The government will monetise about 100 assets in sectors like oil, ports, airports, power, among others, and it is expected that this will create investments of about Rs 2.5 lakh crore, Modi said.

As the first signatory of the Climate Pledge in September 2019, Amazon has committed to become net zero carbon by 2040 across its businesses. To achieve that 10,000 Amazon custom electric delivery vehicles will be on the road delivering to customers worldwide as early as 2022

Sitharaman underlined that the nation's growing and aspiring needs and demands across the various sectors cannot be served just by the state government and central governments put together

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman underlined that the nation's growing and aspiring needs and demands across the various sectors cannot be served just by the state government and central governments put together

Speaking at an AIMA event here, Guleria said the vaccine is the only weapon available to gain immunity and help reduce mortality rate due to the infectious disease

In the Union Budget 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced that disinvestment of Pawan Hans would be completed in 2021-22

The fourth quarter highway project pipeline of the ministry will give a major push to awarding of the projects in current financial year, which have been deeply impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic

In India, we are fortunate that supply of vaccines is not a rate-limiting step, but to meet the timelines set by the government, we will have to immunise somewhere between 4 and 5 times more people each day than we are doing today, says Gagandeep Kang of Christian Medical College in Vellore

The KDEM will create ten lakh jobs by 2025 and will help Karnataka to reach the goal of $150 Billion in IT exports and also to become a $300 Billion Economy by 2025, Chief Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan said

Adani Airport Holdings (AAHL), a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, has acquired 23.5 per cent equity stakes in Mumbai International Airport from ACSA Global and Bid Services Division (Mauritius) for Rs 1,685.2 crore

The policy for $6-billion-per-annum domestic vehicle scrapping and recycling market has raised hopes of sustainable recovery for the down-and-out automobile industry

Economists, CEOs, consultants, sector specialists interpret Nirmala Sitharaman's 'Never-before' Budget

FM bets big on infrastructure with focus on asset monetisation and sharp rise in allocations to highways and railways

NITI Aayog member (Health) Dr V K Paul said 45 per cent of targeted healthcare workers have been vaccinated so far and by tomorrow almost half of the healthcare workers would be inoculated

Union Budget 2021 highights: A new centrally sponsored scheme, PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana, will be launched with an outlay of about Rs 64,180 crore over six years

The Railways will also monetise dedicated freight corridor assets for operations and maintenance, after commissioning.

Budget 2021 expectations: Industry believes that a GST rate cut could go a long way in encouraging learners to take up online education. Educational institutions and courses are taxed 18 per cent which the industry wants to reduce to 5 per cent

Union Budget 2021: Studies have reported that there's a huge shortage of doctors, nurses, and medical beds in India. In 2019, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey said there is one doctor for every 1,457 people as per the country's current population (1.35 billion)

Railway Budget 2020: Ministry of Railways has sought Rs 75,000 crore gross budgetary support from Ministry of Finance in the upcoming Budget. This is against the total outlay of Rs 1.8 lakh crore laid out in the budget representation by the ministry

The Centre's stake in some of the state-run banks, including Life Insurance Corporation of India's stake, has risen above 90 per cent. Consequently, the Centre can either abstain from capital raising plans of these banks or set up a BIC