New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Ahead of the Union Budget 2025-26, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Sunday shared 10-point agenda to further improve ease of doing business (EoDB) in the country where urgent policy interventions would be immensely helpful.
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Led by technology companies, the total market capitalisation of top 50 firms in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region surged to $8.1 trillion in 2024, reflecting a 20.6 per cent year-on-year increase, according to a new report.
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra said on Saturday that quality of work, not the quantity, is the key towards realising the ‘Viksit Bharat’ goal, as he touched upon the ongoing debate on the work-hour balance triggered by the country's top corporate leaders.
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) The production-linked incentive (PLI) 2.0 scheme for IT Hardware has seen Rs 10,000 crore production and 3,900 jobs in just 18 months of its launch, the government said on Saturday.
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) As the controversy raged over L&T Chairman S.N. Subrahmanyan’s suggestion to employees to work 90 hours a week, leading startup founders and investors on Saturday said that young India doesn't want to be told what to do and we should respect them.
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) In a significant milestone, India has joined the prestigious UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UN-CEBD), created to further investigate the benefits and challenges of Big Data, including the potential for monitoring and reporting on sustainable development goals.
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) Amid geo-political turbulence and the shrinking of world economies, India's economy is expected to remain a bright spot in the global ecosystem, pushing the global growth trajectory to higher levels, particularly the regional growth in South Asia, leading economists said on Saturday.
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, has urged the clean energy sector to become self-sustaining and independent of the government as production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes were meant only to help kickstart projects.
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) The Indian economy is expected to pick up growth momentum in the second half of the current financial year with high-frequency indicators such as digital payments, power demand, service PMI, air passenger traffic, rising toll and GST collections suggesting a recovery is already underway, according to a Bank of Baroda report released on Saturday.
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) The total number of registered startups in India have surged to 1,57,066 from around 400 in 2016, when the 'Startup India' initiative was launched, with investment in these new ventures jumping to $115 billion, from $8 billion in this nine-year period, according to data released by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).
