• Tuesday, March 04, 2025

India economy & business news in brief for Feb 13:…

Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Monday, February 13, 2023: Retail inflation in India again breached the Reserve Bank of India's upper tolerance band in the month of January 2023, with the Consumer Price Index pegged at 6.52 per cent, government data released on…

Assam child marriage crackdown: Pregnant teenage girls avoid hospitals, opt…

With thousands of arrests being made in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam by the local government in a crackdown on child marriage, pregnant teenage girls/women are too scared to go for the reproductive care that they need, reports said. It has been reported that these girls/women are afraid to…

Amid major Air India aircraft order, Boeing eyes new logistics…

Salil Gupte, president of Boeing India, on Monday (13) told Reuters that the aircraft-manufacturing giant is considering investment of around $24 million in India to set up a logistics centre for plane parts. The plan aims at boosting Boeing's footprint in the South Asian country in the wake of a…

India foreign minister Jaishankar to visit Australia again, third time…

India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will be on a day-long visit to Australia on February 18, his third visit since February last year. Jaishankar will meet the Australian leadership in Sydney and attend the Raisina@Sydney Conference organised by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and India's Observer Research Foundation…

India batter Smriti Mandhana pockets $410,000 at country’s 1st women’s…

Several of the world's top women cricketers earned hundreds of thousands of dollars for their services in the inaugural Women's Premier League auction on Monday, with India's attacking batter Smriti Mandhana leading the way on $410,000 (£339,914). The left-handed 26-year-old was the first lot on the block at the sale…

Head coach Sirianni says Eagles will use Super Bowl pain…

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni vowed his team would use the bitter taste of Sunday's (12) Super Bowl defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs to drive them to go one further next season. Sirianni led the Eagles to the Super Bowl in just his second season as a head…

Eoin Morgan, who retired from international cricket last year, quits…

Eoin Morgan, England's lone 50-over World Cup-winning captain, on Monday (13) announced retirement from all short-format franchise cricket with immediate effect, less than a year after he quit the international game. The 36-year-old Irish-born Morgan had retired from international cricket in July 2022 after a 16-year career -- first with…

Australia wanted to practise on used pitch after losing 1st…

After failing to find any answer against India spinners in the first Test in Nagpur, Australia are desperate to make a comeback into the four-match Test series but it seems none of their ploys is working out. The visitors, who were hammered under three days in the first Test and…

Adani crash: Modi govt agrees to top court proposal on…

India's Narendra Modi government has no objection to a proposal for setting up a panel of domain experts to look into strengthening the regulatory mechanisms for the stock market, the country's Supreme Court was told on Monday (13) while it was hearing pleas relating to the Adani stocks rout after…

LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran alive & healthy, will appear soon,…

In a shocking claim, Nadu Pazha Nedumaran, a veteran politician from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on Monday (13) said Velupillai Prabhakaran, the chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who was declared dead by the government of Sri Lanka in 2009, is alive and healthy…