New Delhi: The central government's fiscal deficit during 2023-24 at 5.6 per cent of the GDP was better than previous estimates of 5.8 per cent on account of higher revenue realisation and lower expenditure, according to official data released Friday. In actual terms, the fiscal...
New Delhi: India's economy growth slowed to a four-quarter low of 7.8 per cent in the January-March period, but pushed the annual growth rate for FY24 to 8.2 per cent, mainly on account of good showing by manufacturing, official data showed Friday. The growth propelled...
New Delhi: Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) Friday said its subsidiary company has signed a 30-year concession agreement with the Tanzania Ports Authority to operate and manage a terminal at the Dar es Salaam Port in the east African country. The Dar es...
New Delhi: Adani group saw a 55 per cent profit surge in the fiscal year ended March 2024 as the apples-to-airport conglomerate is back on an expansion spree and eyeing a $90 billion capex over the next decade. Emerging from a damning report of a...
Mumbai: India has moved 100 metric tonnes of its gold stored in the UK to domestic vaults in FY24, sources said Friday. This is one of the biggest movements of gold undertaken by the country since 1991, when pledging a substantial part of the gold...
New Delhi: Aviation watchdog DGCA Friday issued a show cause notice to Air India for inordinate delay of at least two international flights and failure to take due care of passengers. The show cause notice also comes at a time when passengers of a San...
Mumbai: Stock markets snapped their five-day losing run Friday with the benchmark BSE Sensex closing higher by 75 points on value-buying in banking and oil shares after recent losses. The 30-share BSE Sensex rose by 75.71 points or 0.10 per cent to settle at 73,961.31....
New Delhi: Passengers of a San Francisco-bound Air India flight faced a harrowing time Thursday at the Delhi airport as some of them fainted due to non-functioning of the aircraft's air-conditioning system and also had to wait in the aerobridge before the flight was finally...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Friday that banks have recovered more than Rs 10 lakh crores from bad loans between 2014 and 2023, as part of the reforms process implemented by the Modi government. “The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has investigated around 1,105...
Mumbai: Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty declined nearly 1 per cent Thursday, continuing their falling streak for the fifth day running due to profit booking amid monthly expiry in the derivatives segment. The 30-share BSE Sensex plunged by 617.30 points or 0.83 per cent...
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has taken two very different stands in handling police appointments in the poll-bound states...
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On paper the BRICS summit being held in Kazan, Russia, from 22 October to 24 October aims at strengthening multilateralism...
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In electoral politics the ruling dispensation often tries to offset the anti-incumbency mood of the electorate by changing the head...
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A Bangladeshi court ordering an arrest warrant against Sheikh Hasina on 17 October has only aggravated New Delhi’s predicament vis-à-vis...
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