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March 12, 2025 8:12 PM

US stock markets remained under pressure

    After the steep fall on Monday, US stock markets stayed under pressure on Tuesday. The day started off on a negative note, as investors reacted to President Trump's fresh threats of doubling tariff to 50 percent on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada in response to Ontario's 25 percent...

March 12, 2025 8:09 PM

Rupee strengthens, settles at 87.19 Rs against US dollar

In the Forex market, the rupee today strengthened by two paise to settle at 87 rupees and 19 paise against the US dollar. The dollar index, which indicates US dollar's strength against a basket of six other leading currencies was at 103.62 in intra-day trade . ...

March 12, 2025 8:06 PM

Industrial Production rises by 5 % in January 2025

  India’s industrial production growth, measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) rose to 5  percent in January as compared to 3.2 percent in December, according to the data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. Among the three major components of IIP,...

March 12, 2025 7:45 PM

Asian markets remain stable despite fall across Wall Street

Asian markets were relatively stable and ended mixed despite the overnight fall across Wall Street. Among the falling markets, China's Shanghai Composite index fell 0.23 percent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.76 percent. However, Japan's Nikkei index rose 0.07 percent, the Straits Times Index o...

March 12, 2025 6:26 PM

India’s retail inflation drops to 7 month low in Feb 2025

India's retail inflation eased to a seven-month low of 3.61 percent in February from 4.31 percent in January, as the rate of increase in food prices slowed to 3.75 percent as compared to 6.02 percent in the previous month. According to data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Impl...

March 12, 2025 5:46 PM

Domestic markets ended with moderate losses despite strong opening

The domestic share markets opened strong today but soon caution gripped investor sentiment and at the end of the trading session, the benchmark equity indices ended with moderate losses. At the Bombay Stock Exchange, Sensex fell 0.1 percent and lost 72 points to close at 74,030. At the National Stoc...

March 12, 2025 2:18 PM

Country’s milk production witnesses growth of 63.5% in last 10 years

The country’s milk production has witnessed tremendous growth of 63.5 percent in the last 10 years, reaching over 239 million tonnes. This was stated by Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Rajeev Ranjan Singh while replying to supplimentaries in the Rajya Sabha today. He said the cou...

March 11, 2025 8:39 PM

RBI to issue new series of 100 & 200 denomination Notes

The Reserve Bank of India announced that it will soon issue 100 and 200 rupees denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series. The RBI said that the design of these notes will be identical in all respects to the existing 100 and 200 rupees banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series. M...

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