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Odisha Supplementary Budget size pegged at Rs 4502.34 cr

Rs 300 cr provision for corpus fund to pay chit fund victims

KU: Contract workers re-launch agitation

The meeting held on November 17 discussed the issue and decided to hike the salary by Rs 1,500 a month from Oct 1

McDonald's to open 150 new McCafe stores

Expansion of McCafe brand and its product offering is part of company's goal to elevate its coffee portfolio

PE Everstone Capital and Solmark invest Rs 400 cr in services firm Servion

Prateek Dhawan, MD, Everstone and Puneet Pushkarna, General Partner, Solmark will be joining the board of Servion

We have the right to build dam on Cauvery: Karnataka

The state claims it is not violating any of the tribunal awards

KU scam: Verdict on Walikar's petition expected next week

Jayant had filed the application stating that Walikar had referred his name in writ petition

Newsmaker: Sant Rampalji Maharaj

A revered godman for some, fugitive for others

How scammers have a field day in India

With 41 advance-fee fraud rings and 1,610 active members, the fifth highest in the world, losses due to financial frauds have shot up from $32 mn in 2006 to $870 mn in 2013

Aadhaar account seeding low in Punjab

In many districts, Aadhaar account seeding is less than 15 per cent, say data

Drafted Lok Ayukta Bill 'toothless', says Khanduri

Khanduri also said his Lok Ayukta Act was modelled upon Anna Hazare's vision of Lok Pal, which kept the chief minister and the higher judiciary under the ambit of the anti-corrupotion law

UJVN fails to get Euro 103-mn loan from KfW

A Euro 2-mn grant from KfW has already been received for preparing detailed project reports

Uttarakhand approves new MSME policy

The decision was taken at a meeting at the secretariat in Dehradun on Wednesday

Akhilesh Yadav to meet Piyush Goyal over coal, power crises in UP

SP and BJP have been at loggerheads in the state assembly over the power crisis

Vibrant Gujarat to get big CEO push from Fortune 500 club

The US has agreed to partner the Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2015

'Ease norms to bring in more domestic capital into VC and PE'

Being long-term sources of funding with defined cash inflows and outflows, pension funds can be ideal sources for VC/PE funds

India to get lion's share of IFC arm's Asia fund

Renewables, access to finance to be key focus areas

5 lessons Private Equity funds have learnt in India

After losing money in dud investments made between 2005 to 2008, PE funds have tightened procedures before taking a investment call

'No evidence against Mani in liquor bribe'

Kerala to convene an all-party meet on Mullaperiyar issue

Water level at the dam is nearing 142 ft, maximum limit fixed by the Supreme Court

Trivitron's new facility to begin operations this fiscal

Private equity-backed medical technology firm, Trivitron Healthcare, is looking at companies with Euro 10 million ticket size for acquisition