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Take bull bars off cars or face penalty:Govt to vehicle owners

Crash guards or bull bar on the vehicles pose serious safety concerns to the pedestrians as well as occupants of the vehicle

Tabacco retailers stage protest against pictorial warnings

Akhil Bharatiya Pan Vikreta Sangh and its partner trade associations from all over the country held a demonstration outside the Health Ministry premises

Muted credit growth becoming a risk: RBI

Industrial credit growth dipped to negative in Oct 2016 and only moved to nil growth in August year, according to RBI data

A password to fill up tanks at fuel pumps

According to the plan, the tankers carrying fuel from terminals to dealer outlets would have an electronic key (e-key)

Coal block defaulters to face penalties

Coal production from the auctioned 29 mines stood at 15.32 million tonnes during 2016-17

Centre assures contracts for local solar equipment makers in govt projects

India's solar power generation capacity has almost quadrupled in nearly four years to about 15 Gw

Black money: India-Swiss deal inked, data sharing from Jan 1

Switzerland used to be known for very strong secrecy walls till a few years ago around its banking practices

India announces $25 mn for Myanmar's Rakhine State for development

An estimated 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's Rakhine State since late August after large-scale violence

Yogi Adityanath to campaign for UP Investors' Summit in Mumbai tomorrow

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate the summit next year, which is projected to get private investment of Rs 1,00,000 crore to UP across various sectors.

NHAI creates National Highways Investment Promotion Cell

The government has set an ambitious target of constructing 35,000 km of National Highways in the next five years

GST impact: Warehousing cost for white goods, FMCG will halve, says Crisil

Guwahati will emerge as a hub for FMCG following extension of excise duty benefits in the north-east

Airline industry's turnover touched Rs 1.5 lakh cr in 2015-16: Jayant Sinha

Sinha said suggestions have been received from air passengers to furnish a digital identification number like Aadhaar Card

Four domestic Indian carriers phased out 84 foreign pilots in 2017

There were as many as 249 foreign pilots employed by various airlines in the country as of December 1, 2017

In-principle approval for 19 greenfield airports given: Raju

Responding to a query whether shortage of skill was affecting the aviation sector, Raju said there is a problem and mismatch of skill.

Bill to hike salaries of judges by over two folds introduced in Lok Sabha

Once the bill is cleared by Parliament and becomes a law, the Chief Justice of India will get a monthly salary of Rs 2.80 lakh from the present Rs one lakh

SHAKTI coal linkage bidding: 10,000 MW of stressed units to get supply

The bidding was for power units with power purchase agreements (PPAs) but no long-term coal supply

India likely to be $6.5-7 trn economy by 2030: PM-EAC chairman Bibek Debroy

At the current exchange rate economy would touch $10 trillion by 2035-40: Bibek Debroy

Govt confident of achieving target of 100 GW solar power by 2022: R K Singh

Both imported and indigenous solar cells and modules are being utilised for achieving the targets

RBI holding back Rs 2.46-lakh-crore high-denomination notes: SBI report

The SBI report says RBI holding back Rs 2,000 notes or could have stopped printing high denomination currency

RBI's key policy rates to remain unchanged in 2018: Nomura

The central bank, for the second time in a row, did not change the key interest rate (repo), which stands at 6 per cent.