State-owned National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO) has produced 4.31 lakh tonnes of aluminium in 2009-10, an increase of 19.4 per cent, against 3.61 lakh tonnes in 2008-09, the company said on Saturday.
About 150 people were killed when an Air India Express flying from Dubai overshot the runway after landing at the Mangalore airport near here early Saturday amid a drizzle and caught fire as it crashed into a forested gorge, authorities said.
Bhilai Steel Plant, the highest profit making unit of India's largest public sector steel producer, Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), has ended its 2009-10 fiscal year with production of 5.370 million tonnes (MT) of hot metal, the company said on Saturday.
The auction of airwaves for broadband wireless access (BWA) services, which was scheduled to start on Saturday, will now begin on Monday, an official from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said in New Delhi on Friday.
Recovering rapidly from the global financial crisis, India is poised to grow at 8 percent this year, but inflation and excessive capital flows could pose a challenge, a gathering of world finance ministers was told on Saturday.
Food inflation, increasing food production with existing and new technologies and ensuring equitable economic growth are the big challenges facing India, noted farm scientist M.S. Swaminathan Saturday said.
The Reliance General Insurance Company-led consortium, which insured Air India's fleet including the Boeing 737 aircraft that crashed Saturday in Mangalore, may not be hit hard by the accident thanks to re-insurance, experts said.
Six engineers have been suspended for negligence after a chimney collapsed at a power plant in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district killing two workers and injuring at least, an official said on Saturday.
President Pratibha Patil has accepted the resignation of Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Saturday night from the Council of Ministers on the recommendation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The world takes a "benign view" of India and is not worried about its rise, unlike the case of China, and India should take advantage of it, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday.
A major fire broke out in a container depot, near the Tughlaqabad railway station in Delhi early on Saturday, has proved to be worst tragedy in the history of Indian Exports, said Delhi Exporters Association in a press release today.
The economic dynamism of India opens door for the investors from United Arab Emirates, Dubai Export Development Coroporation chief Saed Al Awadi said on Saturday.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday extended for the second time the last date for submitting financial bids for the Rs.12,132 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) project to June 14.
Russia may give a loan of about $6 billion to Ukraine to construct the third and fourth units of the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant, Russian Prime Minster Vladimir Putin said Saturday.
Hoping that India's growth rate would climb back to between 8.25 and 8.75 percent in 2011, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Saturday indicated that the government might withdraw some of the stimulus measures announced during the economic meltdown.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was Saturday enumerated for Census 2011. He urged the people to take part in the national population counting process as it forms the base for planning the level of India's economic and social activities.
Pakistan's $30.4 billion (Rs.2.6 trillion) budget for fiscal 2010-11 beginning July 1, which has allocated Rs.450 billion for defence, will be presented in parliament Saturday.
Agricultural machinery manufacturer Same Deutz-Fahr India will invest Rs.24 crore in its operations in the country to meet domestic and global market needs, the company said here Saturday.