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India's October-February sugar output jumps 20%, few mills close early

A few mills closed operations ahead of normal schedule, a trade body said on Wednesday

Telecom tower firms buying assets across Europe as 5G rolls out

American Tower, which has nearly 200,000 towers globally, has a quarter of that number in Europe

UK to hike corporation tax to 25% from 19% from 2023, says FM Sunak

Sunak said small businesses with profits of less than 50,000 pounds a year would be charged only 19%

SoftBank aims to double PayPay users in cashless payments fight

PayPay has used SoftBank's sales network and aggressive rebates to attract 36 million users in the three years since launch

Samsung considers four sites in US for $17 billion chip plant: Report

Samsung's US customers for its contract manufacturing chip business include Tesla Inc, Qualcomm Inc and Nvidia

Spotify competitor Anghami to become first Arab tech firm to list on Nasdaq

Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Anghami has more than 70 million registered users

Jobless aid, direct checks could get trimmed as US Senate takes up aid bill

With Republican cooperation unlikely, Democrats who narrowly control the chamber need to stick together to pass Biden's top legislative priority

Deloitte to pay Malaysia $80 million to settle claims linked to 1MDB

This relates to auditing of accounts of scandal-linked Malaysian state fund 1MDB and its unit SRC International from 2011 to 2014

Gold prices slip as US bond yields and equities dull its appeal

Spot gold fell 0.6% to $1,727.11 an ounce by 1016 GMT

Protestors shut down roads as Lebanese pound plummets to new low

Protesters blocked roads with burning tyres and dumpsters across Lebanon on Tuesday

Chinese telecoms firm ZTE preparing electric vehicle product line

The firm is joining a number of Chinese technology companies entering the electric vehicle market

Oil rises as US vaccine progress raises demand expectations

Brent crude futures rose 24 cents, or 0.38%, to $62.94 a barrel after four days of losses

Samsung considering four sites in US for $17 bn chip plant, documents show

The tech giant also said in the documents dated Feb. 26 that it is seeking combined tax abatements of $1.48 billion over 20 years from Travis County and the city of Austin

OPEC oil has advantage over US shale during Covid pandemic recovery

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies, known as OPEC+, has more than 7 million barrels of daily oil output sitting in reserve

UK to receive 10 mn AstraZeneca vaccine doses from India's Serum Institute

SII, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, is mass producing the AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, for dozens of poor and middle-income countries

Amazon issues rare apology after complaints that series hurt Hindu beliefs

Amazon's Prime Video streaming service issued a rare apology to its Indian viewers for some scenes in its original political drama series "Tandav", which allegedly offended Hindu religious beliefs

Sunak to promise 'whatever it takes' in UK's new Covid-19 budget plan

Sunak has so far spent almost 300 billion pounds ($419 billion) on emergency support measures and tax cuts

Asian shares nudge higher as investors shrug concerns, dollar soft

Wall Street had retreated overnight after beginning March with a bang, with the S&P 500 staging its best one-day rally in nine months on Monday

Resurgent market evokes memories of long-gone bubble on Tokyo's exchange

The party came to an end when the stocks bubble burst in the early 1990s. Yamaichi was one of four major banks and brokerages that collapsed in 1997

Boeing cites risks in design of Airbus' latest narrowbody jet A321XLR

The debate surrounds the hot-selling A321XLR's main marketing point - the longest range of any single-aisle jet