While for the consumers, there is some gain and some pain, for India Inc, it's all about compliance, consolidation and parity
The Congress leader is trying his best to end his party's 27-year exile from power in UP.
The resolution plan has to be put to work this month itself. Jet has a debt of over Rs 8,000 crore and needs to make repayments of up to Rs 1,700 crore by the end of March.
Banks have reduced their base rate or the minimum lending rate in the range of 0.1-0.5 per cent till April 15.
He accused the Congress of hatching a conspiracy to destabilise the country and 'demoralise' its soldiers.
The BJP alleged that former French president Francois Hollande is part of the "nexus" to sabotage the procurement.
'If the school of bluffers includes those who get to the top not from deep knowledge but from delivering 'a clever quip or a leftfield surprise argument', then Modi is the undisputed Bluffocrat Emeritus,' says Sunil Sethi.
With Rahul showing a significant lead over Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi in opinion polls across southern India but lagging in the north, the Congress believes his contesting from the south will help galvanise cadres.
Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday came out with its manifesto for the December 4 Delhi polls, promising to enact Jan Lokpal Bill in 15 days if voted to power.
North Block and Mint Road seem likely to now stick to the earlier convention of the RBI governor coming to Delhi and being the only MPC member meeting the finance minister and senior bureaucrats on pre-policy meetings
Vinesh Phogat's gold medal was India's first since women's wrestling was introduced at the Asian Games in 2002.
Uttar Pradesh Women and Child Welfare Minister Aruna Kori on Sunday said it was not the government but the society which was responsible for incidents of rape, drawing flak from several quarters for her "insensitive and irresponsible" remarks.
Naveen Patnaik, who steered the Biju Janata Dal to a landslide victory in the Odisha assembly elections, was on Wednesday sworn in as chief minister for a fourth consecutive term.
HDFC Bank, the country's second-largest private sector bank, has cut its base rate by 15 basis points (bps) to 9.70 per cent.
The BJP has been blaming Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor and his outfit Gujarat Kshatriya-Thakor Sena for the outbreak of violence against Hindi-speaking people in the state.
In his post, Tewari wrote in Hindi in Roman script about how Modi "befooled" people.
For the first time in our political history, Pakistan has become centre stage of the incumbent's campaign, points out Shekhar Gupta.
There are about 85 million milch cows -- those that produce milk -- in the country.
This time the all-powerful interest-rate setting panel, whose constitution was notified by the government on Thursday, will take call on interest rate. But that's not the only change. The Reserve Bank of India has also decided to change the timing of announcement of its policy review, due next Tuesday, to mid-afternoon.
The prime minister took the first-ever flight by such a craft in the country on the last day of campaigning for the Gujarat polls.
Voting in the first phase began with reports of multiple faulty electronic voting machines at various booths, prompting Congress leaders to request quick action from the poll body.
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Controversial Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly Sangeet Som, an accused in Muzaffarnagar riots, has been accorded Z category security by the Centre, a move that came under scathing attack from Opposition on Tuesday which termed it as a "license for killing" and a cruel joke with the victims.
Of the 294 candidates declared with serious criminal cases, 76 were from the TMC, 52 from the BJP, 47 from the CPI-M and 31 from the Congress.
The 58-year-old leader will expand his council of ministers after the trust vote on Friday which he is expected to win without any hiccups.
With the setting of MPC, the interest rate setting powers would move from RBI Governor to the panel.
'Her death has left a small hole in me. That little space that her songs and her screen image always filled in me. She had not worked in films for years, but somehow I always sensed she was there, somewhere in Bombay where movie magic is made.'
As education loans are given on a floating-rate basis (and not fixed), one needs to account for probable spikes in the EMI while choosing the loan tenure. Loans are available for up to 15 years, which could lower your EMI and ease your repayment burden, advises Mohan Jayaraman.
The former IPL boss took to Twitter to claim that he met Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra in London last year.
A septuagenarian widow has received family pension after waiting for over half a century for it.
More than 1,400 people have signed an e-petition on the UK government website calling to 'Reverse Mango Import Ban.'
There is a narrow chance that the central bank may cut rates in the future, according to a poll of 15 economists and treasurers.
After the apex court on Tuesday rapped the Centre and the Lt Governor over the delay in government formation in Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party and Congress have charged that Bharatiya Janata Party was "running away" from fresh polls in the national capital, claims which were promptly countered by the saffron outfit
There will be tripartite pact with member, bank/housing agency and EPFO.
RBI has also announced new guidelines to price loans from April 1.
In an interview to ANI, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke on various issues, including the Balakot air strikes to the status of Kashmir to the party's manifesto.
Superstar Rajinikanth, tennis icon Sania Mirza and actress Priyanka Chopra were among the 56 eminent persons who were honoured with Padma awards on Tuesday.
The implementation of MCLR from April 1 has already led to a rate cut of 10 basis points on home loans by the country's largest bank, State Bank of India, and others.
This after high drama in the House over what opposition charged was "intimidation" by the treasury benches to get the motion for sending the amendment to the RTI Act to the select committee rejected.
Getting locked into instruments before the new regime kicks in would be a good strategy.
Four personnel were also injured in the Naxal attack and two of them were stated to be critical.
