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International silver prices hit the $100 an ounce mark for the first time ever on Friday, extending a solid rally. Spot prices for the white metal soared 4.2% to as much as $100.29 during New York trading hours. The price more than doubled in 2025 and has already surged 40% in the new year. Notably, silver…
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Delays in visa approvals for Chinese technical specialists, requirements that mandate local manufacturing, and the lack of critical technologies threaten the government’s ambitious Advanced Chemistry Cell Production Linked Incentive (ACC-PLI) scheme, says a report by the research firms Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and JMK Research and Analytics released earlier this week….
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Ahead of the assembly elections in Kerala, the Congress’ top leadership held a strategy meeting with leaders from the state, even as Shashi Tharoor skipped the key brainstorming session amid reports that he is “upset” at Rahul Gandhi ignoring him at a recent event. The Congress, however, denied that anyone was upset. It claimed that…
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Kirloskar Pneumatic, Indo Asia Copper, and Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company are among five companies with committed investment of Rs 863 crore selected as beneficiaries under the production linked incentive scheme for AC component manufacturing, an official statement said on Friday. The scheme extends an incentive of 6% to 4% on reducing basis on incremental…
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Chinese officials have told the country’s largest tech firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. they can prepare orders for Nvidia Corp.’s H200 AI chips, suggesting Beijing is close to formally approving imports of components essential to powering artificial intelligence. Regulators have recently granted in-principle approval for Alibaba, Tencent Holdings Ltd. and ByteDance Ltd. to move…
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The Wall Street is headed for a weekly decline, as two of the three main stock market indices faltered after rising in the preceding two sessions. The S&P 500 opened 0.03% or 1.89 points lower at 6,911.46, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened 0.27% or 132.65 points lower at 49,251.36. However, the tech-heavy Nasdaq…
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Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Hardeep Singh Puri during the Curtain Raiser Press Conference on IEW 2026, on Friday, January 23, 2026. Photo credit: PIB As India seeks to diversify their avenues for oil import, state-owned refiner, Bharat Petroleum, would enhance their term contract to procure crude oil from Brazil’s Petrobras, according…
Source: x.com/HardeepSPuri In the coming period there is no shortage of energy in the global market, you must negotiate effectively to get good prices, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri stated Friday. “In the coming period, I do not foresee any shortage of energy, you have negotiate this [global market currents],…
The government on Friday clarified that the European Union’s broader suspension of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) will affect only about 2.7% of India’s exports. The GSP allows developing countries such as India to export goods to the EU at reduced tariff rates, helping them remain competitive in European markets. A report by trade…
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Still from a video posted by Rahul Gandhi on a visit to a garment factory in Haryana. Photo credits: X/@RahulGandhi Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday (January 23, 2026) flagged what he called a “deepening crisis” in India’s textile sector due to high U.S. tariffs and urged Prime Minister Narendra…
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