In the wake of the financial crisis that's affecting countries across the globe, the business world is in a continuous flux. This show helps break down the most complex topics from the world of business, beyond just the headlines, and finds out what is in your...
In the wake of the financial crisis that's affecting countries across the globe, the business world is in a continuous flux. This show helps break down the most complex topics from the world of business, beyond just the headlines, and finds out what is in your...
The European Central Bank has cut interest rates to a record low of 0.5 per cent. This in a bid to boost the Eurozone's flailing economies. In fact, ECB president has pledged even further reductions.
The European Central Bank slashed its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to an all-time low of 0.5 per cent. The rate cut was expected but boosted the Euro currency against the US dollar.
Thousands of failed asylum seekers are living in the UK in abject poverty, with no jobs and unable to return home. Even as their application for refuge is rejected, they live in hope that the government will be able to do something for them, even as they strug...
In the wake of the financial crisis that's affecting countries across the globe, the business world is in a continuous flux. This show helps break down the most complex topics from the world of business, beyond just the headlines, and finds out what is in your...
Thousands of failed asylum seekers are living in the UK in abject poverty, with no jobs and unable to return home. Even as their application for refuge is rejected, they live in hope that the government will be able to do something for them, even as they strug...
In the very first edition of Prime Interest, Perienne Boring takes a look at the US treasury and its monetary policies. The opening segment is a special report on the four-and-a-half years since US Federal Reserve started its first quantitative easing programm...
Actor Nagarjuna wishes all the audiences a very Happy Ugadi, says he has not made any new resolutions this year and is quite happy and satisfied after his film 'Rajanna' won six Nandi awards, including one for himself. On being asked if he was interested in po...
Mamata Banerjee is in Delhi to wage a battle for what she calls Bengal's rights. She has accused the Centre of imposing an unofficial economic blockade in West Bengal by taking away huge sums of money annuals in interest on loans and central taxes.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduces its repo rate by 0.25 percent. The repo rate is the rate at which the RBI gives private banks loans. With the reduction of the rates, the private banks might reduce the rates for home as well as car loans.
All banks have their eyes on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), as it will announce its new credit policy today. The interest rates are likely to be reduced by 0.25 percent. This reduction in interest rates will put a smile on the faces of people opting for home...
Even as Beijing completes its once-in-a-decade leadership transition, the boost in the communist-led country's defence budget indicates Chian's power expansion plans. The military spending increase announced ties very nicely with its objective to be a superpow...
Paper balls rent the air at the start of speech by Governor ESL Narasimhan. The Budget session 2013 starts with national anthem, followed by the speech by the Governor. The speech, delivered amidst constant shouts by pro-Telangana parties, lays out the governm...
Indian stock market looks upbeat as Nifty and Sensex closed on the previous day on a bulls rally. The big question for today, however, would be whether the Sensex and Nifty sustain this pace of gains. Also featuring in this segment of Trading Calls is European...
News Hour | Shocking information regarding security infiltration and breach by Pakistan's ISI has come out into the open. Pakistan monitored the direct impact of the Hyderabad blast. Also coming to light is the major intelligence breach that happened when a si...
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the BJP National Council meet, targets Congress alleging that the party has sacrificed the national interest for the interest of one family. He takes a jibe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, calling him a ...
Looks like the election economics has already begun, even before the union budget is stable. The interest rates in Provident Fund has been increased by 0.5%. Earlier it was 8% and now it has been increased to 8.50%.
Former IAF chief SP Tyagi denies any involvement in the bribery scandal related to defence deal with Italian firm Finmeccanica. He says he is shocked by the allegations levelled against him and his cousins. He claims if at all there were any requirements chang...
The Odisha police took resort to lathicharge to disperse a group of people, including women and children, who were protesting against the land acquisition of Posco steel plant. Meanwhile the state government has claimed that some people with vested interests a...
