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Non-Fungible Tokens: The unique crypto codes driving collectors

An NFT is a unique token added to some digital construct and registered on a blockchain with details of ownership

Eye on e-commerce, ESR plans one 'plug & play' warehouse every quarter

'Plug-and-play' buildings or 'speculative buildings', as ESR calls them, are ready buildings that have facilities like power, water and so on

Sops, promises flow as states look to pacify disgruntled farmers

On offer: Separate agri Budgets, free water, hike in direct transfers and a whole lot more

Stealth & Strength: Third Scorpene submarine, INS Karanj, joins naval fleet

In keeping with hoary naval tradition, the Karanj took its name from an earlier Foxtrot-class boat that India bought from the Soviet Union in 1969 and decommissioned in 2003

Covid impact: India's combined fiscal gap to reach 12.7% in FY21, says SBI

State Bank of India said in a report published Wednesday that there was a sharp increase in debt in the year to March 31 as states had to borrow more given their lack of resources

Parliament passes Arbitration Amendment Bill to protect taxpayer money

Section 36 of the (Arbitration) Act says the arbitration award be set aside if it is against public policy, said Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in Rajya Sabha

Know your pandemic

Book review of Covid-19: Separating Fact from Fiction

Cabinet to consider land policy to ease CONCOR disinvestment: Piyush Goyal

The centre's plan to privatise CONCOR was stuck due to the non-clearance of the Land Licensing Fee (LLF) policy

India to levy 40% duty on solar equipment imports from next year

India is planning to expand its renewable power capacity fivefold to 450 gigawatts by 2030

Poriborton without change

Mamata faces off against former disciple-turned-defector Adhikari in a very different contest in Nandigram. It's not land acquisition but an ego clash that has acquired, tragically, communal overtones

Cabinet approves reserve fund to manage healthcare schemes in country

PMSSN covers any any programme to achieve India's sustainable development goals and the targets set out in the national health policy

Cabinet approves amendment to Insurance Act, paving way for 74% FDI limit

The increase of the FDI limit will provide insurance companies with committed funds to improve the penetration of insurance in the country, says an industry executive

DATA STORY: India has added 16,600 Covid cases a day on average in past 10 days

India has so far vaccinated 24,367,906 people. That is 216.7072 per cent of its total caseload, and 1.6562 per cent of its population

Monetisation lessons from NHAI

Its recent experience offers crucial insights into what makes an asset monetisation exercise successful

Telcos can buy gear only from 'trusted' vendors as DoT tweaks licence norms

Under the new rules, equipment companies will have to enroll on a website, which will establish whether the firm is a trusted source or not

Raising the game

The IPL has improved Indian cricket immensely

IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta gets stock worth Rs 14 core through ESOP

This is over and above Dutta's last year's salary of Rs 11.9 crore which he has received till 31 December

The recovery risks

Economic management in India will remain tricky

Sensex, Nifty rise for third straight day tracking global markets

At the closing bell, the BSE gauge quoted 254.03 points or 0.50 per cent higher at 51,279.51 - taking its three-session gains to 874.19 points or 1.73 per cent

Demand-driven rise in crude oil prices is good for equity markets: Analysts

From around $35 a barrel on March 13, 2020, Brent oil prices have jumped 91 per cent to around $67 a barrel now