PM Modi hailed India’s 7.8% GDP growth, says youth dreams need sustained effort NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged Indians to embrace the ‘vocal for local’ mantra, asking people to avoid foreign holidays, hosting weddings abroad and buying gold unless necessary, while hailing the country’s robust GDP growth. He linked the appeal…
Namo Bharat trains have brought the Delhi-Meerut journey down to less than an hour, with trains operating at speeds of up to 160 kmph. In 2023, India saw the launch of its fastest commuter train service – the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) train service, also called the Namo Bharat. Within years the entire corridor…
The government collected Rs 1,99,853 crore in gross GST revenue during August. NEW DELHI: The gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue rose 14.8 per cent year-on-year to Rs 1,99,853 crore in August 2026, according to provisional government data released on Tuesday.Net GST revenue for the month, after refunds, increased 8.3 per cent year-on-year to…
Over time, the interest earned on the accumulated balance earns interest, allowing compounding to steadily increase your retirement savings. Being a crorepati and accumulating a corpus of over Rs 1 crore is often a financial goal for money. But when you are thinking of SIPs, mutual funds, stock markets, ETFs, gold, silver, one quiet savings…
Digital payments hit a record 24.51 billion transactions in August Unified Payments Interface (UPI) hit a new monthly high in August, with transaction volumes crossing 24 billion for the first time in a month and reaching 24.51 billion, according to data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Tuesday.The record came as…
One individual on Reddit claims that he has achieved a net worth of Rs 7 crore at the age of 31. (Image for representative purpose) Financial independence has always been a talked about subject, what is changing however is the trend of FIRE – which means Financial Independence, Retire Early. Several people are sharing their…
NEW DELHI: Centre on Tuesday tightened the stock limit for sugar dealers, reducing it from 4,000 quintals to 2,000 quintals from September 15 to November 30, as it sought to curb hoarding and contain rising retail prices.The food ministry said the existing 4,000-quintal limit would continue in Kolkata and its extended metropolitan areas “considering the…
India’s IT hiring landscape is undergoing a significant change. Layoffs have headlined the global tech landscape for over a year now and the trend continues as the industry faces one its biggest disruptions in recent years. In India too the tech hiring and firing situation is evolving fast.Global tech giant Microsoft has put around 500…
India Manufacturing PMI falls to 52.8 in August India’s manufacturing sector lost further momentum in August, with slower output and new orders dragging factory activity to its weakest level in five years. Employment also fell for the first time in two-and-a-half years, marking a broader slowdown in the sector.The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing…
India’s GDP grows 7.8% in Q1 War next door. Markets on edge. Commodity prices swinging. Yet India’s growth engine continues to run strong, clocking a 7.8% GDP growth for the April-June quarter.The Q1 numbers for the financial year 2026-2027 are particularly significant as they beat expectations and comfortably exceeded the Reserve Bank of India’s 7%…