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Lucknow Metro: ₹2,883-crore external borrowing for East-West corridor gets nod

The North-South Corridor of Lucknow Metro is operational. (FILE PHOTO)
lucknow news
Published on Feb 22, 2026 07:00 am IST

Borderlands 4: Release date, time, where to play, editions and more

Borderlands 4 release date, time and more
us
Published on Sept 08, 2025 09:20 pm IST

Donald Trump announces ‘great deal’ struck with Indonesia, offers no details

Trump’s announcement comes after he threatened last week to impose a 32% tariff on Indonesian goods starting Aug. 1.
us news
Published on Jul 15, 2025 09:10 pm IST

Pakistan ministry’s X account seeks ‘loans’, govt later claims it's 'hacked'

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
world news
Updated on May 09, 2025 11:20 am IST

Centre forms Cabinet committees, BJP allies get key positions: Who gets what

Centre forms Cabinet committees, BJP allies get key positions
india news
Published on Jul 03, 2024 11:00 pm IST

How a popular strand of economics lost its shine

If 2008 marked the rise of behavioural economics, 2023 marks a year of reckoning. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/Representational image)
opinion
Published on Dec 11, 2023 10:00 pm IST

‘Utmost priority’: New UK PM Sunak vows ‘stability’ against economic crisis

New Conservative Party leader and incoming Prime Minister of the UK Rishi Sunak. (Photo by Daniel LEAL/AFP)
world news
Updated on Oct 24, 2022 11:21 pm IST

India on cusp of major economic recovery: Niti Aayog VC

Vice-Chairman NITI Aayog, Dr. Rajiv Kumar addressing at the release of the Second Edition of Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2021, in New Delhi on Friday. (ANI Photo)
business
Published on Apr 03, 2022 02:31 pm IST

Sri Lanka to turn off street lights as economic crisis deepens

Sri Lankans wait to buy cooking gas at a vendor in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP)
world news
Published on Mar 31, 2022 08:41 pm IST

Ensuring education for the marginalised students

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Tuesday announced that the Union government will increase its share of contribution to Post Matric Scholarship for students from the Scheduled Castes (SCs).
editorials
Updated on Dec 24, 2020 06:39 pm IST

Amid farm stir, Cabinet clears ₹3.5k crore sugar export subsidy

India is the world’s largest sugar consumer, but 90% of the country’s output goes into commercial food products while 10% is bought by household consumers.
india news
Updated on Dec 17, 2020 03:15 am IST

New body may settle claims if a bank fails

The draft Bill will replace the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) and the idea is to create a suitable institutional mechanism under the RA, an official said.
india news
Updated on Jan 12, 2020 05:00 am IST

Breaking the impasse on strategic disinvestment and privatisation

Sale of one public sector enterprise to another cannot be called real strategic disinvestment. What is needed is an open and competitive process
analysis
Published on Nov 22, 2019 08:13 pm IST

Mamata says disinvestment no solution to economic crisis, advises Centre to consult experts, parties

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses during 'Pariseba Proden' a government programme at Sagardighi in Murshidabad district on November 20, 2019.
india news
Published on Nov 21, 2019 05:46 pm IST

Cabinet increases ethanol prices before state elections

The move comes in the backdrop of the central government’s plan to double farmers’ income by 2022.
business
Updated on Sept 03, 2019 04:47 pm IST

Finance secretary SC Garg moved out in reshuffle, AK Bhalla named home secy

SC Garg was the senior-most bureaucrat in the Finance Ministry and a key figure associated with the maiden budget of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (HT Photo)
india news
Updated on Jul 25, 2019 08:22 am IST

Centre nod for largest hydro-power project

In 2013, the Forest Advisory Committee of the ministry of Environment and Forests put the project on hold after it found that around 350,000 trees had to be felled for the project that was supposed to come up on the Dibang river.
india news
Updated on Jul 18, 2019 01:18 am IST

What makes the Cabinet committees so significant

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and others during the first cabinet meeting
india news
Updated on Jun 09, 2019 10:12 am IST

PM Modi, Rajnath Singh on 6 Cabinet committees, Amit Shah on all 8

A day after announcing new Cabinet committees for employment and growth, the government on Thursday reconstituted six other panels. (Ajay Aggarwal/HT PHOTO)
india news
Updated on Jun 07, 2019 07:14 am IST

Niti Aayog to draw up list of non-core assets of CPSEs for possible monetisation

This is part of the overall plans of the government to lay down procedure and mechanism for monetisation of non-core assets of central public sector undertakings (CPSEs), which include mainly land and building.
business
Updated on Mar 03, 2019 12:13 pm IST

Centre approves Rs 2,000 crore under NABARD for farm market overhaul

A corpus of Rs 2,000 crore will be set up at NABARD, an organisation that procures and trades farm items on behalf of government.
india news
Published on Feb 07, 2019 07:38 am IST

Cabinet approves plan to list 7 state-owned firms on stock exchange

The government Friday said six public sector undertakings, including THDCIL, TCIL and RailTel, will come out with IPOs, while KIOCIL will issue follow on public offer (FPO).
business
Published on Dec 28, 2018 05:01 pm IST

No changes in April 10 Sebi circular, NRIs allowed to invest up to 5% in any security: Govt

The logo of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is pictured on the premises of its headquarters in Mumbai.
business
Updated on Sept 04, 2018 10:14 pm IST

India has adequate ‘firepower’ to deal with rupee volatility: DEA secretary

Subhash Chandra Garg, secretary of Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), addresses a press conference, in New Delhi, on Friday.
business
Published on Jun 29, 2018 11:52 am IST

Why government’s intervention to deal with sugar industry crisis does not solve much on ground

A farmer carries sugarcane to load on a tractor to sell it at a nearby sugar mill in Modinagar in Ghaziabad.
india news
Updated on Jun 10, 2018 11:06 am IST

Government announces Rs 8000 crore bailout package to cash-starved sugar mills

A farmer carries sugarcane to load on a tractor to sell it at a nearby sugar mill in Modinagar in Ghaziabad.
india news
Updated on Jun 04, 2018 11:52 pm IST

Cabinet okays Rs 5.5 per quintal subsidy to sugarcane farmers

Sugar mills claim they are unable to pay farmers due to a slump in sugar prices in the domestic market.
india news
Updated on May 02, 2018 10:20 pm IST

Bond yields drop most since 2013 on Modi govt’s surprise borrowing plan

The longest run of losses in India’s bond market since 1998 has been spurred by a vicious cocktail of rising debt supply, hardening global yields and the prospect of higher interest rates.
business
Updated on Mar 27, 2018 12:35 pm IST
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