Manage your risk, choose stocks carefully, but stay invested: Devina Mehra

Manage your risk, choose stocks carefully, but stay invested: Devina Mehra

Devina Mehra, Founder & CMD, First Global, says when there is fear, anxiety and uncertainty, that is when the next period returns are above normal. When everything looks very good and as was the case in 2024, when people were saying, “I am conservative and I want only 35% compounding”, that is when the next … Read more

Liquidity, currency fluctuations, and crude prices to influence market sentiment: Harsha Upadhyaya

Liquidity, currency fluctuations, and crude prices to influence market sentiment: Harsha Upadhyaya

“There was an expectation that third quarter will be slightly better than first half. In the first half, if you remember, Nifty has shown a growth of about 3.5% on a year-on-year basis,” says Harsha Upadhyaya, CIO-Equity, Kotak AMC.First up, give us a sense of how quarter three has shaped up overall. What are you … Read more

YSRCP protests against power tariff hike in Tirupati

YSRCP protests against power tariff hike in Tirupati

A YSRCP delegation, led by district president Bhumana Karunakar Reddy, returning after submitting a representation to APSPDCL in Tirupati on Friday. | Photo Credit: K.V. POORNACHANDRA KUMAR Leaders of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) took out demonstrations across Tirupati district on Friday (December 27) against the hike in power tariff. Led by party Tirupati district … Read more

Canada’s Trudeau says he had an “excellent conversation” with Trump in Florida after tariffs threat

Canada’s Trudeau says he had an “excellent conversation” with Trump in Florida after tariffs threat

West Palm Beach (US): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday he had an “excellent conversation” with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club after the president-elect’s threat to impose significant tariffs on two of America’s leading trade partners raised alarms in Ottawa and Mexico City. It was unclear, as Trudeau headed back to Canada from … Read more

Power tariff hike: amid uproar, consumers urge regulatory commission to reject KSEB proposals

Power tariff hike: amid uproar, consumers urge regulatory commission to reject KSEB proposals

A public hearing held here on Wednesday on the proposals to revise electricity tariffs intermittently relapsed into shouting matches between sections of the participants, even as a general demand arose that the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) reject the proposals which include a first-of-its-kind ‘summer tariff.’ The hearing was the fourth and final one … Read more

Power deficit year pushes the implementation of multi-year tariff in Karnataka to next FY 

Power deficit year pushes the implementation of multi-year tariff in Karnataka to next FY 

Image for representation purpose only. Under MYT, the electricity supply tariff for three years would be predetermined through projections based on previous trends After announcing in 2023 its intention to implement a multi-year tariff (MYT) system in the State from the Financial Year 2024–2025, the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) decided to drop it for … Read more

India, US decide to end six trade disputes at WTO; Delhi to lift retaliatory tariffs

India, US decide to end six trade disputes at WTO; Delhi to lift retaliatory tariffs

India and the United States have agreed to end six trade disputes at the World Trade Organisation and New Delhi will also lift retaliatory customs duties on 28 American products. This is likely to shore up trade between the nations and also help Indian exporters get key tax advantages. The decisions come amid Indian Prime … Read more

India weighs options against EU law on retaliatory tariffs

India weighs options against EU law on retaliatory tariffs

New Delhi: India is exploring ways to counter the EU‘s domestic law that allows it to impose retaliatory tariffs in response to an appeal into the non-functioning dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Officials said the EU law violates global trade norms and can become another dispute at the organisation. While the … Read more

During KERC public hearing, industry bodies oppose KPTCL’s proposal to levy pension and gratuity charges onto consumer tariff

During KERC public hearing, industry bodies oppose KPTCL’s proposal to levy pension and gratuity charges onto consumer tariff

Along with other prudent costs of up to ₹5.33 crore and a revenue gap of ₹64 crore, KPTCL had urged the commission to recover ₹2,803 crore from Escoms which would be passed onto the consumer tariffs.  In a public hearing called by the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) on Monday, Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) … Read more