New Delhi,  The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to defer the implementation of GST rate hike on textiles and footwear.

The proposal is to increase the rate of tax from 5 per cent to 12 per cent on textiles and footwear.

In a letter to

Chennai,  Multi-business company ITC Ltd on Tuesday said it has commissioned a 14.9 MW solar power plant in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu.

According to the company, the 14.9 MW solar power plant was built at an outlay of Rs 76 crore thereby meeting 90 per cent of the company's power needs in Tamil Nadu from r

New Delhi, Torrent Pharma Tuesday announced that it is introducing MSD (a trade name of Merck and Ridgeback's Molnupiravir under the brand name Molnutor in India.

Earlier this year, Torrent Pharma inked a non-exclusive voluntary licensing pact with MSD, granting rights to Torrent Pharma for manufacturing,

Mumbai,  The Income Tax Department raided 25 premises of two unnamed business groups in Maharashtra and detected huge tax evasions, besides affecting seizures, all totalling to over Rs 210 crore, an official said here on Tuesday.

The swoops took place on Dec 22 in at least 25 properties spread across Nas

New Delhi,  The Indian equity indices -- S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50 -- settled higher on Tuesday.

The Sensex and Nifty settled at 57,897 points and 17,233 points, respectively, up 0.83 per cent and 0.86 per cent from their previous close, respectively.

Accordingly, all sectoral ind

New Delhi,  The Aluminium Association of India has urged the Finance Ministry not to impose any anti-dumping duty on import of Caustic Soda originating in or exported from friendly nations of Japan, Iran, Qatar and Oman.

The Association in a letter to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that in view of t

New Delhi,  Restrictions under Level 1 of the Graded Action Response Plan (GRAP) will be imposed in Delhi as its Covid-19 positivity rate continues to be over 0.5 per cent for the past few days, Delhi Chief Minister on Tuesday announced while declaring a yellow alert in the national capital.

"Delhi is mo

Bijnor (UP),  Forest officials in Najibabad elephant reserve and Amangarh Tiger reserve of Uttar Pradesh are now monitoring the behaviour of elephants after two pachyderms apparently died fighting each other in separate incidents.

The forest department authorities on Sunday found the carcass of a 10-year

New Delhi,  Former Indian cricketer Dinesh Mongia on Tuesday joined BJP. Two Congress MLAs Balwinder Singh Laddi, Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa and 13 others also joined the BJP on Tuesday along with cricketer Mongia.

Mongia, Laddi, Bajwa and others joined BJP at party national headquarters here in presence of

Thiruvananthapuram, Issues of Sabrimala temple and the controversial K-Rail are figuring in all the meetings of the ruling CPI-M in Kerala with members questioning the "double standards" of some leaders.

The present president of the Travancore Devasom Board (TDB) is veteran CPI-M leader K. Ananthagopan w