In front of a packed audience here, Mark Zuckerberg turned on the charm.

The number of applicants seeking H-1B visas has dropped significantly with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) receiving only 199,000 petitions for 2017, compared with 236,000 in 2016, reflecting the impact of the recent protectionist measures undertaken by the American government.

By 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill-sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial.

Alliance Air, which is the low cost regional subsidiary of Air India, will launch three new routes under the government's regional connectivity scheme by the end of September and will induct eight ATR – 72 aircraft by the end of FY18 to further consolidate and expand its operations.

In March 2014, the government approved two projects for setting up semiconductor units and also created an empowered committee (EC) for implementation of the projects.

The board of directors of AirAsia Group (AAGB) on Tuesday rebutted all allegations levelled against the airline’s top brass including group CEO Tony Fernandes, deputy group CEO Bo Lingam and also AAGB and AirAsia India.

The trial, starting the day before a momentous midterm election, could help rewrite the nation’s political map for a decade.

Spearheaded by France, the plan has met resistance from countries such as Ireland and Sweden, which question the wisdom of the EU going it alone given the global nature of digital services.

Amazon.com said on Monday it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for the first time this holiday season, heating up the competition with Walmart and other rivals vying for customers’ Christmas shopping sprees.

That’s a field Europe’s biggest software company wants to gain a stronger foothold in because it’s growing faster than its core enterprise software business.

The Trump administration will hold off for now on imposing new tariffs on automobile imports as top officials weigh revisions to a report on the national security implications, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a top White House adviser, sent hundreds of e-mails about government business from a personal e-mail account last year, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

For the Federal Reserve, 2019 has started out looking a lot like 2016: The last time uncertainty over global growth roiled financial markets for months on end.

Executives and strategists try to keep their tactics under the radar, and Disney declined to provide an executive to comment on its tactics. But the studio’s answer to the online hate is there for all to see on the internet.

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Loans and advances grew 60% year-on-year during 2019-20, from Rs 44,776 crore in March 31, 2019. Its total deposits grew 32% y-o-y to Rs 57,073 crore during the fiscal ended March, 2020. The bank had total deposits of Rs 43,232 crore as at end of March 2019.

The Yes Bank crisis, coupled with the coronavirus outbreak, may have some dire impact on India’s smaller private sector banks.

The fund will work in a similar manner in which the public sector and private sector partnered to invest and rescue Yes Bank.

"Since March 15, our volumes on outward remittance services have increased many fold. There is a significant difference in before-and-after demand since mid of March," said Praveen Kutty, Head of Retail and SME Banking, DCB Bank without quantifying the increase in demand.

NBFCs face a double whammy because they are offering moratorium to customers despite not getting one themselves from their lender banks, as per Crisil.

Jagdishan and Bharucha are the internal candidates and have been serving the bank for many years each, while Garg is working with American bank Citi at present.

The bank saw the fallout of the lockdown in the second half of March, with loan origination and cross-selling of other products slowing down, the management said.

The RBI announced the liquidity facility under the TLTRO 2.0 window for NBFCs and MFIs after these institutions failed to get funding under the earlier TLTRO scheme announced late in March.

The RBI last month cut the policy rate by 75 basis points to spur growth amid the COVID-19 crisis.

The percentage of applicants is in low single digit as a share of the loan book, the bank said, but this could go up as it has not put a deadline or a cut-off for people to apply.

Vydianathan Ramaswamy, director, ratings at Brickwork Ratings, said that the extension of deployment period to 45 days gives banks a better lead time to lend to a wider set of non-banks.

The tenor of Sidbi’s lending to financial institutions will be 90 days. MSMEs have been cash-starved for a few years and the lockdown to control the spread of Covid-19 is a body blow to their revenues.

In the fiscal ended March 31, 2020, bank loans had decelerated to 6.14 per cent, a near five-decade low, due to slower economic growth, lower demand and as banks remained risk averse.

The bank’s advances grew 15% y-o-y to Rs 5,71,424 crore as on March 31, with retail loans up 24% y-o-y to Rs 3.05 lakh crore, accounting for 53% of the net advances.

The Reserve Bank in October 2018 had barred the bank from granting or renewing any loan for six months and later extended the curbs twice.

The window was announced after the markets were roiled by news, last Thursday, of Franklin Templeton MF winding up six of its debt funds amid mounting redemptions. It will remain open till May 11.

On Thursday, the RBI said banks would be eligible for regulatory benefits irrespective of whether they supported MFs with resources from the special window or otherwise.

RBI, on April 17, announced to provide special refinance facilities for a total amount of Rs 50,000 crore to NABARD, SIDBI and National Housing Bank (NHB) to enable them to meet sectoral credit needs.

The loan has been disbursed under a refinance scheme by Nabard from its own resources and was given this week, it said.

Having come up with emergency credit lines to help businesses weather the Covid storm, banks are seeing little demand for fresh credit at this stage.

State Bank of India (SBI) has decided to give select Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) a three-month repayment holiday, persons familiar with the development said.

The communication further stated that Covid-19 is wreaking havoc on the economy which, in turn, will impact a financial services firm like KMB.

Similarly, for home loans between Rs 30 lakh to Rs 75 lakh, the effective interest rate is now at 7.65%, compared to 7.45% earlier.

In the gold loan category, which accounts for 87% of our standalone portfolio, more than 90% are servicing their dues.

Indian Holidays Pvt. Ltd., one of the premier luxury tour operators has announced a minimum 5% discount on select departures for IRCTC and Maharashtra Tourism’s flagship luxury train, the Deccan Odyssey. The journey tariffs had recently been lowered in a bid to make the Deccan Odyssey...

Karnataka Tourism’s flagship luxury train, the Golden Chariot is now available for charter at only $70000 (Rs. 3,500,000). The minister said: “Around 80 tourists can travel in the train per tour. By introducing the charter service, private individuals or organizations can have...

Indian luxury train, the Indian Maharaja, has bagged the award for the Best Asian Luxury Train for the third year in a row. The train was felicitated at World Travel Awards 2012, quoted by Wall Street Journal as “the travel industry’s equivalent to the Oscars”. The awards are...

One of the premier luxury trains in India, the Deccan Odyssey, has announced revised departure dates for the remaining of the season. This luxury train will run for 4 more times before completing its 2012-13 season in April 2013. Dubbed India’s Blue Train, the Deccan Odyssey offer weeklong...

Did you know that India's has its very own fleet of trains similar to the legendary Orient Exprees of the West. There’s one more reason why you should book Deccan Odyssey for luxury train tour package with IndianLuxuryTrains.Com As the luxury train season draws to its conclusion by...

Besides the Integrated L-40 stages, HAL is also manufacturing the riveted structures, propellant tanks, feed lines of PSLV, GSLV MKII and GSLV MKIII launch vehicles and structures of various satellites for the space agency.

Thunberg has become a leading voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world.

ISRO is already working on a Humanoid prototype (with a female form)for the Gaganyaan missions, which is expected to be sent out on a mission next year to test it out before actually sending humans in space.

The scientists noted that the loss of such key stone species may lead to a rapid and dramatic change in the landscape within our lifetime.

Have you ever wondered why the moon is always there next to Earth? How did it come into existence and what is its relation to the Earth?