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New Delhi: After nearly three-and-a-half years, the Reserve Bank of India Wednesday raised key benchmark policy rate by 25 basis points to 5.5 per cent in a bid to tame rising inflation amid continuing West Asia crisis. With the rate hike, home loans, vehicle loans...

Accra: India and Ghana have discussed multilateral cooperation and Delhi's deepening engagement with the African Union and ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Ghanaian counterpart Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa. Jaishankar, who arrived in Ghana on Tuesday on the...

RABINARAYAN JENA, OP Bhubaneswar: More than 50,000 outsourced employees engaged through various service providers in the state will no longer be counted as ‘manpower’ under a new Finance department policy. Instead, their services will be measured in terms of ‘manhours’, as they are engaged on...

Bhubaneswar: In a major step towards building a future-ready workforce and reinforcing Odisha’s leadership in skill development and technical education, Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were exchanged with various strategic partners at a special ceremony held at World Skill Center here Tuesday. This collaboration will strengthen...

Chicago: It's official Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its USD 81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The companies completed the deal Tuesday, ushering in a new Hollywood giant with the now shorter Skydance nametag. The merger brings two of America's oldest moviemaking studios together. And...

New Delhi: The GST Council is scheduled to meet October 8 to take up the next phase of reforms in the indirect tax regime, which include proposals to speed up refunds, make it easier to register companies, and introduce a trust-based administration by taking a...

New Delhi: The government Tuesday committed Rs 10,000 crore to establish an SME Growth Fund for direct equity investments in Small and Medium Enterprises to create future champions. The decision was taken at the Union Cabinet meeting headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The SME...

New Delhi: Senior trustees of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust have accused fellow trustees Venu Srinivasan and Vijay Singh of "undermining board resolutions and breaching their fiduciary duties by publicly supporting the listing of Tata Sons", the holding company of the Tata Group, according to a...

New Delhi: India's services sector growth touched a three-month high in September, as new orders increased sharply, supported by strengthening domestic demand, a monthly report said Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services PMI Business Activity Index rose to 55.2 in September, from 54.1 in...

Mumbai: Passenger vehicle retail sales in India rose a robust 32.1 per cent year-on-year to 4,27,213 units in September even as the total automobile retail sales for the month were 25,36,920 units, registering a growth of 31.82 per cent over September 2025, Federation of Indian...