As many as 400 projects with investment potential to the tune of $31 billion are ready for investors, who can be a part of India's growth trajectory, Modi said inaugurating the Maritime India Summit

Uday Kotak believes that lifting the embargo will enable the banking sector to serve customers better. He added that public and private banks must work together for sustainable development in the country

With the lifting of the said embargo, private sector banks can now carry out government-related banking transactions such as taxes and other revenue payment facilities, the Department of Financial Services stated in a press release

Shows on streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime have often faced complaints in India, a key growth market, for obscenity or hurting sentiment, but the latest controversy involving the Amazon show 'Tandav' is among the highest-profile cases

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

Expressing solidarity with the jailed Indian activist, Greta Thunberg batted for freedom of speech and the right to peaceful protest and assembly saying that they are \"non-negotiable human rights\"

Former chief statistician Pronab Sen said that even though India's fiscal deficit will go up from 3.5 per cent to 9.5 per cent in the current fiscal ending March, but in terms of the current year's expenditure, the country is pretty much at status quo

NTLF, NASSCOM's technology forum, in its 29th edition is focused on the theme 'Shaping the future towards a better normal'. The forum will continue from February 17 to 19

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Muted salary hikes in 2021, pay to rise only 1 per cent: survey After job losses and paycuts in 2020, the year 2021 is being welcomed with hope and optimism. But, as many sectors are still recovering from the impact of the pandemic, the salary hikes for the year are still muted. The year 2020 saw an average actual increase of 5.9 per cent in salaries. According to a salary survey by Willis Towers Watson, the projected salary rise to be given to Indian workforce in 2021 is at an average of 6...

Earlier, Agarwal had praised the Budget's focus on disinvestment. In a tweet, he announced his tie up with Centricus.

Corporates, industry watchers, and markets have said Budget 2021 re-imagined both spending and borrowing and reposed faith in large-scale infrastructure building and healthcare. \"My focus was to get it making a difference to the economy,\" says FM

Kerry, the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, said he intends to work \"very, very closely with\" with Indian leadership including Prime Minister Modi and External Minister S Jaishankar

Claimed to be microblog for Indians who prefer Indian vernacular languages, KOO was one of the winners of government's Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovate Challenge

Twitter says \"values that underpin the Open Internet and free expression\" are increasingly under threat around the world; lists action taken against flagged accounts after govt's non-compliance notice

Koo is more like a Twitter, it's a social media app, which was launched in March 2020. Last year in August, this app won Prime Minister's Aatma Nirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge

A bench of Chief Justice Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian dismissed the plea saying that there was no cause of action and the petitioners are not the affected parties

PM Modi speaks at Rajya Sabha: India is not merely the world's largest democracy. India is the mother of democracy and this is our ethos, he said

Current notice was served on Thursday last week. New list comprises accounts belonging to Khalistan sympathisers and those with Pakistan links. Some are automated chatbots used to amplify misinformation on farmers' protests

The focus on self-reliance, innovation, research and development, infra capex and digital payments in Union Budget 2021 would definitely help in lifting the Indian economy from under $3 trillion to $5 trillion in the near term