Just a month after Mohinder Amarnath claimed that the BCCI president N Srinivasan had vetoed a move to sack MS Dhoni as the captain of Indian cricket team, Srinivasan's company India Cements has employed Dhoni as the vice-president. Srinivasan's refusal to rem...
In what comes as good news, HDFC bank has decided to reduce the interest loans on cars. They have reduced car loans by 0.25 percent and two-wheelers by 0.50 percent.
The Reserve Bank of India announced its credit policy and slashed its key policy rates. However, it remains cautious about its concerns over inflation. The RBI cut the policy repo rate by 25 basis points and also reduced the cash reserve ratio (CRR), the share...
The Reserve Bank of India might reduce the interests rates which would automatically make loans cheaper. It is not just the RBI but also the Finance Minister, Chidambaram who is in favor of reduction in the loan rates. Th reduction in the interests rates in ho...
The Reserve Bank of India is expected to announce a new credit policy today at 11 AM. The Cash Reserve Ratio will be reduced which would mean a drop in interest rates. The RBI is likely to take these steps to combat the inflation rate. A decrease in the intere...
Certain political analysts believe that US President Barack Obama's nominations for the CIA and the Pentagon may serve as a counter-weight to each other. President Obama courted controversy by nominating former Senator Chuck Hagel as the Pentagon head and coun...
President Barack Obama has rounded out his National Security Team for approval by the Senate. He has nominated former Senator Chuck Hagel as the Pentagon head and counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan to lead the CIA. Vietnam war veteran and former senator fr...
Every once in a while when we think that goodness and truth has died, some incident comes to light which proves us wrong again. This time around, a resident from Pune, Rajesh, was the hero. He found a locker with jewellery and money that a group of robbers dis...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has now been accused of taking more than a billion dollars from the US to pursue its quest for power in the Middle East. A paper trail of under the table transactions has led a group of Egyptian lawyers to file charges against the go...
Based on a public interest litigation filed in Supreme Court regarding women's safety, the apex court has given notice to the government to reply on setting-up of fast-track courts to deal with rape cases. The Supreme Court notice names Cabinet Secretary and t...
The Supreme Court has deferred the Public Interest Litigation demanding a ban on rape accused netas from the Parliament and the State Assemblies. The petitioners demanded that every person who is elected should not have a charge of sexual assault including rap...
Centre Stage | The UP government, led by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, plans to withdraw charges against 15 terror accused. The government wants the charges to be dropped in 'public interest'. The government is attempting to fulfill its pre-poll promises by w...
News Night | The UP government, led by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, plans to withdraw charges against 15 terror accused. The government wants the charges to be dropped in 'public interest'. The government is attempting to fulfill its pre-poll promises by wit...
Cross Talk | The focus on this episode of Crosstalk is whether democracy promotion is in Washington's interest. The US and its allies support groups with the intention to influence politics in other regions and Peter Lavelle asks if democracy promotion is a me...
Janata Party president Dr Subramanian Swamy today tweeted that he would file a petition today before the Election Commission of India seeking derecognition of the Indian National Congress. Last evening, Congress general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi had, in a st...
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy has said that he will file a petition before the Election Commission of India on Saturday seeking de-recognition of the Congress party. Breaking its silence, the Congress on Friday rejected allegations levelled by Swamy and...
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy has said that he will file a petition before the Election Commission of India on Saturday seeking de-recognition of the Congress party. Breaking its silence, the Congress on Friday rejected allegations levelled by Swamy and...
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy has said that he will file a petition before the Election Commission of India on Saturday seeking de-recognition of the Congress party. Breaking its silence, the Congress on Friday rejected allegations levelled by Swamy and...
Breaking its silence, the Congress on Friday rejected allegations levelled by Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy and maintained that its support to National Herald newspaper was interest free loans yielding no commercial profit to the party. After the pa...
Breaking its silence, the Congress on Friday rejected allegations levelled by Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy and maintained that its support to National Herald newspaper was interest free loans yielding no commercial profit to the party. After the pa...
