Economy - general

24 Mar 2018

The Australian government has scrapped the highly popular sub-class 457 visa category for overseas workers hoping to migrate there, replacing it with a new temporary skill shortage visa

24 Mar 2018

23 Mar 2018

22 Mar 2018

22 Mar 2018

22 Mar 2018

The union cabinet has approved the launch of the government's ambitious health scheme, with budgetary support of Rs16,000 crore for 2018-19 and 2019-20

22 Mar 2018

The union cabinet has approved the launch of the government's ambitious health scheme, with budgetary support of Rs16,000 crore for 2018-19 and 2019-20

21 Mar 2018

21 Mar 2018

Goldman Sachs has downgraded its India’s GDP growth forecast for fiscal 2019 to 7.6 per cent from the earlier 8 per cent, saying the PNB fraud could result in tighter credit, and the problem may not be with just one bank but more systemic

17 Mar 2018

16 Mar 2018

There are only five countries in the world including India which have four or more tax rates of GST, according to the World Bank’s bi-annual India Development Update, And the top slab of 28 per cent is the second highest of 115 countries surveyed

15 Mar 2018

India, which dropped four places in the 2017 World Happiness Report, fell a further 11 places in the 2018 report. All its neighbouring countries, including Pakistan and Nepal, are happier in a list topped by Finland

13 Mar 2018

The Supreme Court has extended the March 31 deadline for linking Aadhaar to mobile phones and bank accounts and similar private services, till its final orders on the challenge mounted to compulsory biometric idebntification

13 Mar 2018

The over 35,000 farmers from Maharashtra who had marched on Mumbai began dispersing today, satisfied after the government accepted most of their demands including loan waivers and right to cultivate forest land

10 Mar 2018

10 Mar 2018

After a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, French President Emmanuel Macron, on a four-day visit, said New Delhi is a 'strategic partner' of France, and stability in the Indian Ocean is 'very important for the entire region'

10 Mar 2018

After a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, French President Emmanuel Macron, on a four-day visit, said New Delhi is a 'strategic partner' of France, and stability in the Indian Ocean is 'very important for the entire region'

09 Mar 2018

07 Mar 2018

Reports said the metal detectors placed at the entrance of the Lokayukta office were found non-functional, which could probably have allowed the attacker, an advocate in this case, smuggle in a knife without being detected

01 Mar 2018

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28 Feb 2018

27 Feb 2018

Steve Wozniak, the techno wiz and co-founder of Apple, says in an interview that the fears of Artificial Intelligence posing a threat to humans are exaggerated. He also says Indians lack creativity, and an Infosys can never become a Google or a Facebook

26 Feb 2018

Reliance will invest about Rs37,000 crore in an oil and gas venture with BP and another Rs15,000 crore in an electronics manufacturing plant near Tirupati, helping to create 25,000 new jobs over the next few years

24 Feb 2018