After demerger, holding company RIL will have upstream exploration and production business, financial services, treasury and textile business, while RIL O2C Ltd will have an oil-to-chemical business comprising refining and petrochemicals, fuel retail, and control over global subsidiaries of RIL

The government might engage private firms and institutions to vaccinate the 50-plus age group to cover a much larger target population of 27 crore individuals. It will also include below-50 age group with serious co-morbidities

Indian business tycoon and Wipro founder-chairman Azim Premji has suggested to the Centre to allow private sector participation in order to speed up the vaccination process against coronavirus. Premji added that with the involvement of the private firms and institutions in the COVID-19 vaccination drive, over 50 crore people can be inoculated within two months. Meanwhile, the Union Health Ministry has directed all states and union territories to enhance the pace of vaccination amid the recent surge in COVID-19 active cases, especially in five states. Watch the video for more.Also Read: 50 crore Indians can be vaccinated in two months with help from private sector: Azim Premji

Domestic markets dropped further by the second half of Monday after European stocks declined at the opening bell amid cautious trade in global markets as investors focused on the developments surrounding the pandemic and vaccine rollout

UP Finance Minister Suresh Khanna today presented Rs 5.50 lakh crore budget for the financial year 2022 in the state assembly

Sensex and Nifty fell sharply today, led by selling pressure in the auto and banking sectors. The broader mood of the market turned bearish last week, after a few days of the lacklustre movement

India can swiftly take up the COVID-19 vaccine doses at a shorter time and at a reasonable cost if private firms enter to vaccination process, Azim Premji said

'Reduce fuel prices by partially rolling back excise duty': Sonia Gandhi to PM Modi Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reduce fuel prices by partially rolling back excise duty, saying that the prices of petrol and diesel are at 'historic and unsustainable' high. She said that the central government has unreasonably levied excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 33 and Rs 32, respectively, which is higher than the base price of these fuels....

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A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta

Sitharaman underlined that the nation's growing and aspiring needs and demands across the various sectors cannot be served just by the state government and central governments put together

Foreign portfolio investment (FPIs) pumped in Rs 24,204 crore into Indian equities and Rs 761 crore in the debt segment, taking the total net investment to Rs 24,965 crore during February 1-19

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman underlined that the nation's growing and aspiring needs and demands across the various sectors cannot be served just by the state government and central governments put together

The meeting assumes significance as it comes amid fierce protests by a section of farmers in Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh against the three new farm laws

Up to 4 million Australians are expected to be inoculated by March, with Morrison among a small group receiving the first round of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

The sharp decline in GST collections was estimated to lead to Rs 1.80 lakh crore shortfall in GST revenues of states

On Saturday, coronavirus vaccine shots were administered to over 26,000 beneficiaries in Delhi, the inoculation figures crossing the 24,000-mark for the third consecutive day

\"We are extremely frustrated by the barriers that restrict personal movement and it is almost impossible today to travel in Europe by plane, even domestically,\" says Airbus Chief Executive Guillaume Faury

Bitcoin got another leg-up on Friday after billionaire Elon Musk defended the investment by his electric vehicle company Tesla in the popular cryptocurrency; Facebook Inc's WhatsApp said on Thursday it will go ahead with its controversial privacy policy update but will allow users to read it at 'their own pace' and will also display a banner providing additional information; The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has toughened digital payment security norms to improve security, control, and compliance for banks and other regulated entities. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Bitcoin surges to all-time high of $56,620, ether rallies to fresh peak

US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry also called on all nations to raise their ambition to fight against climate change