Mumbai: Indian equity indices were trading higher after opening at a fresh record high on Friday, following positive cues from Asian peers. At 9:37 a.m., Sensex was up 221 points or 0.27 per cent at 82,355 and Nifty was up 66 points or 0.26 per cent at 25,217. At the...

New Delhi: India’s gross domestic product slowed to a five-quarter low of 6.7 per cent in April-June this fiscal against 8.2 per cent in the year-ago period, mainly due to poor showing by the farm sector, according to government data. India remains the fastest-growing...

New Delhi: The Central government’s fiscal deficit in the first four months (April-July) of the current financial year stands at Rs 2.77 lakh crore which works out to 17.2 per cent of the full-year target and is lower than the corresponding figure of 33.9 per cent in...

New Delhi: Surpassing world’s leading digital payments platforms, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) processed nearly Rs 81 lakh crore transactions in the April-July period this year, which is a staggering 37 per cent increase (year-on-year). According to the...

Singapore: Singapore Airlines on Friday said it has received approval from the Indian government for the foreign direct investment as part of the proposed merger of Vistara with Air India, a deal that will create one of the world’s largest airline groups. With the...

Mumbai: Quick e-commerce platform Zepto on Friday said it has secured $340 million in a follow-on financing round, taking the company’s valuation to $5 billion after its previous fundraise in June. General Catalyst led the round, with Dragon Fund, and Epiq Capital...

Mumbai: Indian equity indices were trading higher after opening at a fresh record high on Friday, following positive cues from Asian peers. At 9:37 a.m., Sensex was up 221 points or 0.27 per cent at 82,355 and Nifty was up 66 points or 0.26 per cent at 25,217. At the...