Veteran industrialist and Williamson Magor Group patriarch Brij Mohan Khaitandied on 1 June 2019 at his residence in Kolkata. He was 92. Khaitan is survived by his younger son Aditya and daughter Divya Jalan. Also known as the “evergreen tea man of ...

In April 2018, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared 3 June as International World Bicycle Day. The resolution for World Bicycle Day recognizes the uniqueness, longevity, and versatility of the bicycle, which has been in use for two ...

SpiceJet's Chairman and Managing Director Ajay Singh was elected to the board of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), less than three months after the airline joined the global grouping. Founder and former chairman of the now grounded Jet Airways Naresh Goyal, who was ...

The presidential elections in Sri Lanka would be held between November 15 and December 7, Election Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya has said, clarifying that according to constitutional provisions the polls must be held one month before the end of the current president’s term. ...

The Central Statistics Office (CSO), the rate of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the January-March quarter of 2018-19 decreased to 5.8% as compared to the forecast of 6.5%. The economic growth rate for the full 2018-19 financial year stood at a 5-year low of 6.8% when compared ...

Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) agreed to expand Development Finance in Asia and Pacific to increase the flow of private sector investment. They signed a Cooperation Agreement which will be effective for 3 years from signing. This ...

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd (KVB) partnered with Centrum Wealth Management Ltd(Centrum) to form private limited Joint Venture (JV) to provide wealth management services to its clients. KVB will hold 51% of the share capital, Centrum will hold 45% and the remaining 4% will be held by the ...

Assam government increased the parent's annual income of students eligible for fee wavier scheme up to post graduation level from RS 1 Lakh to RS 2 Lakh. It was announced by Assam education minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya. The scheme does not apply for private colleges and universities ...

Apart from hiking the scholarship amount, now the ambit of the Scholarship Scheme is extended to the wards of State Police officials who are or were martyred during terror or Naxal attacks. The quota of new scholarships for children of state police officials will be 500 in a year. The ...

K. Kasturirangan Committee submitted the 484-pages draft report of National Education Policy to the new Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal. The report on the National Education Policy mainly put out on the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)'s website for ...

India lost the world's fastest-growing economy title to China.  In the January-March quarter, India registered 6.3% whereas China recorded a growth of 6.4% in the March Quarter.   India had been ahead of China for two years. The ...

India, US, Japan, and Australia came together to support ASEAN-led architecture mechanism for a rule-based order to promote the free, open, prosperous and inclusive indo-pacific region in a meeting held at Bangkok, Thailand.The meeting at Bangkok is to counter China's ...