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ADB lowers India’s growth by 40 basis points to 7.2% in fiscal year 2019-20

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has recently released its flagship publication Asian Development Outlook 2019. In its report, ADB has lowered India’s growth by 40 basis points to 7.2%...

April 4, 2019

Election Commission revises MGNREGA wage rates

Election Commission has approved to revise the wages under the MGNREGA ( Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) scheme under the request of Rural Development Ministry from...

April 2, 2019

Finance Ministry to infuse Rs. 5042 crore into Bank of Baroda

The government will infuse around Rs. 5000 crore into Bank of Baroda, which will be merged with two other public sector banks Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank. This...

March 29, 2019

Y V Reddy authors book “Indian Fiscal Federalism”

The book titled “Indian Fiscal Federalism” has been authored by former RBI Governor Dr. Y V Reddy and co-authored by Dr. G R Reddy. The authors noted that...

March 29, 2019

Cabinet approves 5 year extension of Biomedical Research Career Programme

The Union Cabinet approved the extension of the Biomedical Research Career Programme and Wellcome Trust (WT)/DBT India Alliance beyond its initial 10-year term to a new five year...

March 29, 2019

Vivek Gupta designated as Director of SAIL in Raw Materials and Logistics

Vivek Gupta has assumed the charge of Director (Raw Material& Logistics) of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). He has been trained at UK in Advanced Project Management...

March 29, 2019

Banks recover Rs.1000 crore from sale of Mallya’s shares

The  Enforcement Directorate has said that consortium of banks which is led by the State Bank of India, have recovered over one thousand crore rupees from the sale...

March 28, 2019

Naresh Goyal quits Jet Airways Ltd.

Naresh Goyal, the founder of Jet Airways (India) Ltd, has resigned from the board of the troubled airline. Goyal, who has founded Jet Airways over two decades ago...

March 26, 2019

Spicejet becomes the first Indian low cost airline to join IATA

India’s domestic airline Spicejet, has become the first Indian low cost airline to join the elite group of Airlines, IATA (International Air Transport Association). The IATA membership will...

March 23, 2019

SpiceJet becomes first Indian low-cost airline to join IATA

SpiceJet has become the first Indian low-cost carrier to get the membership of global airlines’ grouping International Air Transport Association (IATA). The membership also allows SpiceJet to explore...

March 22, 2019

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