Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday announced that former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah will join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on February 22, marking a significant political development ahead of the upcoming state Assembly elections.
Vembu said that the current trend in India is to focus on models that use fewer resources. He stated, "I think we are investing in lot of the smaller models. Those should be unglamorous right now, but they get the job done." He mentioned the startup Sarvam as an example of a company alrea
India's textile and apparel exports registered a decline in January compared with the same period last year, largely due to high tariffs imposed by the United States that remained in force till February 7.
Longer-term trends indicate a structural shift in India's gold imports, with value rising sharply over time while volumes have stagnated or declined. Gold import value increased from USD 32.91 billion in FY19 to USD 58.01 billion in FY25, a 76 per cent rise over six years.
Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], February 16: At a time when studies estimate that 70 to 80 percent of saffron sold globally is adulterated -- mixed with dyed corn silk, coconut fibers, or synthetic coloring -- a young Kashmiri entrepreneur is building what may be India's most transpare
he Indian stock market on Friday closed in the red as the benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty declined over 1 per cent. The indices were dragged by heavy selling in information technology (IT) shares.
He noted that while the overall industry is growing, the sector meant for low-income buyers is shrinking. "The biggest problem we see today in housing is in the affordable housing segment," Hiranandani said.
The domestic benchmark indices opened under pressure on Friday, with both Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex witnessing sharp declines amid weak global cues and risk-off sentiment.
India has revised the base year of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to 2024 from 2012 to reflect changes in consumption patterns, improved data sources and updated methodologies, Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI), Saurabh Garg, said today.
In contrast, banks saw their portfolio share decline from 32.7% in December 2024 to 26.6% in December 2025, it said. The report said that while banks posted 13.4% QoQ growth in originations value in Q3 FY26, their overall share in disbursements fell from 36.7% in Q3 FY25 to 26% in Q3 FY26. N
The cost of home-cooked vegetarian (veg) and non-vegetarian (nonveg) thalis declined 1 per cent and 7 per cent year-on-year, respectively, amid benign commodity prices in January, according to 'Roti Rice Rate' report of Crisil Intelligence.
According to Dawn, cultivators typically rely on last season's returns instead of dependable projections about demand, exports or global supply. When a crop fetches good prices one year, acreage surges the next. The market then becomes flooded, prices collapse, and farmers absorb heavy losse