The gathering has symbolic meaning for Vladimir Putin’s domestic audience as well, showing off Russia’s international clout even as it grows increasingly isolated and plunges deeper into confrontation with the West

Acting Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and two others were proposed by lawmakers as the three candidates for the July 20 Presidential election

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Celsius hopes that Bitcoin mining will help it repair its damaged relationship with customers, whose funds were frozen

WHO's Europe director Dr. Hans Kluge described COVID-19 as “a nasty and potentially deadly illness” that people should not underestimate.

The Olympic Council of Asia on Tuesday confirmed the delayed games would be held from September 23 to October 8

A revised version of the bill was tabled by bipartisan senators in the United States on Wednesday that strengthens the stance for digital news publishers to negotiate with Big Tech companies for sharing revenues that entail the use of their content.

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The Defence Minister represented India at the swearing-in ceremony of Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during an unprecedented three-day visit to the African nation.

Bengaluru joins the league of 40 global cities including New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo among others at World Cities Culture Forum

The trade deficit widened to a 10-month high of $29.65 billion, the second highest monthly shortfall in merchandise trade

The last such revision took place effective August 31 when the windfall tax on crude petroleum was set at ₹1,850 per tonne

West Bengal’s economic decline, southern States’ growth post-1991, and regional disparities in India’s economic performance analysed in a working paper by Economic Advisory Council to the PM

Policymakers voted 11-to-1 in favour of lowering the U.S. central bank's benchmark lending rate to between 4.75% and 5.00%, the Fed announced

The Food Secretary said the Centre is thinking of lifting the export ban on certain varieties of non-basmati rice

Punjab and West Bengal have recorded sharp declines in per capita income after a head start

The numbers demonstrate that the U.S. also protects specific products of its economy with high tariffs, GTRI said in a report.

What are the sectors in which exports have dropped? Is there any significant risk at this point?

The ongoing GDP series is due for revision. The official agency is considering using GST data to estimate value addition. However, the agency should be careful to not apply unverified datasets and shaky methodologies without adequate testing and validations for GDP estimation

Recent surveys suggest that while the pace of price increases has declined dramatically, the public’s mood is still marred by nearly two years of high inflation

South Africa has struggled for years with low economic growth and high unemployment. The official unemployment rate was 33.5% in April-June of this year.

According to exchange data, FIIs were net buyers in the capital markets as they purchased shares worth ₹404.42 crore on September 23

The Indian economy grew 8.2% in the last fiscal (2023-24)

The gross market borrowing of ₹6.61 lakh crore shall be completed through 21 weekly auctions.

In the GST regime, compensation cess at varied rates is levied on luxury, sin and demerit goods over and above the 28% tax

Exports to be permitted with immediate effect subject to a minimum export price of $490 per tonne; duty on parboiled rice cut from 20% to 10%; revival of trade to eastern and south east Asian markets expected

The market valuation of Reliance Industries jumped ₹53,652.92 crore to ₹20,65,197.60 crore

Centre included even unpaid household work in its employment data, says Jairam Ramesh

The I-T Department said that due to the difficulties faced by taxpayers in electronic filing of audit reports, the deadline is being extended from September 30, 2024 to October 7, 2024

The current account surplus for Q4:2023-24 was revised downwards to $ 4.6 billion from US$ 5.7 billion earlier due to an upward adjustment of customs data on merchandise imports, the RBI said.

Six of eight infrastructure segments witnessed a year-on-year contraction in production, while fertilizers and steel output grew at a milder pace than July

The interest rates on small savings schemes such as Public Provident Fund (PPF) and National Savings Certificate (NSC) are reset each quarter

In absolute terms, the fiscal deficit was at ₹4,35,176 crore as of August-end

Gross revenues rose 6.5%, while net receipts were 3.9% higher than last September; seven States record a contraction while revenues were flat in Gujarat

Mahindra & Mahindra said its SUV wholesales in the domestic market increased 24% to 51,062 units in September compared to the same month of last year

The regulator will make a case for a tax break for municipal bonds during a meeting with the finance commission

More than 42.66 lakh people registered as construction workers to avail benefits from the buildings and construction welfare board of the State. But experts believe the construction sector of Odisha is not large enough to accommodate such a large labour force

Piyush Goyal said there will be no rethink on the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) curbs in the multi-brand retail sector.

Piyush Goyal said that critical minerals figured in his official parleys with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Thursday.