US-based iPhone maker Apple is continuously expanding its operations in India and the government is in regular touch with the company to support its business, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal has said. He said that the electronics industry works like this as first they put a basic set up and then they keep sourcing [...]
India, Japan and France have announced a common platform for talks among creditors to address the debt restructuring programme of Sri Lanka which is grappling with its worst economic crisis. The representatives of the three creditor countries, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, held a press briefing on the margins of the annual spring meetings of [...]
Union minister Parshottam Rupala on Friday made it clear that the country will not import dairy products like butter and the supplies will be improved with the help of huge untapped domestic sector. "There is no truth in it (shortage of dairy products). No import will take place," Rupala, who is incharge of ministry of [...]
Inflows into mutual funds grew almost 7 per cent to Rs 40.05 lakh crore in FY23 from Rs 37.70 lakh crore during trailing previous 12 months despite the muted performance of the broader market. According to the data released by the mutual funds body Amfi on Thursday, the industry's net AUM (Assets Under Management) rose [...]
More than 71 per cent of people surveyed are worried about potential layoffs due to market inflation, while 36 per cent believe over-hiring is the reason for attrition, a report said on Thursday. According to a report by HR solutions provider Genius Consultants, 30 per cent of the respondents said that cost-cutting is the reason [...]
Haryana Agriculture Minister J P Dalal on Thursday said that farmers will be given compensation in May for crop damage caused by recent unseasonal rains and hailstorms in various parts of the state. Targeting opposition parties, mainly Congress, he said they should stop misleading farmers and claimed that the BJP-led government was "pro-farmer" which always [...]
The country's exports rose by about 6 per cent to a record USD 447.46 billion during 2022-23 on account of healthy growth in the outbound shipments from sectors like petroleum, pharma and chemicals, according to the government data. Service exports grew by 26.8 per cent to an all-time high of USD 322.72 billion in 2022-23 [...]
Iran on Thursday pitched for joint manufacturing activities with India across industries, saying there are a lot of opportunities for the two countries. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Relation Mehdi Safari also sounded hopeful of an enhanced bilateral trade with India this year. "There are a lot of opportunities... (that) they have in the [...]
India’s growth rate has been modestly downgraded from 6.1 per cent to 5.9 per cent for the current fiscal mainly because of the slowness of domestic consumption and data revision, according to a top IMF official. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday lowered India’s economic growth projection for the current fiscal to 5.9 per [...]
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and agreed to expedite progress to resolve "outstanding issues" in the India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations. The phone call came against the backdrop of a media report earlier this week that claimed that India had halted the FTA negotiations with the [...]
