HDFC Q1 profit rises 54% to Rs 2,190 cr
Mumbai, July 30 (IANS) Mortgage lender HDFC on Monday reported an exponential rise of 54 per cent in its net profit during the first quarter of 2018-19. According to HDFC, net profit during the period…
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Over 40 lakh excluded from Assam citizenship list
Guwahati, July 30 (IANS) Over 40 lakh of the 3.29 crore applicants have been excluded from Assam’s draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) released on Monday, sparking concerns about their future and triggering a nationwide…
Idea Cellular’s Q1 net profit at Rs 257 cr
Mumbai, July 30 (IANS) Telecom major Idea Cellular on Monday reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 256.5 crore during the quarter ended June, against a net loss of Rs 814.9 crore during the corresponding…
Jet to fly Bengaluru-Guwahati, Hyderabad-Chandigarh from August 1
Bengaluru, July 30 (IANS) Leading full-service carrier Jet Airways will be connecting India’s tech hub Bengaluru with Guwahati in Assam through its daily flights starting August 1, the airline said on Monday. “Commencing August 1,…
Income Tax raids on steel traders in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, July 30 (IANS) The Income Tax department on Monday raided the business and residential premises of five steel traders here in Uttar Pradesh. The local police assisted the department in the raids, informed sources…
Equity indices reach new benchmarks, Sensex ends near 37,500 mark
Mumbai, July 30 (IANS) Domestic equity indices continued to set new benchmarks on Monday and settled at their record closing levels, supported by healthy quarterly earnings. Earlier in the day, the BSE Sensex crossed the…
Uttarakhand HC seeks government’s response on private bus strike
Nainital, July 30 (IANS) The Uttarakhand High Court on Monday sought an explanation from the state government on the ongoing private bus operators strike in the hill state and asked it to respond within the…
Karnataka order on Rs 49,000 cr farm loan waiver soon
Bengaluru, July 30 (IANS) Karnataka will soon issue an official order with guidelines to waive off agricultural loans worth Rs 49,000 crore, giving relief to distressed farmers across the state, said an official statement on…
New crypto-miner targeting corporate networks in India: Kaspersky Lab
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) A new crypto-currency miner, dubbed PowerGhost, is targeting corporate networks in India and several other regions in the world, according to new research from Russia-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab. PowerGhost…
RS MP questions removal of reply to his query on demonetized deposits
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Samajwadi Party MP Neeraj Shekhar on Monday expressed surprise over the “removal” of a reply to his question on the deposit of a sum of Rs 745 crore in an…
IndiGo’s Q1 net profit plunges 97%
Mumbai, July 30 (IANS) Budget passenger carrier IndiGo on Monday reported a decline of 96.6 per cent in its net profit for the first quarter of 2018-19 due to high fuel prices and currency fluctuations….
Dubai aims for 20mn tourists by 2020, India among top targets
Kolkata, July 30 (IANS) Dubai is aiming for 20 million visitors from around the globe by 2020 and is heavily banking on tourists from India, which is currently the country’s number one source market with…
Railways: Most candidates given exam centres within 200 km of their cities
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) The Railway Ministry on Monday said it has allocated examination centres to about 71 per cent candidates in their own or nearby cities. “It is important to note that more…
Kashmir traders, manufacturers vow to protect Article 35A
Srinagar, July 30 (IANS) Kashmir traders and manufacturers on Monday vowed to fight for the protection of the Constitutions’s Article 35A which has been challenged in the Supreme Court. Article 35A, promulgated by the President…
Investment in logistics to touch $500 bn by 2025: Prabhu
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu on Monday said investments in logistics and infrastructure will touch $500 billion by 2025 as the country becomes an attractive destination for manufacturing and…
Pixel 3 XL may come in ‘Clearly White’ colour variant
San Francisco, July 30 (IANS) With Google expected to launch Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones within the next few months, the latest leak from XDA Developers via a forum user named “dr.guru” has…
Injustice being done to railway online exam aspirants: Congress MP
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan on Monday alleged that the railways are doing an injustice to the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) online exam aspirants by sending them to far-flung areas to…
RBI likely to harden monetary policy stance on Wednesday
Mumbai, July 30 (IANS) With retail inflation in India having regained the 5 per cent mark, the RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) began its extraordinary three-day consultations on Monday for the second time before an…
Amazon stops putting ‘pilot episodes’ online for viewer feedback
San Francisco, July 30 (IANS) Amazon has decided to stop its experiment of putting the first episodes of developing content referred to as the “pilot episodes”, the media reported. Up until now, the company released…
Health start-up Cure.fit raises $120 mn in Series C funding
Bengaluru, July 30 (IANS) Health and fitness start-up Cure.fit on Monday said it has raised $120 million in a Series C round of funding. Founded in 2016 by Myntra co-founder Mukesh Bansal and former Flipkart…