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UK beats China as India's 4th-largest export market

The United Kingdom (UK) has overtaken China to become India's fourth-largest export market in May, commerce department data showed.

The other side of growth: Mills to malls caught in a tinder trap

The second part of the series revolves around Mumbai being vulnerable to fire incidents because of overcrowding and the high cost of robust fire protection equipment

In Coal Reforms 3.0, govt eyes non-power sectors

Coal Min plans to unlock domestic coking coal availability via several steps

Ola switches on EV battery cell tech pioneered by Tesla

Starts trial run with 4680 battery cells

Indian sports beyond the boundary

Little has been written about Indian sport, and practically nothing about the governance challenges as sport is powered by commerce.

Expansion of Ayushman Bharat a priority

Expansion of Ayushman Bharat Yojana to cover everyone aged above 70 years, launch of the National Health Claims Exchange (NHCX) and a special drive against tobacco use among youngsters were among the top agenda items discussed during the first high-level meeting chaired by Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, JP Nadda on Friday.

MAKING A RACQUET

At long last, India has a player in the top 100 ATP rankings. But can Indian tennis match the success of badminton?

Will rural consumers roar?

\"Rural FMCG growth overtakes urban after 5 quarters,\" read the headline (Business Standard, May 8, 2024).

MFS or NPS? Go for both if you don't mind latter's lock-in

If one were to compare the category average returns of Tier-I equity plans of the National Pension System (NPS) with the direct plans of largecap mutual funds (MFS), the latter have a small edge currently.

Ambuja eyes more buys after Penna deal

Adani Group aims to become leader in cement sector in 4 years

Sensex, Nifty hit lifetime highs

Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty hit their new closing lifetime highs on Friday, following buying in market heavyweights HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries and Mahindra & Mahindra amid encouraging export data.

Short-term margin overhang likely for Tata Communications

The management of Tata Communications presented its product-to-platform strategy and explained how it hopes to grow its new products and portfolios, and geographies.

CLSA sees further rerating scope in Vedanta

Shares of Vedanta rose as much as 2.8 per cent on Friday after the Hong Kong-based brokerage CLSA in a report said there was scope for further re-rating for the stock.

Abrdn favours Chinese, Indian stocks on policy boost hopes

Abrdn Plc prefers Chinese and Indian stocks over their Japanese peers in the next three to six months, betting that the right policy moves would help the two emerging markets lure fund inflows.

MF scheme launches to pick up pace as markets stabilise

In the past fortnight, fund houses have approached Sebi for 20 NFO approvals

Airbrushed existence

The compulsory art class back in school had a certain consistency about it.

Economic shortsightedness is jeopardising Italy's G7 ambitions

Italy is hosting the 50th G7 summit in Fasano.

Visa-Mastercard $30 bn fee settlement in peril

Visa's and Mastercard's proposed $30 billion antitrust settlement to limit credit and debit card fees for merchants is in peril, after a New York judge signalled she was preparing to reject the accord.

Musk wins investors' vote on $56 bn pay package as Tesla CEO

Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package won an overwhelming 77 per cent of votes cast by Tesla investors at its annual meeting, a company filing showed on Friday, despite vocal opposition from a number of institutional investors and proxy advisory firms.

Putin sets terms for ceasefire: Ukraine must pull out from 'annexed' parts

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would cease fire and enter peace talks if Ukraine dropped its Nato ambitions and withdrew its forces from four Ukrainian regions claimed by Moscow.

G7 vows to take on China over 'unfair' biz practices

Pope makes historic apperance at G7; stresses on making Al human-centric

Support peaceful resolution to Ukraine conflict: PM to Zelenskyy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday conveyed to Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting that India would continue to do everything within its means to support a peaceful solution to the Ukraine conflict and that the way to peace is through \"dialogue and diplomacy\".

Committed to strengthening strategic ties: Modi to Sunak

Reviewed progress made in the ongoing FTA negotiations

Lenders seek better terms to increase green financing

Industry experts say fresh look at present norms necessary to raise funding

Non-life insurers post 15.5% increase in May premium

Non-life insurers posted 15.47 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) growth in gross direct premium underwritten um to ₹20,822.29 crore in May 2024, latest data released by the General Insurance Council showed.

NSO:Employment in informal sector below pre-Covid level

After adding 11.7 million workers in the October 2022-2023 September period from the pandemic lows in April 2021-March 2022, total workers employed in the vast informal sector in India - at 109.6 million remains below the pre-pandemic period.

Ocean freight rates in rough waters on congestion, Red Sea crisis

Indian traders are reeling under the impact of rising ocean freight rates, triggered by the Red Sea crisis and congestion at several key ports in the global supply chain, causing container prices to skyrocket over the past month.

India grappling with 'unfavourable' factors ingrowth pursuit: CEA

As India tries to grow faster, the country needs to grapple with \"unfavourable\" factors like slowing globalisation, divisive world politics and the raging issue of climate change, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Friday.

FinMin invites industry views on taxes, compliance laws

The Finance Ministry has invited suggestions on direct and indirect taxes and changes in laws to reduce compliances for the 2024-25 Budget from trade and industry associations.

WPI inflation rises to 15-month high of 2.61% in May

India's wholesale inflation as measured by the wholesale price index (WPI) rose sharply to a 15-month high of 2.61 per cent in May from 1.26 per cent in April.