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Alibaba Group Holding sales beat estimates as regulatory headwinds loom

Net income attributable to shareholders rose 52 per cent to 79 billion yuan

Chinese state media celebrates top entrepreneurs, but not Jack Ma

Ma, lionised at home for creating some of his country's largest corporations, didn't make the cut in a Shanghai Securities News front-page commentary lauding the leading lights of technology

Twelve burning questions about the Myanmar military coup, answered

Myanmar's military has said that it is using a state of emergency to take control for one year

Global food trade has been upended by a pandemic-driven container crisis

India, the world's second-largest sugar producer, exported only 70,000 metric tons in January, less than a fifth of the volume shipped a year earlier

India's $500 billion Budget to spur growth leaves little for the poor

The budget -- among India's most highly anticipated and closely watched events -- didn't have major proposals to address the job losses, hunger, and rising pressures on the farming and rural sectors

How China's growing appetite for containers is upending global food trade

The core issue is that China, which recovered faster from Covid, revved up export economy and is paying premiums for containers, making it more profitable to send them back empty than to refill them

India's massive borrowing puts RBI under pressure to keep yields in check

India will borrow a gross Rs 12 trillion ($164 billion) via bonds in the fiscal year beginning April, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday

Military sees small increase in budget even as China standoff simmers

Both India and China have moved thousands of soldiers, tanks, artillery to the disputed border

Winners and losers: Who got what in India's pandemic budget

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had promised an unprecedented budget aimed at buoying the economy

Budget: India to set up bad bank to manage record levels of soured debt

The firm will hold problem loans for banks, which can then be sold on to investors at a reduced price, according to plans outlined by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a budget speech on Monday

India's $950 bn bond market faces pivotal week ahead of Budget, RBI meeting

The RBI refrained from draining excess cash in its December review as it didn't see ample liquidity, which crashed short term rates, fueling inflation

GDP to fiscal deficit: Key numbers investors must watch in Budget 2021

While the success of the budget depends on how effectively India is able to contain rising infections through vaccine drives in the nation of more than 1.3 bn people, here are 5 key numbers to watch

GameStop short nightmare shows few signs of becoming a contagion

Short sales have actually dwindled during the past year to the lowest level since at least 2008

Monsoon season likely to be 'normal' this year, says Skymet report

The monsoon season is considered normal when total rains are recorded between 96 per cent and 104 per cent of the national average of just over 88 centimeters (45 inches)

Not striker or defender, Man City's winter signing is a hedge fund veteran

Laurie Shaw's resume is straight from high-brow science and finance

Rough ride for Indian stocks likely to continue even after Budget

The Sensex had a blistering advance last quarter -- even as data showed that the economy had plunged into recession -- led by record inflows from foreign investors

Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, who warned of ozone hole, dies at 87

Crutzen discovered in 1970 that nitrogen pollution was capable of destroying ozone in the atmosphere

Taiwan's GDP growth outpaces China's for the first time in 30 years

Gross domestic product expanded 2.98 per ce t last year, the official data showed Friday, compared with China's 2.3 per cent rise.

J&J says vaccine offers 100% protection against coronavirus deaths

In the more than 44,000-person study, the vaccine prevented 66 per cent of moderate to severe cases of Covid-19

Elon Musk Bitcoin tweet sparks massive rally, taking it above $35,000

The largest cryptocurrency spiked about 15 per cent within minutes as the London trading day got underway