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…
Stock Market Crash, Stock Markets Today: India stock markets extended their decline into fourth straight day on Monday, February 10, 2025. The BSE Sensex today fell 753 points or around 1 per cent to hit a low of 77,106 level. The Nifty50 index, too, dropped 244 points to a low of 23,316 level. The BSE Sensex eventually…