Annual food inflation falls marginally

Annual food inflation fell marginally by 0.14 percent to 9.53 per cent for the week ended July 24. It was 9.67 per cent for the week ended July 17. The fall in food inflation is due to decline in prices of vegetables, especially potato and onion.On an yearly basis, potato became cheaper by 41.14 per...

India's cotton exports surge 137% during 2009-10

India's cotton exports increased 137 per cent to 83 lakh bales, of 170 kg each, during the crop year October-September 2009-10, over the previous year. Minister of State for Textiles, Panabaaka Lakshmi today gave the provisional export figure for the cotton for 2009-10.In a written reply to...

Markets close in red; sensex falls 45 pts at close

The Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange fell 45 points, or 0.2 percent, to 18,173 today. The Nifty at the National Stock Exchange declined 21 points, or 0.4 percent, to 5,447.

Corporation Bank signs agreement with UIDAI

State-owned Corporation Bank Thursday said it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Unique Identification Authority of India to act as Registrars for unique identification project 'Aadhar'. As per the agreement, the bank would enroll customers for issuing a 16-digit u...

Sensex opens higher by 65pts

The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex today opened higher by 65 points on buying by funds and retail investors.The sensex was trading at 18271, down by 14 points when reports last came in. The wide-based National Stock Exchange index Nifty was trading at 5479, down by 5 points.

Annual food inflation falls marginally

Annual food inflation fell marginally by 0.14 percent to 9.53 per cent for the week ended July 24. It was 9.67 per cent for the week ended July 17. The fall in food inflation is due to decline in prices of vegetables, especially potato and onion.On an yearly basis, potato became cheaper by 41.14 per...

Rupee depreciates by 7 paise

The rupee today depreciated by 7 paise to 46.23 against the dollar in early trade at the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange market. It had settled at 46.16/17 a dollar in the previous session. According to dealers, firming dollar against other currencies put pressure on the rupee.

Sensex opens higher by 65 pt

The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex today opened higher by 65 points on buying by funds and retail investors. The sensex was trading at 18285, up by over 67 points when reports last came in. The wide-based National Stock Exchange index Nifty also gained 5484, up by 16 points.

Static kill procedure successful in plugging oil leak: BP

British oil giant BP today said that the "static kill" procedure in plugging a runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico working well. The London-based company in a press release said that static kill, an engineering procedure of sealing the underwater gusher by pumping mud into the w...

CAPART signs MoU with CII