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certificates of deposit (CDs) to meet the surge in credit demand in March. According to data from CDSL, banks raised ₹2.25 lakh crore through CDs in March 2025, nearly double of the ₹1.26 lakh crore in the same month the previous year. Experts attribute this surge in CD borrowing to tighter liquidity conditions and slower deposit growth amid rising credit demand. Notably, IndusInd Bank borrowed over six times its usual CD amount to counter deposit outflows, raising ₹16,550 crore in March 2025, compared with ₹2,500 crore in the same month last year. «Issuances of CDs by banks have accelerated in March owing to year-end asset liability management,» said Karan Gupta, head and director financial institutions, India Ratings. «We expect certificates of deposit issues to moderate in the June quarter owing to a sharp improvement in the liquidity conditions coupled with the seasonally generally soft demand for credit in the first quarter.»

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Indian markets could open up to 1% lower on Tuesday after the Eid holiday, suggests weekly options data, as bears are likely to return ahead of US President Donald Trump’s 2 April deadline for reciprocal tariffs. Trump's comments on the weekend dragged South Korea's Kospi and Japan's Nikkei down by 3-4% on Monday, while Germany's Dax and France's CAC traded 1% lower at the time of writing.

Tea Board of India on Monday. This was possible due to concerted efforts from the central government, the Tea Board, and all the stakeholders in the Indian tea industry. During 2024, North India (Assam and West Bengal) exported 154.81 Million Kg with a value realization of Rs 4833.12 crores, while South India exported 99.86 million kg with a value realization of Rs 2278.31 crores. North India’s contributions stood at 60.79% in quantity terms and 67.96% in value terms, whereas South India’s contributions stood at 39.21% in quantity terms and 32.04% in value terms. Meanwhile, the Tea Board of India is all set to celebrate its 72nd Foundation Day on April 1, 2025.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The government’s fresh equity-for-debt in Vodafone Idea is expected to provide the telecom operator with a ₹40,000 crore cash flow relief over the next three years and reduce the operator’s net debt by 18%, analysts said, adding that concerns over the company’s survival remain.

Investors have pulled money from so-calledESG funds in recent years, amid political backlash, high interest rates and other headwinds.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai/New Delhi: Delhi-based 37-year-old insurance sector executive Prateek Verma says the biggest change his wife has noticed in him over the past few months is that he has become “weirdly philosophical". Can this be attributed to the joys of matrimony? “No, it is the stock market," he quipped.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON : Many Trump administration officials work on national security or artificial intelligence. Michael Kratsios is thinking about how they collide.

tech! That is what I want to say every time someone asks me, «What about AI?» with the breathless anticipation of a boy who thinks this is the summer he finally gets to touch a boob. I'm far from a Luddite. It is precisely because I use new technology that I know mid when I see it. Academics are rarely good stand-ins for typical workers. But the mid-technology revolution is an exception. It has come for us first. Some of it has even come from us, genuinely exciting academic inventions and research science that could positively contribute to society. But what we've already seen in academia is that the use cases for artificial intelligence across every domain of work and life have started to get silly really fast. Most of us aren't using AI to save lives faster and better. We are using AI to make mediocre improvements, such as emailing more. Even the most enthusiastic papers about AI's power to augment white-collar work have struggled to come up with something more exciting than «A brief that once took two days to write will now take two hours!»

international board schools for their children, with the nation hosting the second-largest number of international schools worldwide — not just in name with a tag, but in affiliation with global education boards, reported ToI. Apart from being in India's richer cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru, the schools are now reaching places like Hatkanagale in Sangli, Tholahunse in Davangere, and Sonaghati in Betul. «Every year, Cambridge is adding 100 schools, and 30 to 40 new schools of IB are coming up each year. The aspiration of the middle class is at an all-time high. The phenomenon is not limited to metro cities but tier 2 and 3 cities, where the major growth now is coming from,» Mahesh Srivastava, former regional director (South Asia), Cambridge Assessment International Education told ToI.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. By its own estimate, the Indian government expects the economy to close 2024-25 with an expansion of 6.4%. That would make India one of the fastest-growing economies, but it’s still some way from maximising its unique demographic moment.

According to Russell Reynolds Associates' (RRA) annual Global CFO Turnover Index report, the average CFO tenure reduced to 5.8 years down from 6.2 years during 2023.  Friday Briefing: What it takes for a CFO to step-up as CEO The spike in the US matched previous levels set in 2021 during the pandemic and the report attributed the US and UK exodus to a swathe of factors, including notably high rates of CFO retirement or transition to a board position.  According to RRA's research, the average age to transition to a board position reached its lowest point in six years at 56.6 years o...

Zhipu AI unveiled a free AI agent on Monday, joining a wave of similar launches in China's increasingly competitive AI market. The product, called AutoGLM Rumination, can perform deep research as well as tasks including web searches, travel planning, and research report writing, CEO Zhang Peng said at a lunch event in Beijing. The agent is powered by Zhipu's proprietary models, including its reasoning model GLM-Z1-Air and foundation model GLM-4-Air-0414. The company claims GLM-Z1-Air matches rival DeepSeek's R1 in performance while running up to eight times faster and requiring only one-thirtieth of the computing resources.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The conventional economic case for globalization and free trade has emphasized the aggregate gains that they bring, including enhanced productivity, faster technological change and wider consumer choice. However, a critical aspect often overlooked is that globalization inevitably creates both winners and losers in the short term, even though its long-term effects are broadly positive for society as a whole.

SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday — a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts. Named «Fram2» after the famed Norwegian ship built in the 19th century for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, the mission will feature a range of experiments including taking the first X-ray in space and growing mushrooms in microgravity. It's hoped that the research will support future long-duration space travel to Mars.

The new mechanism, which would be operationalised after planned imposition of a safeguard duty on specified steel imports, would be extended to MSMEs and members of the Engineering Exports Promotion Council (EEPC), the people said. «Discussions are on on the mechanism...It would be implemented once safeguard duty is imposed...This is being done to shield domestic consumers from rise in prices,» an official said.

reciprocal tariffs, India has communicated to Washington that the focus of the trade relationship should be a bilateral trade agreement (BTA) to address any concerns over import duties, said people with knowledge of the matter. US officials who were in Delhi last week to negotiate the BTA told their Indian counterparts that the message would be conveyed to the White House as the final decision would be made there, the people told ET on condition of anonymity. Assistant US trade representative for South and Central Asia Brendan Lynch was in India from March 26-29 to discuss the BTA. The joint statement issued on Saturday after the talks did not mention reciprocal tariffs.

Nagpur after becoming the prime minister 11 years ago, Narendra Modi on Sunday described the Sangh as the 'banyan tree' of India's immortal culture. Modi became the second sitting PM to visit the RSS headquarters in Nagpur. Atal Bihari Vajpayee had visited it in 2000 during his third term as PM, an RSS official said.

Kumar Jain, a jeweller from Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar, the largest gold hub in the country, said, «Consumers are buying gold coins more as they think that it is a good investment and the price of gold will move further in the coming days.» Last year, during Gudi Padwa, the price of gold was at Rs 78,000 per 10 gm, which is now nearing Rs 90,000 per 10 gm.

Dr. Peter Marks sent a letter to Acting FDA Commissioner Sara Brenner on Friday saying that he would resign and retire by April 5 as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. In his letter, obtained by The Associated Press, Marks said he was “willing to work” to address the concerns expressed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the safety of vaccinations. But he concluded that wasn’t possible. “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” he wrote. ALSO READ: Double trouble for Pete Hegseth? US Defense Secretary under fire for another controversy amid chat leak row