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People who own bikes and cars are not starving and can afford to pay higher prices for fuel, Union Minister KJ Alphons said late on Saturday, drawing sharp criticism from the Congress that attributed the minister's "insensitive" remarks to the long years that the minister had spent in the bureaucracy. Mr Alphons comments come at a time when petrol and diesel prices are at a high despite international crude prices declining by 50 per cent over the last three years.
Petrol price was hiked today by 7-8 paise per litre and diesel rate increased by 10-11 paise per litre in the four major cities, as part of the daily revision exercise. E...
Domestic passenger vehicle sales grew 13.76 per cent to 2,94,335 units in August from 2,58,737 units in the same month last year. Car sales were up 11.8 per cent to 1,98,...
According to the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) global passenger traffic data for July, India's domestic demand — revenue passenger kilometr...
24, Aug 2017, by : FnF Desk
Jio chief - Mukesh Ambani announced "India ka smartphone" aka JioPhone at the company 40th annual general meet on July 21. The feature is said to be the "cheapest" feature phone as at an effective price of zeroRead News
23, Aug 2017, by : FnC Correspondents
The government today gave its go-ahead to the Reserve Bank to issue Rs 200 notes that will ease pressure on lower-denomination currency bills. The finance ministry, in a notification, said that on the recommendations of the Central Board of Directors of the RBI, "the central government hereby specifies the denomination of banknotes of the value of two hundred rupees". Read News
21, Aug 2017, by : FnF Desk
With all the nine unions under the aegis of the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) threatening to go on strike on Tuesday, services at public sector banks are likely to take a hit. A large number of banks have already informed their customers that functioning of branches and offices will be impacted if the strike takes off.Read News
17, Aug 2017, by : FnF Desk
Both private sector and public sector banks have been cutting interest rates on savings account across the country. The rate-cutting spree started with India's largest bank State Bank of India slashing its interest rate on savings account. Soon, top banks of the country followed suit.Read News
14, Aug 2017, by : FnF Correspondent
Two days after the demonetisation on November 8 last year, the new 2,000-rupee note hit the market in good numbers but the new 500-rupee note took a long time in coming, putting millions of people in difficulty for days on end. Read News
12, Aug 2017, by : FnC Correspondents
Two studies published by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have said that demonetisation has led to 'financialisation' of savings with households choosing mutual funds and other financial investments that had turned attractive vis-a-vis gold, which had seen a decline in price. Read News
From the UK to Canada, China to India, around the world, yoga is big business. In 2016, Americans alone spent US$16 billion on yoga classes and products.
Put this down to connectivity. After Bangladesh, Odisha's mangoes are soon expected to find a market in Southeast Asia -- thanks to a new flight from Biju Patnaik In...
A good monsoon that led to record sowing and production of pulses - especially tur dal (pigeon pea) - has almost halved their wholesale and retail prices in 2017, a year ...
Moreover, the operator has promised to match the best data plans in the market at 20 percent lower rates. But telecom operators such as Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and BSNL ar...
21, Jan 2017, by : Prabhu Mallikarjunan
Sunil Kumar, a 31-year-old farmer in Tondala village, Kolar district, 85 km east of Bengaluru, lost Rs 300,000 in November when tomato prices crashed due to the demonetisation earlier that month and the excess supply of vegetables.Read News
14, Jan 2017, by : FnF Desk
At a time when the cyber vulnerability in the payment gateways of e-wallet companies are becoming visible as they witness a rise in usage and popularity, upgraded security is the only way to safeguard millions of first-time users.Read News
21, Dec 2016, by : Mukta Patil, IndiaSpend
Gangu Kundaikar is a small-framed, saree-clad woman who rises at 3 am every day, wraps a cloth around her waist so fish do not soil her saree, and takes a rented tempo to the Malim jetty in Panaji, North Goa, 8 km from her village, here in one of India's most prosperous and literate states.Read News
21, Dec 2016, by : FnF Correspondent
The Reserve Bank of India has issued a series of notifications on rules and regulations to implement the Narendra Modi government's decision to demonetise old Rs500, Rs1,000 notes on 8 November. Read News
18, Dec 2016, by : FnF Desk
Either the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is uncharacteristically cavalier with the demonetisation-related figures it has given out periodically since November 8 or, more worryingly, its number crunchers are getting their math mixed up.Read News
17, Dec 2016, by : Anuj Sharma
With nearly 250 million unique smartphone users in the country and the figure set to reach the 280 million-mark by the end of this year, the Indian smartphone industry -- that surpassed the US to become the world's second-largest market by users in 2016 -- is set to break new records. Read News
A market is any one of a variety of different systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby persons trade, and goods and services are exchanged, forming part of the economy. It is an arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to exchange things.Competition is essential in markets, and separates market from trade. Two persons may trade, but it takes at least three persons to have a market, so that there is competition on at least one of its two sides. Markets vary in size, range, geographic scale, location, types and variety of human communities, as well as the... Read News
by : Priti Prakash
Independence was a painful journey that got with it death, destruction, migration, division, sacrifi...
by : Satya Narayan Sahu
Every living and lively unit of family or the extended family be it father, mother, brother or siste...
by : Rajeshwar Singal
This may sound like a dilemma, but it is not far from truth. Conduct Rules are meant to govern condu...
by : Sunita Narain
The idea of secularism is this very idea of India which respects the equality of all. Of course, wit...
by : Ravi Kishore
Today every one is talking about judicial accountability i.e. how the whole system of judiciary is t...
by : Surya Mohan Dubey
Continuous deadly events happening every now and then prove that Indian Government has utterly faile...
