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Why your credit score can drop despite paying every EMI on time

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Timely EMI payments are crucial, yet even flawless repayers often watch their ratings slip unexpectedly. Paying off loan EMIs and credit card bills on time remains a cornerston... Read More


India Gets Rs.1 Lakh Cr Investment Commitments Under Semicon 2.0: Vaishnaw

India, Sept. 17 -- Under the recently approved Semicon 2.0 mission, the Central government is seeing investment commitments worth approximately Rs.1 Lakh Cr ($11-12 Bn), union minister Ashwini Vaishna... Read More


A $200 Million Lost Opportunity: Turning Liberia's natural-resource windfalls into national wealth

Liberia, Sept. 17 -- THE GOVERNMENT of Liberia recently received a $200 million signature bonus from ArcelorMittal in connection with the extension of its Minerals Development Agreement. Under the agr... Read More


Netrasemi seeks government as customers for its indigenous chips

New Delhi/Mumbai, Sept. 17 -- India's semiconductor sector is reaching a critical phase, as startups like Netrasemi want the government to help them with commercialization, in addition to funding. The... Read More


US-based Cadence sees India chip-design demand rising as Tata Electronics' fab takes shape

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- India's push to manufacture chips locally could give electronic design automation (EDA) companies a new source of growth, as more Indian chip designs move towards commercial tap... Read More


Thin margins, high costs: why discount brokers are upset over UPI fees

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Brokers worried about the new fee on UPI payments have moved the stock market regulator, fearing a body blow to discount brokers operating on wafer-thin margins to serve a growi... Read More


Divisions run deep as Tata Sons meets

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- The Tata Sons board meets on Thursday with a clear split on the table- Noel Tata, representing majority shareholder Tata Trusts, against chairman N. Chandrasekaran and the board... Read More


UPI fee to boost banks' revenue, revive card, ATM biz

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- The reintroduction of merchant discount rate (MDR) on select unified payments interface (UPI) transactions could bring a sizeable boost to banks' revenues, according to senior o... Read More


Zero-MDR gave banks no return on UPI merchant onboarding costs: Ex-DFS secretary M. Nagaraju

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Banks were incurring costs on merchant verification, QR deployment and support without receiving any return from larger merchants under the zero-merchant discount rate (MDR) reg... Read More


Indian chip startup Mindgrove Technologies eyes first revenues this fiscal year

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- As India's annual chip conference kicks off, Mindgrove Technologies, a homegrown semiconductor design startup incubated at IIT Madras, expects to start generating revenue this f... Read More