New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) In a bid to check proliferation of counterfeit currency notes and make bank notes last longer, India's central bank will introduce 100 crore polymer notes of Rs.10 ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) India's annual food inflation, based on wholesale prices, moved up to 14.55 percent for the week ended Nov 7 from 13.68 percent the week before, official ...

New Delhi, Nov 17(ANI): Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma on Tuesday said that the country would be able to attract 50 billion dollars Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) annually from 2012. ...

Kathmandu, Nov 16 (IANS) A Briton was arrested Monday at Nepal's only international airport for carrying high-denomination Indian currency notes which are deemed contraband in India's northern neighbour, police said. Venkatraman Jagannathan was ...

New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) India's annual rate of inflation, based on wholesale prices, rose sharply to 1.34 percent in October from 0.5 percent in the previous month, mainly on account ...

New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) India's annual rate of inflation, based on wholesale prices, rose sharply to 1.34 percent in October from 0.5 percent in the previous month, mainly on account ...

Mumbai, Nov 13 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today issued notice to the manager of Union Bank in connection with the Madhu Koda scam. The manager employed at Union Bank's Zaveri Bazaar branch ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) India's annual food inflation, based on wholesale prices, moved up to 13.68 percent for the week ended Oct 31 from 13.39 percent for the week before, as ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The telecom sector will witness a consolidation of tariffs in the next one to two years as the business models of many new operators were not ...

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said the measures taken by his government helped India brave the financial crisis better than most countries, but it may "wind ...

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia Sunday said he expected vegetable prices to ease by January. "At the end of a bad monsoon, the big pressure is ...

Patna, Nov 5 (IANS) After Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi is facing heat on the state government's much-publicised land reforms and Thursday had to clarify that credit ...

New Delhi, Nov 5(ANI): The Government on Thursday agreed to frame new rules for payments for royalty, lump-sum fee for transfer of technology, payments for use of trademark/brand name on the automatic ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Based on the new guidelines on disclosing the official wholesale price index, India's annual rate of inflation based for primary articles and fuels stood unaltered at minus ...

Washington, Nov 5 (IANS) India's purchase of 200 tonnes of gold for $6.7 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "shows central banks are getting on board with the idea that the ...

New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) Swine flu and the economic downturn impacted foreign tourist arrivals in India for a while, but it is picking up again, Tourism Minister Kumari Selja said here ...

New Delhi, Nov.4 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that the government had received information about entry of goods into the country through smuggled routes and the government ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Nov 3 (IANS) The International Monetary Fund has sold 200 tonnes of gold worth $6.7 billion to the Reserve Bank of India to shore up the Fund's finances to ...

New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA) has cautioned insurance companies against policy holders whose identity matches that of those on the United Nations' list of terrorists or organisations ...

Mumbai, Oct 31 (IANS) Indian equities markets entered into a consolidation zone with analysts terming the downward movement as long expected. A benchmark index fell 5.44 percent from its last weekly ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday said the government would first assess the economic situation in the third quarter before taking a stand on withdrawing the fiscal ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Even though India braved the global financial crisis better than other countries, a meaningful recovery depends on how quickly some key economies turn the corner, Finance ...

New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) Subir Gokarn, chief economist for Asia Pacific with global rating agency Standard and Poor's, will be appointed as a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of ...

Mumbai, Oct 27 (ANI) : Markets on Tuesday plunged by more than 380 points, its biggest single day loss in over two months, on frantic selling sparked by the Reserve Bank's ...

New Delhi, Oct 27 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday that the country's economy is responding well. Addressing the media here, Mukherjee said: "The economy, I would like to ...

Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets nosedived Tuesday to end about 2.3 percent lower than its previous close with traders hitting the sell button amid ...

New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday ruled out any roll back of the stimulus package in a hurry and welcomed the stance taken by the central bank ...

Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) Industry and think tanks Tuesday welcomed the central bank's shift in monetary policy stance, hoping that some parts of the stimulus would be retained as the economic recovery ...

New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The monetary policy review by the central bank is on expected lines with no major change in key rates, and works in tandem with the fiscal ...

Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) Indian stock markets fell sharply Tuesday after the central bank said it has hiked the statutory liquidity ratio for commercial banks and will change its stance on ...