New Delhi: The government on Wednesday appointed Ashwani Kumar as managing director of UCO Bank in place of Soma Sankara Prasad whose terms comes to an end. Kumar is currently an executive director of Indian Bank and prior to this, he served as Chief General Manager of Punjab National Bank. The central government appoints Ashwani Kumar…
New Delhi: India’s economy grew 6.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2022-23, pushing up the annual growth rate to 7.2 per cent, official data showed on Wednesday. Growth in the January-March period was higher than the 4.5 per cent expansion in the previous October-December quarter of 2022-23. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had expanded…
New Delhi,: The Centre’s fiscal deficit narrowed to 6.4 per cent of the GDP in 2022-23 from 6.71 per cent in FY22, as anticipated by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget in February this year. In the Union Budget, the government aimed to further bring down the fiscal deficit — a key indicator of…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday urged the Centre to re-introduce direct flight connectivity between Tokyo and Chennai and increase the number of flights from Singapore to Madurai. Writing to Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiradiya Scindia, Stalin said the direct flight service between Chennai and Tokyo, launched in October 2019 by All…
Chandigarh: The Bhagwant Mann government in Punjab on Wednesday expanded its cabinet by inducting AAP MLAs Gurmeet Singh Khudian and Balkar Singh as ministers. Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers at the Raj Bhavan here. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was also present. While Khudian was allocated agriculture and farmers’…
New Delhi: The NIA on Wednesday said it has seized a large amount of explosives, arms and ammunition from Jharkhand in the People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) terror-funding case over the past two days. The searches were conducted with the support of the Jharkhand Police, an official spokesperson of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said….
New Delhi: India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has transformed, gaining a position in the world order and becoming a key driver for Asia and global growth, said Morgan Stanley. In a report, Morgan Stanley said significant scepticism about India, particularly with overseas investors, ignores the significant changes that have taken place in India, especially since…
New Delhi: Apollo Hospitals is investing extensively in new age technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to create new medical benchmarks in disease prediction, diagnosis accuracy, reduced patient in-time and advanced home care, Shobana Kamineni, Executive Vice Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise said. She said a good example of this is its preventive…
Kochi: Seeking to tap into the growing digital lending sector, Kerala-based Manappuram Finance Ltd has launched Ma-Money, a new digital lending platform. The objective of the app is to provide customers with all the financial products offered by Manappuram Finance under one umbrella, a statement said here. A pioneer in digital gold loans, the company…
New Delhi: Former India selector Sarandeep Singh says picking K S Bharat over Ishan Kishan as the wicketkeeper for the World Test Championship final against Australia is a no brainer and he would also choose Umesh Yadav over Shardul Thakur in the playing eleven. In the absence of the injured Rishabh Pant, Kishan, who is yet…
