Economy

Mangalore City Corporation, with financial assistance from National Fisheries Development Board, will construct two modern fish markets in Mangalore ...

No-frill carrier IndiGo today grounded a new pilot in its ranks who has been under scanner of the criminal investigating agencies and issued a ...

The Fertiliser Ministry today said it will hold a meeting with the industry in the next 2—3 days to discuss decontrolling of urea in line with ...

The size of the Indian wine industry may touch the Rs 2,700 crore-mark by the end of 2012 due to rising disposable income, increasing tourism and ...

Sugar futures prices fell by 0.18 per cent to Rs 2,841 per quintal on Monday as speculators reduced their positions amid weak trend at the spot ...

A prevailing western disturbance straddling north Pakistan, adjoining Jammu Kashmir backed up by mutually perpendicular upper

The country’s synthetic rubber consumption has risen by 13 per cent to 35,865 tonnes in December 2010, outstripping domestic supply of 9,463 tonnes in ...

State-run trading firm MMTC has invited tenders for the sale of 2,000 tonnes of red lentils in the domestic market. Bids will close on March 31 and a ...

Reliance Industries today bid for six oil and gas exploration blocks, while Cairn India submitted offers for two out of the 34 on offer in the 9th ...

MasterCard’s President and CEO, Mr Ajay Banga has said India is a “more exciting” market than China for the cards and payment giant and the company is ...

National Carrier Air India has deferred the resumption of its morning flight on Delhi-Vadodara-Delhi route. The airline had announced earlier that the ...

The Indian rupee snapped its winning streak by shedding 11 paise to 44.78 against the US dollar in late morning trade today on renewed dollar demand ...

A central Australian shire council has received severe criticism after reports of outsourcing jobs to India with the Northern Territory government ...

In a democracy, the ballot will always remain more important than the wallet. So, the Budget session, which ended on March 25, was the shortest in the ...

Spinning mills have had an extraordinary year this fiscal, getting a higher price for yarn spun from cotton inventories bought at a lower price. But ...

A farmers' committee fighting against the proposed greenfield airport at village Mopa in north Goa today said that about 15,000 people would be ...

To fortify the country against the possible spill-over of the Euro zone crisis, the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has said it is time to now ...

Legal practitioners, academicians and the law students need to work on ways to develop multilateral and bilateral trade in the South Asian ...

Union Bank of India, the lead bank for Ernakulam district, has set up the first Financial Literacy and Credit Counselling Centre (FLCCC) in the ...

A fire broke out at a five-storeyed textile showroom here today in the early hours, but there were no casualties. Twenty four fire tenders fought for ...

The Prime Minister-appointed Shunglu Committee has found that over Rs 250 crore of the tax payers' money had been pocketed by various contractors ...

Desperate to increase collection of house tax, the main source of its revenue, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has warned defaulters that they may ...

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is advocating ICA pronounced accounting standard for the co-operative sector and non-profit ...

Young qualified chartered accountants are rather keen to join the industry than take to private practice, ICAI President, Mr G. Ramaswamy, said.