Congress’s Jairam Ramesh criticises Finance Minister’s remarks on private sector investment, urging government action to support incomes and protect Indian industries. File | Photo Credit: ANI , The Congress on Monday (July 28, 2025) claimed that the net foreign direct investment has fallen steeply while domestic investors are gripped by “fear and uncertainty”, as it…
Exemptions and deductions availed by corporate taxpayers resulted in ₹94,910 crore worth of revenue being foregone in 2019, which increased to ₹99,000 crore by 2023-24, according to data shared by Union MoS for Finance and BJP MP Pankaj Chaudhary on July 28, 2025. File | Photo Credit: Sansad TV/ANI Video Grab The government’s tax exemptions…
The Indian economy is growing at a robust pace and will not face any challenge in achieving a growth rate upwards of 6.5% in the current financial year, RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Nagesh Kumar said on Sunday (July 27, 2025). Mr. Kumar, in an interview with PTI Videos, further said that the Indian…
The story so far:India and the U.K. signed a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on Thursday, after having announced the conclusion of negotiations on the deal in May this year. With negotiations starting in January 2022, the deal marks a more than three-year effort to enhance bilateral trade between the two countries. What has…
India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food, and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal speaks at the Swissmem Industry Day in Bern, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP India’s goods and services exports during 2025-26 are expected to cross $900 billion despite the global economic uncertainties, Commerce and Industry…
India ranks 131 in the Global Gender Gap Index 2025 released by the World Economic Forum. File | Photo Credit: Reuters India has ranked 131 out of 148 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2025, slipping two places from its position last year. With a parity score of just 64.1%, India…
Indian stocks dipped 1% on Thursday (June 12, 2025) after United States withdrew diplomats from the West Asian nations saying that Iran was “not safe” and may be attacked by Israel. Benchmark Nifty 50 and Sensex fell 1% to 24,888,20 points and 81692 points on Thursday. All sectoral indices dipped with Financial services indices falling nearly…
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) eased the Know Your Customer (KYC) norms for convenience of the customer according to a circular released June 12. Banks shall complete the KYC updation of customers who are flagged as ‘low risk’ whose KYC have not been updated, within a year or June 2026, whichever is later. Moreover, the…
Amid the chaos set in by churning events and spurring global uncertainty, there is an interesting financial trend that mainstream analysts are perhaps missing. It is well known in economic history how certain shifts don’t arrive with the roar of crisis or the panic of a crash, but with the quiet authority of inevitability —…
Foreign Institutional Investors offloaded equities worth ₹3,831.42 crore on June 12, 2025, according to exchange data. File | Photo Credit: PTI Nifty opened 1.6% lower at 24,473 points in response to Israel’s attack on Iran, but recovered gradually in the middle of the session, gaining over 200 points on June 13. By 1 p.m., Nifty stocks…
