Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a crucial meeting with home minister Amit Shah and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to firm up strategies for the financial sector in the aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) believe the industry will bounce back in no time as they see demand for microcredit rising soon because of emergency loan requirements of their customers to restart businesses.

At least 13 states hike VAT on petrol/diesel since mid-March, many make liquor costlier with new imposts.

Companies need to seek permission from the local administration – the office of the district magistrate – by submitting a host of information. Apart from the process being tedious and time-consuming, the final decision rests at DM's discretion.

Born in Ait Lahcene, near the Kabylie capital of Tizi Ouzou, then part of French Algeria, he studied to be a geologist, but his life took a turn in 1973 when he was called up as a last-minute replacement on the radio to sing the Berber lullaby 'A Vava Inouva.'

The New Yorker took the feature reporting prize for Ben Taub’s piece on a detainee at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with judges saying the story offered 'a nuanced perspective on America’s wider war on terror.'

Clown Me In co-founder Sabine Choucair discusses the group’s new online workshop series, each Friday, ‘Happy Half-Hour’

With the entertainment industry shut down by the virus, President Emmanuel Macron pledged to extend aid for out-of-work actors and performers until next year, and to set up a fund to help the paralysed film industry

Since 1998, Northern Ireland's murals have shifted from glorifying gunmen towards depictions of happy times. The tributes to frontline healthcare workers could be a similar sign old wounds are healing

Celebrated wartime and celebrity photographer Tony Vaccaro, now 97, is getting over a bout with COVID-19. He attributes his longevity to 'blind luck, red wine' and grit

In a country where art is widely seen as a pastime, and performers have long struggled to secure steady pay and royalties, the closure of theatres and cinemas and the cancellation of summer festivals has wrought havoc

The Kona Electric is lightning quick from any speed to any speed, because the massive 395Nm of torque is delivered instantly by the electric motor, unlike a petrol/diesel vehicle where the engine needs to reach a particular RPM to deliver similar power

Guidance for year has been cautious; FY20/21e EPS up 1/0.4%; valuations are fair; ‘Neutral’ maintained

The ID.3 is the first fully electric model based on the new MEB platform

Lisa Nakano of SiriusDecisions describes a framework for understanding customer engagement and maintaining it throughout the customer lifecycle

How digital payments take all the fun out of buried treasure

From April 2019, there will be several changes in the H-1B visa application. Now, the organizations required to register electronically before the visa lottery procedure to obtain H-1B visas for their workers. As per the latest rules, the candidates…

The US Office of Management and Budget has announced the new rules on July 25th, concerning the EB-5 program (Immigrant Investor Program Modernization), which is frequently used by the Indian American community. These will take effective from November…

Bajaj Finance, one of the largest non-banks in India, currently has over 20,000 employees working across 2,000 locations in India. The company currently has more than 36 million customers availing various products from its diversified portfolio. 

Worried microfinance industry feels that if the “irregularity and delay” in loan repayments get longer, then there would be a major problem for every player — small, medium and large.

India should take “urgent action” to tackle air pollution as the levels of toxic air in many cities of the country are much higher than the recommended guidelines, which could have a major impact on people’s health, WHO director Maria Neira said.

SHORT messaging services (SMS) on mobile phones will be restored in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday midnight, the 150th day since the government suspended it in the erstwhile state.

For protection of land ownership in J&K, a handful of provisions, the official said, are being considered which include land ownership protection regimes in force in states such as Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

LIC had sold around 2 crore policies in the last five years, he said. In the current year, the Indian life insurance business reported a new business premium of Rs 1.69 lakh crore of which LIC had garnered about Rs 1.2 lakh crore.

Chief among the problems is a lingering crisis at shadow banks that started in 2018, with a shocking default by then high-rated lender IL&FS. The woes mounted last year when major mortgage lender Dewan Housing Finance missed repayments.

Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh on why he chose to write about Indira Gandhi and Nehru, and the reason NDA govt’s NPR is different from UPA’s; says there is no vacancy for Cong president as of now; and warns against the lack of political outreach in Kashmir.

The 22-year-old travelled on the same flight which the first case took.

At present, around 2,000 people are under observation in Kerala. “A total of 1,999 people have recently returned from China.

In his speech Kejriwal once again stressed the importance of the bijli, paani, shiksha and swastha model, the defining theme of his governance model.

He said the CAA and the NRC were two different issues and his government will not allow the NRC to be implemented in the state.

Commerce, energy secretaries & NSA are part of team to India

It also passed a string of directions on safe passage for the bodies of the victims, their proper burial/cremation, adequate number of helplines and help desks, besides rehabilitation of those affected.

Unlike Wednesday, when Justices Muralidhar and Talwant Singh questioned the Solicitor General repeatedly over the delay in lodging FIRs and had video clips of the hate speeches played in open court with proceedings lasting through the day, the hearing Thursday was over in less than an hour.

The review meeting comes a day after India reported two new confirmed coronavirus cases, one each in Delhi and Telangana. This took the total cases in the country to five.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sent the plea to the Delhi High Court with the direction that it be listed for March 6 along with other petitions on the matter.

Nothing happened, and later it was discovered the panic was a result of rumours, mostly spread via messaging apps in the aftermath of the riots in north-east Delhi, which saw unprecedented hate spewed online.

As of now, the state government has not shut down schools and colleges, and is watching the situation closely, CM Uddhav Thackeray said.

Ambassador of France to India Emmanuel Lenain says CAA is a domestic issue, assures Paris is firm over FATF action against Pak, insists Rafale row was linked to Indian politics and that planes are on schedule, and hopes for ‘good news’ on the Jaitapur n-units

SAARC leaders are set to hold a summit on video-conference on coronavirus on Sunday, 5 pm, after Pakistan late Friday night accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposal to hold such a meeting.

The DGCA has mandated that all aircraft need to be equipped with hand sanitisers, soaps and universal precaution kits to protect crew members who assist people.

This community transmission test is running separately from the testing and tracking of symptomatic travellers as well as those who have come in contact with confirmed Covid-19 cases.

The move comes in the backdrop of the government revising corporate norms to ensure that investors are not duped through fraudulent activities.

The Kerala government on Thursday announced a Rs 20,000-crore stimulus package to address the economic slowdown caused by the spread of Covid-19.