Centre had planned a disinvestment mop-up of Rs 2.1 lakh crore this fiscal, by selling stake in several public sector enterprises, but the plans have been stalled due to several factors

Govt aims to vaccinate 30 crore priority individuals by August 2021 and 50 crore private individuals by 2022-end. SBI think tank says India will require around Rs 56,000-72,000 crore to administer vaccines to 80 crore people

First coronavirus vaccine shots likely on January 13: Health Ministry Union Health Ministry announced on Tuesday that coronavirus vaccines will be rolled out within 10 days of granting emergency use approval based on the feedback of dry-run across the country. The announcement by the ministry comes just days after the DCGI (Drugs Controller General of India) approved Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Covishield, domestically manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech...

The revenue department has already started sharing such information among its wings - direct tax, indirect tax and customs departments

FASTag has been made mandatory for registration of new four-wheelers. Renewal of fitness certificate of a transport vehicle is done only after it has a FASTag

India Stock Market Highlights Today: In today's session, Sensex hit an all-time high of 46,992 and Nifty logged a lifetime high of 13,773

States to get additional borrowing permission on completion of reforms; they will also get additional financial assistance for capital expenditure

DakPay is not simply a digital payment app but is a collection of digital financial and assisted banking services bundled together for its users. These services are provided by India Post & IPPB through its postal network spread across the nation

To leverage the increase in digitally-savvy customers, Matrimony.com, which operates the online portal Bharat Matrimony, said that it will strengthen its position in North India and also invest to penetrate deeper into South-East Asian markets

The National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) said that the Indian Railways will use the LiDAR technique with laser-enabled equipment mounted on a helicopter to conduct the ground survey

In terms of COVID management, North East, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Jammu & Kashmir were among top ten performing states, as per SBI report

Bharat Bandh will start tomorrow from 11 am to 3 pm. Members of farmers' unions will block national highways and occupy toll plazas, said Harinder Singh Lakhowal, general secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Union

Top-down reforms since the demonetisation of 2016 have already derailed the economy and brought misery to millions, yet the great zeal to do more of the same amidst protests from several segments of population demonstrate that the intent is far from public welfare

Mann Ki Baat Live Updates: After a lot of deliberation, the Parliament of India gave a legal form to the agricultural reforms. These reforms have not only served to unshackle our farmers but also given them new rights and opportunities, says PM.

While government claims on tax compliance and GST collections paint a healthier picture of the economy, tax-to-GDP has fallen for two consecutive years and tax collections across the board in the first half of FY21 are nowhere close to FY20, indicating that trouble is far from over

SpiceJet founders venture into COVID-19 testing SpiceHealth, a healthcare company founded by the promoters of low-cost carrier SpiceJet, announced on November 23 that it would conduct Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests, touted as the most decisive and crucial test for COVID-19, starting at Rs 499. The company also claimed that the test report will be generated in a record time of 6 hours after sample collection, in stark contrast to the current 24 to 48 hours it takes at mos...

SpiceHealth has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Council of Medical Research for setting up testing facilities and collection centres across the nation.

The loan will support the integration of financial and information system and the expansion of automation reforms in the operations of the state government, which are expected to strengthen the delivery of public services and create fiscal savings

India Stock Market Highlights Today: All Sensex stocks were trading in green led by ICICI Bank, Infosys, HCL Technologies, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank and Hindustan Unilever

The company had earlier announced Fund I of $1.5 million in July 2019, which received over 250 applications from large and small developers. Of this, it ended up deploying the capital across nine teams and over 10 games were onboarded on WinZO's platform