China's e-commerce giant Alibaba said on Tuesday that it has joined a group of 20 brands to fight counterfeit goods using data analysis. ....

The possibility of implementing the Goods and Services Tax (GST) by the Centre's targeted deadline of April 1, 2017, has receded with the ninth meeting of the GST Council here failing to agree on the contentious issue of administrative control of GST, Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said on Monday. ....

The RBI has admitted that it has no details of any irregularities or scams in the exchange of the demonetised currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 by the cooperative banks, a reply under RTI revealed on Monday. ....

Even as vegetable prices plummeted 33 per cent, India's annual inflation based on wholesale prices rose marginally to 3.39 percent in December 2016 from 3.15 per cent for the month before, due to hardening of manufactured products and fuel prices. ....

Following the recent spurt in oil prices to well over $50 a barrel, state-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) hiked prices of petrol by 42 paise a litre, and of diesel by Rs 1.03, both in Delhi and effective from Monday, with corresponding increases in other states. ....

Indian banker and New Development Bank chief (NDB) K.V. Kamath has said that cooperation between the five BRICS countries will be strengthened during Chinese presidency over the bloc in 2017. ....

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(ONGC) employees will now get their annual cash bonuses in the form of Khadi vouchers for buying Khadi garments, a top official said here on Saturday. ....

India's third largest private sector lender Axis Bank on Friday said it will reduce its lending rates by 0.65-0.70 per cent across various tenures from next Wednesday following similar move by other banks after a bulk infusion of liquidity arising from the demonetisation move. ....

Software major Infosys on Friday lowered dollar guidance again for the fiscal 2016-17 on declining revenue in the third quarter (October-December) unlike its peer TCS, which posted robust growth for the same quarter. ....

According to the airline, the total order for 205 aircraft is worth $22 billion (Rs 150,000 crore) at list prices. ....