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New Delhi: The Indian economy is likely to grow at 7.4 per cent in 2025-26, up from 6.5 per cent in the previous fiscal, mainly on account of better performance of manufacturing and services sectors, as per the government data released Wednesday. According to the...

Mumbai: Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty drifted lower for the third day in a row Wednesday as geopolitical tensions and renewed concerns about potential US tariff hikes weighed on investor sentiment. Sustained foreign fund outflows also dragged the markets lower. The 30-share BSE...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a telephonic conversation with Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu  Wednesday, with both leaders discussing ways to further strengthen the bilateral strategic partnership. The two leaders also discussed the regional situation and reaffirmed their shared resolve to fight terrorism. "Glad...

New Delhi: The government has given X additional time till January 7 to submit a detailed Action Taken Report after it issued a stern warning to the Elon Musk-led social media platform over indecent and sexually-explicit content being generated through misuse of AI-based services like...

New Delhi: India imported about 144 billion euros' worth of crude oil from Russia since the start of the Ukraine war, a European think tank said Tuesday, estimating the Kremlin's cumulative earnings from global oil sales since February 2022 at around 1 trillion euros. India...

Luxembourg: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar called on Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden Tuesday, conveying warm greetings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussing growing cooperation in financial services, investments, technology and innovation between both nations. "Pleased to meet Prime Minister Luc Frieden of...

Mumbai: Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower for the second day in a row Tuesday, dragged by heavy selling in blue-chips Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, and worries over fresh warning from the US to further raise tariffs against India. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped...

New Delhi: Retail sales of vehicles across categories in India in 2025 grew by 7.71 per cent at 2,81,61,228 units as compared to 2,61,45,445 in 2024, with GST 2.0 helping overcome a subdued start to the year, Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations said Tuesday. Passenger...

New Delhi: Reliance Industries Ltd, till recently India's biggest buyer of Russian oil, Tuesday said it has not received any Russian barrels in almost three weeks and none are expected in January. On November 20, 2025, Reliance had said it has halted the use of...

New Delhi: India's services sector growth moderated in December, as the rates of expansion in incoming new work and output eased to the slowest in 11 months, and companies refrained from recruiting additional staff, a monthly survey said Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services...