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India and Uzbekistan elevated ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, set a goal of taking bilateral trade above $5 billion by 2030 and signed an arrangement enabling Indian UPI apps to scan Uzbekistan’s UZQR merchant codes.
The Finance Ministry has issued the Budget Circular for 2027-28. Departmental pre-Budget meetings are scheduled to begin on 12 October, with key expenditure and rev…
The Petroleum Ministry says the GOBARdhan CBG procurement price is ₹2,110/MMBtu, with government support equivalent to about ₹215/MMBtu and the net cost spread acro…
The Department of Fertilizers says iFMS now connects more than 14 crore Aadhaar-linked buyers, 2.5 lakh retailers and around 7 crore tonnes of annual fertilizer-sal…
The fourth India-Argentina Joint Trade Committee reviewed a $6.5 billion-plus trade relationship, KABIL’s lithium work, farm-market access and steps that could ease…
Maharashtra FDA withdrew its order cancelling the drug-sale licence of Cipla Pharma & Life Sciences’ Pune C&F unit after Bombay High Court scrutiny, and will issue…
India has set a year-end objective for Chile CEPA negotiations, but no final agreement or tariff schedule is operative. Finin2min separates the opportunity from the…
Industrial production stayed firm in July, with manufacturing and capex-linked categories doing the heavy lifting even as mining and consumer non-durables remained weak.
India’s reserve stock reached a new high, strengthening the external buffer—but composition and the distinction between valuation, flows and intervention matter mor…
Banks placed ₹1,52,537 crore with RBI in a three-day variable-rate reverse-repo auction, below the ₹3 lakh crore notified amount, at a 5.24% weighted-average rate.
RBI data for 3,247 listed non-government non-financial companies show faster sales across manufacturing, IT and services even as manufacturing input costs jumped.
Turkey has sharply increased diesel sourcing from India and the U.S. as Russian export restrictions reshape regional product flows, creating an outlet for Indian re…
S&P Global Ratings affirmed India at BBB/A-2 with a stable outlook, balancing strong growth and infrastructure investment against high debt, fiscal constraints and low per-capita income.
The inaugural India–Canada Finance Ministers’ Economic and Financial Dialogue in Toronto moves the bilateral reset into payments, capital markets, investment and tr…
Russian crude intake is expected to ease from July highs, pushing Indian refiners toward the Americas, West Africa and the Gulf. The real issue is landed-cost econo…
DHS has proposed an additional $103,265 fee for cap-subject H-1B petitions. It is not yet in force, but it could materially alter onsite staffing economics for Indi…
July PCE inflation stayed hot at 3.7% while real consumer spending barely grew, keeping the Fed, dollar, gold and global risk assets on a tight policy leash.
SIDBI and all 28 RRBs are moving toward a wider co-lending architecture for rural MSMEs, with digital underwriting and a three-RRB pilot at the centre.
ROC Delhi II imposed ₹5.5 crore of aggregate penalties after subscription money for one allottee was remitted from another group entity’s bank account. The case shows why Rule 14(5) payment-source controls matter even in commercially genuine group transactions.
Mumbai ITAT held that capitalisation in the books does not, by itself, turn recurring operating expenditure into capital expenditure for tax purposes. A separate ₹6…
Credit-card issuance accelerated in July while spending grew more slowly than transaction volumes, pointing to wider usage but smaller average ticket sizes.
ONGC Videsh is reported to be finalising a roughly $200 million plan with PDVSA to restore output at San Cristobal after securing a U.S. licence for operations, inv…
Japan’s services producer-price inflation accelerated in July, strengthening the case for another Bank of Japan rate increase as economists shift toward a September…
Official meetings in Tokyo focused on Japanese institutional investment, smoother capital flows and profit repatriation, while ministers agreed to accelerate the re…
Varun Beverages is diversifying into ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages through a wholly owned Indian subsidiary, while separately forming a beverage joint venture…
The Prime Minister’s 53rd PRAGATI review covered six railway, road and power projects worth more than ₹30,000 crore, alongside AgriStack and cyber-fraud implementat…
CEO Amitabh Chaudhry says corporate demand from data centres, renewables and manufacturing—plus rapid gold-loan growth—should help Axis Bank outpace system credit g…
SEBI has issued a final order against Varanium Cloud and its promoter, imposing market-access restrictions, monetary directions and findings around diversion and mi…
The RBI’s August Bulletin points to resilient demand and improving corporate performance, while a Reuters poll puts April–June GDP growth at a 7.1% median estimate.…
SEBI’s August 24 order closes proceedings after allegations of disclosure lapses and a fraudulent scheme were not established. That distinction is essential for fai…
The government’s 100-ship ambition targets a structural leakage in India’s trade economy: freight paid to foreign carriers. The real test is not the headline fleet count but ship finance, domestic construction, cargo commitments and utilisation.
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal says the government is working on a framework to ease BIS constraints for high-tech manufacturers. It is a policy direction, not yet…
Credit growth of 19.3% versus deposit growth of 15.4% at end-July exposes a familiar banking tension: lending can scale faster than cheap, stable funding.
UPI’s scale is extraordinary, but the next decade is about sustainable economics, fraud control, credit, competition and international acceptance rather than transa…
India’s unorganised-worker registry has reached enormous scale. Registration is infrastructure; the policy outcome depends on portability, scheme matching and actua…
RRBs reported record FY26 profitability and business above ₹13.5 lakh crore, but gross NPAs of 5.3% remain a reminder that rural-bank improvement must be read with…
MoSPI’s July monitoring data covers 1,775 large projects whose revised cost is roughly ₹3.40 lakh crore above original estimates. The issue is not capex ambition; i…
The revised rule replaces a common October 31 processing deadline with two months from each Bill of Entry for duty-free raw-sugar imports.
Reuters reports Air India is seeking fresh equity from Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines as losses remain heavy. The funding has not yet been completed.
Greenko-promoter-backed AM Intelligence has placed a binding order tied to its Hyderabad AI factory and says it plans a multi-billion-dollar compute build-out.
