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MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor, Shaktikanta Das, said on Tuesday that retail inflation is slowly moderating and is steadily moving towards the target of 4 per cent. During a fireside chat at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Das stated that core inflation has started to...
NEW DELHI: A significant majority of Indian chief executive officers (CEOs) are of the opinion that the Indian economy will witness improvement over the next 12 months, as the country reclaimed its fifth position as an investment destination, according to a survey. According to PwC’s 27th Annual Global CEO...
Fitch has affirmed India’s sovereign rating at ‘BBB-’ with a stable outlook citing a robust medium-term growth outlook and sound external finances. The agency, however, flagged the country’s weak public finances as the “largest constraint” to the rating. The rating agency revised its growth projection for FY24 to 6.9%...
Public sector banks are rushing to issue bonds in the coming weeks, capitalising on lower government bond yields that have made borrowing cheaper while tight liquidity and robust credit growth are spurring lenders’ demand for funds to meet loan needs. State Bank of India is set to kick off...
NEW DELHI: The Centre will impose a 50 per cent export duty on molasses from January 18 to ensure adequate domestic quantities for ethanol blending and keep inflation in check. At present molasses attract zero export duty. Traders said the government has also decided to keep the current import...
NEW DELHI: The government may extend the concessional 15 per cent income tax rate for corporates to set up new manufacturing units by one year till March 31, 2025, to encourage private investments, EY said in its 2024 Budget expectation report. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present...
MUMBAI: The domestic insurance sector is on course to log in over 7 per cent annual growth over the next decade and the premium income is likely to double to around USD 450 billion by financial year 2033-34, an industry report said on Tuesday. The total premium income will...
DAVOS: Affirming that the fight against price rise is not yet over, IMF’s Gita Gopinath on Tuesday said interest rates are likely to stay higher than during the period immediately after the global financial crisis. There are expectations though that it will come down sometime this year, the International...
DAVOS: Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday asserted that India can become a five trillion dollar economy much before 2028 and said the country’s energy transition needs to be done in an orderly manner to safeguard the interests of its large population. Puri, the minister for petroleum and...
NEW DELHI: Hospitality and travel sector players on Tuesday demanded infrastructure status for the hotel industry besides measures such as tax exemption on LTA annually to boost domestic tourism ahead of the Union Budget. They also recommended removal of the current TDS levied on automated bookings for internal or...
NEW DELHI: India’s wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation rate rose to a nine-month high of 0.73 per cent in December, mainly due to an increase in prices of food articles, data released by the ministry of commerce and industry showed on Monday. This is the second consecutive month that...
NEW DELHI: India’s trade deficit in December narrowed to a three-month low of $19.8 billion amid an import slowdown due to falling commodity prices. Merchandise exports during the month grew 0.97 per cent over a year earlier to $38.45 billion, contrary to the trend of a slowdown so far...
NEW DELHI: Capital markets regulator Sebi on Monday proposed to provide flexibility to Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), Venture Capital Funds (VCFs) and their investors to deal with unliquidated investments of their schemes beyond expiry of tenure. In its consultation paper, the regulator suggested that instead of launching a new...
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday signed an agreement to acquire five lithium brine blocks for exploration and development in Argentina. The agreement was signed between Khanij Bidesh India Ltd (KABIL) and Catamarca Minera Y Energética Sociedad Del Estado (CAMYEN), a state-owned mining and energy company in the Argentine...
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) draft norms for self regulatory organisations for the fintech sector (SRO-FT) have proposed that such entities should have a robust IT infrastructure and the ability to deploy technological solutions within a reasonable timeframe. The applicant for such an entity should have sufficient...
NEW DELHI: The exports of computer software and services, including IT enabled services and BPO, logged 12.2 per cent growth during 2022-23 to touch $193 billion, according to estimates by Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC). The IT software/services chunk accounted for the bulk of this at...
NEW DELHI: The National Restaurant Association of India on Monday urged the government to restore input tax credit to restaurants while increasing the GST rate to 12 per cent from the current 5 per cent, ahead of the upcoming Union Budget. In a letter to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman,...
NEW DELHI: Reliance Electrolyser Manufacturing, Jindal India and John Cockerill Greenko Hydrogen Solutions are among the six firms who have emerged as successful bidders for getting incentives to set up facilities to manufacture electrolysers, a critical component required for green hydrogen production. The bids came in response to a...