New Delhi: Around 64% of seniors, aged 50 and above, want to continue working post-retirement for financial independence, mental peace, and to maintain a healthy lifestyle, according to a survey. Antara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Max India Ltd, has surveyed to bring out insights on the lives, aspirations, preferences, opinions, and consumer behaviour traits of […]
New Delhi: Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan says the government should take advantage of the peaks in the Indian equity markets right now and sell stakes in PSUs while prioritising spending to get the economy back on track. The upcoming Budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1 should look to […]
Mumbai: AirAsia India will add new flights, connecting Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and Pune, in its network starting January 24, the budget carrier announced on January 14. With the launch of a non-stop service to Pune from Bhubaneswar, AirAsia India will be the only domestic carrier offering a direct service between these two domestic cities, AirAsia India […]
New Delhi: Passenger vehicle wholesales in India slipped to a ten-year low in the April-December this fiscal, and the industry will have to work hard to regain better volumes and business health, according to industry body SIAM. While releasing the wholesale numbers for December and the third quarter (October-December) of the current fiscal, the industry […]
New Delhi: Under fire over its recent privacy policy update, WhatsApp on January 14 said it is open to answering any questions from the government on the issue and is aware that the company will have to “compete” for users’ trust with rivals such as Signal. WhatsApp head Will Cathcart said the Facebook-owned company remains […]
New Delhi: Google on January 14 said it has reviewed hundreds of personal loan apps in India that were flagged by users and government agencies and those found to be violating its user safety policies were immediately removed from its Play Store. Google has asked the developers of the remaining identified apps to demonstrate that […]
Initial data about the Dhanteras festival in November suggests that while jewellery demand was still below average, it had substantially recovered from the lows seen in the second quarter (April-June 2020) of last year, it said.
New Delhi: The Income Tax Department on January 13 said it has issued refunds worth over Rs 1.73 lakh crore to more than 1.57 crore taxpayers in the ongoing fiscal till January 11. Of this, personal income tax refunds are worth Rs 57,139 crore, while corporate tax refunds are worth Rs 1.15 lakh crore. CBDT […]
New Delhi: Total assets under management in government’s flagship social security schemes — National Pension System (NPS) and Atal Pension Yojana (APY) — stood at Rs 5,48,913 crore at end-December 2020, posting an year-on-year growth of 36.83%, according to PFRDA data. The assets under management stood at Rs 4,01,152 crore at end-December 2019. The Pension […]
New Delhi: Wipro on January 13 posted 20.8% jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,968 crore for the December 2020 quarter. The net profit attributable to shareholders in the year-ago period was at Rs 2455.9 crore, according to a regulatory filing by Wipro. The company logged 3.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter growth in IT services […]