Piyush Goyal calls for positioning India as world's manufacturing hub

IANS | November 11, 2026 7:02 AM

New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has called for positioning India as the world's manufacturing hub through global partnerships and export-led growth, saying that India is well on track to achieve $1 trillion export target this year.

MMTC's Q2 profit slumps 85 pc; shares down nearly 18 pc in 2026

IANS | November 10, 2026 8:49 PM

Mumbai, Nov 10 (IANS) MMTC Limited, a central public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, on Tuesday reported a sharp fall in earnings for the quarter ended September 2026, with consolidated net profit dropping 85.3 per cent year-on-year to Rs 25 crore from Rs 171 crore in the corresponding period last financial year (Q2 FY26).

Centre urges Bengal farmers to reduce use of chemical fertilisers

IANS | November 10, 2026 6:48 PM

Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) As part of the nationwide Khet Bachao Abhiyan to promote natural farming, the Minister of State (MoS) for Agriculture, Ram Nath Thakur, on Tuesday participated in a programme organised by the ICAR-National Institute of Natural Fibre Engineering and Technology (ICAR-NINFET) at Subhasnagar in Swarupnagar block of West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.

India and France deepen cooperation in space, critical technologies and economic security

IANS | November 10, 2026 6:33 PM

Paris, Nov 10 (IANS) India and France on Tuesday held the 3rd Strategic Space Dialogue and the inaugural meeting of the India-France Economic Security and Critical Technologies Dialogue in Paris, co-chaired by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Martin Briens, Secretary General of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Indian Embassy in France said.

India's economic transformation is more than a manufacturing story

Vivek Y. Kelkar | November 10, 2026 6:32 PM

New Delhi, Nov 10: An assessment of Narendra Modi's 25 years in public office, published by The Economist in October, raised a familiar criticism. India has grown rapidly but has failed to achieve the structural transformation necessary to become a major manufacturing economy. The Economist’s comparison with China's Fujian province, particularly the movement of workers out of agriculture, risks measuring India's economic transformation too narrowly, overlooking changes in productive capabilities, infrastructure, technology and the country's position in a fragmenting global economy.