India's import of pulses rose 90 per cent annually to 47.38 lakh tonnes during 2023-24 to meet domestic demand, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday. "All India production of pulses has increased from 163.23 lakh tonnes during 2015-16 to 244.93 lakh tonnes during 2023-24 (as per 3rd Advance Estimates)," the Minister of State for Agriculture Ram Nath Thakur said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. In 2021-22, import of pulses stood at 26.99 lakh tonnes, while exports were at 3.87 lakh tonnes. Читать дальше...
From setting up cutting-edge facilities to cater to the domestic market and building capabilities of global standards, the action is building up
The funding will help provide cash assistance, food, access to clean water and sanitation, and other essential services in the hardest-hit areas
Agarwal tried unsuccessfully to take Vedanta private in 2020, his latest attempt to trim down parent company's debt last year by getting its unit, Hindustan Zinc, to buy some of firm's zinc assets
The company has partnered Chinese phone maker Xiaomi, and the first phones based on this chipset are expected to hit the market by October this year. It is also in talks with other device makers
Telecom infrastructure major Indus Towers on Tuesday posted a 42 per cent increase in consolidated profit to Rs 1,925.9 crore in the first quarter ended June 30, 2024. The company had reported a profit of Rs 1,347.9 crore in the same period a year ago, Indus Towers said in a regulatory filing. Indus Towers consolidated revenue from operations grew by about 4 per cent to Rs 7,439.4 crore during the reported quarter, from Rs 7,132.4 crore in the June 2023 quarter, the filing added. During the quarter ended June 30... Читать дальше...
In a milieu where civil society is demonised by the power establishment, Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia's book is a successful attempt at humanising the dehumanised
In volume terms, we will block at least 20-25 per cent growth over last year. Volume wise we should do more than a million tonnes to 1.2 million tonnes, said Angshu Mallick, MD and CEO, Adani Wilmar
Realty firm Macrotech Developers on Tuesday reported a 2.7-fold jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 475.3 crore for the June 2024 quarter on higher income. Its net profit stood at Rs 178.4 crore in the year-ago period. Total income grew to Rs 2,918.3 crore during the April-June period of this fiscal year from Rs 1,671.8 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding year. Abhishek Lodha, MD & CEO of Macrotech Developers Ltd, said, "Q1, FY'25 was our best ever 1st quarter with Rs 4,030... Читать дальше...
Job openings have been steadily declining since hitting a record 12.182 mn in March 2022 as demand moderates in response to the Federal Reserve's aggressive interest rate hikes
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The Budget signals a move towards a more open trade policy, but further broadening and deepening are essential
This means that around 39.3 million people have come out of undernourishment between the two periods, NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand said on Tuesday
To make India developed, Sitharaman said it was necessary to be a big economic and strategic power
Euro zone economy is quite like water quality of Seine (polluted river in Paris), some days it may look okay but overall it's poor enough to continuously worry about it, ING economist Bert Colijn said
Says higher tax will disrupt financialisation of savings
The details should be included in the paragraph on the "justification" for the scheme or programme and the details appended in an annexure to the note for the Cabinet
Asks Ministry of Consumer Affairs explain why complaints on its portal is 'abysmally low'
An interim report of the magisterial inquiry in the death of three students in the flooded library of Rau's IAS Study Circle here said the water level of the centre's basement and the road was same that posed problem in pumping out water to rescue the trapped students. Another report by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) found that the flooding of the basement made the biometric gate there "non functional" that "caused casualty and delayed the evacuation of the students". The MCD report also... Читать дальше...
The scrutiny might result in a raft of tax notices
Gives one time permission to transfer corpus to reserves
Amid the surge in medical inflation, other insurance companies are also believed to have increased their health insurance premiums
HPCL has commissioned 126 new retail outlets, bringing the total outlets to 22,148
