The latest reading reflects a fragile, uneven rebound in industrial activity amid soft domestic demand, global uncertainty, and sector-specific challenges. India’s industrial production growth accelerated to 5.2% year-on-year in February, led by a robust expansion in manufacturing and supported by moderate growth in mining and electricity, according to provisional data released by the ministry of…
Underscoring the growing importance of small and medium enterprises (SME) platforms as “powerful engines” for capital formation, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Wednesday flagged “egregious instances” of SMEs misusing regulatory relaxations, including diversion of funds and market manipulation. “These instances adversely affected investor confidence,” Pandey said,…
The reform represents a significant departure from the Atomic Energy Act of 1962, which restricted private participation in nuclear power generation and retained state monopoly under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 27 announced one of India’s most sweeping energy-sector reforms in decades, declaring that the country’s tightly controlled…
The advisable approach to debt funds is to match the portfolio maturity of the fund with your investment horizon. Two key events last week – Trump’s 50 percent tariff on Indian imports and the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) status quo on repo rate – are bound to get retail investors thinking about their debt…
The government will continue its focus on improving quality spending, strengthening the social security net and to bring down the fiscal deficit to 4.5% of the GDP in FY26, a finance ministry document said. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Budget for 2025-26 in Parliament on February 1. The Union…