New Delhi: Legally binding commitments on professional services such as chartered accountants, doctors and architects under various Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed by India will help open up overseas opportunities for these professionals, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal has said. He has stated that India’s demographic dividend offers immense potential to meet the rising global demand…
Jaipur: Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said that the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act will transform rural India, and that it is “far better” than the law brought in by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance regime. Addressing a Kisan Sammelan at Merta City in Nagaur…
New Delhi: IndiGo has been allowed to operate five narrow-body planes leased from Turkey only till March 2026 and no further extension will be given, according to aviation regulator DGCA. The watchdog on Monday provided a clarification about the lease duration for aircraft taken by IndiGo from Turkey amid speculations that the airline has been…
Most investors start a SIP with a fixed amount—₹10,000 a month and never change it. While incomes rise over time, investments often don’t. The result? Expenses inflate, but wealth creation lags. A Step-up (Top-up) SIP fixes this by increasing your SIP every year, aligning investments with income growth. A Step-up SIP simply means raising your…
New Delhi: India and New Zealand on Monday said they have concluded talks on a free trade deal that will give India tariff-free access to the island nation’s markets, bring in USD 20 billion of investment over the next 15 years, and help double bilateral trade in the next five years. The third free-trade agreement…
Mumbai: India’s industrial growth narrative received a significant boost at the World Hindu Economic Forum (WHEF) 2025 with Shree Cement Chairman H.M. Bangur formally handing over a Letter of Intent (LoI) to invest ₹2,000 crore in Maharashtra to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. The announcement underscored growing corporate confidence in Maharashtra’s industrial ecosystem and India’s long-term…
New Delhi/Dhaka: India on Sunday rejected what it described as “misleading propaganda” in sections of the Bangladeshi media regarding a protest held outside the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi and asserted that there was no breach of security or threat to the diplomatic mission. External Affairs Ministry said a limited number of protesters had…
For nearly 65 years after Independence, India was governed more by political convenience than constitutional conviction. The Congress party, which dominated power for most of this period, institutionalised indecision, nurtured vote-bank politics, and allowed systemic corruption to become an accepted feature of governance. By 2014, India had not failed—but it had been deliberately restrained. Narendra…
Indore: Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Saturday expressed confidence that India will surpass Germany to become the world’s third-largest economy by the end of 2027, lauding the polices and institutional reforms ushered in by the Centre under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Scindia was addressing the ‘YEF Bharat Summit 2025’ organised by the Young Entrepreneurs Forum…
New Delhi: India and Oman will endeavour to implement the India-Oman free trade agreement, signed on December 18, within the next three months, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. Under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), Oman has offered zero-duty access on over 98 of its tariff lines or product categories, covering…
