Sensex crashed 1,690 points, or 2.25%, to end at 73,583, while Nifty 50 settled at 22,819.60, falling 487 points, or 2.09%. Investors lost about ₹9 lakh crore. The Indian stock market suffered strong losses on Friday, March 27, with equity benchmarks — Sensex and Nifty 50 — falling more than 2% each. Sensex crashed 1,690…
Iranian media outlets, quoting an official source, reinforced the stance, saying, ‘The war will end when we are elected and only if our conditions are met’ Iran has asserted that it will determine the timing of the end of the ongoing conflict, maintaining that any resolution will depend solely on its own terms. “Iran will…
Following the resignation of HDFC Bank’s Chairman Atanu Chakraborty, the Reserve Bank of India said it had no concerns regarding the bank’s conduct or governance, affirming its strong financial position and competent management. Keki Mistry has been appointed as interim chairman for three months. A day after HDFC Bank’s Chairman Atanu Chakraborty resigned, the Reserve…
The Indian rupee fell to a historic low of ₹92.67 against the US dollar on March 18, driven by rising crude oil prices and economic risks tied to tensions in the Middle East. The Indian rupee slipped on Monday, March 18 to breach ₹92.50 against US dollar for the first time ever extending its recent…
The February deficit is lower than the $34.68 billion recorded in January, when a sharp rise in imports widened the trade gap to the highest level in several months. NEW DELHI: India’s merchandise trade deficit narrowed to $27.1 billion in February as imports moderated from the previous month, though elevated purchases of energy, gold and…
After Gurugram and Mumbai, Noida and Greater Noida were the favorites as the twin cities together sold Rs 9,358 crore worth homes in the ultra-luxury segment in CY 2025. Gurugram clocked transactions worth Rs 24,120 crore in the Rs 10-crore-plus segment during calendar year 2025 — a record for any Indian city In a…
L&T said that the partnership will work on developing AI-ready data centre infrastructure to support large-scale workloads across sectors such as manufacturing and infrastructure Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday said that it plans to set up a joint venture with chipmaking major Nvidia to build sovereign, gigawatt-scale AI factory infrastructure in India. The…
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,…
RBI announced over $23 billion in liquidity measures via repos, FX swaps and bond buys to ease banking system stress amid rising yields and rupee pressure The RBI has bought 3 trillion rupees of bonds during December-January, boosting the note-purchase tally for the fiscal year to a record high of 5.7 trillion rupees The…
Rates of expansion in incoming new work and output eased to the slowest in 11 months, with companies refraining from recruiting additional staff New Delhi: India’s services sector growth declined to an 11-month low in December amid slow expansion in new businesses, according to a private survey on Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC…