New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday arrested two more accused allegedly involved in illegal Forex transfer involving the Bank of Baroda. Two accused — Varun Bhatia and Gaurav Bhatia — were…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) Leading Indian flyer Jet Airways on Thursday announced codeshare and reciprocal frequent flyer programme partnership with Korean Air for increasing connectivity further. “The codeshare cooperation with Korean Air is an…
Chennai, Feb 25 (IANS) Anil Ambani-led Reliance Capital on Thursday announced hiving off its commercial finance division into a separate wholly owned subsidiary. In a statement, Reliance Capital said the board of directors approved the…
New Delhi: Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu and Union Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha arrive at the Parliament to present Railway Budget 2016-17 in New Delhi on Feb 25, 2016. (Photo:…
Vienna, Feb 25 (IANS/WAM) The price of OPEC’s basket of thirteen crudes stood at $28.30 a barrel on Wednesday, compared with $28.94 on Tuesday, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations. The OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes…
Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Disappointment over the railway budget, coupled with negative Asian indices and derivatives expiry subdued Indian equity markets during the mid-afternoon trade session on Thursday. This led the barometer 30-scrip sensitive index…
Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Disappointment over lack of any big ticket projects in the railway budget proposals for 2016-17 dented stocks of companies associated with the Indian railroads during a volatile mid-afternoon trade session on…
Lisbon, Feb 25 (IANS) Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa has revealed that Brazilian defender Maicon Roque, who is on loan to Sao Paulo due to a controversial incident, is likely to be sold…
Stockholm, Feb 25 (IANS) Pharmacies in Sweden have taken hand sanitizers off their shelves after they discovered that teenagers had been intoxicating themselves by drinking these. “Young people come in to the emergency room with…
Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Disappointment over the railway budget, coupled with derivatives expiry and a weak rupee subdued Indian equity markets during the afternoon trade session on Thursday. Negative Asian markets also dented sentiments. This…
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 25 (IANS) Kottayam-headquartered Mangalam group, which publishes a daily newspaper and several magazines, has said it will soon launch a TV news channel in Malayalam. The channel will be an addition to the…
Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Positive expectations from the upcoming railway budget buoyed stocks of companies associated with the Indian railroads during the volatile morning trade session on Thursday. Market analysts attributed the rise on short-covering…
By Arun Kumar Washington, Feb 25 (IANS) Citing a win over India in a dispute challenging India’s “localisation” rules against US solar exports, President Barack Obama served notice that his administration would move aggressively to…
Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Positive expectations from the upcoming railway budget buoyed stocks of companies associated with the Indian railroads during the volatile morning trade session on Thursday. Market analysts attributed the rise on short-covering…
Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Ahead of the presentation of the railway budget for the next fiscal year, key Indian equity indices opened flat on Thursday, with additional caution due to the expiry of contracts for…
Tokyo, Feb 25 (IANS) Tokyo shares ended higher on Thursday following an upbeat overnight US equity market and the rebounding oil prices. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average jumped 111.24 points, or 0.70 percent, higher from…
Abu Dhabi, Feb 25 (IANS/WAM) The Abu Dhabi International Airport has been awarded a Management System Certificate for Business Continuity Management. This makes the airport the first in the Middle East, and one of a…
Dhaka, Feb 25 (IANS) Bangladesh is set to become a founding member of the Chinese-government initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as the country’s parliament has passed a bill in this connection, the media reported…
Beijing, Feb 25 (IANS) Chinese stocks opened lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.23 percent, at 2,922.24 points. The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.16 percent lower at 10,290.96 points, Xinhua news…
Beijing, Feb 25 (IANS) The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 16 basis points to 6.5318 against the US dollar on Thursday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading…