New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Tuesday participated in a traditional 'halwa' ceremony, marking the final stage for preparation of Union Budget 2024-25 to be unveiled on July 23 in Lok Sabha. The ceremony is a ritual in which traditional dessert 'halwa' is prepared and...
Mumbai: India's domestic air passenger traffic grew 5.76 per cent to 1.32 crore in June from 1.24 crore in the same month last year, aviation regulator DGCA's monthly data showed Tuesday. During the reporting month, budget carrier IndiGo carried 80.86 lakh passengers, clocking a market...
New Delhi: The government Tuesday pointed out that retail prices of tur, urad and chana dals have not declined in proportion to about a 4 per cent fall in major wholesale markets in the past one month and asked retailers to charge reasonable profit margins...
Mumbai: Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty settled at record high levels in their third straight day of gains Tuesday following buying in FMCG, telecom and select IT shares and FII inflows. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 51.69 points or 0.06 per cent to settle...
New Delhi: India Tuesday announced a fresh list of 346 military hardware, including "strategically-important" systems and weapons, that will only be procured from state-run domestic manufacturers after a ban on their import kicks in under a staggered time-line. The defence ministry said over 12,300 items...
New Delhi: Bajaj Auto Tuesday said its consolidated profit after tax increased 18 per cent to Rs 1,942 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2024, aided by robust sales across domestic and export markets. The Pune-based automaker had reported a profit after tax...
Bengaluru: India's manufacturing sector is booming which has created more job opportunities as the sector is looking for new skills, a new report showed Tuesday. Between June 2022 and June this year, the manufacturing industry in India grew by an impressive 40 per cent. According...
New Delhi: The government is working on the FAME III scheme for promotion of electric mobility and it is likely to be implemented in the near future, Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy said Tuesday. The third phase of Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric...
New Delhi/Angul: State-owned NLC India Ltd Monday said that it has bagged a coal mine in Odisha’s Angul district. The coal produced from the mine will address the energy security of the country. The coal mine has total reserves of around 1.38 billion tonnes with...
New Delhi: India's merchandise exports in June increased 2.56 per cent to $35.2 billion from $34.32 billion in the year-ago month, according to government data released Monday. Imports rose by about 5 per cent to $56.18 billion in June against $53.51 billion a year ago....
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