Seven persons from Pune district have tested positive for Omicron variant of coronavirus, a health official said on Sunday.

Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw urges them to create a platform as powerful and seamless as UPI, think of more ways of providing quick and easy credit to MSMEs and people at the bottom of the pyramid

The finance ministry said over three crore income tax returns have been filed for the financial year 2020-21 so far and advised taxpayers who are yet to file their return to do so at the earliest.

The country reported a single-day rise of 2,796 deaths on Sunday after Bihar reconciled its Covid data. This pushed the overall death toll to 473,326

With input costs continuing to rise, automakers like Tata Motors, Honda and Renault are looking to increase vehicle prices from January next year to offset the impact. Already, car market leader Maruti Suzuki and luxury automakers Audi and Mercedes-Benz have announced to hike vehicle prices from next month. While Maruti said the price rise planned for January 2022 will vary for different models, Mercedes-Benz said its hike will be on select models by up to 2 per cent due to feature enhancement a

At least 11 civilians have been gunned down by security forces in Nagaland's Mon district, police said on Sunday, adding that it is investigating whether the incident was a case of mistaken identity.

Reliance Industries Limited, ICICI Bank and Bharti Airtel were the three laggards from the top-10 list

India's total tally of COVID-19 cases has increased to 3,46,33,255, according to health ministry.

Omicron has spread rapidly to at least 40 countries since it was first reported in South Africa last week, officials say, and many governments have tightened travel rules to try to keep it out

Velocity of mutations adds to the puzzle of how transmissible the variant may be, says South Africa's Sikhulile Moyo.

The 33-year-old man had travelled to Mumbai from South Africa via Dubai, Delhi

AIIMS' Dr Vikas Bhatia said that if oxygen levels decline due to Omicron, then that would be a concern but he believes that due to the ongoing vaccination programme, it shouldn't be a problem

PM Modi laid the foundation stones of 11 projects worth Rs 15,728 crore and inaugurated seven projects worth Rs 2,573 crore

Finance Minister said logical conclusion is important but speedier conclusion is what will keep the heat on people who are promoting these kinds of activities

An easing of Covid-19 restrictions drove demand and boosted sales, indicating the economy was on the path to normalization.

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As benchmark indices declined four per cent over the past one month, Devang Mehta of Centrum Wealth and Varun Lohchab of HDFC Securities decode investment strategies to ride the on-going correction

BlackRock Inc. and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board were among so-called anchor investors in the IPO that bought more Paytm shares on Tuesday and Wednesday

The board of Paytm is scheduled to meet on Saturday, November 27, 2021 to consider financial results of the company for the quarter and half year ended on September 30, 2021.

Paytm shares were down 12% to Rs 1,370 on the BSE in the intra-day trade

Supreme Court-appointed farm panel member Anil Ghanwat said Centre's decision to repeal the three farm laws were 'regressive'

The Centre on Sunday moved an ordinance that extends the tenure of Enforcement Directorate (ED) director and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director to five years.

Stock markets will focus on global trends for further direction in this holiday-shortened week as the earnings season is largely over, analysts said.

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Paytm has signed up BlackRock and CPPIB together with the sovereign wealth funds of Singapore and Abu Dhabi as anchor investors for next week's Rs 18,300 crore ($2.46 billion) IPO

Ma's charitable foundation, which handles his media queries, did not respond to a request for comment.

Primary issue will be of Rs 5,000 crore, which the company will raise via public issue; OFS by existing investors will be Rs 2,460 crore

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At 09:32 am, IRCTC was trading 6.9 per cent higher at Rs 6,283.50, with a market-cap of Rs 100,612 crore

Petrol and diesel prices continued to rise across the country for the third consecutive day on Saturday

As many as 500 multimodal hubs are expected be developed under Gati Shakti Mission at an extra investment of Rs 50,000 crore in the next five years, Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw tells ...

ZEEL says Invesco had approached Punit Goenka, its managing director and chief executive officer, with a merger proposal.

The state buys most of its electricity from others; launches a campaign asking people to save electricity.

Naravane said India had made matching deployments in terms of troops and infrastructure in its areas along the LAC

China-made vaccine recognised as well as Australia starts to unwind some of the world's most intense pandemic border restrictions.

IPOs in the third quarter raised a total of about $94.6 billion, down 26.3% from the second quarter

The orange alert has been issued for moderate or heavy thunderstorms and wind speed with 30-40 km per hour to reach some districts of Odisha within the next three hours

Startup has endured months of layoffs, cost-cuts and losses during the coronavirus outbreak.

Modi has a packed agenda over the next three days: Biden hosts him at the White House for their first bilateral meeting on September 24.

Uncertainty is declining as businesses seek to bolster growth after Covid-19, says the bank's country head for retail assets.

Sebi decided not to impose any penalty for the alleged violations

An 84-page review, written by senior academics and economists, was published on the bank's website on Monday, about three weeks after it was submitted to World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart.

Randhawa is a minister in the outgoing cabinet of Amarinder Singh

Sitharaman said 5% GST will be levied at the point where the delivery is made by Swiggy and Zomato

Kristalina Georgieva denies she had applied pressure on staff of World Bank, when she worked there, to boost China's ranking in the report.