The Centre on Thursday assured the people on the situation in the country amid the evolving situation in Middle East. In an inter ministerial briefing, it said LPG deliveries across the country remain stable amid the, with Delivery Authentication Code (DAC)-based deliveries rising to nearly 96 per cent to curb diversion and black marketing.Officials from…
Car buyers will have to pay more from next month as Maruti Suzuki India on Thursday announced a price increase of up to Rs 30,000 across its vehicle portfolio from June 2026, citing inflationary pressures and a persistently adverse cost environment, PTI reported.In a regulatory filing, the country’s largest carmaker said the exact increase would…
The rupee ended higher on Thursday snapping a two-week losing streak after strong intervention by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) helped support the domestic currency, though elevated oil prices and geopolitical risks continued to cloud the outlook, Reuters reported.The rupee settled at 96.20 against the US dollar, up 0.6 per cent from its previous…
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Benchmark equity index Sensex erased steep early losses to finish 117 points higher on Wednesday, supported largely by gains in Reliance Industries, even as investor sentiment remained cautious amid elevated crude oil prices and continued weakness in the rupee. The 30-share BSE Sensex advanced 117.54 points, or 0.16%, to close at 75,318.39. The index had…
Oil prices edged higher on Thursday as continuous supply disruptions due to the Iran conflict raised concerns over tightening fuel reserves across the globe. Benchmark oil prices traded marginally higher, with WTI Crude rising 0.58% to $98.83 a barrel and Brent Crude gaining 0.44% to $105.5 a barrel.The recovery comes after a sharp decline on…
MUMBAI: The war-led volatility in energy markets coupled with the risk of food inflation amid projections of below-normal monsoon rains this year could weigh on FMCG volume growth, Worldpanel by Numerator (formerly Kantar) said in its update on Wednesday. It estimated volume growth to drop to 3-4% if the situation doesn’t improve, as an unstable…
NEW DELHI: India’s digital transformation has pushed the country into a new era of cybersecurity risk, where traditional, manual defences may no longer be enough to counter increasingly sophisticated and automated cyberattacks, National Cyber Security Coordinator Navin Kumar Singh said on Tuesday. He stressed the need for artificial intelligence-powered security systems to protect critical infrastructure…
BENGALURU/DELHI/MUMBAI: The shelves began emptying even before Parle Products could quite understand what was happening. By Wednesday evening, searches on Melody, the caramel toffee by the Mumbai-based manufacturer of biscuits and confectionery, had jumped over 190 times on Google, while search strings like ‘Melody Modi’, ‘Meloni Melody’ all had ‘breakout’ tags on the search platform….
India’s eight core infrastructure sectors recorded a two-month high growth of 1.7 per cent in April, supported by higher output in steel, cement and electricity, according to government data released on Wednesday, PTI reported.The core sector had expanded by 1 per cent in April last year, while growth stood at 1.2 per cent in March…