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Tax Reforms Needed To Deepen Corporate Bond Market, Says CareEdge
NEW DELHI: India needs tax reforms, stronger secondary-market liquidity and a broader investor and issuer base to deepen its corporate bond market, which remains small relative to the country’s financing needs and heavily dependent on a narrow set of participants, according to a report by CareEdge Ratings. The report...
India’s Trade Surplus Shifts Towards Asia And Africa In Early FY27
NEW DELHI: India’s latest trade data show a geographical realignment in the nation’s trade balance. While India’s trade surplus with traditional partners such as the US and the Netherlands narrowed in the first two months of FY27, the trade balance with regions such as Asia and Africa swung decisively...
SEBI Allows AIFs To Retain Liquidation Proceeds Beyond Fund Life
NEW DELHI: Markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday issued guidelines to permit Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) to retain liquidation proceeds beyond their permissible fund life under specified circumstances. The regulator also introduced an ‘Inoperative Fund’ framework for wound-up funds with residual obligations. The move follows amendments to the Sebi (Alternative...
Private Banks Tap Global Peers For FCNR Push – A $50 Billion Opportunity
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) incentives to attract Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Bank) (FCNR(B) deposits have prompted leading private-sector banks to approach overseas lenders with proposals aimed at financing their non-resident Indian (NRI) clients and encouraging them to place funds through this route. “Foreign banks will gain access...
Can The US-Iran Peace Deal End Decades Of Hostility In West Asia?
By Asad Mirza The framework peace agreement between the United States and Iran has reduced the immediate risk of a wider regional war. Yet the accord leaves unresolved the central issues that have fuelled four decades of confrontation, making its long-term survival far from assured. The announcement of a...
U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Has Many Lessons For Indian Foreign Policy Makers
By R. Suryamurthy By the time President Donald Trump sits across the table to finalize what is being marketed as the first phase of an India-US trade agreement next month, New Delhi should have already absorbed the most important lesson from his administration’s recent foreign-policy success. That lesson has...
China-Myanmar Relations Reach Strategic Heights During Visit Of President Hlaing
By Satyaki Chakraborty China gave a big welcome on Tuesday June 16 to the visiting Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing by endorsing the political leadership of the junta chief turned President through rigged elections in April this year. Chinese President...
Major Oil Players Are Not Still Sure On Smooth Passage Through Hormuz
By Anjan Roy The preliminary announcement of a truce between United States and Iran is more a psychological boost than actual easing of the hardships arising from the conflict for the global economy, let alone the Indian. True, oil prices are showing some signs of softening, but experts feel...
Trump’s Iran Deal Details Show That The U.S. President Is No More A Winner
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Donald Trump gave to the world his part of a return gift on his 80th birthday, the Iran peace deal which majorly involves reopening of the strait of Hormuz for ships to pass through and a 60-day ceasefire during which both countries would...
Kolkata Has The Potential To Emerge As A Premier AI Data Centre In India
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Kolkata is emerging as eastern India’s data hub centre. And this is not announcement of a newly elected political leader but a claim based on 2025 report of Knight Frank India’s India Data Centre Market Update. India, according to it is poised to become a...
Disclosure Day Is A Welcome Film By Spielberg In These Darker Times
By Eileen Jones NEW YORK: There’s admittedly a little thrill of nostalgia involved in going to see Disclosure Day for those old enough to remember what it felt like to go see a big Steven Spielberg movie in June. It can be argued that with the colossal, groundbreaking success...
Wholesale Price Inflation Hits Record High Of 9.68% In May As Fuel Costs Spike
NEW DELHI: India’s wholesale price inflation (WPI) accelerated to an at least three-year high of 9.68 per cent in May from 8.26 per cent in April, driven by a sharp rise in energy prices amid the West Asia crisis, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on Monday. The...
Exports Jump To Six-Month High Of 18 Per Cent To $45.2 Billion In May
NEW DELHI: India’s exports climbed to a six-month high of 18 per cent to $45.2 billion in May, while trade deficit widened to $28.21 billion, driven by increased imports of petroleum products amid higher crude oil prices. However, the trade deficit narrowed marginally on a month-on-month basis compared to...
RBI Allows Banks To Open Repatriable Rupee Accounts For Overseas Investors
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has permitted authorised dealer (AD) banks to open repatriable rupee accounts for overseas individuals investing in listed Indian companies, operationalising the government’s move to broaden participation in the domestic equity market beyond Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs). The...
Economic Sentiments May Be Lifted: BoP And Fiscal Concerns To Ebb; If Peace Lasts
NEW DELHI: The US-Iran tentative deal to end their 107-day conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz could at once boost India’s economic sentiments, ease an already evident pressure on the fisc, avert an emergent balance of payments problem, and help the rupee to hold against the dollar, economists...
Unemployment Rate Declines Marginally To 5.5% In May: Labour Force Survey
NEW DELHI: Overall unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and above has dipped marginally to 5.5 per cent in May compared to 5.6 per cent a year ago, as shown by the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the National Statistics Office on Monday. According to the...
Can PM Narendra Modi Redeem India’s Status As Defender Of Global South At G7 Meet In France?
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be taking part in the outreach session of the 52nd meeting of G7 being held in Evans of France hosted by the French President Emanuel Macron. Already the main session started on Monday with the participation of the leaders of the...
Control Cooking Gas Prices To Shield Citizens From Distress
By Nantoo Banerjee It is disturbing to note that the government has chosen an easy option to raise the domestic cooking gas prices at will to benefit a handful of public sector oil companies at the cost of nearly 337-million active domestic LPG consumers. This is despite the fact...
