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Saturday, 06 April 2024 | Agencies

GGSIPU signs MoU with University of Ladakh New Delhi: Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with University of Ladakh (UoL) to foster research and education programmes for students, scholars and faculty members. As per the MoU, both the universities will mutually plan and conduct...

Demand trends remained sluggish in March quarter: Dabur

Demand trends remained sluggish in March quarter: Dabur

Friday, 05 April 2024 | PTI | new delhi

Demand trends in the March quarter “remained sluggish” but rural growth picked up, FMCG major Dabur said, adding that it expects consumption to pick up in the coming month, helped by a good rabi crop harvest and forecast of a normal monsoon. The rural growth is “fuelled by price rollbacks” in...

Telangana in talks with Tesla to set up electric car plant

Friday, 05 April 2024 | PTI | Hyderabad

The Telangana government is holding discussions with Tesla by putting in all efforts to establish their plant in the state, Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu said on Thursday. In a message on X Sridhar Babu said since December 2023 the state government has been actively focusing on major investment opportunities by...

Gold hits all time high

Friday, 05 April 2024 | PTI | new delhi

Gold prices surged by Rs 850 to reach a new peak of Rs 70,050 per 10 grams on Thursday on strong global cues, according to HDFC Securities. This is the second straight session that precious metal prices have hit all-time high levels. In the previous trade, the precious metal had settled...

US has not asked India to reduce Russian oil imports, say officials

Friday, 05 April 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

The US on Thursday said permitting an unrestricted Russian oil trade was and remains “unacceptable” and the western price cap on Moscow’s petroleum products is designed to force it to continue selling oil but for lower prices than it could otherwise obtain. At the same time, US officials said Washington has...

RBI defers implementation of directions on currency derivatives to May 3

Friday, 05 April 2024 | PTI | mumbai

The Reserve Bank on Thursday deferred implementation of its directions on exchange traded currency derivatives (ETCD) linked to rupee by a month to May 3 in view of feedbacks received from stakeholders. A circular issued on January 5 on ‘Risk Management and Inter-Bank Dealings — Hedging of Foreign Exchange Risk’ was...

RBI, NPCI make presentation to WTO members: Official

Friday, 05 April 2024 | PTI | new delhi

Senior officials of the RBI and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) have made a presentation to the WTO members on reducing cost of remittances on March 25, an official said. India is pressing for the adoption of open and inter-operable payment systems like UPI, among WTO (World Trade Organisation)...

No hike in essential medicines prices this fiscal year: Mandaviya

Friday, 05 April 2024 | PTI | new delhi

Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Thursday said there will be no increase in prices of essential medicines this fiscal year in view of negligible growth in wholesale price-based inflation. In an interaction with PTI editors at the news agency’s headquarters here, Mandaviya — the Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister —...

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