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Photo used for illustration purpose only. | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak With merchandise exports shrinking 15.1% in the first quarter of this year, after racking up a record $450 billion in 2022-23, the government is playing it safe on announcing a clear target for outbound shipments this year and is likely to opt for a…
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By the end of December 2023, Mumbai would have an equal number of domestic departures as Delhi which currently has 78 daily domestic departures. File Notwithstanding the uncertainty over the brand name continuing after its merger with Air India by April 2024, Vistara, the joint venture of Tata Sons & Singapore Airlines (SIA), continues to scale…
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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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