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Airport of New Delhi-Indira Gandhi Airport at New Delhi-India
(photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
User fee at capital airport from tomorrow
The Hindu
| New Delhi: Users of the modernised airports at Thiruvananthapuram and Ahmedabad will have to pay a User Development Fee from next month. | Proposal approved | The Central government has approved a proposal of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to levy the fee at these airports, an official spok...
Green peas at vegetable market-Vegetables-India
(photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
Inflation: A nation forced to go on distress diet
The Times Of India
After nearly 15 straight months of double-digit food inflation, the government announced on Thursday that food inflation had dipped to 9.67% for the week that ended on July 17. That's small consolation for most Indians, particularly the poor, who have seen a relentless assault on their food budgets ...
Loans turn dearer
The Telegraph India
Mumbai, July 31: Some banks have started raising lending rates, taking borrowers by surprise. After the RBI monetary measures, banks had almost unanimously ruled out an immediate rise in loan rates, while most went ahead with a deposit rate hike. | T...
PSU banks, ICICI hike deposit rates
Deccan Herald
Mumbai, July 31, DHNS: | The private sector ICICI Bank and three public sector lenders, Corporation Bank, Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Union Bank of India on Saturday announced increase in their term deposit rates as well as their benchmark prime l...
ICICI Bank ups deposit rates by 0.25-0.75 per cent
The Times Of India
MUMBAI: India's second-largest lender, ICICI Bank hiked deposit rates across various maturities by up to 0.75 per cent with immediate effect, signalling a possible hike in lending rates as well. | "We have increased our deposit rates effective today ...
India's Union Bank to raise rates on Aug 4
The Times Of India
MUMBAI: India's state-run lender Union Bank of India said on Saturday it would raise its benchmark prime lending rate (BPLR) by 50 basis points to 12.25 per cent from Wednesday, Aug. 4. The lending rate revision by Union Bank comes after India's cent...
Shoppers check out at the counters of the Wal-Mart supercenter in south Reno, Nev., in afile photo from July 7, 2003.
AP / Scott Sady
Wal-Mart willing to open 'hundreds of stores' in India if allowed
DNA India
| New Delhi: The world's largest corporation and US retailing giant, Wal-Mart will open "hundreds of news stores" if the government allows foreign companies to invest...
Rice - Agriculture - Farming
WN / Rubielyn Bunag
Planting of basmati to increase in flood-hit areas of the Northwest
DNA India
| Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana will increase planting of basmati rice as floods have washed away the recently sown regular grades, farmers and trade officials said today. | Basma...
Packaging the plums professionally is going on, the plums are the first season fruits of kashmir loved and cherihed across the country.
WN / Imran Nissar
Kashmir farmers get bumper plum crop
Newstrack India
| Srinagar, July 19 (ANI): Good rains and moderate temperature have yielded a bumper plum crop for farmers in the Kashmir valley.   | Farmers are busy harvesting the fruit, wh...
Trademark row: Rajkot-based company booked
The Times Of India
RAJKOT: Rajkot-based Falcon Private Ltd, which manufactures submersible pumps and agricultural equipment operated with power, has been booked under Copyright Act and Trade Marks Act. | Surinderpal Singh, director, Falcon Garden Tools Private Ltd, Lud...
India has a great ecology of entrepreneurs: Nitin Nohria, Harvard Business School
The Times Of India
In an interview with ET Now, Nitin Nohria, Dean, Harvard Business School, talks about Indian entrepreneurs, promoters and whether India can produce a brand of innovation. Excerpts: | Nitin Nohria : India has a great ecology of entrepreneurs. It used ...
India forecasts heavy rains over rice, cane areas
The Times Of India
NEW DELHI: The weather office on Friday forecast heavy monsoon rains over top grain and cane areas, raising prospects of good rice and sugar output in the world's second-biggest producer of the two commodities. "Fairly widespread rain/thundershowers ...
Politics
The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Smt. Ambika Soni .
(photo: PIB of India)
Ministers Ambika Soni, Anand Sharma take oath as RS members
Zeenews
New Delhi: Union Ministers Ambika Soni and Anand Sharma were among the 52 members who took oath on Monday in Rajya Sabha on the first day of the Monsoon session of Parliament. | Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan, Samajwadi Party spokesperson Mohan Singh and industrialist Vijay Mallya, were among those took oath as members of the Upper Hous...



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