A delegation of Indian exporters headed to Iran on Friday to explore commercial opportunities created in the Islamic nation after US-led sanctions imposed on it over its nuclear plans.

The parliamentary standing committee on finance, which submitted its report on the Direct Tax Code Bill to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday, has recommended hiking the tax exemption limit to Rs

A delegation of Indian exporters headed to Iran on Friday to explore commercial opportunities created in the Islamic nation after US-led sanctions imposed on it over its nuclear plans.

The 70-member

The government on Wednesday announced a number of measures, including relaxation in spectrum norms in the telecom sector, assuring coal linkages to the power sector and according environmental clearances to a mega hydel project, to boost economic activity.

India’s industrial production continued to remain fragile, growing by a mere 1.8 per cent in December due to contractions in mining and capital goods output.

Bahrain Telecommun-ications (Batelco) has become the first international telecom firm to exit India, selling its 43 per cent stake in STel, whose licences were cancelled by the Supreme Court last week

PThe era of cheap mobile tariffs is likely to end as Thursday’s Supreme Court order takes out new players who brought down call rates to as low as one paisa per second.

Mobile tariff is likely to shoot up as the SC order takes out new players who had brought call rates down to as low as 1 paisa per second.

Balance sheets of old telecom companies, including Airtel a

Twitter, the microblogging website, says it has devised technology that can selectively censor or block “tweets” on a country-by-country basis.

In a major peace initiative, India on Wednesday proposed to build pipelines to Pakistan if it provides long-term guarantees on buying petroleum products. India now has excess refining capacity and is exporting petrol and diesel, among other petroleum products, to various parts of the world, including Europe.