'Sector-specific action needed to cut carbon emissions'

Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 21 MAY: Outgoing Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai favours bringing all private-public partnerships (PPPs), Panchayti Raj institutions and societies getting government funds within the ambit of the CAG. As he ...

In the backdrop of the chit fund scam, the State Bank of India today said Reserve Bank of India or Securities and Exchange Board of India should take up major campaigns to create awareness among investors being lured to ponzi schemes. "RBI...or Sebi ...

Mumbai/Kolkata: Dalia Ghosh, a 28-year-old nurse in Kolkata, invested her savings in an unlicensed fund run by media conglomerate Saradha Group last year, hoping to start her own clothes business. But Saradha went bust in April, wiping out as much ...

It was a routine check by the West Asia-based LP (limited partner or investor), when they were approached by an Indian private equity fund manager to raise his new fund.But, when the outcome of the check (due diligence, in the jargon) on him came out, the LP was shocked. The degree certificate, supposedly from one of America’s Ivy League business schools, flashed to the LP was a fake one.LPs include pension funds, endowments, foundations, big institutional investors and high net worth ...

While Indian students were coming up trumps in tests, excelling in classes, and generally wowing the western world, there was one Indian company trying to make western students in the US and UK better as well by improving their education systems.

The JV between SBI and Oman's sovereign wealth fund aims to take fund corpus to $1.5 billion. After closing three transactions in the industrials sector, Oman India Joint Investment Fund (OIJIF) is now looking to invest in sectors like banking and ...

Members and volunteers of the Aam Aadmi Party's Odisha unit and general public held a demonstration at the Master Canteen Square here on Wednesday demanding an immediate impartial probe by the CBI into the massive fraud by chit fund companies in ...

The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on the functioning of Tamil Nadu's local bodies in 2010-11 has faulted the Municipal Corporations of Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai for failing to follow basic guidelines of the ...

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently noted that positive engagement from Pakistan was essential to "ensure long-term peace and stability in Afghanistan." On 24 April in Brussels, US Secretary of State John Kerry hosted a meeting ...