In Chennai, petrol is priced Rs 85.70, up 29 paise, and diesel is priced Rs 78.31, which is 21 paise increase from Wednesday's price. Petrol has taken a 3 paise jump in Kolkata to reach Rs 84.4, while diesel is Rs 75.72.

Despite steps such as withdrawing withholding tax on Masala bonds, allow some breathing space to foreign portfolio investors, and check non-essential imports and promote exports in order to arrest the decline in rupee, the local currency fell over 50 paise below the 72 level per dollar mark in trade today.

Flexi-staffing has advantages for employers and also certain kinds of employees.

The government is determined to keep fiscal deficit at 3.3 per cent of GDP on the back of buoyant tax revenues and expectations of surpassing the disinvestment target.

According to The Economic Times, the proposal envisages setting up 14 national employment zones in the coastal states under the special purpose vehicle route, and is expected to be rolled out ahead of general elections next year, when employment generation is sure to emerge as a key issue. The plans are currently being shaped by the shipping ministry in consultation with think-tank  NITI Aayog.

30s come pre-installed with all the worry of the future. Is buying that dress a good idea now, when you can save those extra bucks for your contingency fund? Should you buy that expensive phone, when you can put more than half of it in your retirement fund and still manage to buy an equally good phone?

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has highlighted that the fiscal deficit of all 29 Indian states would decline to 2.6 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) as per their FY2019 Budget Estimates (BE), from 3.1 per cent of GDP as per their FY2018 Revised Estimates (RE).

Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said last week's rupee fall was on account of the belief that emerging markets with a current account deficit may face some pressures going forward, and the rupee was no exception

Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar today said that it wasn't demonetisation but deleveraging of credit under former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan that led to economic slowdown.

A closer look at the details of the GDP estimates shows that some worries remain and whether the 8 per cent plus can be maintained and bettered in the next several quarters will depend both on external factors as well as how well the government can manage its finances.

The stock which opened at 1,300 level hit an intra day low of 1,272 level on the BSE. The Reliance Industries stock hit a 52-week high of 1,328.75 on BSE in yesterday's trade but closed lower at 1,294 level on profit-booking.

This is the second consecutive quarterly loss for the airline which had posted a profit of Rs 53.50 crore in the same quarter last year. The struggling airline will inject capital and reduce debt to cut its interest costs.

The first quarter results have been fairly robust. A revival seems round the corner.

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

The IT industry was tottering at around $6 billion in 1999-2000. It is more than a $150 billion industry now.

During the Budget presentation in February, then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had projected the fiscal deficit target at 3.3 per cent of GDP for the financial year 2018-19.

The consumer confidence survey was for the June round, and conducted in six metros - Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi and had 5268 responses.

The company plans to raise capacity to turn crude oil into fuels like petrol and diesel to 150 million tonnes per annum by 2030 from the current 80.7 million tonnes.

A recovery in rupee, unabated buying by domestic institutional investors (DIIs) and encouraging earnings by blue-chips contributed to the uptrend, brokers said.

Exactly a decade after it started production, the MA oil and gas field in the Krishna Godavari basin block KG-D6 will seize to produce from September, said Reliance Industries which has battled quicker than anticipated decline in output at the block.