Those who drew an honorarium of Rs 3,000 will from now on get Rs 4,500 and those who used to get Rs 2,200 will get Rs 3,500, he said. The honorarium of Anganwadi helpers will be hiked from Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,500, says the PM.

Rupee hits new all-time low against US dollarThe Indian rupee slumped 16 paise against the US dollar to trade at a life-time low of 71.37 in early trade on Tuesday. The fall in Indian currency is due to the strong demand for the US currency. At the Interbank Foreign Exchange, the local currency opened at a record low of 71.24 against a dollar, down from its previous close of 71.21, and weakened further to trade at a fresh low of 71.37, down 16 paise.  Airlines' losses could r...

Earlier this year, the Coal Ministry had ruled out any possibility of dry coal shortage in the upcoming monsoon season and said that it had sufficient stocks to meet the demand of power plants.

Pratham's ASER has helped identify learning gaps among primary schoolchildren.

The charges in the case include criminal conspiracy (120-B), cheating (420) under IPC and corruption, the CBI had said.

The Dedicated Freight Corridor will have as many as 12 private freight terminals, 15 private sidings and 10 goods sheds to handle over 300 million tonnes of traffic a year. 

The last time the MGNREGA wages and state minimum wages were aligned was in 2009, but since then several states have announced upward revisions arbitrarily.

Indian Railways has revised the schedule of over 300 Northern Railways trains. The new schedule will be effective from August 15, which means the previous timings will be applicable till August 14.

The appellate tribunal also rejected the claims of engineering and construction major L&T, an operational creditor of Bhushan Steel Ltd, opposing Tata Steel's resolution plan seeking a higher priority in debt resettlement.

Sharma was originally appointed as the TRAI chief back in July 2015 for a tenure of three years, which he completed today.

At 1:00 pm, the Sensex was trading 128 points higher at 38,015 level. Meanwhile, the Nifty was trading 18 points higher at 11,468 level. It hit all-time high of 11,495 level in early trade. While the Sensex has gained 11.67% since the beginning of this year, Nifty rose 9% during the same period this year.

While the Sensex closed 221 points higher at 37,887, the Nifty gained 60 points to close at the 11,450 level. Market heavyweight Reliance Industries added 35 points to close at 1217.

Talking to BusinessToday.In's Editor Rajeev Dubey, Sterlite Copper CEO P Ramnath pointed fingers at a London-based NGO called Foil Vedanta for inciting violent protests against the company earlier this year in March.

His taxes for FY18 have risen by over Rs 1.24 crore since FY17 when he paid Rs 10.93 crore as income tax. The 37-year-old cricketer has also declared advanced taxes of Rs 3 crore for FY19.

Amazon's popular virtual assistant Alexa that came into existence in 2014 is available on numerous devices. Interestingly, Alexa has a deep Indian connection. The co-creator of the cloud-based voice service is Rohit Prasad, an Indian engineer from Ranchi, Jharkhand. Watch BusinessToday.in video on Rohit's professional journey.

Swadeshi Jagaran Manch alleges many international NGOs such as Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Strategies and Programme for Appropriate Technology for Health are facing the allegations of promoting the interests of certain pharmaceutical companies.

A special court today ordered framing of an additional charge of abetment of bribery against Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal in a case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block.

In last year's ranking, Andhra Pradesh had jointly topped the chart with Telangana while Gujarat was relegated to the third position from the top slot in 2015.

The JAC had, on June 7th, released the class 12th science and commerce streams results; wherein 48.34% students cleared the science exam, and 67.49% students cleared the commerce exam.

Delhi has been facing scorching heat for the past one week with maximum temperature hitting 45 degrees Celsius, the highest of this season.