Office of CJI is public authority, falls under RTI: SC

Observing that judicial independence and accountability go hand in hand, the Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) is a public authority and falls......

Rising Re may help in hiking gold jewellery demand

Hardening of rupee against dollar in the last few days has helped in capping gold prices which may boost the domestic demand for jewellery, MMTC, the country's largest importer of the precious......

MMTC aborts SEZ plan with Maytas

Government-owned MMTC has decided to drop its joint venture SEZ plan with the two Maytas firms promoted by B Ramalinga Raju's family after surfacing of the multi-billion Satyam fraud. Though the......

Gold hallmarking to be made mandatory

Gold purchasing will soon be more comfortable experience without the nagging doubt about its purity, as the government is set to make it mandatory from January 2008 to emboss all gold sold in the......

A new $10 bn Navratna-status company

MMTC Ltd, State Trading Corporation (STC) and Project Equipment Corporation (PEC) are considering merging their businesses to form a $10 billion (Rs 43,000 crore) Navratna-status company. MMTC Ltd,......