The new cost of living survey of 2019 is out and according to the list Hong Kong is the world’s most expensive city for expats to live in, for the second consecutive year. According to the Mercer survey, the city that made to the second position is Tokyo, Japan, followed by Singapore, Seoul in ...

Sarada Kumar Hota, managing director (MD) and chief executive officer of Can Fin Homes has been appointed as the MD of National Housing Bank. Prior to this, Hota has served as the managing director of Can Fin Homes, a subsidiary of Canara Bank. His appointment comes nearly nine months after ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is among the 100 most influential women driving the UK-India relationship forward alongside one of Britain’s senior-most Cabinet ministers Penny Mordaunt. The ‘100 Most Influential in UK-India Relations: Celebrating Women’ list was launched by UK Home ...

Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has elected Sharad Kumar Saraf as its new president. Saraf will succeed renowned exporter Ganesh. Sharad Kumar:  Saraf in his earlier stints at FIEO has served twice as vice-president and four times as regional chairman. He is chairman and ...

More than the pride involved in hosting the triennial International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) congress here from June 26 for the first time in Asia, 32nd one over all, Telangana is taking the event as an opportunity to earn reputation as an emerging hub in the global seed arena and also to ...

Power distribution company BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) has tied up with several private organisations to launch a slew of initiatives including a ‘behavioural energy saving app’ to reduce electricity consumption. The app -- Susthome -- developed by BYPL and TERI to bring about a behavioural ...

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and institutions under it observed Swachhta Pakhwada (cleanliness fortnight) from 1st June to 15th June 2019. During this period, MNRE undertook various activities such as Shramdan (cleanliness drive) by staff, lectures and seminars with an objective of ...

NASA announced the latest mission in its New Frontiers program, called Dragonfly, will explore Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. It’s the only moon in our solar system that has an atmosphere. Before it ended in 2017, the Cassini mission flew by Titan while studying Saturn. The data provided by the ...

Three CRPF personnel were killed in an encounter with Naxals, including a girl who was caught in the crossfire, in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said. The gun battle took place around 11 am close to a culvert near Keshkutul village when a joint team of the CRPF's 199th battalion and ...

In a reaction to a series of credit-related events that put investor money at risk, markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) tightened norms on investments by mutual funds (MFs). Vowing to take action against MFs getting into standstill agreements with the promoters of ...

The Rajya Sabha on June 27 cleared the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Bill, 2019, that seeks to allow trusts to set up units in special economic zones, a day after the Lok Sabha passed the measure. The Bill will replace the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019, promulgated in ...

The Government has been celebrating the Statistics Day, to popularize the use of Statistics in everyday life and sensitize the public as to how Statistics helps in shaping and framing policies. It has been designated as one of the Special Days to be celebrated at the national level and is ...