Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Stock markets rose for the sixth straight session on Monday (November 17, 2025), with the benchmark Sensex climbing 388 points and Nifty closing above the 26,000 mark following an across-the-board rally and strong quarterly performance by corporates. Rising for the sixth consecutive day, the 30-share BSE Sensex climbed…
Photo for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives The government on Monday (November 17, 2025) imposed import curbs on certain types of platinum jewellery till April next year. The import policy of platinum jewellery “is revised from Free to Restricted, with immediate effect till April 30, 2026”, the directorate general of foreign trade…
Gold and silver futures on Monday fell as traders trimmed their positions after remarks from US Federal Reserve officials dampened the expectations of a rate cut in their next meeting. On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), the yellow metal futures for December delivery plunged by ₹1,229, 0.99 per cent, to ₹1,22,332 per 10 grams. The…
Japanese tourism and retail shares dived on Monday (November 17, 2025) after China warned its citizens to avoid the tourist hotspot in a spat over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi‘s comments on Taiwan. Ms. Takaichi, seen as a China hawk, suggested this month that close U.S. ally Japan could intervene militarily in any attack on the…
Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G India’s public-sector oil companies have successfully concluded a one-year deal to import liquified petroleum gas (LPG) from the U.S. Gulf coast, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said on Monday (November 17, 2025). In his post on X, Mr. Puri…
Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The rupee declined 6 paise to 88.72 against the U.S. dollar in early trade on Monday (November 17, 2025) amid a firm American currency and relentless outflow of foreign capital. Positive sentiment in domestic equity markets and lower crude oil prices overseas, however, prevented a…
Healthy result: The removal of GST has made health insurance premiums about 18% cheaper for individual buyers. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto When the government announced a 0% GST on retail health insurance premiums on September 22, it was welcomed as a move that would make protection more affordable. But in the weeks since, it…
Old jewellery, dental fillings, electronic devices, and even industrial scraps can be melted down and refined into pure gold, without any loss of quality. The ability to reuse gold indefinitely makes recycling an ideal solution. Every gram of recycled gold means one less gram mined from the earth, one less tree cut, and one less…
Investments into physically-backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by Indians were the third highest in October, even as investors in the UK and Germany chose to exit, data from the World Gold Council showed. Indian ETF investments were the fifth-highest between January 1 and October 31, with a third of the inflows coming in during October….
Union Minister Piyush Goyal meets Venezuela’s Minister of Ecological Mining Development Hector Silva on the sidelines of the CII Partnership Summit 2025, in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on October 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: X/@PiyushGoyal via ANI Venezuela has expressed keen interest in enhancing cooperation with India in critical minerals sector and attract investments, the commerce…
