India's central bank may not drastically change the accommodative monetary policy when it revises it Jan 29, but could look at measures to suck excess liquidity from the markets, according to HSBC India chief Naina Lal Kidwai."I don't th ..

Home loans major Housing Development Finance Corp (HDFC) Wednesday reported a 22.75 percent rise in net profit of Rs.671.2 crore for the quarter ended Dec 31, compared to Rs.546.83 crore in the like quarter last fiscal.The total income of the company ..

Deemed universities, whose derecognition is sought by the central government, have decided to get together to float two lobby bodies and implead themselves in the case being heard by the Supreme Court. According to Ishari K Ganesh, chancellor of Vels ..

Two days after the government filed an affidavit with the Supreme Court seeking to divest 44 universities of their deemed status, many of them Wednesday lamented they were not informed about the move and demanded revaluation. The sword of derecogniti ..

SBI General Insurance has put in place its top management team and is expected to commence operations by June. The company has appointed Mr R.R. Bele as its Managing Director and CEO. Prior to this, Mr Bele held the position of General Manager with S ..

Students in deemed universities will not suffer, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said Tuesday, a day after the central government submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court to take away deemed university status from 44 institut ..

The concept of deemed universities will be abolished in India, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said Tuesday, a day after the government moved an affidavit in the Supreme Court seeking derecognition of 44 such institutions." ..

The concept of deemed universities will be abolished in India, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Tuesday, a day after the central government filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court stating that 44 such institutions would be derecog ..

The central government Monday told the Supreme Court that it was all set to divest 44 universities of their special "deemed university" status as they were being run as "family fiefdoms" rather than institutions of academic excell ..

A whopping 16 swine flu deaths, 13 from Gujarat alone, were reported Monday, taking the toll due to the contagious virus in the country to 1,136, health department officials said.In Gujarat, seven people died in the day, while six deaths had occurred ..

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has urged the government to offer tax incentives to companies that save energy and to individuals to encourage them to save and invest more."Tax deduction has always stimulated individuals to save or in ..

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is the world's largest, with its student base extending to three million, Unesco has said."IGNOU is the largest University in the world. Almost three million students in India and 33 other c ..

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday called for a sharp increase in the enrolment of girls in schools to make them equal citizens and said every child should be made literate over the next decade with the aim of achieving 100 percent literacy." ..

Simple insects, which can crawl uphill or downhill with their six legs, have inspired scientists to invest robots with similar skills.Scientists from Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Germany, have now developed a walking robot, ..

China Sunday launched an orbiter into space for its satellite navigation and positioning network. It was the third orbiter that China has launched for its independent satellite navigation and positioning network, also known as Beidou or Compass syste ..

An estimated 55 million Americans were infected with the H1N1 swine flu from the time the disease first emerged in mid-April until mid-December, and about 11,200 people died, according to official figures. The flu, which is no longer causing widespre ..

The government is considering proposals from four state governments to rename their high courts based on the new names of their capitals, a Right To Information query has revealed. The government is considering changing the names of Bombay High Court ..

Thousands of people, especially in the southern districts of Kerala, viewed the millennium's longest solar eclipse Friday. A clear sky helped them have an excellent view.The maximum crowd was gathered at the Kanakakunnu Palace hill in the heart o ..

Economists Friday suggested to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to continue the stimulus packages till the country's economy recovered further."It is not the time to withdraw the stimulus. It is the general feeling of the economists,"  ..

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday praised the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), saying the central bank had made the national credit system more sensitive to the needs of the rural population."It played a very important role in the establishment o ..