Canada’s tariff war with US is boosting local businesses The US and Canada are embroiled in a tariff war, and it may “will come at a cost” for Ottawa as the Canadian PM Mark Carney had warned. But the fight is proving a win for at rather unusual sectors: from the ice-cream counter and gift…
US diesel prices soar past $6 a gallon US farmers are facing a bigger fuel bill as diesel prices hit record highs just as the corn and soybean harvest gets underway, pushing up the cost of running combines, tractors and trucks. The national average price of diesel reached $5.85 a gallon on September 4, the…
FM Sitharaman at Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai MUMBAI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman called upon tech companies to promote a federated industry platform to give India’s technology sector a stronger collective voice in global markets and regulatory discussions.“There may be merit in considering a federated industry platform that brings together the broader Indian technology…
MUMBAI: Whether AI will get us all killed by the end of the decade is still a matter of debate, but funding into artificial intelligence continues to soar.In fact, it is only getting bigger. Global AI funding touched a whopping $226 billion in the March quarter this year. That’s almost 80% of all global equity…
MUMBAI: NPCI Bharat BillPay has proposed a centralised digital infrastructure to connect invoices, payments, reconciliation and financing, to fix the biggest constraints faced by MSMEs – the difficulty of turning sales into cash and cash flows into credit. The system could help address the MSME sector’s Rs 60 lakh crore formal credit gap, while reducing…
MUMBAI: India’s retail credit market is showing a widening gap between the number of borrowers being added and the value of loans being accumulated, with consumer durable loans driving new borrower acquisition, while home and gold loans account for much of the portfolio growth.According to credit bureau CRIF’s ‘How India Lends’ report, gold loan outstandings…
The BSE SENSEX declined by 385.74 points (-0.51%) to stand at 74,516.85, pressured by losses across banking and heavyweights. The index opened at 74,309.16 and traded within a intraday range between a low of 74,160.16 and a high of 74,584.35, following its previous session close of 74,902.59. IT stocks provided support to the index, led…
Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari addresses a session at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, in Mumbai By next year, your highway journeys could get a lot smoother, as India moves towards a barrier-free, fully digital tolling process.Expected to be rolled out by February-March 2027, the new system will allow motorists to pass…
The two homebuyers received an allotment letter dated February 18, 2013. (Image for representative purpose only) Two homebuyers booked flats on the sixth and seventh floors of a Mumbai housing project in 2013. They were assured that they would get possession for the flats by December 2014. But their dream of getting the flats remains…
India’s FTA with the EU will offer European automakers concessional tariffs on passenger vehicles, with annual quotas rising to 1.6 lakh, alongside tariff concessions on wines and select agricultural products. European carmakers will get a significantly wider opening to India’s passenger vehicle market under the proposed India-EU free trade agreement, with the draft pact released…
