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- Business
- December 18, 2025
India’s 10 Semiconductor Plants Go Live with Commercial Chips: MeitY Secretary Krishnan
India’s newly established semiconductor manufacturing units have begun producing commercial chips, marking a major milestone in the country’s efforts to build a domestic electronics and manufacturing ecosystem, S Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Techno Read More
- Business
- December 18, 2025
PM Modi Suggests Five New Projects In Green Energy Sector With Oman
At the India-Oman Business Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted that the India-Oman joint investment fund has attracted investments in both the countries in multiple sectors including energy, oil and gas, fertilizers, health, petrochemicals, and green energy.”We have Read More
- Business
- December 18, 2025
India-Oman CEPA ‘Watershed Moment’ Unlocks Trade Boom After UK, EFTA Pacts: Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal
India and Oman are at the cusp of witnessing a “watershed moment in our millenia-old relationship”, said Minister of Commerce Piyush Goyal while speaking to a gathering at the Oman-India Business Summit in Muscat, Oman. He said that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreemen Read More
- Business
- December 18, 2025
FM Sitharaman Tables Securities Markets Code Bill in LS, Eyes Finance Panel Review
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday introduced ‘The Securities Markets Code Bill, 2025’ in the Lok Sabha and proposed that the Bill be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance for further examination. Speaking in the Lok Sabha after introducin Read More
- Business
- December 18, 2025
India-Oman FTA likely To Boost Industrial Exports As Current Tariffs Range Up To 100%: GTRI
The proposed India-Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) is expected to significantly boost India’s industrial exports, as import duties in Oman currently range from zero to as high as 100 per cent on select products, according to a report by the Global Trade R Read More
- Business
- December 18, 2025
Gold Steady Ahead Of Key US Inflation Data; Silver Near Record Highs
Gold prices were steady on Thursday, supported by dovish Federal Reserve signals but restrained by a resilient dollar ahead of key U.S. inflation data this week, while silver hovered near record highs.Spot gold was down 0.1% at $4,334.70 an ounce, as of 0534 GMT, after rising mor Read More
- Business
- December 18, 2025
India Streamlines Visa Rules In Boost For Chinese Professionals
India has reformed its business visa regime to ease movement of foreign engineers and technicians, the government said in a statement, which will be a boost local firms leaning on Chinese professionals for manufacturing services.Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal T Read More
- Business
- December 18, 2025
Stock Market Today: Sensex & Nifty Muted As Gains In IT, Financials Offset Broader Losses
Indian shares struggled for direction in early trade on Thursday, after three consecutive sessions of losses, as financials and information technology stocks offset losses in other sectors amid a lack of major triggers.The Nifty 50 was up 0.05% at 25,829 points and the BSE Sensex Read More
- Business
- December 17, 2025
Warner Bros Urges Investors to Reject $108bn Paramount–Skydance Bid
Warner Bros Discovery’s board rejected Paramount Skydance’s $108.4 billion hostile bid on Wednesday, saying it failed to provide adequate financing assurances.In a letter to shareholders, disclosed in a regulatory filing, the board wrote that Paramount had “consistently misled” W Read More
- Business
- December 17, 2025
InvIT, REIT Payouts Jump Over 55% in Q2 FY26 on Roads, Realty and Infra Boost: ICRA Analytics
India’s Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) reported robust growth in distributions during the second quarter of FY2026, supported by strong operating performance across asset classes such as roads, power and energy, commercial real Read More
