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Trafigura wins $600 million nickel fraud lawsuit against businessman Gupta
Geneva-based Trafigura alleged Gupta was the mastermind of a...
Budget 2026 proposes penalties to tighten crypto transaction reporting
The proposal is aimed at ensuring compliance with Section 509 of...
India committed to partnering with international stakeholders to tackle global healthcare challenges: Goyal
Piyush Goyal,Union Commerce Minister Goyal also mentioned that over the past decade, transformative steps have been taken in public healthcare, such as providing free treatment to millions of Indians, establishing Jan Aushadhi Kendras, and building modern medical...
India on the verge of becoming clinical trials hub
India's clinical trials data market is estimated to touch $1.51 billion in 2025, according to U.S.-based GrandView Research. While India's reputation as a trusted region for conducting trials is improving, several challenges, such as a lack of standardized regulations...
Participation of Indian women in employment rises to 25% in 2024 from 22% in 2019
The findings of the 2024 survey revealed that 75 per cent of the males and 25 per cent of the females in the 15-59-year age group participated in employment and related activities during the reference period of 24 hours. Such participation was 70.9 per cent for males...
El Nino, La Nina forecast: Weather Agencies grapple with prediction challenges
An accurate read on the status of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation is essential for governments, energy markets and farmers planning their cropping regimes, especially as global warming exacerbates extreme weather. Warm and cold phases can cause sapping droughts or...
Premiums to fall as Govt finalises GST cut from 18% to 12 % on Term Life and Health cover with input tax credit(ITC)
On Tuesday, senior officials Ministry of Finance, Insurance Regulatory Development and Authority(IRDA) and insurers had met in Delhi to finalise the GST cut proposals before they are sent to GST Council, headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman that will take a...
Regulatory standards must be stronger for quality medicines: Health secy
The meeting with state drug regulators comes in the wake of the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) prohibiting the production and export of all combinations of pain relief medicines tapentadol and carisoprodol, following reports that unapproved combinations of...
Crypto trading booms in India’s interiors as job growth, incomes disappoint
Overall, India's crypto market is expected to grow to more than $15 billion in 2035 from $2.5 billion last year at a compound annual growth rate of 18.5 per cent, said Kush Wadhwa, partner at consulting firm Grant Thornton Bharat Like thousands of his countrymen in...
Google set to be charged with breaching EU rules
The European Commission has been investigating Google for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act since March last year. One probe focuses on whether Google favors its vertical search engines such as Google Shopping, Google Flights and Google Hotels over rivals,...
Govt seeks merchant bankers for selling equity in public sector banks financial institutions
As per the RFP (request for proposal) floated by DIPAM, the merchant bankers would be empanelled for a period of three years (further extendable by 1 year) and they would advise the government on the timing and the modalities of the transaction for dilution of equity...
Financial, capacity constraints of EU’s carbon border policy may disrupt India’s steel sector: Study
Being implemented since October 2023, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to apply carbon content-based charges on imports of certain emission-intensive products such as steel from countries with less stringent emission regulations, including India New...