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MUMBAI: A day after HDFC Bank‘s non-executive chairman Atanu Chakraborty resigned citing concerns over practices inconsistent with his values and ethics, regulators, the bank’s board and management and the govt moved swiftly to contain a governance scare.Seeking to steady sentiment, newly appointed interim chairman Keki Mistry struck a firm tone while addressing analysts and reporters….
NEW DELHI: The commerce department on Thursday announced RELIEF – Resilience & Logistics Intervention for Export Facilitation – scheme, a Rs 497 crore package to help exporters with insurance support to navigate the challenge posed by the conflict in the Persian Gulf.Govt officials said more steps are on the anvil, with the finance ministry and…
NEW DELHI: The govt has asked all entities across the oil and gas value chain to regularly furnish detailed operational information to the ministry’s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC), with officials classifying the data as a matter of national security. With imports plummeting, the move signals the vulnerability of the sector, turning it into…
NEW DELHI: Amid the global rush to secure energy supplies, Indian agencies have seen the cost of natural gas (LNG) nearly double from around $10-12 a unit before the West Asian conflict to $19-20 per metric million Btu (MMBtu) when they made purchases in the spot market this week.The spike comes in the wake of…
Panaji: Goa govt has issued a GST tax notice to Delta Corp Ltd and its subsidiary, Highstreet Cruises and Entertainment Pvt Ltd, demanding Rs 1,752 crore for short payment of GST for the financial year 2022-23.The office of the commissioner of commercial taxes issued the tax demand this week. Delta Corp disclosed the development to…
Panaji: Civic activists under the banner of Ponjekar against Casinos have accused the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) of turning a blind eye to the proliferation of various advertisements put up by offshore and onshore casinos in the capital.Ponjekar against Casinos has demanded that the CCP immediately remove all the casino-branded barricades across…
A fatwa has been issued against actor-performer Nora Fatehi over the controversial track Sarke Chunar Teri Sarke, which also features Sanjay Dutt. The song is part of the upcoming Kannada film KD: The Devil. Addressing the issue, Nora Fatehi shared a detailed video on Instagram, distancing herself from the Hindi version of the song. A…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday yet again took a different stand from his party and rest of the opposition and came in support of the Centre for its stand on the ongoing US-Israel and Iran conflict in the Middle East.Speaking to news agency PTI, Tharoor said that he understands the government’s desire…
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: A row over alleged vulgarity in the Hindi version of a song of an upcoming Kannada film ‘KD: The Devil’ spilled into Parliament on Wednesday, with Samajwadi Party MP Anand Bhadoria flagging what he described as the harmful impact of unchecked explicit content on OTT platforms and social media.In response, Union information and…
NEW DELHI: Ten years later and after two attempts, govt has failed to privatise IDBI Bank, the perpetual problem child, leaving potential bidders fatigued and raising questions over the process as well as future disinvestment plans.It wasn’t the first time that the Centre tried to exit IDBI Bank, with the plan first announced by former…
