India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3 per cent over a decade from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to $3 per day. Image......
Defence expenditure was pegged at 1.4 per cent of GDP in the Budget for 2025-26 but it may widen, depending on tensions between India and Pakistan. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters The......
The cost for Indians in the US sending money back home will rise, with their total annual outgo is likely to cross $1.6 billion as the Trump administration plans to impose a 5 percent tax on......
'Maharashtrians are facing a dual battle -- numerical battle with North Indians and financial battle with Gujaratis and Marwaris.''This has created anxiety about survival and ownership over Mumbai......
The Interpol has issued the first Silver notice on India's request to track the global assets of former French embassy officer Shubham Shokeen, who is wanted in connection with a visa fraud,......
Flipkart has received a lending licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Walmart-backed ecommerce company confirmed on Thursday. Photograph: Abhishek N Chinnappa/Reuters The nod came in......
State-owned Bank of Baroda (BoB) on Sunday said it has cut its benchmark lending rate linked to repo rate by 50 basis points in line with the RBI's rate reduction. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff......
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty ended higher on Thursday, driven by buying in blue-chip stocks ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries amid fresh foreign fund inflows and firm global market......
India's forex reserves rose $2.29 billion to $698.95 billion for the week ended June 13, the RBI said on Friday. Photograph: Lisa Marie David/Reuters The overall reserves had increased by $5.17......
Reserve Bank on Friday decided to cut Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by a huge 1 per cent, which will unlock Rs 2.5 lakh crore liquidity to the banking system for lending to productive sectors of the......