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Why are Indian prisons so overcrowded? | Asia | An in-depth look at news from across the…
Following an increase in prison overcrowding in India, critics are calling for further reforms to the judicial process, to shorten the length of trials and reduce the number of prisoners. Three out of four people held in Indian prisons are…
JPMorgan and Goldman bankers quit for $2m jobs in Europe
Good news for young European bankers who want to go into private equity. Despite the brutal war on the eastern periphery of Europe, private equity activity in the west of the continent is not waning. And one of the best known funds is…
No respite in budget, TSRTC sweats in debt heat – The New Indian Express
Express press service
HYDERABAD: The TSRTC getting a 'rough deal' in the budget has raised fears that the transport utility company could take on more debt. Management already owes nearly Rs 2,500 crore to staff and…
Transfer Money to Bank Using India’s Leading UPI Wallet Based App
In today's digital age, almost everyone else is used to using their smartphones to pay their bills. Although many digital wallets are developed to meet the versatile needs of all smartphone users, some unique UPI-based digital wallet…
LanzaTech to go public in SPAC deal, valued at $2.2 billion
The Nasdaq logo is displayed at the Nasdaq Market site in Times Square in New York, U.S., December 3, 2021. REUTERS/Jeenah MoonJoin now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegisterMarch 8 (Reuters) - LanzaTech NZ Inc on Tuesday…
How a stray sighting on a subway train inspired two Princeton grads to start a women’s fintech…
study at IIT Roorkee and pursuing her bachelor's and master's degrees in technology at a time when women weren't allowed to dream of a life beyond domestic life At Poshak Agrawal mother the greatest inspiration he could have asked for in…
Students fleeing Ukraine wary of loan repayments
Bombay : Thousands of Indian students fleeing war-torn Ukraine now face an unprecedented financial burden as the chances of their colleges reopening soon look bleak, but they still struggle with expensive loans they…
India ranks 97th in terms of democracy, according to V-Dem report
V-Dem, an independent research institute based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has released a report – Democracy Report 2022 Autocratization Changing Nature? – where he declared that India is among the ten most autocratic…
Banking Risk Monthly Outlook: March 2022
Further easing of residential mortgage lending to major cities in mainland ChinaLack of public capital injections into banks to boost privatization efforts in IndiaTighter macroprudential policy in emerging Europe due…
Axis Bank to spend $150m to boost India’s healthcare infrastructure
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Leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia discuss the ongoing conflict and…
Ukrainian soldiers are seen in Independence Square in Kiev on March 2. (Timothy Fadek/Redux for CNN)Russia's assault on Ukraine is only a week old, but its consequences have already been catastrophic.In the seven days since Russian troops…
Indian banks’ share price: Indian banks’ asset quality issues largely resolved: Nilanjan…
In recent years, an association inextricably linked to the Indian banking system is that of an entity that is almost crumbling under the weight of loans that may never be recovered. This unfortunate coupling has now been largely eroded,…
RBI Deadline Extension: A Welcome Relief for NBFCs and Borrowers
Deadline extended for NPA recognition standards, loan upgrade will protect NBFC results
By YS Chakravarti
Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) play a vital role in the Indian economy by providing access to funds to the last mile…
Indian production of Covid-19 Sputnik V vaccine in fix after sanctions on Russian Jab maker
The sanctions imposed by the United States on the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which markets Sputnik V internationally, have raised concerns about the manufacture of the Covid-19 vaccine in India, the second largest producer of…
Military convoy in the outskirts of Kiev, targets the base of Okhtyrka, 70 Ukrainian soldiers…
Disney and Warner Bros. suspend film releases in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine
Two major Hollywood studios, Disney and Warner Bros., have said they will suspend theatrical releases of upcoming films in Russia in response to its…
Another Exhausted SPAC Biotech Raises White Flag As CEO Leaves, Strategic Review Begins –…
Five months after Gemini CEO Jason Meyenburg laid out his survival plan for the small biotech, it's now off the charts as the company prepares for a 'strategic' review that will begin by extending layoffs to 80 %…
COVID-19 boost for handwashing in South Asia
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Nicolas Osbert is convinced that when it comes to…
LPG bottle at Rs 500, 5 lakh new government jobs in Cong manifesto plan in Chintan Shibir
KITCHEN GAS cylinders at Rs 500 apiece, subsidized electricity, agricultural loan waivers and price support for dairy farmers, compensation of Rs 4 lakh to relatives of Covid-19 victims and five lakh new government jobs – these are just a…
Jio-Facebook partnership: a step towards universal basic Internet
Access to most mobile internet users in India along with the ability to deliver mobile content and applications in Indian languages gives Jio-Facebook a substantial advantage in reaching all Indians currently…
Explained: Importance of credit rating in getting a loan and how to fix it
Recently, there have been several cases where fraudsters used permanent account numbers and other identity documents of people to avail loans from fintech companies and non-bank financial companies (NBFCs). As these loans remain unpaid, it…
Bilateral payments with Russia unlikely to be affected by sanctions
NEW DELHI: Bilateral payments with Russia may not be affected even though the United States and other Western countries have imposed economic sanctions on Moscow following the attack on Ukraine. Bilateral payments between India and Russia…
India seeks HPC leadership with nine new systems, ‘Rudra’ server platform
Historically, India has struggled to establish an advantage in supercomputing, but its government is looking to change that with the announcement of a slew of new supercomputers and homegrown technologies, including its server platform”…
Reviews | Donald Trump’s Glitchy and Snaggy Social Media Rollout
Raised. But like anything else, only new features and the buzz they create can make it a successful platform, as the ex-president's round-the-clock trolling excitement is sure to grow. blur. I've seen it before, to be a winner in…
Indian neobank Niyo raises $100 million and surpasses 4 million customers – TechCrunch
India's Niyo has raised $100m in a new funding round as the consumer-facing neobank platform seeks to add loans and other features to its offerings and make deeper inroads into the market. second largest Internet…
Two teenagers drown in Surat pond, bodies found
Two teenagers drowned in a pond in the Sachin area of Surat on Tuesday evening. The bodies of the two teenagers, both 14, were recovered by firefighters on Wednesday afternoon.
