This special Business Today issue, featuring the BT CareEdge Study on India’s Most Sustainable Companies, marks a landmark moment as we go beyond rhetoric to spotlight India Inc.’s most transformative sustainability journeys. The issue is accompanied by the inaugural edition of BT India’s Most Sustainable Companies 2025 Summit and Awards, an effort to recognise companies … Read more
China has quietly stopped clearing speciality fertiliser shipments to India, risking high-value crop output. It’s also holding back German tunnel machines for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train. While India scrambles for solutions, markets surged by over 1,000 points on falling oil prices, a weak dollar, and a ceasefire in the Middle East. All of this in … Read more
In today’s episode of Two Sharp, Nisha Poddar breaks down two top stories. An Air India Dreamliner crashed near Ahmedabad, killing 241 the first fatal 787 crash. Boeing shares slid nearly 5%, and the tragedy jolts Air India’s revival just as it was taking off.Meanwhile, Israel’s “Rising Lion” strikes killed IRGC chief Hossein Salami and … Read more
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Food prices are expected to be under control in the coming year, going by advance estimates of crop output, but the government will keep monitoring prices and act … Read more
Moody’s on Friday lowered its outlook on the U.S. credit rating to “negative” from “stable” citing large fiscal deficits and a decline in debt affordability, a move that drew immediate criticism from President Joe Biden’s administration. The move follows a rating downgrade of the sovereign by another ratings agency, Fitch, this year, which came after … Read more
U.S. Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti during the 20th Indo-US Economic Summit, in New Delhi on September 26, 2023 | Photo Credit: ANI India and the US need to strive towards a more ambitious and frictionless bilateral trade relationship, U.S. Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti said in New Delhi on Tuesday. Speaking at the 20th … Read more
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman called for collective responsibility of G20 countries to prevent global economic risks from aggravating Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman called for collective responsibility of G20 countries to prevent global economic risks from aggravating India on Thursday briefed the finance ministers and central bank governors of G20 countries about its agenda … Read more
Subhash Chandra Garg, author of The $10 Trillion Dream: The State of the Indian Economy and the Policy Reforms Agenda Subhash Chandra Garg, the former finance secretary, believes the government needs to get its act together fast on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology and must strive for a global strategy around it. The Budget’s move to … Read more
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (File Photo: PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a press conference today starting at 3 PM, is announcing some economic relief measures to boost sectors worst affected by the second wave of coronavirus. The government and RBI (Reserve Bank of India) have been working in tandem to support the economy since … Read more