Union Minister Praful Patel and Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal, who is the Nationalist Congress Party's OBC face, are among 18 candidates announced by the party on Thursday for the Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra.
Various Maratha organisations had held massive 'silent marches' across the state last year for various demands, including reservation.
Total net debt-equity ratio improves for third consecutive year, while investment in new projects hits a 10-year low, says Krishna Kant.
Four more persons with suspected links with a Hindu outfit have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 28-year-old IT professional in Pune, police said on Thursday.
The decline is attributed to lower salary growth and a rise in households' financial liabilities.
A senior police official who was allegedly shot at by his deputy inside a police station in suburban Mumbai, has died.
Raju pleaded for leniency citing his philanthropic activities.
Most markets have seen significant erosion in investors' wealth this year
The court allowed tips to performers but disallowed showering of currency on them.
Inflows from Europe, falling crude oil to come to the rescue if rupee cracks against the dollar.
"A police team left for UP to trace the culprits, as it suspects that they must have fled to that state," a senior police official said on Monday.
Pansare, who was shot at and critically wounded by unidentified assailants outside his housing society after returning from a morning walk on February 16, succumbed to his injuries at Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai late Friday night.
In the past three years, personal loans have grown at twice the rate of growth in personal disposable income, leading to a steady rise in household indebtedness. At the end of March this year, Indians owed Rs 25.2 lakh crore to banks and listed non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), up 65 per cent in the past three years.
India have won the first two Tests by comprehensive margins -- by 304 runs in Galle and an innings and 53 runs in Colombo.
The rupee has depreciated 2.35 per cent in the past three months and one per cent in the past month, despite strong capital flows and falling oil prices.
The benchmark Sensex companies' underlying earnings per share are down 3 per cent (on a cumulative basis) since January 2015, against 25 per cent rise in the index value during the period
While gold returned 12 per cent annual gain in 10 years, Nifty didn't exceed 9 per cent.
Analysts worry about possible loan waiver.
A minister in Maharashtra has come under criticism after he was spotted with a revolver tucked under his belt at an event organised for children with speech and hearing impairment.
Maharashtra police have made extensive security arrangements to ensure that voting for the October 15 Maharashtra Assembly polls goes peacefully with the deployment of over 2 lakh state police personnel, along with the reserved police forces.
The stringent provisions are envisaged in a draft bill finalised by the Maharashtra government to regulate dance bars in the state post lifting of a ban on them.
Looking for a proper tune-up before the three-match Test series against hosts Sri Lanka gets underway, India would be hoping that rain stays away from their one and only three-day practice game beginning at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, on Thursday.
Rising oil prices and diminishing cash pile to limit capacity in 2018-19
Inflation trajectory does not match the slump in demand, prolonged pause on rates likely.
The combined share of customs and excise duties, service tax, and value-added tax in India's gross domestic product reached an all-time high of 10.5%.
Veteran Communist Party of India leader Govind Pansare, who was shot at earlier this week, died at a hospital in Mumbai late Friday night after he was airlifted for treatment to the city this evening from Kolhapur. He was 82.
As inflation rate is near the upper limit of the comfort zone, experts rule out rate cuts anytime soon
A financial turnaround in Tata Steel and Tata Motors has come as a shot in the arm for Chandra.
After years of losing money on two of the group's biggest bets - global steel business and domestic passenger cars - there are strong signs of a revival in both businesses.
So far, India has attracted over $20 billion in the debt segment, thanks to the rate differential.
Asset quality stress has ballooned recently, as growth slowed and interest rates continued to rise.
12 out of 21 public sector banks reported declines in their loan books in the last financial year against seven such banks in 2015-16 and none in 2013-14.
Experts say it will now be tough for the Modi government to catch up with the UPA's economic record owing to the shock induced by the currency demonetisation.
The protesters blocked roads in several areas of Mumbai, forced shops to shut down.
New series points to a sharp recovery since FY14.
Earnings spread for foreign investors down to 10-year low of 1.1 per cent, from 2 per cent at the beginning of the year and record high of nearly 5 per cent in 2013
The gap between Nifty's price-earnings multiple and economic growth is at a 12-year high
Its rich valuation with a PE of 62 times raises downside risk for investors
FIIs accumulated India's top-listed companies at an average valuation of around 16 times.
Mid- and small-cap companies seem to have done better than top-tier companies
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