Expedite auction of mines with explored mineral reserves: Ficci
Industry body Ficci has called for expediting auctions of mineral blocks with known or explored reserves, highlighting that the average of such sales has nosedived to around 15 mines per year after the amendment in the Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation Act. The chamber in a presentation to Niti Aayog...
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Iran sanctions, unrest hit West Asia growth: IMF
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Aviation sector salary cut temporary: Headhunters
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India, Peru to hold next round of FTA negotiations in August
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Employees’ consortium to bid for Jet Airways
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Samsung Electronics hit with quarterly profit slump
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Vistara to hire 100 pilots, 400 cabin crew from Jet
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Amway India aims to tap 'nascent' kids dietary supplement mkt
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GE CEO remains 'confident' in Boeing 737 MAX
The head of US industrial giant General Electric said Tuesday he remained "confident" in Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft, which has been grounded worldwide following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people. "We are confident in the 737 MAX aircraft," said Larry Culp, chief executive of the firm that manufacturers engines for...
Co-location case: Sebi directs NSE to pay over Rs 625 cr
Markets regulator Sebi Tuesday directed National Stock Exchange to pay more than Rs 625 crore in the case of misuse of its co-location facility. Sebi has been probing alleged lapses in high-frequency trading offered through NSE's co-location facility. Besides, the bourse's two former chief executive officers -- Ravi Narain and Chitra Ramkrishna...
Face veil ban takes effect under new regulation
Muslim women in Sri Lanka will not be allowed to wear any form of face veils in public from Monday under new regulations announced by President Maithripala Sirisena who used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings. The new regulation banning any form of face covering was announced...
Lanka to introduce tough laws to eliminate jehadism: SL PM
Introducing a tough new legislation to eliminate jehadism and extremism from Sri Lanka is the Government’s top priority, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said in the aftermath of country’s worst terror attacks. The deadly attacks could have been prevented if the new Counter Terrorism Bill, which provides for territorial jurisdiction, was...
Sirisena suspends defiant Lankan police chief
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday suspended defiant police chief Pujith Jayasundara and named his successor as well as a new defence secretary as part of the revamping of the security establishment following the country’s worst terror attack. Sirisena on Friday said that Jayasundara had resigned but he never sent...
Lanka bomb suspect's sister fears 18 relatives feared dead since Easter attacks
The sister of the suspected ringleader of Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings has claimed that up to 18 members of her family are missing and feared dead since the massive suicide attacks and subsequent police raids, according to a media report. More than 250 people were killed and at least 500...
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Spanish PM’s Socialists win snap elections Madrid: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists won snap polls on Sunday without the necessary majority to govern solo in a fragmented political landscape marked by the far-right’s entry into Parliament. The results raise the spectre of another period of instability for Spain, with...
