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Dec 17, 2022

India can look forward to becoming a $ 25-30 trillion economy in its 100th century: Tata Sons Chairman

New Delhi: The country can look forward to becoming a $25-30 trillion economy in its 100th year of Independence, said Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran on Friday while addressing FICCI’s 95th Annual Conventi...

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Dec 17, 2022

‘India’s Century’ initiative proposes roadmap to achieve 600 million jobs and Rs 10 lakh per capita income by 2047: FICCI-McKinsey

New Delhi: With India’s century of independence 25 years away, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), in partnership with McKinsey has launched ‘India’s Century – Achieving sust...

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Dec 15, 2022

Casa Mia Coliving announces successful completion of its seed round funding

Singapore: Singapore-headquartered Casa Mia Coliving has announced the successful completion of its seed round financing, raising US $1.3 million from real estate and private equity veterans. The funds raised will be used to ...

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Dec 12, 2022

Corporate India can play big role in unleashing the economic potential of NE

New Delhi: Minister of State for External Affairs and Education Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh on Monday said that the CSR spent by the corporate sector has increased in the last few years. “Corporate India has...

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Dec 08, 2022

RBI hikes benchmark lending rate by 35 basis points

Mumbai: In a bid to tame inflation, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday raised the benchmark lending rate by 35 basis points to 6.25 per cent. Inflation has remained above its tolerance level for the past 11 months....

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Dec 08, 2022

India to achieve 100 pc solid waste mgmt: Hardeep Singh Puri

New Delhi: Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, and Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri has said that India has witnessed a transformative change in sanitation since 2014. “Under the leadership of Prime...

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Dec 02, 2022

BIS signs MoU with top six engineering institutes

New Delhi: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with top six engineering institutes of India for introducing Indian standards as an integral part of the curriculum. This initiative is ...

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Nov 28, 2022

Risk Code Adoption should be voluntary: Former SEBI Chairman M Damodaran

New Delhi: Risk management must be driven by the understanding of what is good for the corporate, said M Damodaran, Chairperson, Excellence Enablers and former Chairman, SEBI, at the release of the FICCI – GRMI Model Ri...

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Nov 25, 2022

India-Australia ECTA to unleash a new economic paradigm: FICCI

New Delhi: Industry body FICCI has expressed delight over the India-Australia Economic Cooperation & Trade Agreement having been passed by the Australian Parliament. The two countries, while strengthening the QUAD and the Indo...

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Nov 10, 2022

Subhrakant Panda is President Elect of FICCI

New Delhi: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has announced Subhrakant Panda as its President-Elect. Panda is currently the Senior Vice President of FICCI. He shall succeed Sanjiv Mehta as pres...

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Oct 11, 2022

Government and industry should work together on bigger goal: Union Minister Piyush Goyal

New Delhi: Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal has stressed that the government along with the industry should work on a bigger goal to make India a developed country and aspire to become a much larger econom...

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Oct 06, 2022

50 basis point hike in repo rate by RBI was widely anticipated: FICCI

New Delhi: The 50 basis points (bps) hike in the repo rate by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was widely anticipated, said industry body FICCI president Sanjiv Mehta while commenting on the monetary policy announcement of Ind...

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Sep 30, 2022

Time for India to lead sustainable consumption of resources globally: Former MoEF&CC Secretary

New Delhi: CK Mishra, Former Secretary, MoEF&CC, has stressed the need for Indian businesses to move forward from climate mitigation to adaptation. “It is time for India to lead the sustainable consumption of resour...

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Sep 30, 2022

‘Make in Odisha Conclave’ held in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: The Government of Odisha, in collaboration with FICCI organized the Odisha Investors’ meet. “Odisha is one of the fastest growing economies in India and has consistently grown above the national average...

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Sep 28, 2022

India needs to move beyond jugaad, create a culture of innovation: HUL CEO-MD

New Delhi: The world has quite successfully survived, then revived and now thrived by finding opportunities in the recent disruptions. Digitization and tech led innovations are taking centre stage to meet the needs of the pre...

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Sep 23, 2022

Cost of inaction is higher than cost of acting: Unilever Global CEO Alan Jope

New Delhi: The world has quite successfully survived, then revived and now thrived by finding opportunities in the recent disruptions. With it came a sense of urgency to ideate, improvise and innovate, to nurture new economic...

