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Next Round Of Talks For India, Asean Trade Pact Review In July
NEW DELHI: Senior officials of India and the 10-nation bloc of Southeast Asian nations —ASEAN — will hold the next round of talks in July to review the existing free trade agreement in Jakarta, Indonesia, an official statement said on Sunday. The last round of the three-day negotiations concluded...
China Largest Trading Partner Of India In FY24 With USD 118.4 Billion
NEW DELHI: China has emerged as the largest trading partner of India with USD 118.4 billion two-way commerce in 2023-24, slightly edging past the US, according to the data of economic think tank GTRI. The bilateral trade between India and the US stood at USD 118.3 billion in 2023-24....
Inflation Data, Q4 Earnings, Global Trends To Drive Stock Markets This Week: Analysts
NEW DELHI: Stock markets will be driven by domestic inflation data, ongoing quarterly earnings from corporates and global trends this week, analysts said. News flows around the general election would also be tracked by investors, market experts said. Besides, investors would also take cues from the trading activity of...
Evaluation Of Infrastructure Requirements For Achieving USD One Trillion Exports By September, Says Official
NEW DELHI: A study to assess required infrastructure and identify main industry clusters for achieving the USD 1 trillion merchandise exports target by 2030 may be submitted by August-September to the commerce ministry, an official said. The official said that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is doing that study...
Gold ETFs See First Outflow After March 2023 At Rs 396 Crore On Profit Booking
NEW DELHI: Gold Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) witness a net outflow of Rs 396 crore last month, making it the first withdrawal after March 2023, owing to profit booking. Despite the decline, the asset under management (AUM) of gold funds rose 5 per cent to Rs 32,789 crore at...
Supreme Court Takes A ‘Political’ Decision As Response To A Political Wrongdoing
By K Raveendran In granting interim relief to Kejriwal, the Supreme Court has shown the willingness to go beyond technicalities and take a ‘political’ stand against what has been widely seen as a political arrest by the Modi government. The decision by the bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and...
Kejriwal On Interim Bail Poses Strategic Challenge To PM Narendra Modi
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s top political adversary put behind bar with announcement of Lok Sabha Election is finally out in the electoral battlefield on the closing day of fourth phase of election campaign. Though he will have only few hours to campaign for the fourth...
Kejriwal On Interim Bail Disrupts BJP’s Well Laid Out Plans
By Sushil Kutty For the ‘nth’ time since Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal walked out of Tihar Jail, it must be said that the Aam Aadmi Party convenor is a ‘khaas aadmi’ and not an ‘aam aadmi’ like ex-Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia or ex-Delhi Jail Minister Satyender Jain,...
Feroz Abbas Was A Great Director Of Lavish Productions On Indian History
By Harihar Swarup This time last year, theatre director Feroz Abbas was touring the US with Mughal-e-Azam: The Musical, which is often described as India’s most expensive stage production. It has “a cost and crew of over 150, more than 500 costumes, and set so extravagant, they were ferried...
TMC Candidate Satabdi Roy Getting Advantage In Triangular Contest In Birbhum
By Tirthankar Mitra Ever when Left Front government appeared to be at the height of its power and the CPI(M) was domination supreme in Bengal, results of Lok Sabha elections in Birbhum constituency have been pouring votes to Trinamool Congress in a land of red earth. Sarabdi Roy was...
Western Media Bias Against South Asian Perspectives, Multifaced Cultures
By M A Hossain South Asian nations, bursting with diversity and contradictions, have long been a captivating subject for global journalism. Yet, despite their increasing importance on the world stage, Western media often miss the mark when it comes to accurately portraying these multifaceted and culturally rich countries. This...
Massive Student Protests In US Universities Rattle Biden In Poll Year
By Debabrata Biswas from Boston The student movement against the brutal Israeli invasion of Gaza resulting in a severe humanitarian crisis in Palestine, first stated in a chaotic way by the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University which saw more than 100 demonstrators arrested on April 18, 2024. On...
Freezing Of U.S. Shipment Of High-Impact Bombs To Israel Weakens Netanyahu
By Girish Linganna The United States authorities have decided to stop a major delivery of weapons to Israel due to concerns about the potential consequences of a large military operation being planned by Israeli forces in Rafah. Rafah is a heavily populated city in southern Gaza, where over a...
RBI Looks At Asset Reconstruction Companies Amid A Flood Of Allegations
MUMBAI: India’s central bank leadership is scheduled to meet the top management of asset reconstruction companies (ARC) next week to discuss corporate governance and stressed-asset resolutions amid concerns of potential back-door entry by defaulting promoters, people with knowledge of the development told ET. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)...
IIP Growth Eases To 4.9% In March, But Rises 5.8% In FY24
NEW DELHI: India’s industrial growth eased to 4.9% in March compared with 5.6% in the preceding month, data released on Friday showed, ending the FY24 with a 5.8% growth. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) had grown 5.2% in FY23. Manufacturing output expanded at a five-month high of 5.2%...
Cement Sector May Register Moderate Demand In FY25
MUMBAI: While the past year was a good one for the cement industry with capacity addition and utilisation touching new highs, demand is expected to moderate in the current financial year. One reason for this is the unfavourable base effect with the industry having done well in recent years,...
BPCL Charts Out Rs 1.7 Trillion Capex Plan Over Five Years
NEW DELHI: State-owned Bharat Petroleum has set a capital expenditure target of Rs 1.7 trillion over a period of five years with majority of it allocated to the refinery and petchem segment, the company’s chairman and managing director G Krishnakumar said on Friday. Of the total capex, the company...
China Willing To Help Indian Firms To Cater To Its Market Demand: Envoy
BEIJING: The Chinese market is open to all countries, including India, China’s new envoy to India, Xu Feihong, has said, maintaining that Beijing understands New Delhi’s concerns over its burgeoning trade deficit and is willing to address this issue by facilitating more Indian companies to tap the Chinese market....
