New Delhi: Mobile phone companies, including electronics contract manufacturers, having a turnover of Rs 10,000 crore in FY26 will be eligible for benefits under the Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme, the government said on Friday. According to the guidelines of the Rs 62,500-crore Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) issued on Friday, mobile phone companies, including electronic…
New Delhi: Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd (TMPV) on Friday said it will hike prices of its vehicles across its models by up to Rs 25,000 from September 1 to partially offset an increase in input costs and inflationary pressures. The price increase across the portfolio, covering both internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric vehicles…
Mumbai: Domestic air passenger traffic slipped 4.80 per cent to 1.20 crore in July from 1.26 crore recorded in the year-ago month, with all major Indian airlines seeing a drop in the load factor, DGCA data released on Thursday showed. Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-July 2026 increased to 984.03 lakh against 977.79 lakh…
New Delhi: Food regulator FSSAI on Wednesday said that Amway India, Emami, Bonn Biscuits and three other companies have withdrawn misleading ‘100 per cent’ claims from their product labelling and advertisements, following its enforcement actions against these firms. In a social media post, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) informed that it…
Mumbai: Market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty declined in early trade on Tuesday as elevated crude oil prices and rising tensions in West Asia weighed heavily on investors’ sentiment. The 30-share BSE Sensex was down 278.32 points to 77,450.64 in early trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty edged lower by 57.65 points to 24,230.45. From the…
New Delhi: Under fire over the re-test of three UGC-NET papers that were riddled with several errors, the National Testing Agency (NTA) went into damage control mode on Monday by sacking more people, taking the total number of axed staff members to 50, and roping in professionals for key leadership positions as part of its…
A stablecoin is a digital token designed to hold a steady value, almost always one US dollar. It works like a digital dollar that can move instantly across borders on a phone, backed by real assets such as cash and short-term US government bonds held by the issuer. What a stablecoin is and how the…
Shrikant Rao A few months ago, in April, standing on the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower for the ninth time in my journalistic career, looking out over the grey slate roofs of Paris and the rise of Montmartre in the distance, I felt a familiar tug of history. But this time, the emotion wasn’t…
New Delhi: Vedanta Ltd on Friday said it has been declared the successful bidder for the Punnam manganese block in Andhra Pradesh. Spread over 152 hectares, the block is currently at the G4 stage of exploration, which is the initial phase of mineral exploration focusing on broad-scale geological surveys to identify potential minerals. “The company…
Greetings to the Orangenews9 Team and its readers. Responding to the Editor’s appeal, I chose to write about how India’s financial architecture has evolved during the last eighty years of Independence. The story of post-Independence India’s financial architecture is a remarkable chronicle of reinvention. Over nearly eight decades, the nation has moved from a rigid,…
