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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...
DAVOS: India has been ranked 35th on a global index of countries best placed for leveraging future possibilities while the UK topped the list released here on Monday. The Future Possibilities Index (FPI), a flagship global future trends study released by Newsweek Vantage and Horizon Group on sidelines of...
NEW DELHI: The Centre, state governments and industry representatives will meet on January 16 to discuss ways to boost the country’s exports, an official said. Issues which are expected to figure in the meeting include rupee payment challenges, need of global shipping, and challenges being faced by traders on...
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) monetary policy action may be credited for reducing core Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation in the recent months, but a sub-4% core print also denotes weak demand conditions in the country at an aggregate level, say economists. Curiously, this is also a...
NEW DELHI: Electronics exports from India to the US jumped over two-fold year-on-year to USD 6.6 billion during January-September 2023, industry body ICEA has said. India Cellular and Electronics Association Chairman Pankaj Mahindroo told PTI that this is an all-time high electronics export from India, while the share of...
NEW DELHI: The government is set to enlist state-run power sector companies such as NTPC, NHPC, Power Grid Corporation and SJVN to support its efforts to push households to adopt the rooftop solar programme. Guidelines to be announced soon would allow these public sector units to cover the installation...
NEW DELHI: The Build Operate Transfer (BOT) model for highway construction is back, with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) calling bids for projects entailing combined investments of Rs 31,000 crore via this route. In all, 8 key highway stretches including a greenfield access-controlled expressway is proposed to...
NEW DELHI: Hit by two anti-subsidy actions in the US and the European Union, government is looking to revamp the system for Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP), attempting to build a verification system for the refunds. The two cases are seen to be due to...
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Ltd is seeking a minimum USD 10 rate for the gas it plans to produce from coal seams, as it altered its pricing formula to reflect the changed energy scenario. Reliance has sought bids from users for 0.90 million standard cubic meters per day of...
NEW DELHI: The pharma industry has sought fiscal incentives to promote research and development (R&D) in the sector, as it is likely to reach USD 400-450 billion market size by 2047. In a statement, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance Secretary General Sudarshan Jain said there is a high risk, long gestation...
NEW DELHI: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has made two significant back-to-back natural gas discoveries in a Mahanadi basin deepwater block in the Bay of Bengal as its calculated game plan of venturing into high-risk deep water exploration starts yielding results. The firm made the discoveries in...
NEW DELHI: The government will take a decision after September on the existing import management system on certain IT hardware products such as laptops and tablets after evaluating the import data, which it is monitoring, an official said. In October last year, India put in place an import management...
NEW DELHI: The government has clarified that there are no import restrictions on certain IT hardware products such as desktop computers. In a circular to customs authorities and industry, the commerce ministry arm Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has said only the import of laptops, tablets, all-in-one personal...
NEW DELHI: India’s retail inflation rose to 5.69 per cent in December 2023 up from 5.55 per cent in November last tear with higher food prices stretching household budgets, according to official figures released on Friday. Retail inflation inched up marginally in December, while industrial production in November plunged...