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SEBI Plans Sustainability Disclosures Review For Listed Firms
MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is rethinking sustainability or ESG disclosures required of listed firms, including its already delayed plans for companies to include supply chains in their reporting, its new chief Tuhin Kanta Pandey told Reuters. The review, which follows concerns raised by the...
House Panel Asks Labour Ministry To Evaluate EPS By The End Of 2025
NEW DELHI: In a bid to assess effectiveness, sustainability, and scope for further improvement in the Centre’s flagship pension scheme for the formal sector — Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS) — the parliamentary standing committee on labour has asked the labour ministry to complete the maiden third-party evaluation of the...
Gold Continues To Glitter For 2nd Day; Hit Fresh Peak Of Rs 95,935/10 g
NEW DELHI: Gold prices continued their upward trend for the second straight session, touching a new all-time high of Rs 95,935 per 10 grams, climbing Rs 274 on Thursday, driven by firm spot demand. On the Multi Commodity Exchange, the precious metal contracts for June delivery hit a record...
US India’s Largest Trading Partner For Fourth Year
NEW DELHI: The US remained India’s largest trading partner for the fourth consecutive year in 2024-25 with bilateral trade valued at $ 131.84 billion, while the country’s trade deficit with China widened to $ 99.2 billion during the same period, government data showed. In the last fiscal, India’s exports...
Patanjali Ayurved, Five Others, Enter Insurance Sector After CCI Approval
NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has cleared a proposal of Patanjali Ayurved and five other entities to acquire a majority stake in Magma General Insurance. “The proposed combination is being notified under the green channel route in consonance with section 6(4) of the Competition Act, 2002,”...
Wellbeing Conference Marks New Era In Healthcare Innovation And Integration
BENGALURU: Global Wellbeing Confluence 2025 (GWC 2025), an ambitious initiative by AYUSH TV, has emerged as a landmark event in the Indian healthcare sector, redefining holistic wellness and integrated medicine. Held from April 11 to 14, this four-day mega conclave witnessed an overwhelming participation and set a new benchmark...
Global Markets Slip As Tech Firms’ Shares Hit By Fresh AI Chip Controls
BANGKOK: World shares were mostly lower Wednesday as stocks of Nvidia and other technology companies were walloped by tighter US controls on exports of advanced computer chips used for artificial intelligence. The future for the S&P 500 was down 0.8 per cent while that for the Dow Jones Industrial...
Selective Political Witch-Hunting In India Nearing Its Climax
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The game of political hunting, which is typically characterised in India by cases, raids, seizures, and arrests, which generally do not lead to conviction, but enable the government to pin its adversaries down for years without trial in cases registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED),...
Stalin’s Autonomy Panel Move May Harm The Gains Of Supreme Court Verdict
By K Raveendran The euphoria surrounding the enactment of ten Tamil Nadu legislations without presidential assent may be short-lived. What initially seemed like a landmark assertion of state rights has now been complicated by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s subsequent decision to form a three-member panel under the chairmanship of...
The Global Trade War Has Given A Big Opportunity To India But The Govt Is Not Ready
By Anjan Roy India’s stock markets recovered smartly on Tuesday, emerging from the turmoil post Trump tariffs. The unprecedented tariffs declared by Donald Trump had roiled the global financial markets from which the major global centres have yet to recover. On Wednesday till the time of writing, the Indian...
ED Charge-Sheeting Rahul, Sonia Reeks Of Pure Political Vendetta
By Arun Srivastava With Rahul Gandhi tightening his proverbial grip on the political neck of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the latter in his desperation has directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to pounce upon Rahul and Sonia Gandhi and implicate them afresh in the long-drawn National Herald case. The case...
Trump Refashions The Working Of White House Media Room To The Ire Of Correspondents
By Sushil Kutty The novelty of Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary, is wearing off. For no fault of the White House Correspondents’ Corps which hangs on to Leavitt’s every word and the odd Leavitt gesture. But with time running its scam, too many White House correspondents are beginning...
SC Verdict Against TN Governor A Booster Shot For Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Supreme Court’s order fixing a time-frame for the President and the Governors to act in the case of bills passed by the State Legislatures in Tamil Nadu’s case has given Kerala a booster shot. Buoyed by the apex court’s historic order, Kerala is all...
BJP Worried At Akash Anand’s Induction Into BSP Leadership By Mayawati Again
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Is BJP unhappy with former chief minister and BSP national president Mayawati’s decision relating to induction of her nephew Akash Anand back in party fold? The manner in which security cover of Y plus of Akash Anand was removed within 24 hours of Mayawati’s decision...
China Comes Up With A Shock And Awe Strategy Of Its Own To Counter Trump
By Dr Imran Khalid Donald Trump’s latest economic fusillade against China – a staggering up to 145% tariff on Chinese imports, paired with a temporary 90-day reprieve for other trading partners – is less a coherent strategy than a theatrical flourish. The move, announced with typical bluster, appears calibrated...
Two Recent Interim Orders Of Supreme Court Have Affected People With Rare Diseases
By K. M. Gopakumar Two recent interim orders of the Supreme Court have pushed the lives of people living with rare diseases to the edge. These two orders were passed in two separate special leave petitions (‘SLP’) filed by the Union challenging the High Court orders of Delhi and...
Trump Leads U.S. To Another Constitutional Crisis On The Issue Of Illegal Deportation
By John Wojcik WASHINGTON D.C: The Trump administration said Monday, in defiance of a 9-0 Supreme Court order, that it is not required to return a U.S. resident it illegally sent to a Salvadoran concentration camp last month. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, backed up Trump at a White...
Trade Deficit Widens To $21.54 Billion, Exports See 0.7% Growth In March
NEW DELHI: Merchandise exports from India grew 0.67 per cent at $41.97 billion in March, mainly due to the front-loading of shipments in anticipation of US President Donald Trump’s imposition of reciprocal tariffs from April 9, which has been temporarily paused. Imports witnessed 11 per cent growth year-on-year (Y-o-Y)...
