Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha recently proposed a set of reforms aimed at easing financial pressures on ordinary citizens, highlighting tax, pension, and banking issues in a speech in Parliament. Chadha focused on three key reforms: optional joint filing of income tax returns for married couples, restoring full income tax exemption on disability pensions…
NEW DELHI: The penalty on nine carmakers that failed to meet the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE-2) targets for three years — FY23 to FY25 — has been revised to Rs 2,728 crore, as per power ministry’s presentation made to the PMO last week. Earlier, the penalty was estimated around Rs 7,800 crore.Earlier, penalty was…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday said that India believes that dialogue and diplomacy should be pursued to de-escalate the tensions in the Middle East.While outlining India’s stand in Rajya Sabha, Jaishankar said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is closely monitoring the developments and relevant ministries are coordinating to ensure effective responses.“Our…
Shares of Man Infraconstruction Limited surged as much as 7% on Wednesday, April 29, after its group entity acquired a redevelopment project in South Mumbai with an estimated sales potential of over ₹2,000 crore. The project has been secured by Man Aaradhya Infraconstruction LLP, in which the company holds a 50.5% equity stake, the company…
MUMBAI: Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal has called upon Indian industry and MNCs to move beyond seeing the country as a market. He urged them to create bases for manufacturing, design & innovation, and use India for global supply chains and exports. He sought their engagement with India as a co-creator of value and not…
IBM Consulting senior VP Mohamad Ali has revealed how the company’s employees are working in tandem with artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The company executive has recently demonstrated that the company has moved beyond theorising about AI and is now running a live model in which humans monitor AI agents handling real client work in real…
A group of scammers stole $4 million worth of products from Amazon, including graphics cards and laptops, by duping customer support through an elaborate refund scam. Amazon has filed a lawsuit in Washington state District Court accusing a group using the name RBK of getting millions in refunds for products that were never returned. A…
Shares of VA Tech Wabag Ltd. gained nearly 4% on Thursday, April 16, after sources told CNBC-TV18 that the company has emerged as the lowest bidder for a sewage treatment plant (STP) contract worth over ₹600 crore in Saudi Arabia. In another development, VA Tech Wabag is also the lowest bidder for a project in…
Bill Nye (Image: Wikipedia) A plastic bottle lies beside a walking trail. A discarded food wrapper blows across a park. Someone notices it, shakes their head, and walks on. A second person stops, bends down, and throws it in a nearby bin.The difference between those two reactions takes only a few seconds. Yet it says…
[The stream is slated to start at 10:30 a.m. ET. CNBC Television will start the stream when the event begins. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above.] Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks Monday to the Harvard University Principles of Economics class. This will be one of Powell’s final scheduled…
