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Delhi on Saturday, a day after the monsoon arrived in the national capital with the heaviest rainfall in 88 years. Rohini and Burari were among the areas that received rainfall this morning. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast generally cloudy skies with heavy rain during the day. Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 28 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 32 degrees Celsius, the IMD said.

ARPU), telecom giants Reliance Jio and Airtel are gearing up to implement substantial tariff hikes effective July 3, 2024. This decision will impact millions of subscribers across India, prompting users to consider their options to mitigate the upcoming price adjustments.

Fashion and jewellery retailers are hopeful that festivals and the wedding season in the second half of the year will create more demandas discretionary spending has been subdued, reported TOI. A good monsoon, which gives cash to the people employed in the agricultural sector, is also expected to boost consumption. There was a rise in consumption towards the end of March quarter but full recovery in demand still remains. The mass segment has been impacted the most as there has been a slowdown in spending from the lower income households. The premium segment continues to do well.

small-cap segments underperformed. During the June month, as many as 187 BSE500 stocks have delivered double digit weekly returns with four of them offering over 40% returns.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the complete budget for the fiscal year 2025 in July. As usual, taxpayers have an extensive list of desired items for the finance minister. Senior citizens make up a significant portion of the tax-paying demographic in India since they also earn income, often in passive ways. Nevertheless, with the rising cost of living, senior citizens might feel that the existing income tax benefits need to be increased. Three experts tell ET Wealth Online what senior citizens want from the upcoming Union Budget 2024. Also read: Section 80C deduction in Budget 2024: Will the government increase Section 80C limit under the old income tax regime in Budget?

Walmart Vriddhi, the supplier development program of the retail giant, recently announced that it has exceeded its target of training 50,000 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) across India by December 2024. According to a statement, the program has digitally empowered 58,000 MSMEs providing them cost access to business advice, digital training and personalised mentorship opportunities. The Walmart Vriddhi program was launched in 2019 with Swasti as the program partner. The program was aimed to equip MSMEs with the know-how and tools they need to succeed in supply chains by combining Walmart’s supplier development experience and Flipkart’s platform expertise. Currently, over 14,500 MSMEs are onboarded onto Flipkart.

Bitcoin traded with weakness on Thursday amid selling pressure though it managed to hold on above the $60,000 mark. World’s most expensive crypto asset was in a consolidation mode as inflows in BTC ETF’s salvaged some pride. It was trading at $60,659.83 around 12 pm India time, down by 1.5%. Other major crypto coins also traded with a negative bias. Among them were Etehreum, BNB, Solana, XRP and Dogecoin, Cardano and Shiba Inu which were down by up to 4% around this time.

Abheek Barua, Chief Economist, HDFC Bank, says there is a laundry list of items that need to be addressed before we get on, and climb back onto that 8% to 9% sustainable growth path. We could have a one-off 8% or an 8.5% growth, but that is not what the steady state growth would be. I think the steady state would be closer to 7% to 7.5% in a good year. There has been a very interesting comment made by the RBI Governor recently that India is at the cusp of a structural shift as far as the economy goes and we could be moving towards a sustainable 8% kind of GDP growth. Do you think that 8% growth is sustainable? And is it realistic? And what would it take to achieve that kind of sustainable growth?

Chris Gayle is not willing to «write off» «special» player Virat Kohli despite his struggling form in the T20 World Cup. Kohli has been chasing the shadows of the player that he used to be for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League 2024. Since touching down in the USA and the West Indies for the marquee event, Kohli has been searching for runs from his bat throughout the ongoing edition of the marquee event.

India head coach Rahul Dravid heaped praise on his team's consistency in making three finals of ICC tournaments, and this time, he is hopeful that luck stays on their side and they emerge victorious after falling short twice. In just about a year, the duo of Dravid and skipper Rohit Sharma will play their third final of an ICC tournament. Australia was present on both occasions to inflict heartbreak in the ODI World Cup and World Test Championship. But this time, as they look to find the perfect ending, India made sure that Australia wouldn't be there to spoil the party.

₹12,000- ₹13,000 a month, which is often barely ₹5,000 more than what they earn in their hometown. Ajit Gulabchand, chairman of engineering and construction firm HCC Ltd, noted that there was a “clear shortage of both skilled and competent workforce who are heading for not just the Middle-Eastern countries but even Russia". The chairman of the Mumbai-headquartered firm that works on highway, roads, bridges, etc., stressed on taking immediate steps to improve the gap.