Union Cabinet decides to withdraw controversial draft amendments to the Right to Information Act. This decision came after UPA chairperson and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi expressed her opposition to the proposed changes. Government was hesitant to do so initia...
Reacting to the ABG Haldia Bulk Terminals' decision to pull the plug on West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, Trinamool MP from Tamluk, says that Haldia cannot be compared to Singur and that the ABG is blackmailing the people of the state. He alleges that the issue h...
Reserve Bank of India slashed cash reserve ratio for banks, but left the interest rates on hold. RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao, who announces that CRR was cut by 25 points, says as inflation eases further, there will be an opportunity for monetary policy to ac...
With industrial growth having slowed down, and inflation on the rise, the Reserve Bank of India is likely to cut interest rates in an attempt to lend a stimulus to the industry. A fall of 25-50 basis points in the lending rate is said to be on the cards, which...
British High Commissioner to India, James Bevan, who has met Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi says that UK and Gujarat have a broad range of mutual interests. Bevan reveals that there was discussion on developing trade ties between UK and Gujarat. Speaking...
Arvind Kejriwal seems on a bit unsteady ground as he tries to explain the rebuttals made by Nitin Gadkari a day earlier. He is also asked about the allegations made by YP Singh, the former IPS officer who said he had given Kejriwal documents about Sharad Pawar...
Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, after meeting the Chief Secretary of the state, has said that he has received enough clarification about his transfers. Khemka reportedly was transferred 40 times in the last 21 years of his service. Khemka appeared to ...
News Night | India Against Corruption member and activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, along with other IAC activists Prashant Bhushan and Anjali Damania, has exposed the vast business empire of BJP chief Nitin Gadkari. Kejriwal, in a televised press con...
The Ministry of External Affairs has welcomed UK's move to open up diplomatic relations with Gujarat. One of the major reason for this is that there are a lot of Gujaratis in the UK and the MEA maintains a good rapport with them as these have business interest...
A PIL has been filed, and admitted, in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court against the alleged favour granted to Robert Vadra. The PIL also mentions Priyanka Vadra. It has been filed by Nutan Thakur, who runs an NGO. The case will be heard on Novembe...
Investor's Guide takes a look at the National Pension System following the reforms in pension and insurance. Value Research's Dhirendra Kumar says it is the cheapest investment option in this category and comes with tax advantages. He also reviews the ICICI Pr...
The market is upbeat after the slew of policy action, and the Chairman and CEO of Edelweiss Group talks to Nikunj Dalmia on the reason behind this optimism. He explains what it will take for India to make progress and beat inflation, how long term investors sh...
Goa Foundation, an NGO, files a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition in the Supreme Court to restrain the resumption of iron and manganese ore mining in Goa amid a judicial commission estimating a loss of Rs 35000 crore to the exchequer due to illegal min...
Newshour | Defending the latest reforms by the government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh remarks that these these measures are taken, keeping in mind the national interest and the long-term interests of the people. He has asked the people to extend support to ...
Defending the reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh remarks that these these measures are taken, keeping in mind the national interest and the long-term interests of the people. He has asked the people to extend support to the government so that the country w...
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna has backed FDI in retail saying that the decision is taken in the nation's interest. Bahuguna has further said that he will make sure that the policy is implemented in his State.
Prime Minister Manmohan Sigh has requested the people to support the slew of decisions taken by the government on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as it these are taken for the national interests. Prime Minister has said that these decisions will improve the in...
Even as the price in diesel has been hiked by Rs 5, the restriction of supply of subsidised cylinders to just 6 per per consumer has added directly to the woes of common man and his monthly budget. Over this the news has come in that inflation rate has increas...
Justifying the eviction of people who were staging 'Jal satyagraha' in Harda, demanding reduction of water level in the Indirasagar dam, the Madhya Pradesh government has said that the agitation was in fact politically motivated. The government has further all...
