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India needs to focus on improving project preparedness: JICA

JICA is the world's largest bilateral development agency, with India being it's most prominent partner in the world

Insurers see adverse claim ratio on Covid-specific health products

The regulator's two Covid standard products - Corona Kavach and Corona Rakshak - have covered more than 4.7 million lives

Payments Corporation comes out with SOP to monitor volume cap for TPAPs

The NPCI will monitor the volume cap of the TPAPs and sound an alert to them once it reaches the thresholds that it has decided

India calls Saudi Arabia's advice on tapping stored oil 'undiplomatic'

India, the world's third-biggest oil importer and consumer, has asked refiners to speed up diversification and cut reliance on Middle Eastern oil

Top headlines: Tatas win in court against Mistry; Air India sale in June

From financial bids for Air India to Mahindra's new chief-here are top headlines this evening

CBI raids over 100 locations in bank fraud cases amounting to Rs 3,700 cr

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches over 100 places in 11 States and Union Territories in connection with more than 30 cases of bank fraud amounting to over Rs 3,700 crore

India's economy on path of gradual recovery: International Monetary Fund

India's economy is on the path of gradual recovery, real GDP growth, return to positive territory in fourth quarter of 2020, IMF's spokesperson Gerry Rice said

DFI goes back to the future: Will changes boost infra funding in India?

The Bill suggests that the government has learned from past mistake

Finance Bill amendment eases Mauritius funds' path for India shift

Experts reckon up to 10 per cent of such funds could shift to the IFSC

Govt launches auctions for second tranche of commercial coal mining

In the upcoming auction, 67 coal blocks will be offered

Second Covid wave unlikely to derail India's growth: RBI Governor

There should be an orderly evolution of the yields, says Shaktikanta Das

Sebi to set up fund to buy stressed corporate bonds: FM Sitharaman

The new fund will be set up as an alternative investment fund

Top corporate houses pay 20% more tax this fiscal, shows CBDT data

HDFC Bank tops the list, followed by SBI

Delhi-Meerut Expressway will be ready in 2 months: Nitin Gadkari

He added that the government's ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Expressway would be ready by 2022.

House that: Anarock says home sales up 29% in March qtr, JLL finds down 7%

Bengaluru was the only city not to record a major yearly change in total sales number, according to Anarock.

DPIIT meet: Foreign vs Indian war of words over e-commerce FDI policy

The industry has been asked to send inputs in writing within a week to the government for further consultation

Solar project companies queue up to cash in on pre-duty benefits

For a project bid in March, import of panels would take place between June and July 2021

Normalcy restored for resolution of stress under IBC: IBBI's M S Sahoo

IBBI Chairperson M S Sahoo on Thursday said "normalcy" has been restored with respect to resolution of stress under the insolvency law, with the expiry of suspension of fresh proceedings.

FinMin mulls bringing DPE under itself ahead of privatisation drive

Move aimed at better control over PSUs ahead of govt's ambitious privatisation drive

How Covid-19 has taught valuable lessons about pursuit of peak efficiency

As the former Morgan Stanley strategist Gerard Minack noted last year, our pre-pandemic world was primed to maximize financial returns on the assumption that nothing would go wrong