Madhya Pradesh has emerged as the forerunner in the urban housing scheme with 1,33,663 homes built in the state, according to the data available on the PMAY website.

Royal Enfield is planning to buy back Classic 500 Pegasus from unsatisfied owners. These units will be bought back by dealers, who will then showcase them as display bikes.

Cars and other durables to get costlier this festive seasonWith the rupee's continuous fall against the dollar automobile and consumer goods companies are facing a tough time. This festive season will see these goods become more expensive. LG, Haier, and Godrej Appliances have hiked prices by 3-5 per cent this month. Panasonic India is expected to increase product prices by 2-3 per cent soon as reported by the Business Standard. Maruti Suzuki, the country's largest carmaker, has i...

CIC issued the directive after RTI activist Karabi Das approached it saying he was not given complete information regarding Modi's foreign travels, including the names of all private individuals who accompanied him between 2015 and 2017.

The RTI also revealed the cost of printing the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes that were demonetised on November 8, 2016.

The EEC's report mentioned that there were no achievements to take into account while assessing the performance of institutions in the greenfield category.

Given the record low of 70.08 per dollar that the rupee slipped to today, it's hard to imagine a time when it could hold its own against the US dollar.

The Mudra scheme was aimed at fulfilling Modi's 2014 election campaign promise of jobs to youngsters. Under this much-touted scheme, over 90% loans are small loans (up to Rs 50,000), which as experts believe are not enough to create substantial jobs.

The first Gulf War (1990), which sent crude oil prices surging again, the downgrade by global credit rating agencies and the disintegration of the Soviet Union all brought on a massive balance of payment crisis in India.

Govt working on turnaround plan for Air India, may allow airlines to raise external commercial borrowingAs the Civil Aviation Ministry plans Rs 11,000-crore bailout package for ailing Air India, Aviation Secretary RN Choubey on Thursday confirmed that the centre is working on a turnaround plan to make the debt-ridden airline competitive. Also, the centre is working on ways to let all airlines raise external commercial borrowing to meet the rising operational costs. The decision se...

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued an advisory to states to accept driving license, registration certificate and other vehicle documents in electronic form presented through the DigiLocker or mParivahan platform.

An estimated 19,026 people were fined for sitting on floor of the train, which according to Metro rules is not in line with public etiquette and attracts a penalty of Rs 200.

Union Minister of Housing and Urban affairs Hardeep Singh Puri saysthat fare hike may not be required next year as the revenue of the DMRC is going up along with an increase in overall ridership.

The outgoing chairman of Bank of Baroda, Ravi Venkatesan, said that the government needs to ease its grip over the lenders or risk slowly killing off the sector.

In the CoD method, Flipkart, Amazon and other ecommerce players collect cash from customers on behalf of third-party vendors at the time the goods are delivered instead of demanding online payment at the time of placing the order.

The second largest public bank charged Rs 31.99 crore as a penalty in the first quarter of FY18, Rs 29.43 crore in the second, Rs 37.27 crore in the third and Rs 52.97 crore in the fourth quarter.

After the data breach came to light, the Ministry had in March and April this year shot off communications to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica seeking clarification on the issue from them.

Over Rs 29.41 crore was spent on using the Indian Air Force's ultra-modern transport aircraft -- the C-17 and the C-130J Super Hercules -- to ferry the newly-issued Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 currency notes post-demonetisation.

The NABARD says during the period, 1.60 lakh customers of the bank deposited or exchanged demonetised notes worth Rs 746 crore, which was only 15 per cent of the total deposits of the bank.

Facebook has announced a new feedback system for ads; in response to an RTI application by a Delhi lawyer, RBI has confirmed no study or research was done before banning cryptocurrencies and India's current account deficit has trebled to $48.7 billion in fiscal 2017-18 from $14.4 billion in 16-17. BusinessToday.In Editor Rajeev Dubey explains this and more on The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.