Mumbai: Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed sharply lower Monday amid a rush for profit taking and mixed trends in global markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex settled 523 points or 0.73 per cent lower at 21,612.45. The benchmark touched the lowest level of 70,922.57...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea challenging the Delhi High Court judgement which upheld the validity of a provision of the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Act mandating that whatever companies save in tax...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday disposed of the special leave petition filed by the CBI against the January 2023 decision of the Bombay High Court granting interim bail to former ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar in the alleged Videocon loan fraud case. However, a...
New Delhi: India's Unified Payment Interface (UPI) services were Monday rolled out in Sri Lanka and Mauritius during a virtual ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the top leadership of the two island nations. India's RuPay card services were also launched in Mauritius...
Mumbai: Crisis-hit SpiceJet plans to hand out pink slips to at least 1,000 employees in the coming days as the airline works to significantly reduce costs and streamline operations of its depleted aircraft fleet, officials said Monday. Faced with financial woes, legal battles and other...
San Francisco: Elon Musk-run Tesla has temporarily slashed the prices of some of its Model Y vehicles in the US through the end of February as competition from China rises. The new price cuts come less than a month after the automaker cut Model Y...
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated here Sunday the new facility of Cognizant, one of the largest professional services companies in the world. Speaking on the occasion, Patnaik said, “The entry of Cognizant marks a significant milestone for new Odisha and further solidifies its reputation...
New Delhi: Stock markets would take cues from the upcoming macroeconomic data announcements and global trends besides keeping a watch on the trading activity of foreign investors, analysts said. The last batch of the ongoing earnings calendar would trigger stock-specific action, traders said. "This week,...
Colombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth will witness Monday, via video conferencing, the launch of Unified Payment Interface (UPI) services in Sri Lanka and Mauritius, it was announced here Sunday. The launch will enable the...
New Delhi: The government is examining foreign direct investment from China in Paytm Payments Services Ltd (PPSL), the payment aggregator subsidiary of One97 Communications Ltd, sources said. In November 2020, PPSL had applied for licence with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as...
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