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New Delhi, Sep 4 (IANS) A continued momentum in discretionary spending of consumers, coupled with favourable price effect, helped private final consumption expenditure (PFCE) pick up by 12.4 per cent in India in the April-June quarter this…

New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) New York-based Moody’s Ratings on Thursday raised its forecast for India’s GDP growth for 2024 to 7.2 per cent from 6.8 per cent as projected earlier on the back of stronger private consumption driving up aggregate…

Mumbai, Aug 29 (IANS) Indian equity indices opened flat on Thursday due to negative cues from Asian and US markets.At 9.40 a.m., Sensex was at 81,816, up 31 points and Nifty was up 19 points at 25,071.During the early trading hour, the…

Mumbai, Aug 29 (IANS) Indian equity indices opened flat on Thursday due to negative cues from Asian and US markets.At 9.40 a.m., Sensex was at 81,816, up 31 points and Nifty was up 19 points at 25,071.During the early trading hour, the…

Mumbai, Aug 29 (IANS) Indian equity indices opened flat on Thursday due to negative cues from Asian and US markets.At 9.40 a.m., Sensex was at 81,816, up 31 points and Nifty was up 19 points at 25,071.During the early trading hour, the…

New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) The Janmashtami festival this year generated a business of more than Rs 25,000 crore, according to the traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT).The high sales turnover reflects robust consumer…

Mumbai, Aug 28 (IANS) India equity indices were trading flat following negative global cues from Asian peers.At 9.40 a.m., Sensex was down 45 points or 0.05 per cent at 81,667 and Nifty was down 21 points or 0.10 per cent at 24,996.The…

New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday that a total of 53.13 crore Jan Dhan accounts for the poor have been opened in the last 10 years with deposits worth Rs 2.3 lakh crore. Talking to reporters on…

New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Ministry of Coal said on Tuesday that the country’s cumulative coal production for the financial year 2024-25, as of Aug 25 has shot up by 7.12 per cent to 370.67 million tonnes compared to 346.02 million tonnes…

Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) Indian equity indices opened in the green on Monday following US market gains after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's dovish commentary at the Jackson Hole hinted at a likely rate cut in September.At 9.45 a.m.,…

Mumbai, Aug 23 (IANS) Market regulator Security and Exchanges Board of India (SEBI) has barred Anil Ambani and 24 other entities from the capital market for five years, restraining the businessman from being associated with any listed…

Mumbai, Aug 22 (IANS) Wealth management firm, Nuvama, on Thursday, said India has emerged as the sixth-largest manufacturing economy globally while the stage is set for a new era of growth fuelled by recent reforms and strategic initiatives…

New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Union government on Wednesday launched the advisory document titled ‘Bharat Zero Emission Trucking (ZET) Policy Advisory’ aimed at creating an…

New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday raised concerns over the rapid expansion of e-commerce firms in the country that is leading to predatory pricing that has the potential to cause long-term damage to…

New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday raised concerns over the rapid expansion of e-commerce firms in the country that is leading to predatory pricing that has the potential to cause long-term damage to…

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, at a review meeting held on Monday, asked the chiefs of public sector banks to accelerate the growth rate of their deposits to match the quicker pace at which the credit is…

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, at a review meeting held on Monday, asked the chiefs of public sector banks to accelerate the growth rate of their deposits to match the quicker pace at which the credit is…

Mumbai, Aug 17 (IANS) India equity indices ended with weekly gains after two consecutive weeks of losses. Both frontline indices Sensex and Nifty closed in the green led by tech stocks last week.On Friday, Nifty closed 397.40 points or 1.64…