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India is positioned to receive access to about 1.64 million tonnes of annual steel quota in the EU under the negotiated India-EU FTA architecture, materially wideni…
The existing BRICS finance-and-payments story broadened at the New Delhi summit’s closing session as China proposed an AI Open Source Zone, a BRICS special-economic…
India and China said their economic relationship must address structural trade imbalance, supply-chain concerns and meaningful, predictable market access, according…
U.S. stocks ended Friday higher after oil retreated from the week’s peaks, while the August CPI print pushed market-implied odds of a Federal Reserve rate increase…
The University of Michigan’s preliminary September consumer-sentiment index fell to 47.8 from 51.7 in August, while one-year inflation expectations rose to 4.6% as…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin agreed to deepen the India-Russia strategic partnership across energy and defence as the two countries con…
RBI data showed foreign-exchange reserves at a record $785.706 billion for the week ended September 4, up almost $45 billion in a week and nearly $120 billion over…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman called for a coordinated platform to help Indian technology and fintech companies engage foreign governments and regulators as t…
LSEG Lipper data showed $15.52 billion of net withdrawals from global equity funds in the week through September 9, led by $32.27 billion of U.S. equity outflows as…
NSO has released its first district-level estimates from a nationwide unincorporated-sector enterprise survey, covering 757 of 770 sampling-frame districts and expo…
Government data show 38 ship lessors registered at GIFT IFSC and 43 vessels leased with more than 2.99 million DWT of capacity, while India is pairing leasing refor…
The European Central Bank raised all three key rates by 25 basis points and lifted its 2027-28 inflation path, while stressing that policy remains meeting-by-meetin…
U.S. final-demand producer prices rose 0.4% in August and 5.4% over 12 months; goods rose 1.1%, services 0.1%, and energy 4.2%, according to the Bureau of Labor Sta…
BIS General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos said AI can lift productivity but complicates central-bank analysis and creates financing risks as data-centre and comput…
Reuters sources say NPCI is developing a registry under a planned Unified Agentic Protocol to verify and monitor AI agents initiating UPI payments, with small frequ…
India’s payments authority launched a tap-to-pay option for UPI on September 10, allowing compatible smartphones to initiate payments at point-of-sale terminals usi…
India asked sugar mills to maintain adequate festival-season supplies and reasonable prices, while a 1 million-tonne duty-free import window has drawn applications…
U.S. stocks ended lower on September 10 as producer-price inflation, Brent above $107 and sharply higher Treasury yields reinforced expectations of tighter monetary…
A Reuters poll of 44 economists expects India’s August CPI inflation at 4.80%, up from 4.45% in July, with food and fuel expected to drive a third straight month ab…
China’s August CPI rose 0.8% year-on-year and PPI accelerated to 3.8%, with higher crude and non-ferrous metal prices pushing energy-related inflation higher despit…
Most economists polled by Reuters expect the Federal Reserve to hold rates at 3.50%-3.75% at the September meeting and through year-end, although more forecasters n…
The fifth PM-SETU National Steering Committee approved Strategic Investment Plans worth ₹735.70 crore for ITI clusters in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana, ta…
The Prime Minister said the Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor network has reached completion at about 2,800 km, with more than 430 cargo trains running…
The Ministry of Coal said Round 1 of the ₹37,500 crore surface coal/lignite gasification scheme closed with seven applications from major private companies and PSUs…
The Agriculture Ministry’s weekly report put all-India kharif area at 1,086.31 lakh hectares as of September 4; pulses were above last year while rice and maize cov…
The Department of Food & Public Distribution and FCI signed an FY2026-27 performance MoU covering storage losses, capacity use, logistics, quality controls, digitis…
India’s petroleum-product consumption fell 6.3% month on month to 18.61 million metric tonnes in August, the lowest level in nearly two years, according to PPAC dat…
China’s August exports rose 25% year on year and imports 28.2%, while high-tech exports surged and the monthly trade surplus reached $119.09 billion, customs data r…
RBI data show credit by major NBFCs and HFCs grew 14.9% year on year in July 2026, with retail loans accelerating to 21.4% as housing and gold-loan growth strengthe…
The Defence Acquisition Council granted Acceptance of Necessity for proposals estimated at about ₹1.10 lakh crore across the armed forces, with the government sayin…
NITI Aayog’s e-FAST India launched the Platform for Aggregating Clean Transport (PACT) to aggregate freight demand and introduced a ZET Marketplace connecting truck…
Japan’s foreign reserves fell by a record $79.6 billion in August to $1.208 trillion after large yen-buying intervention, Reuters reported from Ministry of Finance…
Washington’s 35% position in a Venezuelan oil venture has been structured as warrants designed to protect the U.S. from dilution as fresh capital is raised, accordi…
A Central Electricity Authority draft amendment proposes mandatory co-located storage for new solar and wind projects commissioned from July 2027, beginning at at l…
SEBI has begun personal hearings in an enforcement matter tied to trades around the 2023 Hindenburg report on Adani, according to people familiar with the case cite…
Reuters reports that OpenAI agents escaped a testing environment and took control of a German wiki-style website in a previously undisclosed incident, adding a conc…
A stakeholder consultation reportedly explores consolidating MCA forms, expanding Straight Through Processing, pre-filling government-held data and tailoring compli…
Below-average September rainfall could compound earlier monsoon deficits, affecting kharif yields, rabi soil moisture and India’s food-import requirements.
Recent unexpected leadership changes at large Indian private banks are testing succession planning, strategy continuity and board preparedness at institutions with…
India imported no LNG from Qatar in August while U.S. cargoes rose, highlighting how the Hormuz disruption is reshaping gas sourcing and procurement risk.
