Fifteen years in the making, only 650 km of the dedicated freight corridor has opened. Meeting the 3,381-km target by June 2022 appears a distant dream

\"If a mutation or variant of the virus comes in, by the time we open our summer schedule by April we will have our full pre-COVID-19 level of domestic traffic or even higher,\" says Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri

PM Modi said Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) got thousands of coronavirus tests for free, built plasma banks, isolation wards, and contributed a large sum of money to the PM CARES Fund, which manifests the university's seriousness of fulfilling its obligations to society

Addressing AMU students and faculty on the occasion of the university's centenary celebrations via video conferencing, PM Modi said the research done here in Arabic, Urdu, and Persian languages, as well as on Islamic literature, has given new energy to India's cultural communication with Islamic countries

PM Modi will also release a special commemorative postal stamp at the virtual celebrations of Aligharh Muslim University (AMU) as well as address the e-event at 11 am on Tuesday

India Stock Market Highlights Today: HUL, Asian Paints, Maruti, Bajaj Auto and Nestle India were among the laggards. On the other hand, HCL Tech, followed by Tech Mahindra, HDFC duo, Reliance Industries, TCS, SBI and IndusInd Bank were among the top gainers today.

According to the house economists at BofA Securities India, this high lending rate is the main reason for the steeply falling credit flows, which conversely also point to a deeper GDP contraction, accentuated by the pandemic

During the months of April-May, because of the lockdown, the traditional stores were closed for 11-12 days, and by June the closure was only for five days, thereby increasing the availability of products

To arrest the spread of the virus, the Centre first announced a country-wide lockdown in March, which brought economic activities to a standstill

Delhi-NCR and Ahmedabad are the two cities leading the revival of the sector recording positive sequential growth

Businesses are looking for senior professionals to steer the company out of troubled water; hiring is not really for business expansion but related more to meet the pent up demand

Last week, wholesale figures released by industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) shows that the number of vehicles produced and shipped from the factories to dealerships across the country,had also shown a similar 41 per cent decline for the month

The report says that the FMCG value sales index which was at 100 in March, prior to the lockdown, dipped to 75 during the months of April and May. However, June saw a revival with the index touching 98, just a few points lower than the value in March

Amid coronavirus outbreak, operations at the HAL unit continued at 100 per cent staff capacity.  HAL reopened on April 28 after it was shut down on March 22 during the nationwide lockdown.

The company, which sold 52 units of its super luxury vehicles that are priced above Rs 2.5 crore in India last year, feels that its sales this year will not match that figure

Stock market behaviour shows that the concept of rational and well-informed investors participating in an efficient and self-correcting market which always gets the stock prices right is deeply flawed

Emerging Asia was the region that attracted the most flows last month with $17.1 billion, while Latin America, with $7.3 billion, came second

Earlier, the mosque had reopened on June 8 after a gap of over two months with the government allowing further relaxations as part of unlock 1.0, the first phase of a calibrated exit from the coronavirus lockdown

Rajiv Bajaj emphasised that the companies cannot sustain paying salaries while operations remain suspended for a prolonged period

The worst affected would be departmental stores (such as Lifestyle or Shoppers Stop) which could see a decline in revenue that could be as steep as 40 per cent, says the Crisil report