The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) is expected to take a final decision on new reinsurance regulations in its board meeting scheduled on Friday. Sources in the insurance industry added the board will also look into giving out a few new licences to some new standalone health insurers and branches of some new foreign re-insurance players.

At a public hearing held by the office of the Director General of Trade Remedies (earlier known as Director General of Safeguards) on Tuesday, domestic solar equipment manufacturers asked the safeguard duty threshold to be raised to 95% on imported solar components. The Director General of Safeguards, after preliminary investigations, in December 2017 had proposed to impose a provisional 70% safeguard duty on solar cell imports for 200 days.

Functioning of a civilised society and that of humanity would dictate that we must help each other out whenever and wherever feasible. We were taught as kids that 'all Indians are my brothers and sisters', and there's no harm helping out a brother or sister in need. However, there is an active law in place that apparently does not want you to. Nitin Nair had to learn this the hard way when he attempted to help a group of people who needed help in commuting.

The US has asked all countries, including India, to stop all oil imports from Iran by November as it ruled out any exemption to India and Indian companies from its reimposed Iranian sanctions regime for them carrying out any transaction with Iran.

On China and India, yes, certainly, a state department official told reporters when asked if the US has told all countries, including India and China, to stop all their imports of Iranian oil by November 4.

Less than 24 months after formal roll-out, Reliance Jio has developed an impressive customer base of over 20 crore customers. It has reached the mark in record time at the end of May, now close on heels of Idea which has 21.7 crore customers and Vodafone which has 22.2 crore users.

Jio which had 100 million users on February 2017 has doubled its customer base on May 2018, according to a Financial Express report.

US e-commerce giant Amazon’s big push into fashion retail in the Indian market seems to be paying off, with the company on Tuesday announcing a jump of nearly two-and-a-half times in sales during the third edition of its Wardrobe Refresh Sale.

Arun Sirdeshmukh, business head of Amazon Fashion, said this was the biggest-ever sale for the company.

Diversified conglomerate ITC has extended the tenure of chairman Yogesh Chander Deveshwar by two years. A resolution in this regard will be placed before the shareholders for approval at the forthcoming annual general meeting (AGM).

The AGM notice stated given the increasing size and complexity of the organisation, the Nomination & Compensation Committee and the board were of the view that it would be in the best interest of the company for Deveshwar to continue in his capacity as the chairman for some more time.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Tuesday passed an order asking Vishvapradhan Commercial Pvt Ltd (VCPL) to make an open offer in New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV).

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Tuesday passed an order asking Vishvapradhan Commercial Pvt Ltd (VCPL) to make an open offer in New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV).

New Delhi, Jun 26 () Tech giant Microsoft and Indian mobile ad tech firm InMobi have joined hands to offer artificial intelligence-powered marketing solutions to enterprises.

Under the partnership, InMobi is combining its advertising and marketing cloud capabilities with Microsoft Dynamics 365 on the back of the global Azure (Microsoft's cloud) infrastructure, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and analytics, InMobi founder and CEO Naveen Tewari told .

Ashok Leyland's LCV business, originally floated as a joint venture with Japanese automajor Nissan and later bought over by the Indian partner, has turned around during the financial year ended March 2018.

Ashok Leyland Vehicles Limited, formerly known as Ashok Leyland Nissan Vehicles Ltd, has reported a profit of Rs 1.34 billion in FY18 as against a loss of Rs 24.9 million the previous financial year.

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