Police said the deceased was identified as Abid Amjad Pathan…
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ALYI and WPUR EV off-grid charging solution featured in CEO
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 22 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alternet Systems, Inc. (OTC Pink: ALYI) on Friday released an update to the progress report on the company's strategic outlook for 2022 to reach $10 million in organic revenue with the…
Get Easy Tribal Loans for Bad Credit at Heart
Post views: 114Tribal loans primarily offer financial assistance to Indian or Native American tribal communities who cannot avail of the available payday loans. Tribal moneylenders issue them to people who need money to meet immediate…
As the government pushes for digital payments, here’s how active the Ministry of MSMEs is in…
Credit and finance for MSMEs: The Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization (MGIRI) led the count of digital transactions among six MSME offices with zero offline transactions.
Credit and financing for MSMEs: As the digital…
adb: IIFL Home Finance to secure $68m in AfDB loans
Multilateral finance agency Asian Development Bank has offered $68 million in financing to IIFL Home Finance to expand its footprint in the affordable and green housing segment.
The financing includes a direct loan from the AfDB of $58…
The fuel boom is a bad time for governments to face voters
Soaring gasoline prices are stoking inflation and causing headaches for governments and central banks around the world. In countries where elections are approaching, they are an additional headwind for incumbents.
While the midterm…
ALYI reports on expanding EV ecosystem revenue streams
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 18 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alternet Systems, Inc. (OTC Pink: ALYI) today released an update on the company's 2022 strategic outlook progress report to reach $10 million in organic revenue. with the potential to reach…
NBFCs Seek Priority Sector Tag for Bank Credit Funded 2 Wheeler Loans
Finance companies have applied for priority sector lender status for money they receive from banks to provide loans for the purchase of two-wheelers (TWs). This would help…
Investing in US stocks becomes easier and cheaper; diversify your portfolio, own high-growth tech…
Investing in US stock markets could help diversify investment portfolios across geographies and business segments.
Investing in US stock markets could help diversify investment portfolios across geographies and business segments.…
Bakkt Announces Earnings and Focuses on Customers
The market was not kind to Bakkt on Thursday (February 17), taking about 1.5% of its shares after an earnings presentation that, while complex after going public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC ), has shown reasonable…
Indian delegation visits Namibia to discuss translocation of cheetahs | Latest India News
An Indian delegation left for Namibia on Thursday to discuss the logistics of relocating the cheetahs with the Namibian government, according to people familiar with the development. The team, made up of representatives from the…
Cepton, Inc. will ring the Nasdaq opening bell today
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cepton, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTN), a Silicon Valley innovator and leader in high-performance MMT® lidar solutions, announced that the company will hold its grand opening ceremony at Nasdaq today on…
Man dies by suicide after being ‘harassed for loan repayment he didn’t even…
PUNE Police are investigating a case in which a 22-year-old man died by suicide after executives of a financial company allegedly harassed him and circulated his processed images to his relatives for the collection of a loan of Rs 8,000…
Indian equity benchmarks closed in the red on Wednesday, dragged down by banks as investors turned…
Dear Trader… India's equity benchmarks oscillated between gains and losses throughout the session and ended slightly lower on Wednesday…
India needs bespoke plans for ‘bustling villages’ on the border so China doesn’t…
The timing of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget announcement on the Vibrant Villages program was appropriate. It came ahead of schedule – to be precise, exactly a month after China enacted a controversial law through which it…
India’s Central Bank Says Cryptocurrency ‘Could Even Be Worse’ Than Ponzi Schemes…
