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Cabinet approves Rs5,000-cr subsidy for solar rooftops
31 Dec 2015
The cabinet decision will help provide subsidies for residential and institutional solar rooftop power generation and ensure speedy payment by power distribution companies to roof-top power suppliers
Cabinet approves Rs5,000-cr subsidy for solar rooftops
31 Dec 2015
The cabinet decision will help provide subsidies for residential and institutional solar rooftop power generation and ensure speedy payment by power distribution companies to roof-top power suppliers
Net neutrality debate: a case for Free Basics
31 Dec 2015
It makes sense that those using greater bandwidth should pay more, but what is objectionable is the ‘speeding up’ or ‘slowing down’ of sponsored and non-sponsored bits, argues Probir Roy, co-founder PayMate
New York city hotels to go green for 2016
31 Dec 2015
EU to hear Indian officials over ban on drugs tested by GVK Bio: report
30 Dec 2015
While such a meeting may not help revoke the EU ban, it is expected to help improve the future scenario for Indian generic drug makers
India ranks third in number of journalists killed
29 Dec 2015
According to Reporters Without Borders, India is Asia’s deadliest country for media personnel, ahead of both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
No LPG subsidy for those with income over Rs10 lakh
28 Dec 2015
The government’s subsidy payout on LPG in 2014-15 was Rs40,551 crore, which this fiscal is less than half as oil prices have slumped to six year low and the latest decision will further reduce the government’s subsidy bill
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation