Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has paid a final equity dividend of 39 percent for 2016-17 FY. With this, the total dividend paid during the year stands at 79 percent. Not only the amount is four times of
ONGC Videsh Limited, an ONGC subsidiary, has completed the acquisition of 30 percent participating interest in Namibia Petroleum Exploration License offshore Namibia from Tullow Namibia Limited (Tullow), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tullow O
The wind tariff in India touched the lowest level of Rs 2.64 per kWh in the second wind auction conducted by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)— a ministry of new and renewable energy PSU. The tariff in the auction is much lower
Organ donation from one body can save five people and as many as 150 medical students can learn from a cadaver. With one body, the country will develop 150 medical students who will be well trained and donating a body will be beneficial for others
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Madhya Pradesh government after a group of farmers returning from a protest against anti-farmer policies were allegedly forced to strip and then assaulted by police personnel.
Kashinath Thakur, who has just returned to work after a month-long vacation, was busy tightening screws on a huge steel plate which will be placed on the waist of the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The ‘Statue of Unity&r
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of an alleged fake encounter of a 27-year-old gangster Sumit Gurjar in Greater Noida on October 3. Notices have been issued to the chief secretary and the di
Lancet journal on health has asked the Indian government against taking a hasty step on the haphazard integration of the Indian system of medicine (Ayush) with the modern medicine based on allopathy to overcome the acute shortage of doctors.
The Congress described as “melodramatic theatrics” the speech by prime minister Narendra Modi who defended the economy on a day wh
Prime minister Narendra Modi strongly defended the fundamentals of the Indian economy, gave a befitting reply to critics a
The Dokalam standoff has come and gone. After a tense 73 days, the situation on the ground appears normal but the outcome of the standoff is not clear – mostly because no joint statement has been issued by India and China. Rather, conflictin
The projection of real Gross Value Added (GVA) growth for 2017-18 has been revised down to 6.7 percent from the August 2017 projection of 7.3 percent, with risks evenly balanced, said the Reserve Bank of India as it kept the repo rate unchan
Vice president M Venkaiah Naidu has said that linking of rivers will help farmers to grow more crops and increase their earnings. He said governments have been considering inter-linking of rivers for decades, but because of certain hurdles the pla
There is a hue and cry over Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government dropping the Taj Mahal from its list of important tourist destinations. Some media reports also stated that the Yogi government has dropped Taj from its heritage monume
Bolstering the funding sources for efficient but liquidity crunched small and medium-scale enterprises is also likely to be important in arresting the next wave of NPAs, said an RBI paper. The paper “Non-Bank Fun
The appointment of senior BJP leader Banwari Lal Purohit as governor of Tamil Nadu is being seen by experts as a BJP strategy to retain an edge in the state politics. The state, which has been facing political turmoil, has got a full tim
Address: Homeless It’s a strange address: Homeless, Basti Nizamuddin, Nizamuddin West, New Delhi. But this is what is printed on Salma’s voter identity card. She has had it laminated and keeps it in a tattere
In 2010, a group of people had sought improvement of facilities at the Elphinstone railway station, where tragedy struck on Friday with 22 people being killed in a stampede. The FOB on which people were crushed to death is 150-year
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in separate reports, had focused on railway foot over bridges (FOB) and called for building more FOBs of prescribed size. As many as
The derailment of the Puri-Haridwar Utkal Express on August 19 at Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh which killed 23 people has raised serious questions on the functioning of the railway board. A number of derailments in recent months indica
