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India has 1,065 dams 50-100 years old, 224 are hundred plus: Govt
According to the National Register of Large Dams (NRLD-2023...
ICMR sets up India’s first diabetes biobank in Chennai for research
The biobank will facilitate advanced research on the causes of...
Economic Survey projects growth at 8-8.5% in FY2022-23
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman The gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21 New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented the Economic Survey that details the state of the economy ahead of the government's Budget for...
Global gold demand rises 10% to 4,021 tonnes in 2021: WGC
"The demand for the yellow metal was mainly driven by Central bank buying during the fourth quarter of 2021, recovery in jewellery consumption, mainly in India and China," WGC Regional CEO, India, Somasundaram PR told PTI Mumbai: Global gold demand rose 10 per cent to...
Union Budget 2022-23: Expectations on changes in income tax slabs and rates
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman In the Budget 2020-21, around 70 exemptions and deductions of different nature were removed. The finance minister had announced that the "remaining exemptions and deductions will be reviewed and rationalised in the coming years with...
FPIs pull out a whopping Rs 28,243 crore from Indian equities in Jan
With the latest pull out of funds from Indian markets, FPIs have become net sellers for fourth consecutive month ''With US Fed signalling that it will start hiking interest rates soon and shrink its bond holdings, FPIs went on a selling spree in the Indian equity...
China issues draft rules for fakes in cyberspace
The regulations provide for people to be protected from being impersonated without their consent by deepfakes - images that are virtually indistinguishable from the original, and easily used for manipulation or misinformation China's cyberspace regulator issued draft...
India adds over 2.34 lakh new COVID-19 cases, 893 deaths in last 24 hrs
The case fatality rate is 1.20 per cent. In the last 24 hours, 16,15,993 tests were conducted for COVID-19 New Delhi: India has logged 2,34,281 new COVID-19 cases and 893 deaths in the last 24 hours, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday. There was...
Two years on, India’s battle with COVID-19, its variants continues with no end in sight
Till now, India has reported 4,10,92,522 cases and 4,94,091 fatalities due to COVID-19 and its variants New Delhi: Amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, India has completed two years since the first coronavirus case was reported in the country and during this...
India reports over 2.35 lakh COVID-19 cases, 871 fatalities
The cumulative number of anti-Covid vaccine doses administered in the country so far has crossed 165.04 crore The daily positivity rate was recorded at 13.39 percent, while the weekly positivity rate was 16.89 per cent, according to the health ministry New Delhi: With...
Assets under management for ESG funds up 2.5 times in FY21: Nasscom
"Companies are not just becoming alert to ESG performance of vendors or partners that they are willing to work with, but investors also are using ESG as metrics to drive investments.In India alone, the assets under management for ESG funds rose by 2.5 times in just a...
Sensex succumbs to late sell-off, ends 77 pts lower
Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Financial Services, said, ''After the decent opening post yesterday's weak closing, domestic bourses again staged a quick sell-off, tracking weak European trend. Policy tightening by the US Fed and rising geopolitical tensions in...