Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday warned that five lakh people would die if the epicentre of an earthquake was in Patna, and stressed the need to make buildings quake-proof....
"This rise in gold price is taking place due to weakening of rupee against dollar. Otherwise in the global market gold is still below $1,200 per ounce," Bachharaj Bamalwa, past chairman and director of All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation, told IANS....
Babu said this after the board of directors of the proposed port under the chairmanship of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy approved the empowered committee decision of going ahead with the project after Adani Ports, last month, turned out to be the lone bidder for building the Vizhinjam port. ...
After gaining more than 300 points in the morning trade session, a benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) slipped into the red around noon on Wednesday. ...
Reliance Industries on Wednesday said its broadband arm has signed up for a $750-million loan, backed by Korea Trade Insurance Corp, to primarily finance the procurements for its infrastructure roll-out from Samsung Electronics and Ace Technologies Corp. ...
The monsoon and global financial volatility will pose additional risk to India's growth this year besides weak domestic credit conditions and tepid domestic demand, rating agency Moody's said on Wednesday....
Global Internet services company Google will build its largest campus outside the US in Hyderabad with an investment of Rs.1,000 crore, announced Telanagana Information Technology Minister K. Tarakarama Rao on Tuesday....
While coconut yield in major producer states like Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka is showing a decline, the export of coconut and coconut products from the country in the last fiscal touched a record high of Rs.1,312.38 crore....
Ninety-four percent of its citizens access a host of service online and the country could well become the world's first paperless economy. Nowa unique e-residency scheme allows one to sit anywhere in the world and set up a company with zero percent corporate tax (on re-invested profits) in Estonia, a small country in northeastern Europe....
Heavy selling by foreign investors on the back of the minimum alternate tax (MAT) dispute, free falling rupee value and disappointing fourth quarter results led to a benchmark index of the Indian equities market closing Tuesday's trade down 630 points or more than two percent....
