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NEW DELHI: The Tata group and European aerospace company Airbus have signed an agreement to manufacture H125 civilian helicopters together in India. This announcement came as India and France adopted a joint defence production road map and an agreement on defence space partnership, following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron. […]

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NEW DELHI: India and the UK will likely sign an agreement in early February to spurt flow of London-based patient capital funds the burgeoning infrastructure sector of the world’s fifth largest economy. India is aiming for $5-10 billion inflows in the initial phase to establish a proof of concept in project financing for investors to […]

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NEW DELHI: With the growing activities of international pirates off the Gulf of Aden driving up the costs of freight and shipping, the government has moved to build more armed vessels to keep open the international shipping lanes that carry much of the world’s trade through this war-torn region. In the last 20 years, the […]

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MUMBAI: India pipped Hong Kong to become the fourth-largest equity market in the world based on Monday’s market capitalisation driven by consistent selling pressure on Chinese stocks as earnings prospects eroded. India’s total market capitalisation rose to $4.33 trillion after a gain of more than $130 billion so far in 2024 while market value of […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar may disagree, but the country has failed to use its import trade muscle to improve its diplomatic relations with China. His recent statement on Sino-India relations at a gathering in Nagpur earlier this month that “a strife-torn border and good business can’t go together” lacks clarity […]

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By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, the recent Awami League (AL) victory in the 2024 parliamentary polls has left major world powers sharply divided and common people confused. Significantly, the none-too-unpredictable outcome has not left too many Bangladeshis noticeably jubilant, excepting ruling AL leaders. The comfortable margin of the AL’s victory has bought ruling Prime Minister […]

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MUMBAI: Indian carriers are expected to have an order book for 2,000 planes by March next year, with long-term rapid growth for both domestic and international air traffic, according to a report on Friday. The domestic airlines currently have an order book for close to 1,620 aircraft, including the 150 narrow-body Boeing 737 Max order […]

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DAVOS: Indian Railways plans to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Swiss railway to learn from some of their best practices and procedures including the hub and spoke model and tunnelling technology, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday. In an interview with PTI here during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, the […]

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Thursday made a further upward revision to its 2024 oil demand growth forecast, though its projection remains dramatically lower than producer group OPEC’s expectations. The Paris-based agency’s forecast, its third consecutive upward revision in as many months, predicts that global oil consumption will rise by 1.24 million barrels per […]

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In a big blow to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ on its very first day in Assam, the state police of Jorhat district on Thursday registered a Suo moto case against the organisers of the rally for violating government guidelines regarding the yatra route. According to the police, the yatra led by Congress leader […]

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MUMBAI: Consumer price index-based inflation, the main yardstick for the Reserve Bank of India’s policy making, is likely to average 4.5 per cent in the next financial year and gross domestic product (GDP) growth is likely to stay above 7 per cent, Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Wednesday. “At this stage, our expectation is that […]

The post CPI Inflation To Average 4.5% In Fy25, Growth To Top 7%: RBI Governor first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

DAVOS: Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday asserted that India can become a five trillion dollar economy much before 2028 and said the country’s energy transition needs to be done in an orderly manner to safeguard the interests of its large population. Puri, the minister for petroleum and natural gas as well as housing […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is facing rising industrial concentration in just five hands, and is enriching billionaires, private equity funds, and crony capitalists driving unprecedented level of inequalities and poverty among people. Dalits are facing high and unaffordable out-of-pocket fees in the private healthcare sector, financial exclusion in the private healthcare sector, and overt […]

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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday signed an agreement to acquire five lithium brine blocks for exploration and development in Argentina. The agreement was signed between Khanij Bidesh India Ltd (KABIL) and Catamarca Minera Y Energética Sociedad Del Estado (CAMYEN), a state-owned mining and energy company in the Argentine province of Catamarca. This is the […]

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NEW DELHI: The government will take a decision after September on the existing import management system on certain IT hardware products such as laptops and tablets after evaluating the import data, which it is monitoring, an official said. In October last year, India put in place an import management system under which importers of these […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The new year’s best news for India, is that the Saudi Arabia-led Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is fast losing its grip on the market with a number of countries willing to offer prices even lower than those fixed for Russian crude. Saudi Arabia itself has cut down crude oil prices […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Uncertainty in Global labour market is likely to continue while unemployment is set to rise in 2024. Growing inequality and stagnant productivity will also be cause of concern on the economic front, especially at a time when the global economy is on track for the slowest half-decade of growth in 30 […]

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By Dr Arun Mitra War is the most serious threat to public health with catastrophic effects on infrastructure and environment and accounts for more deaths & disability than many major diseases combined. It destroys families, communities and sometimes whole cultures. It channels limited resources away from health and other social needs. Any nuclear exchange can […]

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By C.J. Atkins The strongest weapon the ruling class possesses is its control of the press—its domination of the sources through which people get their information. A hundred years ago, a group of radical workers and Marxist writers launched a publication in the United States of America they hoped would break the monopoly that bosses […]

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Microsoft overtook Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Thursday after the iPhone maker’s shares made a weak start to 2024 due to growing concerns over demand. Shares of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft were last up 1.6%, giving it a market valuation of $2.875 trillion as its early lead in the race to make money […]

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MUMBAI: India has emerged as “vishwa mitra”, or a trusted friend, in the rapidly changing world order, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. He projected the country as a new ray of hope amid global uncertainties and an engine of growth for the world economy. The prime minister was addressing the Vibrant Gujarat Global […]

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