UK Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch launched a new “Alive with Opportunity” campaign on Thursday to help double trade with India by 2030, with a series of targeted trade missions for UK firms in high-growth sectors. The Cabinet minister, who arrived in India on a three-day visit to attend the G20 Trade and Investment [...]
Pune-based heavy engineering firm Walchandnagar Industries Ltd (WIL) has a double reason to cheer after Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the lunar surface as some of the critical booster segments used in its launch vehicle have been manufactured and tested at the facility, the firm said. The firm in a release issued on Wednesday said it [...]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India is seen as a combination of openness, opportunities and options as the world sees optimism and confidence in the Indian economy. In a video message at the G20 Trade and Investment Minister's meeting here, the prime minister said that during the last nine years, India has become [...]
Equity benchmark indices rallied in early trade on Thursday, extending their winning run for the fourth day running, amid positive global market trends and fresh foreign fund inflows. The BSE Sensex climbed 333.95 points to 65,767.25 in early trade. The NSE Nifty gained 101.65 points to 19,545.65. From the Sensex pack, Tech Mahindra, Larsen & [...]
Benchmark Sensex rose by 213 points while Nifty settled above the 19,400 level on Wednesday following buying in banking counters and early gains in European stocks. The BSE Sensex climbed 213.27 points or 0.33 per cent to settle at 65,433.30. During the day, it jumped 284.68 points or 0.43 per cent to 65,504.71. The NSE [...]
Onion auctions at all APMCs in Maharashtra's Nashik district closed for three days now, will resume from Thursday as traders protesting the imposition of 40 per cent export duty on the key kitchen staple have decided to withdraw the agitation, a traders' representative here said on Wednesday. The decision was taken in a meeting of [...]
The House of Abhinandhan Lodha (HoABL) and HDFC Capital Affordable Real Estate Fund – 3 (acting through its investment manager HDFC Capital Advisors Limited), have come together to create a Joint Venture Platform entailing project investments of Rs. 1500 crore towards the development of new generation low-rise development projects in India. The Investment will result [...]
It is not true that India is not reducing coal-based power generation capacity in the energy mix, a senior government official said, adding that the country is targeting over 64 per cent of non-fossil fuel-based capacity by 2030. India has set the target of having 500GW of renewable energy by 2030. Coal-based power generation, however, [...]
US President Joe Biden will travel to India from September 7 to 10 to attend the G-20 Leaders' Summit during which he will discuss with other leaders a range of global challenges, including the Ukraine conflict, the White House announced on Tuesday. President Biden will also commend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership of the G20, [...]
The CBI has conducted searches at the office of GTL Infrastructure Ltd (GTIL) in Mumbai after registering an FIR against it and unidentified officials of banks in a loan-fraud case of more than Rs 4,000 crore, officials said on Tuesday. The officials of 13 banks are under the agency's scanner for allegedly assigning Rs 3,224 [...]