The Union Women and Child Development Ministry is readying a proposal that calls for every man to set aside a portion of his salary for his wife. The man will be required to deposit the money in a bank account in his wife's name. Once discussed, this proposal ...
Centrestage | Police resorted to brute force to quell the protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. One person has been killed in this process. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa who had once favoured the protests is now forced to act against ...
Nikunj Dalmia talks to S Naren, CIO, ICICI Pru MF about the current economy and the Indian market holding up against all odds. Naren is betting on stocks in the IT and Pharma sectors, and feels export-oriented companies will do well. He prefers Pharma over FMC...
Speaking at the start of his Indira Bata programme in Kurnoll district, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy highlighted the various welfare schemes of the state government and also said the problems of current shortage would disappear within a week.
The Land Acquisition bill is stuck in Cabinet with a few ministers opposing certain provisions of the bill. The new law may force corporates to pay four times the market price for land in rural areas and twice the market price in urban areas, and give displace...
Saurabh Mukherjea, Head-Equities, Ambit Capital, talks to Nikunj Dalmia about the three events that will impact the market in the next few weeks. He says markets will focus on US Fed's decision on monetary easing and the government's reform announcements. Petr...
Market Hour highlights developments in the financial markets. The show brings in Ashwani Gujral, Motilal Oswal AMC's Manish Sonthalia and KR Securities' Deven Choksey for their opinions on the market. Watch the latest news that will impact the market: Infosys ...
Indian banks may consider rate cuts after Finance Minister Chidambaram's recent meeting with bankers. He requested banks to reduce EMIs in a bid to revive growth. Auto, car and home loans will be cheaper. It is not certain who will lead this, the RBI or PSUs....
Ashit Kampani of CosmicMandala 15 Securities has floated a new venture -- an automated trading platform to increase efficiency. He comments on the impact of interest rates and inflation rates. He says easing interest rates is key. Sectors he is keen on include...
Global Business Report takes a look at China's sliding economy, and speaks to Adrian Foster, Head-Financial Markets Research, Raba Bank; Helmuth Henning, Jebsen & Co; and Uwe Parpart, MD, Reorient Financial Group. On the retail sales front, China claims that c...
Meet Your Fund Manager's Tanvir Gill speaks to Amitabh Mohanty, Head-Fixed Income, Reliance Capital Asset Management, who specialises in investing in debt and oversees assets worth Rs 51,000 crore. He gives a brief overview of the various schemes at Reliance....
The FBI, probing the Wisconsin shootout, has ruled out the possibility of an accomplice to gunman Wade Micheal Page. A white man, who was seen outside the place when the shooting took place, was considered to be a 'person of interest' in the crime. The person,...
Sonia Gandhi meets virtually all the top leaders, MPs, ministers and others of the Andhra Pradesh Congress. Why is this sudden escalation of interest in the party's state of affairs?
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi continue their direct meetings with leaders from Andhra Pradesh. It is a day of meetings of Congress High Command with CM Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana. CM was called since Pranab was filing his nomination pa...
Reacting to Wipro chairman Azim Premji's criticism of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's inability to stem falling economic growth, Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar remarks that his attack is motivated in nature. Shankar has also said that Premji only repre...
Dean Cheng, from the Heritage Foundation, says that the country is not in a position to stop the US but hopes that the latter respects China's interests.
In one of the closest confrontations in recent times, China has asked America to 'back off' on its plans to shift 60 per cent of its naval fleet to the Asia Pacific.
Newshour | As the Rupee hits all-time low, the question being resonated is can the Government come up with a feasible solution to redeem the Indian economy?
While Mamata Banerjee claims FDI in retail as a topic wasn't broached, the US Embassy on the other hand says that Hillary Clinton discussed FDI with the leader.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee heads to Prime Minister's residence to talk about different issues including Presidential elections and bailout package for West Bengal.