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Bajaj Finance’s strong digital move has made it bigger than home lending giant HDFC
Bajaj Finance's market capitalization exceeds that of HDFC, one of the largest real estate finance companies.With this, Bajaj Finance is now the eighth largest company on the exchanges by market capitalization.The market capitalization of…
Coal India, RIL, Punjab Sindh Bank, SpiceJet, Future Retail
Coal India - Q3FY22 ResultsGood set of numbers; above our estimatesRev at 28433 cr; up 20% over one year and 22% over one quarterEbidta margins at 24%; larger than expected expansionPAT up 47% YoY and 55% QoQCoal withdrawal at 173 MT;…
LGL Announces Fourth Quarter 2021 Revenue, Backlog, Cash and Marketable Securities in Advance,…
The LGL Group, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter 2021 Revenue, Backlog, Cash and Marketable Securities in Advance, Updates Progress of Its Spin-Off MtronPTI, and Sets Earnings Release Date and the fourth quarter 2021…
India administers 1.6 billion doses of vaccine in its fight against COVID-19
NEW DELHI- The collective spirit of 1.3 billion Indians played a key role in achieving this remarkable feat of 1.6 billion vaccinations against COVID-19 – a new milestone. In less than a year, India has administered over 1.6…
Securing the Bad Credit Loans: A Step-by-Step Instruction
While the most reputable lenders and lending platforms will be able to provide you with that low-credit loan but there are other factors to be aware of. If you're struggling financially It's easy to ignore the steps you need!-->…
Union budget 2022: Alarming, interest costs the most?
The general public is largely left out of the serious things of the annual budget. But the budget is something more, a barometer of the country's economy
Gopal Goswami, California Mukesh Kabra
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of…
Green finance: can India seize the opportunity?
In the Union budget, the government announced its intention to promote green bonds to support investments in climate-friendly projects. This is a timely move as India urgently needs to scale up its funding to meet its climate obligations…
Reducing social spending right now is a dangerous bet
A week before the presentation of the Union budget, the Chairman of Hindustan Unilever (HUL) asked the Minister of Finance (FM) to plan a Mahatma Gandhi-like National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for the urban poor. He said personal…
Financial Literacy Week: How to educate your child about finances
India is this hub of fusion of diverse cultures and communities, but a common thread that cuts across all of these differences is our approach to money and children.
By Lavika Aggarwal, co-founder, akudo
Every culture has a unique…
Joe Rogan declines $100 million offer to leave Spotify – Reuters
Joe Rogan intends to stay with Spotify.
He recently declined a $100 million offer from an alternative video-sharing platform to quit the site.
Rumble recently approached Joe to move his popular but controversial podcast "The Joe Rogan…
India’s internet economy expected to reach $1 trillion by 2030: RedSeer rpt
According to a new report by consultancy firm RedSeer, India's internet economy has been estimated to be booming with over 50% year-on-year growth in 2021 and set to become a…
Cepton Technologies and Growth Capital Acquisition Corp. announce the closing of a business…
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 10, 2022--Cepton Technologies, Inc. (“Cepton”), a Silicon Valley…
A Bank of 12,000,000 Votes: Why Parties Talk About Old Retirement and New Retirement
One scheme that keeps coming up in Uttar Pradesh election discourse and has been mentioned in Samajwadi Party and Congress manifestos is the government employee pension.
Akhilesh Yadav announced last month that if the SP formed the…
Omicron Coronavirus Variant Updates
Coronavirus news and live updates: India reported 71,365 new Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday, taking the country's active case count to 8,92,828. Wednesday's daily case count is higher than 67,597 new infections…
RBI should not rush the launch of India’s official digital rupee
India has surprised the payments world by announcing that its central bank will issue digital currency as early as 2022-23, a crucial decision that most major economies refuse to make in a hurry. According to Finance…
What makes Indian stock markets so volatile?
