To ensure that the prohibition is effectively enforced, the food regulator has issued an order on June 8 asking all the Commissioners of Food Safety of States/UTs and Central Licensing Authority to carry out an inspection drive

Iran has banned the mining of all authorised and unauthorised cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin till September 22.

In a letter to Union Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the body has also sought a temporary ban on its export, a move that will prevent steel players from diverting their produce to international markets

The United Arab Emirates' economy shrank 6.1% last year as the coronavirus crisis hit several key sectors

Most units were recovering from the last lockdown and now have orders at hand, but are not in a position to meet supplies

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The interest rates seem to have bottomed out in the economy. The benchmark repo rate , which saw a decline from 8 per cent seven years ago to 4 per cent in May last year , is now steady at the current level. The repo rate is the rate at which banks borrow funds from RBI. It acts as a benchmark for fixing interest rates for home loans and other loan products. While the  Government and the RBI is trying their best to keep the interest rate low, but five factors point to rising interest rate risk for the borrowers. These are rising retail inflation, higher international crude prices, second Covid wave, higher G-Sec yields and gradual rise in banks term deposit rates. ALSO WATCH | Cryptocurrency Ban: Regulatory Framework for assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum & RippleALSO READ | Debit card, credit card auto-payment: What are the big changes?READ MORE | Hardening G-Sec yields to push up borrowing cost for govt, corporates

The Maharashtra government has ordered all cinema halls and offices to function at 50 per cent capacity till March 31. The state government has also put a ban on social and cultural gatherings till March 31, with only 50 people to be present at weddings

The moves will further increase tensions with China, Washington's strategic rival in Asia, days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Wednesday

India, which has been at the forefront of the years-long efforts to reform the UNSC, began its two-year tenure at the Council on Friday last

The move by the NYSE, which will limit US investor access, follows global index providers MSCI Inc, S&P Dow Jones Indices and FTSE Russell and Nasdaq deleting various Chinese companies from their indexes

State PSU Gujarat Gas made the most out of pipeline network in its home state and rising demand from industrial consumers

After ending last week higher, the pan-European STOXX 600 index slid 2.3% after UK imposed an effective lockdown and reversed plans to ease curbs over Christmas as it dealt with a new coronavirus strain up to 70% more transmissible than the original

Indo-China bilateral trade registered a 15 per cent decline at nearly $38 billion while trade with the US dropped 27.5 per cent at $33.54 billion. Like China, India's bilateral trade with Hong Kong has also suffered -- declining by 25.7 per cent at $11.2 billion

These changes applied to the H-1B visa program and were announced back in October. They included imposing certain salary requirements on companies hiring foreign skilled workers and also imposing limits on speciality occupation

Oil marketing companies (OMCs) had kept the petrol rates constant starting  September 22, and did the same for diesel prices since October 2. The revisions for the retail rates of both diesel and petrol started on November 20.

The first 50 LNG stations, for heavy vehicles like buses and trucks, will be set up by public sector firms IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, GAIL, PLL, Gujarat Gas and their joint venture companies and subsidiaries

The savings from keeping the rates unchanged prevented OMCs from hiking fuel prices by a higher margin, and now that choice is exhausted, regular price revision could resume

Goyal said onion prices had fallen in recent days because of stock limits that were imposed and the ban on exports

India Stock Market Highlights Today: SBI, followed by ITC, PowerGrid, Axis Bank, NTPC, ICICI Bank, HDFC and Kotak Bank were among the top gainers on Sensex pack. On the other hand, Bajaj Auto, ONGC, Titan, HDFC Bank and Asian Paints were among the laggards