Business

March 12, 2025 8:06 PM March 12, 2025 8:06 PM

views 36

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, manuf...

March 12, 2025 7:45 PM March 12, 2025 7:45 PM

views 13

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 of S...

March 12, 2025 6:26 PM March 12, 2025 6:26 PM

views 30

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 Implem...

March 12, 2025 5:46 PM March 12, 2025 5:46 PM

views 17

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 March 12, 2025 2:18 PM

views 6

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 count...

March 11, 2025 8:39 PM March 11, 2025 8:39 PM

views 215

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. Mea...

March 11, 2025 6:34 PM March 11, 2025 6:34 PM

views 17

Reduction in Coal imports led to savings of apprx 42,300 cr rupees

The government today said that coal imports to the country decreased by 8.4 percent during April to December 2024. The Ministry of Coal, in a statement, said that coal imports from April to December 2024 stood at 183.42 million tonnes compared to 200.19 million tonnes in the same period of the previ...

March 11, 2025 6:28 PM March 11, 2025 6:28 PM

views 22

Fear of recession lowered US stocks

US stocks ended sharply lower on Monday on fears that the US economy could be heading towards recession. This was amid the current uncertainty surrounding the US trade policy. The S&P 500 saw its biggest one-day drop since December 18 and the Nasdaq witnessed its biggest single-day percentage dr...