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Indian Seafarers Banned from Conflict Zones After Deadly US Strike Just days after three Indian sailors lost their lives when a US military strike hit the MT Settebello near Oman, India’s shipping authority has stepped in with urgent action. The Directorate General of Shipping (DGS) has told all maritime recruitment agencies to stop sending Indian…

India’s Fertiliser Push: What It Means for Farmers India is getting two new urea plants soon — and for millions of farmers across the country, that’s quietly significant news. The government says these two facilities will add 25.4 lakh tonnes of urea production capacity every year. Combined with six plants already set up since 2014,…

Gold Prices to Stay Range-Bound This Week: Here’s What’s Driving the Market Gold investors, brace for another watchful week. Prices are expected to stay range-bound as markets keep an eye on major central bank meetings, the US-Iran negotiations, and crude oil movements, analysts told PTI. What to Watch This week, all eyes are on policy…

Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said movements in the rupee against the US dollar are influenced by a combination of global and domestic factors, stressing that the Reserve Bank of India intervenes only to contain excessive volatility and not to defend any specific exchange rate.Addressing reporters at Devanahalli near Bengaluru during an event…

“We Don’t Inflate Our Numbers”: CEA Nageswaran Defends India’s GDP Data Amid Growing Scrutiny As questions swirl around the reliability of India’s economic data, Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran has come out firmly in defence of the country’s GDP statistics, insisting that India doesn’t manipulate methodology or base years to inflate growth numbers. “GDP…

Inflation data, the US Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision and movements in crude oil prices will be the key triggers for Indian equity markets in the coming week, analysts said.Investors will also closely watch developments surrounding the proposed US-Iran agreement, foreign investor activity and trends in global markets for further direction.“On the domestic front, investors…

PM Modi, French President Macron inaugurate ‘Bharat Innovates’ in France Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday jointly inaugurated the Bharat Innovates 2026 conclave in Nice, bringing together startups, innovators, venture capital funds and academic institutions from India, France and other countries, as the two nations seek to deepen cooperation in…

China has moved ahead of Elon Musk‘s ‘Jesus-level technology’ Neuralink in the race to commercialise brain-computer interface technology, approving what is being described as the world’s first commercially available brain chip after successful clinical trials.The coin-sized implant, called NEO, has become the first surgically implanted brain-computer interface (BCI) device to clear clinical testing for commercial…

India remained the world’s second-largest buyer of Russian fossil fuels in May, importing Russian hydrocarbons worth an estimated 5.8 billion euros (USD 6.7 billion), as refiners stepped up purchases of discounted crude from Moscow, according to a report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).Crude oil accounted for the bulk of…

MUMBAI: As talks of a peace deal in West Asia revived on Thursday night, sending Dow Jones up over 900 points and pulling Brent crude prices below the $90-per-barrel mark, the rub-off effect was felt on Dalal Street on Friday. Sensex, after rising more than 1,000 points in early trades, and dipping slightly mid-session, closed…