Representative image. Surat: Facing global slowdown, the country’s gem and jewellery trade is expecting various reliefs from the government in the next Union budget. The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) has proposed several recommendations to the government in this regard. According to GJEPC, the industry sustains around 4.3 million jobs and contributes 10…
Stock market today: BSE Sensex and Nifty50 resumed surged in trade on Friday after three continuous days of decline this week. While BSE Sensex surged over 650 points, Nifty5 crossed the 21,600 level. At 9:28 AM, BSE Sensex was trading at 71,837.84, up over 650 points or 0.91%. Nifty50 was up over 190 points or…
IMPHAL: A father-son pair was among three farmers fatally shot by suspected militants while tilling their fields in a village of Manipur’s Bishnupur around 4.30pm on Thursday, stretching a sequence of violence that started early Wednesday with two police commandos being killed in Moreh and a village defence volunteer later dying in a gunfight in…
New Delhi: Footwear retail chain Metro Brands on Thursday reported a 12.57 per cent decline in consolidated net profit to Rs 98.78 crore for the third quarter ended December 2023. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 112.99 crore during the October-December period a year ago, according to a regulatory filing from Metro…
Representative image Demand for lifestyle products and apparel remained weak despite retailers offering discounts of as much as 65% during their ongoing end of season sales (EOSS). Most brands also advanced their EOSS by two weeks to early December compared to January, hoping to mop up sales before ecommerce platforms begin their Republic Day sales….
MUMBAI: The recent rally in the stock price of life insurance major LIC on Wednesday helped it replace banking major SBI as the most valued government-run company in the country. At the close of the day’s trade, LIC had a market capitalisation of Rs 5.61 lakh crore compared to SBI’s Rs 5.59 lakh crore, BSE…
NEW DELHI: Telecom and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India is seen as a trusted partner by companies and countries across the world, and country is eyeing $100 billion in annual FDI “in the next few years”.“There is a big amount of trust when it comes to India. That is our biggest capital. For…
NEW DELHI: Navy will begin deploying a small batch of women Agniveers, who now number 1,119 in the force, as sailors on frontline warships, towards end-Feb to join the almost 50 women officers already serving on them.Lt Commander Prerna Deosthalee is also set to soon take over as the first woman commanding officer of a…
NEW DELHI: Two years prior to the nationwide ‘Me Too’ movement, a Muslim woman in 2016 had lodged an FIR at a police station in Assam accusing a Hindu man of sexually assaulting her in 1982 when she was a minor and cited birth of a male child in 1983 to corroborate the rape, a…
China’s ruling Communist Party is facing a national emergency. To fix it, the party wants more women to have more babies. It has offered them sweeteners, like cheaper housing, tax benefits and cash. It has also invoked patriotism, calling on them to be “good wives and mothers”. China’s population was 1,409,670,000 (or 1.4 billion) at…
