Representative image Budget Expectations 2025: Last year, reduction in import duty singlehandedly improved the market’s strength and demand for precious metals and fine jewellery. With prices becoming more affordable, demand for jewellery rose in the current fiscal year. Encouraging and empowering the industry further with initiatives such as SGB (sovereign gold bond), gold ETF, GMS…
Putin commended PM Narendra Modi’s national-centric approach and the “Make in India” programme. Russia willing to set up manufacturing operations in India? At the VTB Investment Forum in Moscow, the Russian president Vladimir Putin drew parallels between Russia’s import substitution programme and India’s “Make in India” initiative. He indicated Russia’s readiness to establish manufacturing units…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday praised India for establishing “stable conditions” for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), highlighting India’s economic programmes. The Russian president, speaking at the VTB Investment Forum in Moscow, also compared the “Make in India” initiative with Russia’s import substitution programme. He also expressed Russia’s willingness to set up manufacturing facilities…
BENGALURU: TPG Nambiar, founder of BPL and pioneer of India’s consumer electronics brand in the 1990s, passed away on Thursday at 95.Nambiar, who established BPL (earlier known as British Physical Laboratories) in 1963 in Kerala, wanted to create high-quality electronic products after he returned from his stints in the UK and the US. He is…
BENGALURU: Electronics firm British Physical Laboratories India (BPL) group founder and chairman emeritus TPG Nambiar has passed away on Thursday.Nearly 95, Nambiar is survived by his wife Thankam, son Ajit, daughter Anju, daughter-in-law Meena, son-in-law Rajeev Chandrasekhar, and grandchildren Shreya, Devika and Ved.“Shri TPG Nambiar Ji was a pioneering innovator and industrialist, who was a…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi and Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez on Monday jointly inaugurated the TATA Aircraft Complex in Vadodara for manufacturing C-295 transport aircraft, with Modi saying India’s first private military aircraft factory will not only strengthen relations between the two countries, but also provide momentum to the mission of ‘Make in India, Make…
“He (Modi) has made India very strong. Now he is the only one who can deliver 10% economic growth annually,” Watsa said. Prem Watsa, the billionaire CEO of Fairfax Financial Holdings who has earned the moniker of ‘Canada’s Warren Buffet’, expressed his confidence in India’s ability to achieve double-digit economic growth, which he believes is…
Photo credit: X/Royal Moroccan Armed Forces NEW DELHI: Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) has secured a contract to manufacture Wheeled Armoured Platform (WhAP) combat vehicles for the Moroccan defence forces.“Kingdom of Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces and Tata Advanced Systems sign deal for local production of Wheeled Armoured Platform. Developed in collaboration with the DRDO and…
PM Modi appreciated the efforts of the residents of Jhala village in Uttarkashi district for the cleanliness drive called ‘Dhanyavaad Prakriti’ NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Sunday marked the soon to be celebrated 10th anniversary of his radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat‘ by praising the success of initiatives taken as part of his campaigns…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his ‘Mann ki Baat‘ address on Sunday thanked the listeners as his monthly radio programme completed 10 years.PM Modi’s radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ started on October 3, 2014, on the day of Vijayadashmi. “It is such a holy coincidence that this year on 3rd October, when ‘Mann…
