NEW DELHI: Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari has taken an initiative to develop indigenous and apt technologies to bring down the cost of construction and reduce the construction period of Road/ Bridge/Tunnel projects and to fulfill this objective the expertise available in the country with Research Institutes and Academia is being harnessed. […]
By Andrew LEESON Google threatened Friday to block Australians from using its search service unless the government changed landmark legislation to make the internet giant pay news outlets for their content. Google Australia managing director Mel Silva warned a Senate committee in Canberra that the world-first media law was “unworkable” and would undermine the functioning […]
NEW DELHI: Farmer leaders on Thursday rejected the Narendra Modi government’s offer to suspend the three farm laws for 12 to 16 months. At a full general body meeting of the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha, a complete repeal of three central farm laws and enacting a legislation for remunerative MSP for every farmer were again reiterated […]
NEW DELHI: Positive global cues and expectations of healthy quarterly results, along with that of a supportive Union Budget FY22, powered the ascent of India’s barometer index — the S&P BSE Sensex — to cross the 50,000 mark on Thursday. However, the barometer index dipped below the psychologically important mark due to profit booking at […]
NEW DELHI: To protect Airtel customers from the growing incidents of online payment frauds, Airtel Payments Bank has launched ‘Airtel Safe Pay’ – India’s safest mode for making digital payments. With ‘Airtel Safe Pay’, Airtel customers making UPI or Netbanking based payments through Airtel Payments Bank, no longer have to worry about money leaving their […]
NEW DELHI: The Jet Airways Aircraft Maintenance and Engineers Workers Association (JAMEWA) has filed an application with the NCLT to expedite the insolvency process of the airlines before the end of this month so that it can get ‘summer slots’. According to the application filed on Wednesday, “for summer months the international slots will be […]
KATHMANDU/DHAKA: Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives have received India’s COVID-19 vaccines under grant assistance in sync with its a Neighbourhood First’s policy. India is one of the world”s biggest drugmakers and an increasing number of countries have already approached it for procuring the coronavirus vaccines. India has already rolled out a massive coronavirus vaccination […]
NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Department carried out search and survey operations on Thursday (19.01.2021) in Jaipur on three groups, involving one jeweller and two real-estate colonizers and developers. Co-ordinated search operation was conducted at 20 premises and survey was conducted at 11 premises. One of the groups is a prominent builder, developer and colonizer in […]
NEW DELHI: Construction of 1,68,606 new houses have been approved in the 52nd Meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban). 14 States/UTs participated in this meeting. These houses are proposed to be constructed across the verticals of Beneficiary Led Construction, Affordable Housing in Partnership and In-Situ Slum […]
NEW DELHI: The Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the new 4-lane Thaltej-Shilaj-Rancharda railway overbridge, built at a cost of Rs 55 crore, in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat through video conferencing from New Delhi today. Several dignitaries including Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel were present at the programme. In his address on the occasion, […]
NEW DELHI:German luxury automotive group BMW plans to bring 25 new products in India this year as it looks to accelerate sales growth, leaving behind the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. The company, which on Thursday launched its BMW 3 Series Gran Limousine priced between Rs 51.5 lakh and Rs 53.9 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi), expects […]
NEW DELHI: The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has agreed to hear a petition filed against Omaxe Ltd alleging oppression and mismanagement in the affairs of the Delhi-based real estate firm. Terming the matter as “exceptional” and having “compelling circumstances” against the realty firm, a two-member Chandigarh-based NCLT bench has granted the waiver in the […]
SAN FRANCISCO:PC and printer major HP Inc has appointed Sarabjit Singh Baveja as Chief Strategy and Incubation Officer who will lead the strategy, corporate development and new business incubation efforts focused on driving new sources of growth and long-term value creation. Baveja, who joins HP from Bain & Company, will work closely with the executive […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Paid subscribers for Netflix surpassed the 200 million mark in 2020 as Covid-19 restrictions helped it to gain viewership, the streaming giant has said. The numbers were revealed on Tuesday as Netflix reported its results for the fourth quarter which saw an addition of over 8.5 million paid subscribers to the platform. Average […]
NEW DELHI: Automobile major Maruti Suzuki India has commenced export of Suzuki’s compact off-roader Jimny from India. Accordingly, the first shipment of 184 units left from Mundra port to Latin American countries such as Columbia and Peru. Besides, the three-door Suzuki Jimny will also be exported to the Middle East and African markets from India, […]
NEW DELHI: Automobile major Hyundai Motor India’s philanthropic arm on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IIT Delhi to support the research work at ‘Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology’. Besides, the philanthropic arm – Hyundai Motor India Foundation – donated a KONA Electric for IIT Delhi students to study alternate energy powered […]
