The reason behind issuing new bank licences is to allow more private sector entities to set up banks
Jadhav has a certain way with the crowds with his earthy Marathi speeches he got unprecedented crowds whenever he held public meetings as the VC and his innovative schemes at Pune University which took academia to the villages have made him a popular figure in Pune.
Experts question Nestle's silence over Maggi controversy.
The overall average till 5 pm was 84.24 per cent.
GST rate cut for real-estate, income transfer scheme, farm loan waivers execution and recapitalisation of PSU banks have the potential to boost India's growth in a few months, says Neelkanth Mishra.
Kejriwal runs his party with the proverbial iron fist and has learnt to temper his aggression, say people close to him.
Apart from Maggi noodles, many other products can be tested for health issues.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
The country needed to focus on applications for education, e-governance, health, food and developing local applications in future, he said in his keynote address through tele-conferencing at the CII organised `Comtel 2008' on the theme `Breaking Barriers, Bridging the Divide' in Bangalore on Wednesday.
Ola was supposed to expand to the Netherlands, Kenya, Dubai, Israel, and Brazil.
The monetary authority said it was worried on three fronts with regard to inflation as well as the economy.
'The TMC did not bother telling me, a sitting MLA for 20 years, why I was not being given a ticket.'
'The time has come to substitute the present Constitutional set-up with an alternative democratic framework,' argues B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
'To be an immigrant, a South Asian immigrant of colour, a woman to be included in the Portrait Gallery... it really says that we are the country where people look for the people who make a positive impact and celebrate them,' Nooyi, 64, told reporters during the portrait gallery induction ceremony on Sunday.
'This is almost like demonetisation and is overwhelming,' says a bar-owner.
'The issue is not whether the farm laws are beneficial for the farmers or not.' 'The farmers have taken a stand that they do not want these laws.' 'Why do you want to thrust these laws down their throat?'
In the Silicon Valley of India, one can use the cryptocurrency to pay for food, buy bus tickets, order stuff online, and even get a haircut.
The cyclone lay about 720 km east northeast of Chennai over the Bay on Monday and it is very likely to move west southwestwards and intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm by Tuesday.
As many as 12,394 complaints of alleged corruption were received against railway employees.
The report stated the 2013 land Act was a step forward.
The Election Commission has expressed "displeasure" over 'hate speech' made by an Assam Cabinet minister and inflammatory statement made by a sitting MP while campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections.
Both are focused on the overall transportation business, in which taxi services are only a part; the extended ambit includes autos, motorbikes, cycles, electric vehicles, water transport as well as food delivery services, says Surajeet Das Gupta.
'If the BJP thinks they can suppress the farmers' movement by opening fire, they are wrong.' 'It will create a boomerang effect which will be very difficult to manage.'
A good monsoon could rein in food inflation. Largely good corporate results mean better days are ahead. Nifty may reach record levels, points out Devangshu Datta.
"I am a farmer's son and I was here to raise the voices of farmers and jawans," Tej Bahadur Yadav said.
As India emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the ninth budget under the Modi government, including an interim one, is widely expected to focus on boosting spending on job creation and rural development, generous allocations for development schemes, putting more money in the hands of the average taxpayer and easing rules to attract foreign investments.
Bhaichung Bhutia, India's iconic former football captain, is set to try his political luck again, this time in his native state of Sikkim, as he plans to contest the assembly elections due this year.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked NITI Aayog to frame policies to propel India into the next century.
Sandeep Pandey salutes women who have contributed to social transformation in India after 1980.
Complaints to NCM fall down sharply...4,000 Indian women deserted by NRI husbands since 2016...79 districts in India still don't have blood banks...
Analysts at Bank of America Merill Lynch said that fears of inflation getting "generalised" are overdone, as only two sub-categories of fuel and light and housing (accounting for 22 per cent of the basket) have seen a price-rise above the headline 5.2 per cent.
The Centre may soon come out with an ordinance to amend the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act to give autonomy to commodity market regulator Forward Markets Commission. "The issue is likely to come up before the Cabinet on January 24," Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai said on the sidelines of an Assocham-organised conference on futures trading.
Uber's draft prospectus for the biggest IPO in the world since Alibaba's in 2014 has projected a major cash burn for Uber in trying to get a significant market share in India, reports Karan Choudhury.
UK environment minister Lord de Mauley hosted a round-table meeting here with representatives of mango and vegetable importers and exporters from the UK and India, Deputy Indian High Commissioner to the UK Virendra Paul, and senior regulators from Defra and the Food and Environment Research Agency.
Dismisses sabotage angle, saying: "...all in all found the sabotage (s) theory possible, but not probable and certainly not grounded in any real evidence'
It is time to shrug off the ideological shackles about the way we work, play and live, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
In India, Sartaj Azizis respected as a man of grace, wit and patience. He is a wizened soldier of many diplomatic battles between the two neighbouring nations
India's leading national commodity exchanges have asked the government to immediately lift the ban on futures trading on certain agricultural commodities.
Nestle relaunched Maggi noodles on November 9.
The situation is now under control in the area, which is on the border between the Kolasib district of Mizoram and Cachar district of Assam.