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Sep 21, 2022

National Logistics Policy will reduce cost and improve competitiveness: FICCI

New Delhi: Welcoming the National Logistics Policy announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently, industry body FICCI has said the policy has the potential to significantly reduce costs, improve industry competitiveness, and ...

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Sep 19, 2022

FICCI commits to adopt one lakh TB patients

New Delhi: The industry body FICCI has announced to adopt one lakh TB patients under the Tuberculosis (TB) Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, which President Droupadi Murmu launched on September 9, 2022. It is aimed at reinvigorating the ...

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Sep 19, 2022

Real estate will stem a favourable economic outlook: Union Minister Kaushal Kishore

New Delhi: Real estate will stem a favourable economic outlook, making India a developed nation by 2047, said Kaushal Kishore, Union Minister of State for Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, while speaking at ‘Realty 2022’ organised...

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Sep 19, 2022

Need to reduce compliances for improving food processing sector: Union Minister Prahlad Singh Patel

Mumbai: Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries and Jal Shakti Prahlad Singh Patel has said that the Central government is aware that Indian food processing, especially the unorganized sector has major women pa...

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Sep 15, 2022

Trust, transparency, disclosure key imperatives for capital markets: SEBI Chairperson

Mumbai: At SEBI, we follow a disclosure-based regime. This is our fundamental regulatory approach. We believe we exist for the capital formation of the economy. Unless trust in the system is protected, we will fail in our cor...

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Sep 14, 2022

Direct tax collections shoot up to Rs 6.48 lakh crore

New Delhi: India’s direct tax collections up to 8th September show that gross collections are at Rs 6.48 lakh crore, which is 35.46 per cent higher than the gross collections for the corresponding period of last ye...

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Sep 06, 2022

India’s external debt pegged at $ 620.7 billion

New Delhi: India’s external debt pegged at $ 620.7 billion as at end-March-2022, grew by 8.2 per cent over $ 573.7 billon as at end-March 2021. While 53.2 per cent of it was denominated in US dollar, Indian rupee denomi...

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Sep 02, 2022

Syngenta India’s ‘Drone Yatra’ reaches Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow: The use of drones will significantly improve the ease of farming and Uttar Pradesh government is making concerted efforts for multifaceted use of drone technology – right from spraying of fertilizer to monitori...

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Aug 27, 2022

India should increase R&D push in quantum technologies: Principal Scientific Adviser

New Delhi: Prof Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India, has emphasized on the need to include more R&D in newer technologies, especially quantum technologies. “Today, India is at the beginni...

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Aug 25, 2022

Nishant Kanodia appointed Chairman of Matix Fertilisers and Chemicals

Mumbai: Nishant Kanodia, promoter of Matix Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd, has been appointed Chairman of the company. He succeeds the late Yogendra Kanodia. Nishant Kanodia, in his previous role as Vice Chairman, had been pro...

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Aug 25, 2022

Neuron Energy set to expand its footprint through a tie-up with EV giant E-Ashwa

Mumbai: Neuron Energy Pvt Ltd, a bootstrapped start-up successfully establishing itself in the battery manufacturing segment supplying Lithium-Ion and Lead Acid batteries to the EV sector in India, has announced its strategic...

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Aug 19, 2022

5G auction process echoes Centre’s proactiveness to ensure ease of doing business: FICCI

New Delhi: The recent 5G auction process echoes the robustness and confidence of the telecom sector as well as the proactiveness of the government when it comes to ‘Ease of Doing Business.’ Supported by market-fri...

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Aug 12, 2022

4,32,796 companies struck off down during last five years

New Delhi: The removal of the name of the company from the Register of Companies is a continuous process and a total of 4,32,796 companies have been struck off during the last five years, said Union Minister of State for Corp...

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Aug 10, 2022

NSRCEL at IIM-Bangalore partners with Acumen

New Delhi: NSRCEL, the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of IIM-Bangalore has partnered with Acumen, a global non-profit organization that is changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in sustainable businesses...

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Aug 08, 2022

Indian Railways records best ever July monthly freight loading

New Delhi: Indian Railways (IR) recorded the best ever July monthly freight loading of 122.14 MT in the month of July '22. The incremental loading in the month of July has been 9.3 MT, that is, a growth of 8.25 per cent o...

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Aug 06, 2022

Real GDP growth in 2021-22 stands at 8.7 pc

New Delhi: As per the provisional estimates released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), Indian economy in 2021-22 has fully recovered the pre-pandemic real GDP level of 2019-20, said Union Minister of State for Finance...

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