Month: August 2026
Govt’s onion buffer stock quality ‘good’, storage with CWC aids shelf life: Consumer affairs secy Nidhi Khare
New Delhi: The quality of the Centre’s onion buffer stock is “good”, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said on Friday, asserting that for the first…
₹15,000 a Month in Passive Income: How Bonds Can Help Build a Second Income Stream
The modern idea of “passive income” often comes with a strange condition: you have to work harder to create it. Regular savings and reinvested payouts…
Digitisation of processes not reform, simplify governance to boost growth: EAC-PM member Sanyal
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Mere digitisation of administrative processes does not amount to reform, said Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime…
Stock market today: Sensex, Nifty open higher after two straight session of losses, ‘flash crash’
Indian shares opened higher on Friday after two consecutive sessions of losses, and a “flash crash” on Thursday, although caution was expected to persist ahead…
Startup block-deal rush puts private valuations to the cash test
A rush of block deals in newly listed Indian startups is putting private-market valuations to a cash test and showing how little a headline valuation…
India needs Rs 30 lakh crore to hit 500 GW clean-energy target: Pralhad Joshi
Mumbai: India will need more than ₹30 lakh crore of investment over the next five years to achieve its target of 500 GW of non-fossil…
In Graphics: Kitchen basket inflation is back
One-third of all commodities for which the Department of Consumer Affairs compiles daily retail prices at markets across the country have seen an inflation of…
Nvidia-Hugging Face deal: Why the reported $13 billion AI acquisition matters
Nvidia is reportedly planning a $13 billion deal for Hugging Face. Nvidia Corp. has reportedly agreed to spend about $13 billion to acquire Hugging Face,…
Faster KYC, nods key to boosting FDI flows: Piyush Goyal
Osaka: Faster and more efficient know-your-customer (KYC) norms, mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) with regulators in other countries and streamlined investment approvals can speed up foreign…
India, Canada set $70 billion trade target, widen economic partnership
New Delhi: India and Canada aim to further deepen their economic partnership, moving beyond the traditional trade in goods and services to encompass investment, finance,…