Persistent negative growth in rural wages and soaring corporate profits accompanied by job and wage cuts demonstrate a clear disconnect between growth/profits and wellbeing of ordinary Indians

The scheme of amalgamation of Allahabad Bank into Indian Bank came into force from April 1, 2020

Stock Market Live News Today: Sensex and Nifty continued hitting new all-time highs today. Both benchmarks hit fresh lifetime highs of 51,523 and 15,159 earlier today

Little attention to direct income support, health and education deprivations, and revival of small businesses will keep the demand and production of goods and services depressed in FY22

India has no data on jobs lost and businesses shut; no estimate of how many would have slipped into poverty or how income, health and education inequalities would have risen due to the pandemic. How will the Budget 2021 allocate resources appropriately to revive growth and bring development?

For people to benefit, the budget needs overhauling to create jobs; revive small businesses; address poverty and health and education deprivations. Pursuing the existing paradigm of growth may push GDP and stock markets up without improving the living standards of the vast majority

WEF 2021: Dharmendra Pradhan says it's been policy of government to focus on reskilling and upskilling; Infosys CEO Salil Parekh says Indian tech major is making sure it's doing its bit by offering its new skilling platform to be used by all its workers and students across India

Oxfam's 'The Inequality Virus' report said it would take an unskilled worker 10,000 years to make what businessman Mukesh Ambani made in an hour during the pandemic and three years to make what he made in a second

Those selected under this 90-day Finn Scheme will get all the necessary documentation, and other facilities including house, school or daycare for kids, facilities to work remotely

Landless, marginal, and small farmers together constitute 93.7% of the total agricultural workforce in India. Can sustainable agricultural growth and farmers' well-being be achieved without land reforms?

If an assessee travels to any other region in India, the current rules will apply for that year. To qualify for the block, the assessee must travel at least three out of four years in that block to specified regions

Trai explained that prefixing '0' for calls from fixed line to mobile numbers will generate 2,544 million additional numbering resources for mobile services to cater to the future requirements

Google, which has invested Rs 33,737 crore for 7.7 per cent stake in Jio Platforms, is helping Jio primarily with Android-based smartphone operating system, and the details of how Jio is putting together other pieces remain sketchy

Latest SBI Ecowrap report says government should strive to put more money into Jan Dhan accounts as a sort of third fiscal stimulus, possibly through enlarging NREGA scheme or through a scheme for urban poor

The FMCG major in the last quarter came up with 120 SKU innovations and has also increased its ad spends by Rs 340 crore (it had cut down ad spends in the previous quarter)

The Axis report said Jio will benefit from higher subscriber addition than competitors, as well as per user realisation improvement from addition of higher ARPU Jio Fiber customers

MGNREGS has come to the rescue of millions of migrant workers who returned to their hometowns during the coronavirus pandemic

From electronic products, furniture and cars to apparel, fashion accessories and food, smaller towns are outpacing metros and big cities in consumption revival. Will this sustain?

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Sun Pharma, followed by Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel, TCS, Titan, PowerGrid, NTPC, Reliance Industries and Asian Paints were among the top gainers on Sensex today. On the other hand, HUL, Bajaj Auto, Maruti and Nestle India were among the laggards

BSNL has extended the availability of 120GB CUL plan for 6 months till March 2021.