New Delhi: India strongly opposes efforts of certain countries like China to push a proposal on investment facilitation at the WTO, an official said Tuesday as the agenda falls outside the mandate of the global trade body. The issue will figure in the Ministerial Conference...
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to meet fintech startups next week amid regulatory concerns, after the central bank acted on Paytm Payments Bank and put certain curbs. According to a report in NDTV Profit Tuesday, citing sources, the Department of Financial...
New Delhi: India’s artificial intelligence (AI) market is likely to grow at 25 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach $17 billion by 2027, with similar growth in AI investments, a Nasscom report said Tuesday. India’s AI market is growing with AI/ ML...
New Delhi: EPFO’s data released Tuesday highlighted that 15.62 lakh net members have been added to the employment payroll in December, 2023 which is highest in the last three months. There has been an increase of 11.97 per cent in the net EPFO member addition...
Mumbai: Fresh round of capital expenditure by the corporate sector is likely to fuel the next leg of growth, said RBI's latest Bulletin, stressing that stable and low inflation at 4 per cent provides the bedrock for sustaining GDP expansion. The likelihood of the global...
Mumbai: Benchmark Sensex spurted by 349 points while Nifty scaled a fresh lifetime high on the sixth straight day of gains Tuesday, driven by buying in banking and select FMCG shares. The 30-share BSE Sensex reversed its early losses and closed higher by 349.24 points...
New Delhi: The Goverment of Japan Tuesday committed Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan to the tune of approximately Rs12,814 crore for nine projects across various sectors in India. The notes for the agreement were exchanged between Vikas Sheel, Additional Secretary, Finance Ministry on behalf of...
New Delhi: With the negotiations for the proposed India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) reaching its last leg, a high-level Indian official delegation is heading for London to iron out differences on remaining issues, sources said Tuesday. The chief negotiators of both the countries would hold...
New Delhi: The ban on export of onion will continue till its previously announced deadline of March 31 as the government is keen to keep prices under check and ensure domestic availability, a top official said Tuesday. December 8, 2023, the government had banned export...
New Delhi: In total, 243 companies were listed on Indian bourses in the year ended December 31, 2023, the highest annual tally in at least six years, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence data. The aggregate transaction value of the IPOs in 2023, however, fell...
It’s now over two and half years since Russia invaded Ukraine and the war between the two countries is now...
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