Economy

New Delhi:  The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) surged to Rs 20.64 lakh crore in value in the month of September -- a 31 per cent growth (year-on-year) -- while the number of transactions jumped to 15.04 billion, a growth of 42 per cent…
Read More...

Sydney: Qatar Airways has reached a deal to buy a minority stake in Australia's second-largest airline, Virgin Australia. Virgin Australia announced on Tuesday that Qatar Airways will acquire a 25 per cent equity stake in the airline…
Read More...

Abuja: Nigeria has freshly secured up to $1.57 billion in financing from the World Bank to strengthen human capital through better health for women, children, and adolescents while building resilience to the effects of climate change.…
Read More...

New Delhi:  The Make in India initiative in sectors like space and geospatial will drive growth in the country by 2047, said G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on Tuesday. He was speaking at a high-level seminar on ‘Make in India for Space and…
Read More...

Mumbai: The SEBI board has approved the introduction of a new investment product under the existing Mutual Fund framework that aims to curtail the proliferation of unregistered and unauthorised investment schemes/entities, which often…
Read More...

New Delhi:   The total estimated employment in manufacturing industries showed a robust growth of 7.4 per cent in the fiscal 2022-23 over the previous year, according to the latest government data. The employment rose to 1.84 crore in…
Read More...

Mumbai: Automaker Mahindra & Mahindra on Tuesday said its overall auto sales for September stood at 87,839 vehicles, including exports, which is a 16 per cent growth (year-on-year). In the utility vehicles segment, Mahindra sold…
Read More...

Mumbai: Indian equity indices opened in the green on Tuesday following positive cues from Asian peers and US markets. At 9:39 a.m., Sensex was at 84,461, up 161 points or 0.19 per cent and Nifty was at 25,858, up 47 points or 0.18 per…
Read More...

New Delhi: Bhavish Aggarwal-run Ola Electric sold 22,950 electric two-wheelers in the month of September – about 17 per cent drop from last month when it got 27,586 e-scooters registered. On Monday, the EV firm’s share skidded below Rs…
Read More...

New Delhi: The production of steel and fertilisers recorded positive growth in the month of August as the eight core industries’ index declined by 1.8 per cent (provisional) on an annual basis, the government said on Monday. Fertiliser…
Read More...