Category: Economy
June services growth hits 17-month low as client interest fades
New Delhi: India’s services sector expanded at its slowest pace in 17 months in June as challenging market conditions and reduced client interest weighed on…
India-UK trade pact sparks rush of export orders ahead of July 15 rollout
New Delhi: Indian exporters are seeing a sharp surge in orders from the United Kingdom ahead of the India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)…
RBI backs crypto containment and keeps ban on table, officials tell house panel
New Delhi: Top officials of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a submission to a parliamentary panel, backed a containment strategy leaning towards prohibition, recommending…
India-EU FTA legal scrub to end in 10-12 days, deal by Dec 31: Piyush Goyal
New Delhi: The legal scrubbing of India-EU free trade agreement (FTA) will be completed in the next 10-12 days, and the deal would be inked…
Buffer stocks, imports to keep pulse prices steady
Prices of pulses are expected to remain stable until December despite concerns over below-normal rainfall and delays in kharif sowing, with ample government buffer stocks…
IBBI seeks tighter regulations around personal guarantors, valuation of insolvent firms
The insolvency regulator on Thursday proposed the withdrawal of interim moratorium protection for personal guarantors to a stressed firm, seeking to align the regulation with…
RBI tells parliamentary panel that virtual digital assets like cryptocurrency a threat to economy
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday told a parliamentary panel that virtual digital assets like cryptocurrency are a threat to an emerging…
Govt fast-tracks disinvestment process to shore up revenues, garners 31% of budget aim in Q1 FY27
New Delhi, The government has pushed the pedal on its disinvestment and asset monetisation plan in the current fiscal, raising about 31 per cent of…
Free trade agreements to give major boost to toy exports: Industry
New Delhi: The series of free trade agreements (FTAs) finalised by India, including the ones with the UK and the European Union, will give a…
Metro infrastructure boost: Patna Metro corridor expands with new ISBT–Malahipakdi stretch – The Economic Times Video
Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary inaugurates the nearly three-kilometre Patna Metro extension from ISBT to Malahipakdi, nearly doubling the operational corridor to around six kilometres….