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Apple's Tim Cook is set to collect stock worth about $120 million this week thanks to a run-up in shares of the iPhone maker.

On Friday, Cook stands to receive 280,000 shares tied to his continued service as chief executive officer. He'll get as

NEW YORK: The benchmark S-P 500 touched a record high on Tuesday and equalled its longest-ever bull-market run, buoyed by strong earnings reports in the consumer sector and relative calm in the trade dispute between the United States and China.

The S-P 500 rose

LIC Housing Finance (LICHFL) has invited online applications for 300 positions across states. Selected candidates will be appointed for the positions of assistant, associate and assistant manager at a monthly salary ranging from Rs 22,257 to Rs

SpiceJet on Wednesday announced the launch of six new daily direct flights on domestic and international routes. The airline will start operations on the new flights from October 10, 2018, it said in a press release. SpiceJet will commence daily direct flights on the Hyderabad-Guwahati and Guwahati-Patna route. SpiceJet claimed that it is the

UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline Plc has requested bids by mid-September for its $4.3 billion Indian consumer-health unit, which owns the popular malted milk brand Horlicks, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Glaxo has sent out an

Domestic stock markets settled Tuesday's session on fresh closing highs after touching life-highs earlier in the session. Breaking its previous record closing of 11,551 hit on Monday, the NSE's Nifty50 index climbed 19.15 points or 0.17 per cent to

With the rupee still not far from its all-time low, IT investors have all the more reason to cheer. The rupee on August 16 closed at a record low of 70.15 against the greenback, in line with emerging market currencies that followed a plunge in Turkish lira on US trade-related concerns. While currency markets have had few bouts of support with

NEW DELHI: Repayment of funds, which were raised from overseas market in 2013, has been the main reason for rupee depreciation in the past few months, a senior Finance Ministry official said on Tuesday. However, the official maintained that there has been a

Billionaire Pallonji Mistry has about 85 percent of his estimated $19.9 billion fortune locked up in a legal battle with India's largest conglomerate.

The conflict between Mistry and the Tata Group began with a boardroom coup in 2016, when the former's son

Jet Airways has announced a sale offer on tickets for international flights to destinations such as Amsterdam, Paris, London, Manchester, Toronto and Dubai, among others. The sale offer is applicable to premiere and economy class bookings, according to the airline's website

Gold prices edged up by Rs 180 to Rs 30,600 per 10 gram at the bullion market on Tuesday, reported news agency Press Trust of India (PTI). More buying by local jewellers amid festive cheer coupled with firm global cues rose gold prices today. On the other hand, silver prices

AirAsia is offering overseas flight tickets under Rs 4,000 on select routes under a special 'Thailand on Sale' promotional offer. According to the official website of AirAsia- airasia.com, customers can book tickets till August 26, 2018 in order to avail the offer. The travel period of

Cash-strapped carrier Jet Airways will discuss ways to cut costs and turn its business around when its board of directors meets on Monday, the airline said on Wednesday.

Jet had told staff this month it was running out of money, a source had told Reuters, but the

Indian Railways offers the facility of transferring a confirmed ticket to somebody else by submitting a request at least 24 hours in advance of the scheduled departure of the train. According to railway's website- indianrailways.gov.in, a person holding a confirmed

Guwahati: The central government has earmarked around Rs 1,000 crore for implementation of various schemes for Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) in the Northeast region during the current financial year, said an official on Monday.

Director of Micro, Small - Medium Enterprise-Development Institute, M Sreenivasulu, told the media here

Income tax laws, defined in the Income Tax Act, enable provisions for assessees to minimise their liability. August 31 is the last date for assessees to file their income tax return for assessment year 2018-19 (financial year 2017-18). According to income tax laws, the concerned year is the period starting from April 1 and ending on March 31 of

If you haven't filed your income tax year yet, you have less than two weeks to do so. The Income Tax Department has provided online facilities - through its e-filing portal incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in - for individuals to file their ITR or income tax return fo

India Post, which also offers banking services besides postal services, offers several savings schemes for small savers. Much like banks, post offices across the country offer the facility of fixed deposits and recurring deposits. The monthly income scheme or

If you are looking to avoid paying any penalty charges on the income tax you are liable to pay, you must file your income tax return by the end of this month. August 31, 2018 is the deadline, or last date, for individuals to file their income tax return

The rupee (INR) closed nearly unchanged at 69.81 against the US dollar (USD) on Tuesday. That marked only a marginal recovery against the greenback, a day after the rupee posted its biggest single-day gain in seven weeks. The rupee has bounced back a

NEW DELHI: Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has been ranked the top company globally in the Fortune''s fourth annual "Change The World" list released on Monday.

The list ranked companies as per their profit motive to help the planet and tackle

Bharti Airtel on Wednesday launched international roaming voice packs for prepaid customers travelling abroad. Airtel's latest voice packs, known as the Foreign Pass, are exclusively for prepaid customers. The Airtel Foreign Pass packs start from

Budget passenger carrier IndiGo is operating three daily additional relief flights to and from Kochi naval base in view of the current flood situation in Kerala, said the carrier in a press release issued on Monday. IndiGo's additional relief flights will be operated

The central government has exempted the basic customs duty and goods and services tax (GST) on goods imported or supplied to support the relief operations in flood-hit Kerala. The devastating Kerala floods have claimed the lives of 223 people till August 20. Finance

Bharti Airtel on Wednesday launched international roaming voice packs for its prepaid customers. Called 'Foreign Pass', the roaming packs will be priced from Rs 196, the telecom company said in a press release. The Airtel Foreign Pass packs will

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel is offering special Amazon Pay gift card worth Rs 51 to its mobile customers as part of its 23rd anniversary celebrations, said the company in a press release. Amazon Pay is a convenient way to pay digitally on and off Amazon. Customers can

MUMBAI: Extending its rising streak for the second day, the rupee appreciated 24 paise against the US dollar to 69.58 in early trade on Tuesday amid weakness in the greenback against other currencies overseas.

The American currency witnessed selling by exporters and banks

SHANGHAI: Asian stocks eked out gains on Wednesday, with sentiment boosted by Wall Street's rise and a record intraday high for the S-P 500 index on Tuesday, but fragile Chinese markets retreated after two days in the black. Shares in much of the region were

Fixed deposits of small finance banks offer higher interest rates than larger peers like State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank, all of which recently hiked their FD interest rates. Small finance banks cater to niche customers,

The domestic equity benchmarks traded on negative-to-flat notes after hitting fresh highs on Tuesday. The S-P BSE Sensex and the NSE Nifty50 hit fresh record highs of 38,402.96 and 11,581.75 in intra-day trade. At 10:34 am, the 30-share Sensex traded at 38,311.78, up