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India’s start-up ecosystem could attract only $15 billion in the financial year 2023 after a strong funding winter brought investments down by 70% compared with the $50 billion it received in the previous year, according to a report released by Redseer Consulting on Tuesday. Increasing cost of capital and interest rates, recession in developed markets,…
India’s gems and jewellery exports are likely to decline by 10 to 15% in the current financial year on account of slowing demand in key markets like the U.S. and China, GJEPC Chairman Vipul Shah has said. The gems and jewellery exports grew 2.48% year-on-year to ₹3,00,462.52 crore (over $36 billion) in FY23, according to…
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An Air India passenger aircraft taxis on the tarmac while another one lands at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India, May 3, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas | Photo Credit: FRANCIS MASCARENHAS Crumbling seats, broken armrests, and dysfunctional seat-back entertainment screens on Air India’s aircraft often make the airline a subject of passenger ire but a…
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Happiest Minds Technologies, an IT firm founded by Ashok Soota, has announced the successful completion of its capital raise of ₹500 crore ($61 million) through a qualified institutions placement (QIP) of equity shares. The fund-raising committee of the board of directors of the company approved the allotment of 54,11,255 equity shares of a face value of…
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The number of electric vehicles in India has surged from just 2,400 a decade ago to over 27.4 lakh as of July 2023. File. | Photo Credit: Ashoke Chakrabarty The number of electric vehicles in India has surged from just 2,400 a decade ago to over 27.4 lakh as of July 2023. However, given the…
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Representational file image | Photo Credit: Bhagya Prakash K India’s petrol and diesel consumption fell in the first half of July as fury of monsoon flipped travel plans and reduced the demand in the agricultural sector, preliminary industry data showed. Demand for diesel, the most consumed fuel in the country accounting for about two-fifths of…
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Preparations are are on for the 3rd G-20 Finance Ministers and central bankers meeting in Gandhinagar. File | Photo Credit: ANI India will push its Group of 20 partners at a meeting it is hosting to support its proposal to raise the share of taxes multinational companies pay to countries where they earn “excess profits”,…
A Standing Committee on Statistics will review the framework and results of all surveys conducted under the aegis of the National Statistical Office. File illustration: Sebastian Francis The government has constituted a new internal oversight mechanism for official data, revamping a Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES) set up in late 2019, soon after the…
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The Centre started to sell tomatoes at a discounted rate of ₹90 per kg in Delhi-NCR through mobile vans. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena The Centre will sell tomatoes at ₹80 per kg from July 16, as against ₹90 per kg earlier, to provide relief to people from high prices of the key kitchen item…
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Between 2016 and 2019, the NPA ratio remained high. It began to decline later and continued to do so even during the pandemic. Just four years ago, Indian banks’ non-performing assets (NPA) ratio was the worst among most emerging economies. NPAs are bad loans which the borrower is not in a position to repay at…
Read More “Data | Bad loans at a record low, but write-offs still in the mix” »