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NEW DELHI: As one of the world's largest offshore energy exploration efforts, India is set to explore more than 2.5 lakh square kms area under the Open Acreage Licensing Programme (OALP) Round X, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri, said on Wednesday.

MUMBAI: The Indian benchmark indices opened lower on Wednesday amid mixed global cues as selling was seen in the IT, PSU bank and financial service sectors.

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MUMBAI: The Indian stock market closed in positive territory on Tuesday, inching up in a range of 0.3 per cent, as investors remained cautious ahead of the India-US trade deal which is likely to materialise soon.

NEW DELHI: Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday met Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and his team here, encouraging them to deepen their footprint in India’s rapidly evolving digital technology landscape and growing market.

GURUGRAM: BMW Group India on Tuesday announced to appoint Hardeep Singh Brar as the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective from September 1.

MUMBAI: The domestic benchmark indices were trading marginally up on Tuesday in the early trade, after the US President Donald Trump announced that “we are close to a deal with India”.

AHMEDABAD: Adani Power Ltd (APL) on Tuesday said it has successfully completed the acquisition and resolution plan implementation of Vidarbha Industries Power Ltd (VIPL) for Rs 4,000 crore.

MUMBAI: The Indian stock market ended flat on Monday as investors remained cautious amid uncertainty around the interim India-US trade deal.

NEW DELHI: Fintech companies should leverage their strengths and innovation by not only extending financial services to the masses but also to develop robust solutions against fraud, hacking, and other cyber threats -- making greater use of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), a top government official said on Monday.

NEW DELHI: While global forex reserves total around $12.5 trillion, the gold market is currently valued at $23 trillion, 15 per cent of which is held in India, according to a report released on Monday.

MUMBAI: Smartworks Coworking Spaces' losses widened to Rs 63.17 crore in FY25, a rise of Rs 13.22 crore against FY24 losses, the company said in its red herring documents on Monday ahead of its initial public offering (IPO).

MUMBAI: Global Capability Centres (GCCs) showed remarkable 30.8 per cent year-on-year growth in India in January-June period (H1 2025) this year, reaching 13.85 million square feet and exceeding previous annual totals, a report showed on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Indian real estate sector received institutional investments of $1.80 billion in April-June period (Q2 2025), with investors from the US, Japan and Hong Kong contributing around 89 per cent to the foreign investments, according to a report on Monday.

MUMBAI: The domestic benchmark indices opened marginally lower on Monday amid mixed global cues, as selling was seen in the metal, auto, IT, PSU bank, pharma and financial service sectors in the early trade.

NEW DELHI: Gold prices surged Rs 1,135 and silver prices soared over Rs 2,000 this week amid uncertainties around the US tariff deal deadline (July 9) and a decline in the US dollar index.

MUMBAI: Private lender IndusInd Bank has reported a 3.9 per cent year-on-year (YoY) fall in net advances to Rs 3,34,477 crore for the quarter ended June 30 (Q1 FY26).

MUMBAI: The Indian equity markets closed lower for the week as investors turned cautious ahead of the crucial July 9 US-India trade deadline and the start of the corporate earnings season, experts said on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: In just 10 years, the country have seen 88 new airports — nearly one new airport every 40 days — and added 60 additional flights every hour, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu has said.

NEW DELHI: The number of Quality Control Orders (QCOs) in the country has grown from just 14 covering 106 products in 2014 to 156 QCOs covering 672 products over the last decade, said Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.

NEW DELHI: Minister of State (MoS) for Road Transport and Highways Ajay Tamta in a meeting with experts from IIT Delhi, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, and industry partners on Friday, emphasised that the future of India's infrastructure lies in innovation-led, safety-integrated, and context-sensitive road planning.

NEW DELHI: The Finance Ministry announced on Friday that the tax benefits available under the National Pension Scheme (NPS) will apply mutatis mutandis to the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS), as it is an option under the former.

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday withdrew Rs 1,00,010 crore from the banking system through a seven-day variable rate reverse repo (VRRR) auction.

MUMBAI: Defence stocks were trading in positive territory on Friday, a day after the union government approved the purchase of defence equipment worth Rs 1.05 lakh crore.

MUMBAI: Shares of Nuvama Wealth management plummeted over 10 per cent on Friday after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) barred Jane Street, a US-based trading entity, from accessing the domestic equity market, asking them to deposit alleged illegal gains of Rs 4,843.5 crore in an account in favour of the market's regulator.

NEW DELHI: Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has inaugurated its first representative office for the Middle East in Dubai, marking a significant step in the public sector steel giant's global expansion strategy.

NEW DELHI: To further deepen the India-US collaboration, Nasscom on Friday said it is launching the US CEO Forum at the Consulate General of India in New York on July 9.

NEW DELHI: Air India has denied allegations from British law firm Stewarts Law that it forced families of the AI 171 crash victims to disclose financial dependency on the deceased to get compensation. Over 40 families represented by Stewarts Law have accused the airline of coercion and intimidation as they pursue claims related to the crash of the London-bound Boeing plane crash at Ahmedabad in which over 241 passengers and crew were killed.

SEOUL: South Korea's current account surplus widened in May from a month earlier, despite falling exports, due mainly to falling global oil prices and an increase in dividend income, central bank data showed on Friday.

NEW DELHI: The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) should stand shoulder-to-shoulder with global tech leaders like Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei by 2047, Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development, Dr Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, has said.

MUMBAI: The domestic benchmark indices opened marginally higher on Friday amid mixed global cues, as buying was seen in the IT, PSU bank and financial service sectors in the early trade.

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MUMBAI: The Indian stock markets ended lower on Thursday after a day of cautious trading, as late selling pressure erased earlier gains. Investors remained watchful amid hopes of a possible trade agreement between the US and India.

NEW DELHI: HDFC Bank CEO and Managing Director Sashidhar Jagdishan has filed a petition in the Supreme Court to quash the first information report (FIR) lodged against him on a complaint by the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust, alleging that he has accepted a bribe of Rs 2.05 crore.

MUMBAI: The Indian stock market saw strong performance across all segments in June, with the Nifty Smallcap 250 index leading the way with a sharp gain of 5.73 per cent, a new report said on Thursday.