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Trade deal: India gets zero-duty access on over 99% exports to Oman

Second Cepa with a Gulf nation; labour-intensive sectors to get full benefit

Pulitzer-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett passes away at 91

Born November 13, 1934, in Riverton, New Zealand, Peter Arnett got his first exposure to journalism when he landed a job at his local newspaper, the Southland Times, shortly after high school

How BP's new boss O'Neill became the most powerful woman in fossil fuels

Under her watch, Woodside doubled oil and gas output, leaned aggressively into seaborne LNG, and shelved lower-carbon projects that failed to clear commercial hurdles

Export dilemma: The 'shrimp vs smartphone' debate in India-US trade

How US tariffs are forcing India to weigh exports of labour-intensive products against technology-intensive ones. One is a job creator, the other a sunshine industry. It is not an easy choice

Datanomics: More women seek jobs, but stiff labour market a challenge

Despite a sharp rise in women's labour force participation, India has seen little improvement in female employment rates or women's share in labour income

The new nomenclature: Rewriting of lawmaking convention - in Hindi

Congress leader P Chidambaram said the long-standing convention had been to present the English version of a Bill with an English title and the Hindi version with a Hindi title

Insurance amendment Bill strengthens Irdai: LIC chief R Doraiswamy

For LIC, the proposed legislative changes will help the company in strengthening its reach, leveraging technology at scale, and for universal insurance coverage

RBI likely made $30 bn intervention in FX market in Jun-Oct period

India's foreign exchange reserves stood at $703 billion in June 2025 but declined to $687.2 billion in the week ended December 5, as per the latest data released by the RBI

RBI's OMO auction sees strong demand, but experts say job still half done

Net liquidity fell into deficit after seven weeks; net liquidity in the banking system was in a deficit of ₹68,586 crore on Wednesday

Cheque bounce appeals: SC questions blanket deposit exemption for directors

A Bench of Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice NV Anjaria said that such people cannot be given a blanket exemption from making the deposit

Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group looks to buy 20% in Shriram Finance

Shriram group may still stay promoter after $4 bn deal

India, Oman to explore local currency trade; discuss defence cooperation

The Omani side expressed interest in discussing air service traffic rights, including the number of destinations and code-sharing provisions

Home loan balance transfer: Higher residual principal tenure drive savings

A high credit score is critical as it enables the borrower to secure the new loan at an attractive rate

Food delivery platforms employed 1.37 million in FY24, says NCAER

For every ₹10 lakh of output generated on such platforms, output yielded for the economy is ₹20.5 lakh

Mamata govt courts investors ahead of West Bengal Assembly polls

Speaking at the conclave, RPSG Group Chairman Sanjiv Goenka said that over the last 15 years, the group has invested Rs 26,500 crore in the state

Mumbai airport to shut cargo flights for 10 months from August 2026

In FY25, Mumbai airport handled 8.9 lakh tonnes of cargo, accounting for nearly a quarter of India's total air cargo handled that year

The bubble lies in larger LLMs, says Cognizant AI chief Babak Hodjat

Even if the LLM funding bubble bursts, enterprise AI adoption-driven by agentic systems and real use cases-will remain intact, says Cognizant's chief AI officer

Power ministry working on plan to boost domestic mfg of critical items

The authority has identified a list of 73 critical items through recent consultations with IEEMA and major industry stakeholders

Corporate ministry seeks Cabinet approval for 50 more NCLT courts

The Supreme Court, in one of its judgments, had said that a shortfall of members and the lack of requisite strength has led to tribunals only sitting for a few days of the week or a few hours in a day

Bharti Airtel to call for nearly ₹15,741 crore tranche of rights issue

Board approves changes to SHA with Singtel; Gopal Vittal becomes executive vice chairman, Shashwat Sharma becomes MD and CEO from January 1