Speaking at the Rencontres Economiques d'Aix-en-Provence, Sitharaman noted that the middle class currently accounts for about 31 per cent of India’s population and has been expanding at an annual rate ...

New Delhi, Jul 4 (KNN) Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday unveiled India’s first domestically manufactured export-import (EXIM) shipping container for global ...

New Delhi, Jul 4 (KNN) Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday projected that India’s merchandise exports could grow by 16–17 per cent and services exports by 10–11 per cent in the ...

New Delhi, Jul 4 (KNN) The FICCI–Mercedes-Benz Bharat Innovation and Business Ideas Challenge Programme, launched on Friday, aims to identify and support high-potential Indian startups building ...

New Delhi, Jul 4 (KNN) India should revisit its position on the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions and take a more proactive role in shaping ...

The partnership has been supported by India’s Duty-Free Tariff Preference scheme, with significant untapped export potential remaining. Against Mali’s global exports of about USD 4 billion, nearly USD ...

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday invited French businesses and investors to deepen engagement with India across artificial intelligence, clean energy, healthcare, digital ...

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is looking to constitute a panel of up to 20 technology companies to drive artificial intelligence-enabled modernisation of legacy IT ...

India's coal imports declined by 12.95 per cent in April 2026 to 21.13 million tonnes (MT), down from 24.27 MT in the corresponding month last year, according to the Ministry of Coal. The decline was ...

The Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD) launched the Rajasthan Language Model Training Hackathon to strengthen AI models for regional languages and expand the use of language technology in digital ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has told a parliamentary standing committee that virtual digital assets (VDAs) such as cryptocurrencies pose a threat to an emerging economy like India and should not ...

The Ministry of Steel will hold an Open House on July 9, 2026, to address issues related to steel imports, including matters concerning the Steel Import Monitoring System (SIMS), SARAL SIMS and ...