New Delhi: Indian stock markets have been very volatile over the past two weeks. On Tuesday, the benchmark, Sensex, showed strong swings. It opened at 57,621 and moved to 57,925. Later, Sensex fell to 57,058, later…
The flagship application of space economy
What needs to happen for the space economy to become a $4 trillion zone of cislunar activity by the 2040s? By George S. Pullen
Every day we interact with the spatial economy. Most of us do it through our phone, our car, the financial…
Spotify Technology SA (NYSE:SPOT), (CFVI) – Analysis: Are Joe Rogan’s days at Spotify…
The controversy surrounding the content of the Spotify Technology AG (NYSE: SPOT) podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience" shows no signs of slowing down, with increased pressure on the company to address high-profile complaints of…
In the state of Brazil, a sign of Omicron’s key advantage | Latest India News
New Delhi:
Scientists have uncovered most of the secrets of the Omicron variant (as well as sister lineages such as BA.2), especially those with the most real-world consequences: the variant spreads faster than any before it, but is much…
Sensex, Nifty to slide on mixed global signals; Focus on RIL, SBI, Zee, PVR and Paytm shares
Indian equity benchmarks are likely to start the week on a bearish note, following mixed signals from Asian peers. SGX Nifty futures trends also indicated a lower open for domestic exchanges, with Nifty futures trading 34 points, or…
BoI adopts Resham & Ara-Keram villages
The bank to provide better banking facilities in the villages
In a bid to provide better banking facilities to people living in remote areas of the state, the Chief Executive of Jharkhand…
The majority of prisoners in India are on trial; accounts for 62% of the total prison population-…
NEW DELHI: Prisoners on trial make up 62% of India's total prison population, compared to a global average of 18-20%. Uttar Pradesh, the country's most populous state, has the highest number of sentenced prisoners,…
Paytm Q3 loss widens to Rs 778.5 crores – The New Indian Express
Through PTI
NEW DELHI: Digital payments and financial services company One97 Communications, which operates under the Paytm brand, on Friday reported widening consolidated loss to Rs 778.5 crore in the December…
India’s equity benchmarks ended lower on Friday on losses from banks and Reliance Industries,…
Bullish and Bearish - Stock Market Trends
Dear Trader… Indian equity benchmarks ended a choppy session slightly lower on Friday,…
The Hub71 Effect: Delivering Continued Success to Innovators and Investors
As the world grapples with the effects of the Covid pandemic, Hub71 has continued its work to make Abu Dhabi a global hub for innovative start-ups. Today, as…
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Budget will boost Jammu and Kashmir’s infrastructure and economy, says LG Manoj Sinha
The administration of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday described the union budget as a step towards strengthening the infrastructure and economy of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Union Territory has received Rs 35,581.44 Crore…
Space Activity Review – January
January investment activity
January 6 HawkEye 360, Inc. has received a $5 million investment from Leidos, Inc., bringing the total raised through its previously announced Series D funding round to $150 million.
January 11 Mangata Networks,…
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s portfolio: Rakesh Jhunjhunwala admits he was wrong about pharmaceutical…
"The only rule I have is that there are no rules. So we're looking at business by business, situation by situation. We don't reserve our minds that this is a business public or a private company", says Rakesh JhunjhunwalaOwner, Rare…
SoFi Option Bullish Spread (SOFI) for Upside Catalysts
The Biden administration's promise to cancel student debt looks more and more like a pipe dream every day. With the student loan deferral program ending due to the pandemic in May, 43 million Americans affected by this…
Meet Elmer and Lima, the same-sex New York penguin couple who hatched their first foster egg…
The first chick raised by same-sex penguin parents at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York. (Rosamond Gifford Zoo)On New Year's Day, the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in New York saw the birth of a baby Humboldt penguin chick. But what…
India’s textile industry needs a ‘point in time’
By Radharaman Hari KothandaramanAlthough this year's budget avoided too many sector-specific announcements, the only sector that should have deserved special attention was the textile and clothing industry, the second largest job generator…
Budget proposals likely to revive industrial credit
As cash-strapped MSMEs continued to be the focus of the Centre, banks should now breathe a huge sigh of relief
As the banks are sitting on higher liquidity, the measures in this budget aimed to get them out of their “risk aversion” phase…
India must review booster dose plans: top virologist | Hyderabad News
Hyderabad: India must reconsider its booster dose strategy in light of the multiple variants of novel coronavirus at play and private labs should be encouraged to perform genome sequencing to better identify variants and threat levels, said…
India’s Byju targets SPAC merger deal within a month
Byju Raveendran, founder and CEO of Byju's, speaks at a conference in Hong Kong on March 26, 2019. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Paul YeungIndia's most valuable startup, online education provider Byju's, is in talks with at least three…
Make-in-India one of the fastest growing economies, 10 points from Prez Kovind’s speech
Parliament's budget session began with President Ram Nath Kovind's speech to both houses in the central hall. He said, “My government believes it is important for the future of the country to remember the past and learn from it.…
Divestment: FY22 revenue seen at Rs 1-1.3 lakh crore, FY23 target at Rs 1.75 lakh crore
The government could mop up around Rs 1 lakh crore if it dilute a 10% stake in the public sector insurer, but the extent of the problem is not yet clear as market sentiments could decide. The government has collected Rs 27,330 crore or 16%…
From onsite to online: how Indian startups are bridging the digital divide
The Covid-19 pandemic in India has given a new lease of life to budding startups to maximize the potential of a global shift from an on-site and in-person reality to a digital one. At times like these, a major challenge has been to reach…