Paperless unreserved tickets increased from 195 in 2014-15 to 67,000 last year: Piyush Goyal

Speaking at a seminar on leveraging information technology for mobility, he said a rapid scale-up of technology was what the country expected and that's where the help of the private sector could... Read more »

Supreme Court favours auction of 16 projects of Amrapali by NBCC, grills CMD

SC also brought Anil Sharma under its scanner for declaring his assets worth Rs 67 crore as against Rs 847 crore declared in his election affidavit filed during the 2014 polls. Read more »

Committed to making BS-VI fuel available across India by Apr 2020: Dharmendra Pradhan

India in 2015 decided to leapfrog to Euro-VI emission norm compliant petrol and diesel from April 2020, from the Euro-IV grade at present. Read more »

Toyota-Suzuki revs up plan to roll out hybrid, electric vehicles here

As part of the plan, four electrified models are likely to be ready by 2020-21 and shared between the two Japanese automakers. Read more »

Interested in Air India if it comes without ‘baggage’: Qatar Air CEO

Qatar Airways has shown interest in AI after govt decided to hold the national carrier’s divestment plans. Read more »

Aluminium producers seek parity in levies

Indian aluminium production climbed 19% in Q1 of FY19 while consumption rose 11%. Yet share of imports in aluminium consumption has been increasing continuously. Read more »

Faster commissioning likely for solar projects

The commissioning schedule for a solar project is currently 21 months from date of execution of the PPA for those being set up within a solar park, and 24 months for projects... Read more »

India’s August imports of Iran oil down a third month-on-month: Sources

Some of the shipments were loaded in July and arrived in August, the data obtained by Reuters from trade sources showed. Read more »

Steelmakers fear dumping by foreign companies

Ratings firm ICRA in a note on Wednesday said in the first quarter of fiscal 2019, the country’s steel exports dropped by over 33% whereas... Read more »

7 new IIMs to get permanent campus by June 2021

The IIMs at Amritsar, Bodh Gaya, Nagpur, Sambalpur, Sirmaur, Vishakhapatnam and Jammu were established in 2015-16/2016-17. Read more »