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NLB Services said in a report. Currently, women comprise just a fourth of India's 2,20,000-strong chip design and engineering workforce, but this figure is expected to surpass 30 per cent by 2027, said NLB Services. Despite this, men continue to dominate key semiconductor roles, it added.

«Also, risks do not materialise only in weekend. It happens every day. If there is a product to attract global risks on Monday, then if there is something materialising in between, it is a meaningful gap there should be another product,» says Sundararaman Ramamurthy, MD & CEO, BSE. What are the potential risks to the market ecosystem when there is a concentration of trading activity on a single expiry day? Sundararaman Ramamurthy: The regulator gave the option for selecting one expiry day by the exchanges. The regulators absolutely, of course, would have applied their mind for giving this option. NSE opted to continue for Thursday. Based on market feedback, we shifted it to Tuesday. Market feedback had a rationale for it. When you have a common expiry, an existing mature product trades more and no other product can enter in.

Women in Tech Report 2025. The number of women perceiving their company's diversity efforts as merely symbolic or slow-moving has dropped from 70% in 2024 to 40% in 2025, marking a substantial improvement. Nearly 75% of respondents report that their workplace provides a safe and inclusive environment, found the report. The Breaking Barriers in Tech – Women in Tech Survey Report 2025, in collaboration with Talent500, is based on insights from 3,000 women across IT/ITES, Global Capability Centers (GCCs), startups, and product companies.

Supreme Court on Thursday said courts were not expected to keep the matters concerning liberty after a long gap. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih made the observation after being informed that the Punjab and Haryana High Court posted the hearing of a plea for temporary bail on medical grounds after two months. The petitioner's counsel said he had approached the high court for the grant of temporary bail on the ground that her client's two-year-old daughter needed urgent surgery. The lawyer argued the high court, in its order passed on February 21, posted the matter on April 22.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As International Women’s Day 2025 approaches, the theme—“For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality.

«In the interim, flows can have some excesses, but we really feel that we have reached the bottom on Nifty. You can never say never, but largely we think we are done. Because even if you take earnings post downgrades, broadly next year will be 1200 rupees of earnings and 26-27 would be 1350 rupees of earnings,» says Sanjay H Parekh, Sohum Asset Managers. Give us a lowdown on where you feel the markets are headed from here. Do you think we have bottomed out enough because we had slipped below that 22,000 mark initially in the first half of the trading day? We have managed to recover only nominally from there. But do you believe that this is the worst for the market and now would be a good time for FIIs and along with them some confidence to return in the market? Sanjay H Parekh: So, essentially, our product is Nifty benchmark where we have at least 70% always in largecap. In fact, our average largecap holding has been 78%. So, I will just give you a perspective of how we think about Nifty to begin with. So, we think now the risk-return is really favourable.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After America announced on March 3rd that it is suspending military aid to Ukraine, it looks increasingly likely that Ukraine will have to depend on Europe. Donald Trump might be persuaded to reverse the suspension, for instance if Volodymyr Zelensky agrees to sign a deal on its minerals industry.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In mid-January, the Centre announced the formation of the 8th Pay Commission to set future pay and allowances for central government employees. The previous pay commission was formed in 2013, and its recommendations, impacting both defence and civilian personnel, came into effect in 2016.

trans-Atlantic security. As evident, the Trump administration is unlikely to commit to a security framework in Europe where it pits Washington against Moscow. In fact, Washington is demonstrably against security commitments abroad, to the extent that its age-old commitments under Nato now hang in the balance. What is certain, though, is that any road to getting Washington's security commitments is likely to involve a large economic component. As such, the semblance of an offer that the US has put on the table for Ukraine as a guarantee against Moscow is a mineral deal without any explicit security guarantees. Clearly, this approach may not be acceptable to most countries, certainly not to Ukraine. An immediate repercussion of Washington's security recoil has been the beginning of an almost pan-European consensus on the need to step up and fill potential gaps that could emerge as a result. Most European leaders appeared bound in a consensus to carve a new security assurance for Ukraine, except this time without the US. France, Germany and Britain, along with the EU as a bloc, depicted existential urgency at Sunday's leaders' European security summit in London, knowing that the block may have to take charge of not just its own security but also negotiations on part of Ukraine.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Nifty 50, India's benchmark index, declined by 420 points after US President Donald Trump announced an additional 10% tariff on China and a 25% duty on Canada and Mexico, triggering global trade war concerns among investors. After trading within a narrow range of 22,500–22,800 during a holiday-shortened week, the index fell sharply on Friday, closing around 22,125.

bilateral trade agreement, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal's Washington visit will begin on Monday, according to an official. Goyal is likely to hold talks with US Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the official said. During the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington, India and the US announced their commitment to more than double the two-way commerce to USD 500 billion by 2030 and negotiate the first tranche of a mutually beneficial, multi-sector Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) by fall of 2025. Last month, the minister stated that India and the US are committed to increasing bilateral trade to USD 500 billion and negotiating a «strong» trade agreement within the next 6-8 months.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In a widely anticipated move to balance the objectives of growth and inflation, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 6.25% at the 7 February meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which voted unanimously for this cut. This reflects a proactive but calibrated approach to support an economic recovery, while staying focused on gradually aligning Consumer Price Index inflation with its mandated target of 4%.

The Bank of Canada will halt rate cuts after a March trim if United States President Donald Trump imposes 25 per cent tariffs on most goods from Canada, say economists at Oxford Economics Group Ltd., a decision that would upend standard thought about how policymakers respond to such traumatic events.

As India Inc looks to leverage new technologies, the widening skills gap is a growing concern. A 2023 PwC report, 'Winning Today's Race While Running Tomorrow's', says that 77% of Indian CEOs cited skill shortages as a barrier to growth, up from 64% in 2019. To compete in the digital economy, traditional workforce skills must be upgraded. However, a significant portion of the workforce remains ill-equipped for market demands.

sleep health—the highest among surveyed countries—nearly half (47%) of them have taken sick leave at least once in their careers due to sleep deprivation, according to healthtech company ResMed’s fifth annual Global Sleep Survey, findings of which were made public on Friday.

Sebi has introduced a Specialized Investment Fund (SIF) framework to bridge the gap between mutual funds (MFs) and portfolio management services (PMS) and it aims to provide sophisticated investors with more flexible investment opportunities while ensuring regulatory oversight. The new framework will be effective from April 1, 2025.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The latest Time Use Survey released by India's statistics ministry earlier this week demands attention.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s public sector banks have outpaced their private sector peers in growing their loan book, regaining market share lost over the past several years when asset quality and capital concerns had weighed them down. While loans by public sector banks grew 12.4% year-on-year (y-o-y) in December, private banks saw their loan book grow 10.5%.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Top managers at LTIMindtree Ltd must clear a competency exam as part of the company's annual appraisal exercise, possibly the first in the country’s $286 billion IT industry. For project leads, managers and lead architects, half the weight in appraisals depends on project completion, and the rest on a competency exam with multiple-choice questions on coding and mathematics.

«Amidst global uncertainty and persistent FII selling, we expect the market to remain subdued until there is clarity/stability with regards to Trump’s tariff policies and its implementation,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Research, Wealth Management, Motilal Oswal.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Sensex broke its five-day losing trend on Tuesday and ended slightly higher, primarily due to gains in financial and telecom stocks. However, the oil & gas and IT sectors continued to face downward pressure.