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…
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…
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…
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…
The present Flexible Inflation Targeting (FIT) framework in India as a mandate for monetary policy to manage inflation at 4% (+/-) 2% is ending in March 2026 and is under review. In this regard the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has brought out a well-researched discussion paper, and has several questions for which views have…
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Reuters To provide relief to exporters on account of trade disruptions arising due to global headwinds, more specifically tariffs, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday (November 14, 2025) announced a host of trade relief measures that could mitigate a part of the impact. It…
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Nepal’s Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Anil Kumar Sinha met in New Delhi on Thursday, November 13, 2025. Photo credit: X/PiyushGoyal India and Nepal have amended the Treaty of Transit between the two countries to facilitate the movement of rail-based freight between Jogbani in India and Biratnagar…
Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Wholesale price inflation (WPI) fell to (-) 1 .21% in October, driven by a decline in prices of food articles like pulses and vegetables, as well as lower fuel and manufactured items’ prices, government data showed on Friday (November 14, 2025). WPI-based inflation…
The retail inflation data for October once again underscore the fact that the update of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) cannot happen fast enough. The data show that the rate of overall inflation fell to just 0.25%, the lowest it has been since at least January 2012. On the face of it, this would be…
Vice Chairperson of NITI Aayog Suman Bery said that India’s hydrocarbon sector is “blessed by some sophisticated private sector players”. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The industrial structure of the hydrocarbon sector is something we need to examine, NITI Aayog Vice Chairperson Suman Bery said Thursday (November 13, 2025). Speaking at the Energy Security…
