By Administrator_India Capital Sands India’s second-largest telecom company Bharti Airtel is lining up a $1-billion fundraise via perpetual bonds, The Economic Times reported. A perpetual bond is a fixed income security with no maturity date. According to the report, the telecom major floated the plan to half a dozen MNC banks as it targets foreign […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The Delhi Chalo farmers’ protest at border points in New Delhi has entered the 21st day today. Leaders of agitating farmers have asserted they will “make” the Centre repeal the three new agri reform laws in a hardening of their stand even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said a conspiracy is […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands After the steepest fall in its independent history during the lockdown months, India’s economy is recovering. Just how strong the beginning of that recovery has been will be clear when the National Statistics Office releases the July-September quarter gross domestic product data on November 27. India’s GDP contracted by a whopping […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands According to the draft guidelines for the development of COVID-19 vaccines, a vaccine developed in India should prove that at least 50 percent of those administered with the vaccine are protected from the virus to get an approval. For vaccines that are being developed outside India, the authorisation will be provided […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands India has been elected as a member of the United Nation’s Commission on Status of Women, a body of the Economic and Social Council, said TS Tirumurti, permanent representative of India to the United Nations on September 15. “Election to the ECOSOC body is an endorsement of India’s commitment to promoting […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands In a bid to ease travel woes of several National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) aspirants, the Kolkata Metro has decided to run special services on September 13. Preparations underway at the metro stations of Kolkata Metro as it gears up to resume services from September 14 amid COVID-19. Metro Railway […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Indian and Chinese military commanders have agreed to step back from a confrontation over a disputed stretch of border where a clash last week left 20 Indian soldiers dead, government officials in New Delhi and Beijing said on Tuesday. “There was a mutual consensus to disengage,” an Indian government source said, […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had offered to mediate a standoff between India and China at the Himalayan border, where soldiers camped out in a high-altitude region have accused each other of trespassing over the disputed border. “We have informed both India and China that the United States […]
