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Petrol, diesel contribute Rs 30k-cr additional excise in April-August Four hikes in excise duty on petrol and diesel between November 2014 and January 2015 have generated an additional re...

24x7 Power: Government begins work on National Electricity Plan The committee which has been entrusted to chalk out National Electricity Plan, has decided to constitute 11 subcommit...

72K-cr BharatNet programme to be put before Cabinet in 2 months Nationwide broadband network programme BharatNet is likely to be submitted for the Cabinet approval in two months....

Greece's next government: One party or a grand coalition? Tsipras, who resigned on August 20, is now seeking re-election on pledges to negotiate softer terms with Greece's int...

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How Cyrus Mistry plans to have more TCS-like giants in the Tata Group By 2025, Cyrus Mistry wants the group to be in the top 25 globally by market capitalisation; and reach out to 25 per ... read more Why youngsters are fleeing Panipat in droves »  Views of RSS may not endear it to a young population »

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Ministry puzzled as Railways loses 150 million passengers in first five months of FY16 While 3,575 million passengers travelled in trains between April to August in FY15, the figure for the same period in...

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan talks of strong institutions, slams 'jugaad' Rajan today did some plainspeak, saying the key to sustainable growth is strong institutional mechanisms that allow b...

Housing For All: States queue up for PM Narendra Modi's project As many as 18 states have expressed eagerness to sign pacts with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviatio...

A look at Modi government's ministers who are media shy and work from the shadows Some of PM Narendra Modi's ministerial colleagues strike a complete contrast as they shun the limelight and appear to...

India will give better returns on investments... Arun Jaitley ,Union Finance Minister

LATEST UPDATES Sebi widens black money probe; offshore arbitrage under lens Sebi has now expanded its horizon to the previous years in this regard as there have been complaints about suspected ... NTPC gets shareholders nod to raise Rs 5,000 crore The company had tabled a special resolution to raise the amount of Rs 5,000 crore through issue of bonds/debentures o... Rates should come down, but RBI final authority: Arun Jaitley Jaitley today said monetary policy plays an important role in stimulating growth and is hopeful that it will appropri... Companies Act to be fully implemented by March 2016 Addressing a press conference here, Mehta said that currently the act was implemented partially and the unimplemented...

Market Watch 20 Sep | 06:12PM SENSEX 26218.91↑254.94 NIFTY 7981.90↑82.75 USD/INR 60.16↓-0.18 GOLD (Rs/10g.) 26468.00↑300.00

MARKET NEWS

FPIs take out Rs 4,600 cr from capital markets in September Foreign institutional investors have pulled out over Rs 4,600 crore from the capital markets since the beginning of t...

Top 10 Sensex cos add Rs 74,521 cr in market cap The market capitalisation (m-cap) of Sun Pharma surged Rs 14,318.55 crore to Rs 2,17,806.55 crore....

Gainers Losers 20 Sep, 2015, 06:12PM IST, PTI|View All Company Name Live Price Change (%) Volume High Low K S Oils Ltd. 0.72 20.00 960718 0.72 0.56 Allied Computers International (Asia) Ltd. 0.06 20.00 2697569 0.06 0.05 Kalpa Commercial Ltd. 285.10 19.99 5360 285.10 196.00

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FROM THE NEWSPAPER

How Mangaluru has become a breeding ground for vigilante groups Attacks by rightwing groups have earned it the tag of being a hub of "moral policing", a misnomer for violence in the...

Why J'khand, Chhattisgarh, MP & Odisha stand out in Ease of Doing Biz ranking The ease of business rankings demonstrate that some of the older and much industrialised states seem to be surviving ...

Why BJP's cultural hygiene project is futile & with dangerous effects BJP is innovative, proactive in realising its ideas. If Bosnia and Rwanda saw ethnic cleansing, the party came up wit...

Bihar: Meet the 5 politicians whose entry may help BJP When something as strange as five spoilers emerge, it gets credited to Modi's genius. Whether it is so or not, all fi...

Parents are most guilt-ridden about not spending enough time with their children Few parents would be complaining — not when their kids are turning out to be the world's most sanguine when they ente...

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