MUMBAI : Foreign investors in India’s equity markets have shed their pre-election jitters and remain on a bullish streak ahead of the Union budget, assured of political and economic continuity with Narendra Modi returning as Prime Minister for a third successive term. Nirmala Sitharaman, in her second successive term as India’s finance minister, will present the federal budget for 2024-25 next month. Foreign institutional investors, or FIIs, have turnedbullish ahead of the budget not just in the cash segment of Indian equities but also on the derivatives segment.

₹20,000. As it turned out “Sachin Agarwal" was not just any old fellow. He contained multitudes.

NEW DELHI : The government introduced a tax provision last year to prod large corporations into paying their micro and small enterprise vendors in time, only to hear concerns that it could backfire on the intended beneficiaries. It’s now looking to modify how large companies are taxed for delayed payments so that they do not decide to sidestep smaller vendors altogether to avoid the stringent tax treatment, said two officials aware of discussions in the government.

₹1.75 lakh (the total savings at the time of its six founders)—was not even a speck on the global IT firmament back then. India was still two decades away from being accepted as the IT services capital of the world. Notwithstanding a bold new policy announced by the Rajiv Gandhi-led government in 1984, which enabled the import of technology for making personal computers in the country, the domestic PC market was minuscule in size, with any real progress hamstrung by opposition from powerful unions in sectors like banking.

interest rate sensitivity of a major trading portfolio for state-owned public sector banks and foreign banks increased from September 2023 to March this year, implying greater exposure to the impact that volatility in bond yields can have on profits and capital. «The AFS (available for sale) portfolio's sensitivity (PV01) increased for PSBs (public sector banks) and FBs (foreign banks) since September 2023, while it declined for PVBs (private banks),» the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its June 2024 Financial Stability Report.

Shares of Stanley Lifestyles listed at ₹494.95, a premium of 34.13% over its issue price of ₹369, on Friday. The stock recorded a high of ₹509.4 and closed at ₹479. The IPO consisted of a fresh issue of ₹200 crore and an offer for sale of 91.3 lakh shares aggregating to ₹337 crore on the upper price band. The offer was subscribed 96.98 times on its final day of bidding on June 25.

JP Morgan bond index got off to a muted start with a lower-than-expected quantum of foreign flows on Friday, belying expectations of an immediate deluge. Bankers, including a top executive at the US bank, said however that overseas investment worth billions will steadily be pumped into the debt market of the world's fastest-growing major economy. Indian bonds debuted in JP Morgan's GBI-EM global index suite on Friday, with the country expected to reach a maximum weight of 10% in the GBI-EM Global Diversified Index over a 10-month period. JP Morgan's analysts expect foreign investment worth $20-25 billion to flow to the local bond market from the move.

ITC Ltd has overtaken Britannia Industries for the first time to become the second largest listed packaged foods company by sales in India, behind Nestle. ITC's foods business posted consolidated sales of Rs 17,194.5 crore for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, the company that owns brands such as Aashirvaad atta, Bingo potato chips and Sunfeast biscuits in the segment said in its latest annual report. This comprised both domestic sales and exports. At Britannia, consolidated sales were ?16,769.2 crore, while total income, including from outside its core foods business, was Rs 16,983.4 crore.

mutual evaluation report (MER) that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) adopted at its meeting in Singapore recognised the Indian government's achievements in fighting money laundering and the funding of terrorism, the finance ministry said. «The MER adopted in the FATF plenary places India in the 'regular follow-up' category, a distinction shared by only four other G20 countries,» the finance ministry said in a statement on Friday. «This marks a significant milestone in the nation's efforts to combat money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF).» The MER assessed the effectiveness of India's measures to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing, as well as its compliance with FATF norms, the intergovernmental body said in a statement on Friday. «India has reached a high level of technical compliance with the FATF requirements and its anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regime is achieving good results,» the FATF noted.

food delivery platforms, restaurants and consumer brands are gearing up for a surge in orders as India takes on South Africa in the T20 World Cup final on Saturday. As the national men's cricket team aims to end the drought for an ICC trophy, bars and restaurants that plan to screen the match for fans back home expect to host a full-house and also cater to an increase of 20% to 50% in their online sales. «Events like these often see a joint viewership, and that leads to a surge in large orders with different components as various members have different preferences,» said Sagar Kochhar, cofounder of cloud kitchen startup Rebel Foods, which runs popular brands like Faasos, Behrouz Biryani, Oven Story, and Wendy's India.