.6 trillion ($120 billion) during 2008-09 from Rs.7.9 trillion in the previous year, parliament was informed Wednesday.
‘So far, no pacts have been signed with the Arab world. It is a constant endeavour of the government to enhance trade with all the countries [...]
Chennai, March 10 – Thirty-seven candidates, 25 of them independents, have filed their nominations for bypoll to Pennagaram assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu slated for March 27.
However, the byelection is essentially being seen as a four-cornered contest among ruling DMK’s P.N.P. Inbasekaran, PMK’s G.K.M. Tamilkumaran, AIADMK’s R. Anbalagan and DMDK’s Kaveri Varman.
The Election Commission [...]
Chandigarh, March 10 – The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) will hold its all-India conference in Punjab’s Zirakpur town March 17-21.
‘Around 2,500 delegates elected from 51 lakh members of CITU and 100 foreign delegates from 25 countries will participate in the conference,’ a CITU spokesperson said here Wednesday.
‘They will review the achievements and [...]
