New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) India’s smartphone market grew a modest 1 per cent year‑on‑year in volume but a robust 8 per cent in value in 2025, underscoring sustained premiumisation, a report said on Monday.
Mumbai, Feb 2 (IANS) Indian equity markets bounced back strongly in the final hour of trade on Monday, helped by late buying in heavyweight stocks such as Adani Ports, Bharat Electronics, L&T, Mahindra & Mahindra, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank.
Mumbai, Feb 2 (IANS) India is in a sweet spot today, and the Union Budget for a ‘Future Ready Bharat’ covers a multitude of sectors, both traditional and modern, giving impetus to services with a major focus on tech, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday.
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran said on Monday that the increase in Securities Transaction Tax on derivatives trading announced in the Union Budget 2026-27 is aimed at securing household savings from highly speculative bets rather than generating revenue for the government.
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Union Budget 2026–27 kept a "long‑term vision at the forefront" by increasing capital expenditure and improving the expenditure mix, a report said on Monday.
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said India has emerged as one of the biggest drivers of global economic growth, highlighting an International Monetary Fund (IMF) chart shared by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk that shows India and China together contributing 43 per cent of worldwide GDP growth.
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The Pakistan government has become addicted to IMF borrowing much like a drug addict and refuses to extricate itself from the self-made problem of creating cycles of foreign exchange shortages and bare sufficiency with IMF loans, according to a new report.
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Indian scientists at the Department of Science and Technology (DST) have developed a solar-powered energy storage device that can both capture and store energy in a single unit, marking a major step towards clean, self‑sustaining storage systems, an official statement said.
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Trade in goods and services between Finland and India currently stands at around 3 billion euros and could double by 2032, driven by the benefits of the recently concluded EU-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Finland’s Ambassador to India, Kimmo Lahdevirta, said on Monday.
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The Union Budget announcements link health policy with rural livelihoods, export growth, youth employment and entrepreneurship — strengthening India’s emergence as the world capital of evidence-based holistic healthcare, Ayush Minister Prataprao Jadhav said on Monday.
