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No potato crisis in West Bengal, says minister

The minister said the government would hold another round of discussion with potato traders once CM Mamata Banerjee returns from Singapore

Turf wars: Uber's in for a bumpy ride in India

Easycab, Meru and others eye flaws in its trademark credit-card transactions. They allege these transactions by Uber are in violation of the country's foreign exchange rules

Vadilal Industries founder Ramchandra Gandhi no more

Transformed a single location ice cream outlet into one of India's biggest ice cream players

Court remands Saradha group chief to CBI custody

Besides CBI, ED is also probing the matter and has questioned several people including Bollywood actors and some ministers in Mamata Banerjee govt

Miners prefer not to pass on royalty hike to consumers

Union govt announced to hike iron ore royalty from 10% to 15% of selling price

IIM-A may align academic calendar with global B-schools

Move seeks to ensure premier B-school shares its timeline for conducting processes like admissions, internships and placements with that of institutes like Harvard and Stanford

Thumbtack raises $100 mn

India's e-commerce today is where China was in 2007: Rehan Yar Khan

Interview with Founder and managing partner of Orios Venture Partners

L Capital looks to deploy $250 mn of its $1-bn Asia PE fund in India

L Capital Asiais understood to be looking at as many as four significant opportunities to invest in the near future

Overseas Indian body to work closely with northern states to attract investments

Social audit of infra project mooted

Engineering institutes might be roped in for this

Notice to organisers of Shah's visit for violating poll code

BJP says it has not received any notice for violation of election code of conduct so far

Can the Singals solve Bhushan's debt crisis?

With the stock market entering a bull phase, many believe the Singals can bring in the much-needed equity capital and reduce their debt

Uttarakhand to remove creamy layer from food security scheme

Epidemic scare spreads in flood-hit UP

Gopalpur port to resume operations by 2014 end

The port's operations came to a standstill after cyclone Phailin hit the state's southern coast last year

Banks in Odisha achieve 18% of annual credit target by June

PSU lenders post dismal credit offtake; Central Bank achieves 4.25%, while Indian Bank and SBI achieve 6% and 8.55% respectively

Over 50% panchayats in Bihar don't have banks

Out of 8,463 panchayats in Bihar, 5,298 are yet to be covered with banking service

CBI digs up bank a/c of Banki contractor in chit fund raid

The CBI is trying to establish a link between business transaction of chit fund company AT Group with some leaders of the ruling party

Bihar bypoll to test strength of regrouped Lalu, Nitish

Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar have made several trips to the 10 constituencies