Next 5 years set to further boost India’s domestic electronics manufacturing

IANS | June 21, 2024 3:05 PM

New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) India, on its way to becoming the global electronics manufacturing hub, has doubled down on the local manufacturing of multiple products -- mobile phones and their components, televisions, semiconductors and other devices -- and the momentum is only going to grow in the next five years riding on the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, according to industry experts.

Business activity surges in June, hiring at 18-year high: PMI survey

IANS | June 21, 2024 1:24 PM

New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) Output growth across India's private sector regained growth in June with business activity increasing at quicker rates among manufacturing companies and services firms while hiring of workers shot up to an 18-year high, according to HSBC’s flash PMI data released on Friday.

Sensex trades flat after opening in green

IANS | June 20, 2024 10:01 AM

Mumbai, June 20 (IANS) Indian equity benchmarks were trading flat on Thursday as mixed cues from global markets. At 9.50 a.m., Sensex was down 28 points or 0.04 per cent, at 77,309 and Nifty was down 16 points or 0.07 per cent at 23,499.

India’s net direct tax collections surge by 21 pc in FY25

IANS | June 18, 2024 6:49 PM

New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) India’s net direct tax collections have shot up by a robust 20.99 per cent for the financial year 2024-25 as of June 17 to Rs 4,62,664 crore, compared to Rs 3,82,414 crore in the same period of the preceding fiscal, according to the provisional figures released by the Finance Ministry on Tuesday.