Gurgaon, Dec 17 (IANS) People were evacuated from a Delhi Metro station and two markets in posh areas of Gurgaon Wednesday afternoon after police received bomb threat calls, officials said. The threats, however, turned out to be hoaxes. Train services were affected for over two-and-a-half hours – from around 3.30 p.m. till 6 p.m. – […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Wednesday passed the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2014, after Corporate Affairs Minister Arun Jaitley told the house that some of the original provisions were only posing hurdles to doing business in the country. “The object of these amendments is solely to ease the process of doing business in […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Security was beefed up Wednesday in schools across India, especially in the national capital, and in shopping malls and other crowded places, a day after a terror attack in a school in Pakistan’s Peshawar city left at least 148 people, mostly children, dead. The central government issued an advisory late […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Wednesday imposed a penalty of Rs.50 lakh on ICICI Bank and Rs.25 lakh on Bank of Baroda for violation of KYC norms, a statement issued by the apex bank said. “The Reserve Bank of India has imposed monetary penalty on the following two banks […]
Manila, Dec 17 (IANS) Reforms brought by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will help India grow 5.5 percent this fiscal and, if extended, should lift growth to 6.3 percent next year, a top official in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said here Wednesday. The expected growth is backed by sliding oil prices and the reforms ushered […]
Kolkata, Dec 17 (IANS) France is keen to attract Indian firms to invest in the country, after losing considerable market share in global trade over the last 10 years and now facing a wide trade deficit. “In France, we have a large number of SMBs (small and medium businesses) which are developing technologies in large […]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday “strongly condemned” the terror attack on a school in Pakistan’s Peshawar city in which at least 126 school children were killed. Mukherjee expressed “deep anguish” and “strongly condemned” the incident in which heavily armed terrorists launched a brazen attack on the […]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) A court here awarded life sentence to a man for committing a double murder in 2013. Judge Kamini Lau said that no remission will be granted to the convict Govind, 25, till he undergoes an actual sentence of 25 years. Govind was slapped with a fine of Rs.2 lakh to […]
Chandigarh, Dec 16 (IANS) Calling for the union government’s intervention in securing Punjab’s 553-km long international border with Pakistan against drugs smuggling, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Tuesday said that the peace train and bus service between India and Pakistan was being used for sending consignments of narcotics. “In recent times, the use of […]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Markets regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has found 32 companies to be operating unauthorised investment schemes in the garb of real-estate business, parliament was told Tuesday. “During the last three years and current year, SEBI has found that 32 companies were operating CIS (Collective Investment Schemes) under […]