Finance MinisterANirmala Sitharaman on Thursday defended her decision to ban e-cigarettes after Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw questioned her authority to issue the ban. In a tweet, Shaw wondered why the decision on e-cigarette ban came from her and ...
Speeding up the sale process of public sector HLL Life Care, the producer of 'MOODS brand of condoms and 'HAPPY DAYS' sanitary pads, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has directed the health ministry to prepare the contours of transaction. It has directed the parent ministry to follow up the Corporate Affairs ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced a new initiative aimed at ensuring decent job creation and protecting livelihoods to boost climate action and urged countries to join the project. The new 'Climate Action for Jobs' initiative, announced on Wednesday, will be ...
US equities ended mixed after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the second time this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday rose 36.28 points, or 0.13 per cent, to 27,147.08. The S&P 500 increased 1.03 points, or 0.03 per cent, to ...
Targeting millennials and the Gen Z population ahead of the Dussehra and Diwali shopping spree, Samsung on Wednesday launched two new Galaxy M smartphones - Galaxy M30s and M10s. These two phones join the four existing smartphones in the Galaxy M line -- ...
A Home Minister Amit Shah-led ministerial panel will discuss as many as 10 major issues, including further dilution of FDI rules, transfer of debt to the SPV and fixing reserve price as it holds its first meeting to decide almost complete exit of the government from Air India....
Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday requested the Centre for a direct flight between Bhubaneswar and Dubai. In a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Pradhan said there has been a long-pending request from various quarters for introducing a direct ...
The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Wednesday opened on a positive note. The Sensex of the BSE opened at 36,621.38 and touched a high of 36,701.61 and a low of 36,620.41 after closing at 36,481.09 on Tuesday. It is trading at 36,678.21, up by 197.12 points or 0.54 per cent....
The US dollar declined as investors awaited the US central bank's next monetary move. In late New York trading on Tuesday, the euro increased to $1.1066 from $1.1006 in the previous session, and the British pound rose to $1.2502 from $1.2424 in the previous session, Xinhua news agency reported....
Consumers in India are unlikely to be overburdened with high retail price of auto fuels - petrol and diesel - following a spike in international crude prices that rose 19 per cent on Monday....
