Honest businessmen are being encouraged through several laws like GST and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, PM Narendra Modi said.

Retail inflation slows down to 9-month low level in July; Ease of Living Index: Pune ranks first in 'liveability', Delhi languishes at 65; government dismisses Usha Ananthasubramanian from service, gives CBI permission to prosecute; new road to cut travel time between Delhi and Gurugram, likely to open by Diwali. Watch more in this episode of Business Wrap.

Retail inflation slows down to 9-month low level in JulyRetail inflation plunged to a 9-month low of 4.17 per cent in July as vegetable prices fell, strengthening views that the RBI will keep interest rates on hold at its review in October after raising them for a second straight meeting on August 1. The RBI has raised the key repo rate by 0.25 per cent each on inflationary concerns. The next bi-monthly policy is to be unveiled on October 5. Ease of Living Index: Pune ranks first ...

The Ease of Living Index is a government initiative to assess cities' 'liveability' with regards to global and national benchmarks and encourage them towards urban planning and management.

The mid cap stock which stood at Rs 481.60 on August 3 last year closed at 4,348 level on Thursday. That is an astonishing 793% gain in one year.

The union finance ministry has reportedly given its approval for construction of five proposed metro projects in Indore, Bhopal, Kanpur, Agra, and Delhi at an estimated cost of Rs 1.07 lakh crore.

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Due to the heavy outpour, trains on the suburban section of the Central Railway were running late by 10-12 minutes. Several parts of Mumbai were waterlogged after rain lashed the city.

Dr Pandey collected around 42 samples from different locations of the city, especially public places like railway stations, government-run hospitals, government colleges, municipal corporation offices, etc, and found out the collected water samples contained several harmful bacteria and other dissolved inorganic substances, which were over 2,400 times above the safe limit.

Petrol and diesel prices reached their respective all-time highs after state-owned oil companies passed on the four weeks of non-stop increase in international oil prices to consumers.

Petrol price on Sunday touched a record high of Rs 76.24 per litre and diesel climbed to its highest ever level of Rs 67.57 as the oil PSUs passed on four weeks of relentless rise in international oil prices to consumers.

Crude prices touched more than USD 80 per barrel on Thursday for the first time since November 2014.

Petrol prices have been increased by 22-24 paise across Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.