The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday has given its green signal to go ahead with the listing of five public sector general insurance companies in the stock exchanges. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said
Amid lender's consolidation with its associate banks, Arundhati Bhattacharya has been granted one year extension by the government as the chairman of State Bank of India. According to top government sources, the incumbent SBI chairman
The parliamentary panel on finance has decided to examine the Cabinet approved merger of Railway Budget with General Budget along with its "ramifications thereof". Putting an end to a 92-year-old practice, the Cabinet had
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India's cabinet on Wednesday cleared the base price for the country's largest spectrum auction to date, expected to fetch around Rs 5.5 lakh crore at the approved reserve price
New Delhi: The government today gave its clearance to India Post to set up payments banks. With a corpus of Rs 800 crore the postal network, the largest in the world, is eyeing 650 operational
Online shopping in the state of Uttar Pradesh just got costlier with the government having approved a 5 per cent entry tax on all e-commerce merchandise. The decision was arrived at a meeting of the state Cabinet under the chairmanship of chief minis
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's new cabinet is likely to have some new faces, TMC sources said today.
New Delhi: Aimed at promoting creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, the Union Cabinet has given its nod to the first of its kind national intellectual property rights (IPR) policy. The intention behind this step is to
Brasilia:Brazilian acting President Michel Temer on Thursday chose leading figures from nine centrist and conservative parties for his cabinet, which for the first time in decades has no female ministers. Temer, who had been vice
New Delhi: In a boost to firms like ONGC and Reliance Industries, the Cabinet today approved a new price formula for their undeveloped gas discoveries in difficult areas, which will lead to a near-doubling of
New Delhi: With a view to ensure greater participation of states, Union Cabinet today allowed the Railways to form Joint Venture companies with state governments to mobilize resources for speedy implementation of rail projects.Keeping in
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved the closure of three companies of Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT), India's oldest watch making company.HMT Limited, formerly Hindustan Machine Tools Limited, is a
New Delhi: The Cabinet today approved the construction of 69 bridges including approach roads on a major road section of the Trilateral Highway in Myanmar at a cost of Rs 371 crore.Government said the project
New Delhi: The Indo-Australian civil nuclear cooperation agreement, which came into force last month, today received the stamp of approval of the Union Cabinet.The civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Australia was brought into force on
New Delhi: Cabinet today approved the construction of first phase of the Metro Rail Project in Lucknow at an estimated cost of Rs 6,928 crore. Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Cabinet approved the
New Delhi: The union cabinet on Thursday gave its approval for amending a double taxation avoidance pact signed with the central Asian country of Turkmenistan in 1997 through a protocol."The union cabinet on Thursday gave
New Delhi: In an ambitious bid to transform rural areas to economically, socially and physically sustainable spaces, the union cabinet on Wednesday approved the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rural Mission (SPMRM) with an outlay of Rs.5,142.08
1. Bihar Polls: Notification of first phase to be released todayPatna: The first notification of Bihar assembly polls will be released today. It will mark the beginning of nomination process.In the first phase, the elections
New Delhi: The Cabinet today approved Gold Bond and Gold Monetisation schemes to reduce the metal's demand in physical form and fish out idle gold lying with households and other entities."It is safer and economically
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