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The Ministry of Finance has published the official second-half FY 2026-27 borrowing plan: ₹7.86 lakh crore of gross dated-securities borrowing, including ₹15,000 cr…
The Department of Pharmaceuticals says the main Pharmaceuticals PLI scheme had attracted ₹46,744 crore of actual investment by June 2026, with 1,21,294 jobs and ₹4.…
Reuters analysis of LSEG data shows about $4.3 trillion of non-financial corporate bonds issued in U.S. markets mature from 2027 through 2031. With the U.S. 10-year…
Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri says the UAE and Saudi Arabia are interested in investing in Indian refining as India seeks to lift capacity from about 5.4 million…
The U.S. current-account deficit widened by $33.4 billion to $246.0 billion in Q2 2026, equal to 3.0% of GDP, while the net international investment position deteri…
The U.S. and China agreed to extend their trade truce by two months into January as President Xi Jinping began a U.S. visit, reducing near-term tariff-escalation ri…
S&P Global’s U.S. flash composite PMI rose to 58.4 in September, the strongest reading since July 2021, while input-price pressures remained elevated—evidence of st…
The OECD’s September Interim Economic Outlook projects global growth of 2.9% in 2026 and 3.0% in 2027, with AI investment supporting activity while energy, inflatio…
The Civil Aviation Ministry launched a Challenge Mode portal for aerodrome development, signed 21 MoUs with States/UTs and released the next UDAN route-bidding sche…
India’s nine-sector core infrastructure index grew 4.8% year on year in August; cement and electricity led while coal, crude oil, natural gas and fertilisers contra…
A NaBFID–BCG report estimates ₹168–172 trillion of infrastructure investment is needed through FY31, with ₹78–80 trillion still outside the announced project pipeli…
NSO’s first district-level release of key labour indicators shows large geographic differences in participation, employment, unemployment and youth NEET rates, givi…
China kept both benchmark Loan Prime Rates unchanged on September 20, matching a unanimous Reuters poll as bank-margin pressure, the U.S.–China yield gap and weak c…
The two-day Union–State finance conference concluded with a policy agenda focused on mobilising private capital, improving project preparation, strengthening state…
Indian Railways approved Kavach Version 4.0 across 607.7 route kilometres of the Lucknow Division of North Eastern Railway at a cost of ₹252 crore, extending automa…
Canada’s trade minister says Ottawa is optimistic that CEPA negotiations with India can conclude by the end of 2026, with LNG, nuclear energy and critical-mineral i…
NLMC’s board has considered and recommended monetisation proposals involving surplus land and building assets valued above ₹5,000 crore; the figure is an asset-valu…
The government has relaxed the bulk-consumer stockholding ceiling from 15 to 30 days, but quantities beyond the original 15-day limit must be sourced exclusively fr…
Reuters reports Apple is preparing an India rollout of Apple Pay as soon as next month, beginning with Axis Bank credit cards while talks with other large private b…
Moody's lifted its real GDP growth forecast for India in FY2026-27 to 7% from 6%, citing resilience despite the Middle East conflict while warning that energy and f…
TRAI has amended the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2018 to strengthen spam enforcement, including AI/ML-based suspected-UCC det…
CGST Delhi South says an iron-and-steel trader allegedly availed, used and passed on more than ₹25.22 crore of inadmissible ITC through invoices of about ₹140.14 cr…
India imported 19.01 million tonnes of crude oil in August, more than 11% below July and about 3% below August 2025, according to preliminary PPAC data reported by…
FSSAI has notified the Food Safety and Standards (Laboratory and Sample Analysis) Amendment Regulations, 2026, revising analysis timelines and report formats with c…
The source gate from the prior package is now closed: Gazette Notification 75/2026-Customs (N.T.), S.O. 5077(E), dated 15 September substitutes notified tariff-valu…
SEMICON India 2026 opened in New Delhi with India’s ₹1,27,500 crore Semicon 2.0 framework in focus. The event quickly produced company-level developments, including…
New Zealand’s Parliament has passed legislation to give effect to the India–New Zealand FTA, advancing the April agreement toward implementation. The pact provides…
Industry estimates cited by Reuters point to roughly a 10-million-tonne decline in India’s rice crop, potentially the biggest fall in nearly two decades, but record…
India said a newly passed U.S. sanctions bill authorising tariffs of up to 100% on countries buying Russian energy could hurt bilateral ties. The measure still requ…
India has introduced a de minimis exemption from RCMC or Certificate of Registration requirements for export consignments with FOB value up to ₹3 lakh, reducing ent…
After August CPI rose to 4.82%, the Chief Economic Adviser said roughly 6% food inflation may ease toward year-end, but $108 oil and rupee weakness pushed some bank…
The AI-safety story gained an India-market read-through as the Nifty IT index rallied and major software exporters rose on hopes that a slower pace of frontier-AI d…
India’s August merchandise trade deficit narrowed to $26.86 billion from $31.98 billion in July as gold imports nearly halved, while crude-oil imports rose sharply…
India’s unemployment rate fell to 5.0% in August from 5.1% in July, with rural unemployment dropping to 4.1% and labour-force participation improving, while urban u…
India’s consumer regulator has escalated complaints about alleged iOS 18-related screen and microphone problems into a detailed investigation, putting Apple’s “no s…
India’s metallurgical-coke imports are projected to rise about 32% to roughly 6 million tonnes in FY2026-27 despite a five-year anti-dumping levy, as domestic suppl…
CBDT Notification No. 119 of 2026 approves IIT Roorkee for scientific research under section 45 of the Income-tax Act, 2025 for tax years 2026-27 to 2030-31, with a…
DGFT Trade Notice No. 27/2026-27 proposes a rewritten Para 2.93 of the Handbook of Procedures covering non-preferential origin for exports and imports, including im…
The existing U.S. inflation/Fed canonical has progressed from “higher hike odds” to a broad economist consensus for tightening. In a Reuters poll, 86 of 101 economi…
India has approved electricity exports to Nepal of up to 654 MW for 18 hours a day through 31 December 2026 after floods damaged Nepal’s hydropower system. The appr…
