New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- For all the talk about either restraining or rebalancing trade with China, India's dealings with it are rising. In 2025, trade reached a record $155.6 billion, up 12%, according t... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the formation of a "high-level committee" on banking in her budget speech for 2026-27. While she offered no details, the FM did say t... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- It is plainly good news the US has lowered its import duty on Indian goods from 50%, a truly punitive rate, to 18%. A trade deal is expected to be sewn up anytime now. Its signifi... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- After nearly one-and-a-half years of broad weakness, India's stock market began to flash signs of a revival on Tuesday. The BSE Sensex jumped more than 4% in early trade before cl... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 3 -- The 16th Finance Commission (FC) must be commended for breaking the mould of earlier FCs in what is perhaps the most contentious area of fiscal federalism: 'horizontal devolution'... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 3 -- The yield on India's 10-year government bond rose to 6.78% on Monday from 6.70% on Friday, its biggest intraday rise since late August. What appears to have put investors off is t... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- India kept calm and carried on this fiscal year, with a GST spur for retail offtake, an urgency for foreign trade deals and a few tariff tweaks for factory-cost relief making up t... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- Amid an unravelling of global trade, the Union budget has proposed some welcome steps to ease the pain. As one-off relief for eligible export-oriented manufacturers in special eco... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- This year's Economic Survey has been published under the shadow of a geo-economic upheaval. Although it strikes an optimistic note on India's economy, it offers a realistic asses... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- Is Tesla about to shift its business focus from electric vehicles (EVs) to humanoid robots? Hit by Chinese rivals like BYD, the EV maker reported its first-ever annual drop in re... Read More