Difference in per capita expenditure between urban and rural consumers is now wider than in 2004-05: NSSO Despite the much-hyped rural consumption boom and all the social sector programmes of the government, the income inequality between the rural and urban consumer widened to 91% in the first five years of the United Progressive Alliance...

State-owned NTPC Ltd, India’s largest power generation utility, signed a Rs10,000 crore loan agreement with State Bank of India (SBI) on Friday, making it the largest loan extended to any company by the country’s biggest lender.    "The rupee term loan has a door-to-door maturity of 12 years with a drawdown period of four...