Infant deaths were reported highest in the world in India, followed by Nigeria at 4,66,000, Pakistan 3,30,000 and Democratic Republic of Congo 2,33,000 (DRC), the report said.

The train also makes little to no noise and will be joining Germany's growing network of noiseless, zero-emission trains.

The Reserve Bank of India has refused to be part of a high-level committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary which was constituted to resolve stress in the power sector as it is not willing to relax norms to deal with bad loans.

The revenue department has instructed its field formations to collect safeguard duty on imported solar cells, withdrawing its earlier direction issued a month ago regarding suspension of the levy.

Apart from the stay, the stressed power plants were also given another breather recently, when the high-level empowered committee constituted by the Prime Minister's Office allowed retaining fuel supply agreements (FSAs), Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) and long-term transmission network access rights.

Uber in talks with Indian regulators to understand modalities of aerial taxisRide-hailing app Uber, which is considering India among five global locations for its futuristic aerial taxi service, said it is in talks with regulators in the country to gauge the modalities and constraints of offering such a service. Last week, the Softbank-backed Uber had said it is considering India along with countries like Japan and France to be a part of Uber Elevate -- its aerial taxi service tha...

Vehicles using electricity or ethanol, biodiesel, CNG, methanol and biofuel need not apply for permits, said Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari.

Over two years after an under-construction flyover collapsed in Kolkata, the tragedy has once again struck West Bengal's capital city. A portion of the busy Majerhat bridge on Diamond Harbour Road collapsed in the afternoon.

Payments banks can only accept deposits of up to Rs 1 lakh per customer in a savings/current account.

While FDI from Mauritius totalled USD 13.41 billion as against USD 13.38 billion in the previous year, inflows from Singapore rose to USD 9.27 billion from USD 6.52 billion.

The figures mean India is the fastest growing economy in the world, and comes as a boost for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government after demonetisation and GST had led to a slowdown in the economy.

Nitin Gadkari said that 34 projects are being taken up on the river, out of which 12 are in the capital.

The deal, largest in the power sector, marks the entry of the Gautam Adani group, which thus far has only been into power generation and transmission, into the distribution space. For Reliance Infra, the sale is a big boost to pare its debt which stood at over Rs 22,000 crore.

Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) today said it has completed the Rs 18,800-crore deal for sale of its Mumbai energy business to Adani Transmission, which will help it pare debt by two-thirds to Rs 7,500 crore.

Rishi Kapoor said that for a while the family juggled with the idea of renovating the studio with state-of-the-art technology.

\"The size of the loss caused by the calamity is equal to the size of the annual plan the state has chalked out for 2018-2019. I need not have to tell you that Kerala on its own will not be in a position to mobilise the required resources to bridge the gap, reclaim, and rebuild,\" says Vijayan.

In an apparent jibe at former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's famous comment about only 15 paise of every one rupee released by the Centre reaching the targetted beneficiary, Modi said, \"If one rupee is released from Delhi, the entire 100 paise (now) reach the house of the poor.\"

IPPB will leverage reach of 1.55 lakh post office branches to provide banking and financial service to people in rural areas. This will create the country's largest banking network with direct presence at village level.

Despite huge strides, the risk of stressed and stranded projects is keeping investors jittery about India's infrastructure building strategy.

The Prime Minister mentioned some of the key policy decisions such as GST and Benami Law that were discussed for years but did not see the light of the day till his government came to power.