- Wednesday, March 05, 2025
Here are news in brief related to India economy and business for Friday, December 23, 2022: Engineering goods exports from India, which constitute nearly one-fourth of the total merchandise exports, slumped 0.30 per cent to $8.07 billion in November from US$8.10 billion in the same month last year, Moneycontrol reported.…
India's elite Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested former ICICI Bank chief executive officer and managing director Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar in connection with alleged cheating and irregularities in loans sanctioned by the bank to the group in 2012, officials said Friday (23). The CBI had…
Rishabh Pant enhanced his reputation of being team's biggest game-changer with a scintillating 93 that put India in a commanding position for a series clean sweep against Bangladesh, in Mirpur on Friday (23). The Indian wicket-keeper-batter, who got out in the 90s for the sixth time in his Test career,…
Projecting a growth rate of 6.8 per cent and 6.1 per cent in the current and the next fiscal, respectively, the International Monetary Fund on Friday (23) said India is navigating a "very difficult" external environment. Choueiri Nada, the IMF's India Mission chief, in her virtual interaction with reporters reiterated…
Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy, founders of India's New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV), on Friday (23) said that they have taken the decision to transfer most of their shares in the company to businessman Gautam Adani, giving the latter's conglomerate control over nearly 65 per cent of the news network,…
Chennai Super Kings management, known for its practicality and prudence, pulled off a coup by buying England Test captain and world's premier all-rounder Ben Stokes in what looks like a leadership succession plan as and when Mahendra Singh Dhoni decides to hang his boots. Mumbai Indians, a team that has…
The government of the northern Indian state of Haryana has made a separate annual budgetary provision of Rs 68.42 crore (£6.8 million) to provide patients suffering from Stage-3 and Stage-4 cancer in the state a monthly pension of Rs 2,500 (£25). The decision follows an earlier announcement by chief minister…
A mock drill to test the Covid-19 emergency preparedness would be conducted in hospitals across India by the country's government on Tuesday (27). "A mock drill for an emergency response to deal with Covid 9 cases will be conducted at hospitals across the country on Tuesday, 27th December, the Union…
French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders of young foreigners in the 1970s across Asia, was freed on Friday (23) after spending almost 20 years in a Nepali jail. The 78-year-old was due to be deported to France on Friday evening, his lawyer said following his release. Sobhraj,…
Sixteen personnel of the Indian Army, including three junior commissioned officers, were killed in a road accident at Zema in the northern part of the Himalayan state of Sikkim on Friday (23) when their vehicle skidded off while negotiating a sharp turn, sources in the armed forces said. The lorry…
