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Godrej Consumer Products said its global manufacturing footprint will reduce by 40% by FY26, part of its broader strategy to make more products in India and cut costs to improve profitability. At present, the maker of Cinthol and Good Knight has 36 plants including 14 in India. It also invested Rs 1,000 crore in two manufacturing sites in India last fiscal. «We are also reassessing our manufacturing footprint. We are questioning how much of what we make in international geographies can be made in India and exported out,» Sudhir Sitapati, MD at GCPL, said in its latest annual report.

Budget 2024 to overcome current challenges and support growth. The focus is on enhancing regional connectivity, expanding airport infrastructure, and supporting domestic maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) and aircraft leasing. ENHANCED REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY: Strengthen regional connectivity scheme (UDAN) to improve access to underserved and remote regions, boosting connectivity and tourism. «The Indian aviation industry expects a continued focus on enhancing regional connectivity through UDAN and expanding airport infrastructure to support growth,» said Kinjal Shah, Co-group Head, Corporate Ratings, ICRA. INCENTIVES FOR MRO SECTOR:Provide financial incentives domestically, reducing reliance on foreign facilities, fostering local industry growth.

commerce and industry ministry is finalising two cabinet notes for the clean economy and fair economy pillars of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) as the inter-ministerial discussions are almost complete. The IPEF is structured around four pillars-trade, supply chains, clean economy and fair economy. India has joined all the pillars except the one on trade. «We are working on the cabinet notes and the inter-ministerial consultations are almost done. There were some concerns but broadly everyone is on board,» said an official. Last year, the 14 IPEF nations inked a supply chain resilience agreement to reduce dependence on China, and shifting production of critical sectors and key goods to member countries. Pillar III (clean economy) focuses on environmental issues, how to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in various industries, carbon capture utilisation and storage, and collaborative financing mechanisms to facilitate trading and reduce barriers for low-carbon projects.

IREDA on Wednesday said the company will invest Rs 290 crore in a 900 MW hydroelectric power project in Nepal. The Board of Directors of IREDA gave in-principle approval for the equity investment at a meeting on Tuesday, the company said in a statement.

This is part of a special series of articles by the country's foremost voices, ahead of Union Budget 2024, aiming to draw attention to the critical reforms that can help India in its journey to become a developed nation by 2047. As India marches closer to the status of a $4 trillion economy and the world’s fourth largest, a crucial question emerges: how do we equip ourselves for the road ahead? For India to wear the crown of a developed nation, we require 10x growth targeting the $40 trillion mark. It is not just growth, but other goals that need to be addressed.

Small-scale fisher organisations from India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ecuador, and Gambia have asked fisheries subsidies negotiations to be kept out of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and said that the ongoing negotiations on curbing overcapacity and overfishing (OCOF) subsidies are “unfair and unbalanced”. They said that the exemptions for small-scale fishers across developing countries is being restricted by imposing irrational conditionalities. The World Forum of Fisher Peoples and World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers have raised concerns at the negotiations which seek disciplines on subsidies such as those for construction, acquisition and modernisation of vessels.

This is part of a special series of articles by the country's foremost voices, ahead of Union Budget 2024, aiming to draw attention to the critical reforms that can help India in its journey to become a developed nation by 2047. In a few days from now, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her seventh consecutive budget, a record in India’s history. This is also the first Union budget in the third term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Undoubtedly, we expect directional continuity in policy announcements with a thrust on economic growth, social development and sustainability, in line with the vision for Viksit Bharat 2047.

This is part of a special series of articles by the country's foremost voices, ahead of Union Budget 2024, aiming to draw attention to the critical reforms that can help India in its journey to become a developed nation by 2047. To be a catalyst for India’s ambition of becoming one of the top three global economies by 2050, the manufacturing sector must adopt a sustainable and inclusive model that decouples growth from emissions for a developing economy of this scale. This will lower our total cost of societal development.

DLF will focus on expanding its business to develop residential and commercial projects and is entering new markets Mumbai and Goa to tap into growth opportunities, its Chairman Rajiv Singh said. In his message to shareholders in the annual report, Singh said the company will continue to focus on corporate governance, operational excellence and upholding the value of the company's founders. «Our focus is to expand both our businesses, residential and commercial. The residential business continued its growth momentum, we witnessed an uptick in new sales bookings, coupled with record sales collections. »The markets response to our products continues to be very encouraging. It is with this conviction that we are entering new geographies like Mumbai and Goa," he said.

Raymond's consumer care business saw its sales fall 18% under its new owner Godrej Consumer Products (GCLP) which acquired the company last year. In its latest annual report, GCPL said the company behind Park Avenue and Kamasutra brands posted sales of Rs466 crore during the eleven months ended March 2024. On an annualised basis, it is roughly Rs508 crore, 18% lower than Rs622 crore in FY23. «The acquisition was in line with the company's strategy to build a sustainable and profitable personal care business in India by leveraging the categories of personal grooming and sexual wellness,» it said in the report. «Revenue and EBITDA of the Raymond Consumer business remained on plan and stable compared to the previous fiscal year.»

Chair Jerome Powell said the Federal Reserve is becoming more convinced that inflation is headed back to its 2% target and said the Fed would cut rates before the pace of price increases actually reached that point

Watertech startup Boon has raised $5 million in a funding round led by Spanish Roca Group Ventures, its first-ever investment in India, with participation from others. The fundraise was a mix of equity and debt. Cofounded by IIT Kanpur alumnus Vibha Tripathi and Advait Kumar in 2015, Boon (formerly known as Swajal) is a technology startup focused on remote water purifying, monitoring and dispensing products.

₹45 trillion (if fiscal deficits could make countries rich, then no country would be poor), reversing the shift from revenue spending to capital expenditure (improving productivity requires allocating even more than last year’s high of ₹10 trillion), or crowding out defence and police spending (about ₹8 trillion) with welfarism. The next budget should pray to the one god of formal non-farm jobs with five non-fiscal interventions that will raise the productivity of formal, non-farm employers.

Gold prices jumped to an all-time peak on Wednesday, driven by mounting hopes of a U.S. interest rate cut in September after recent comments from Federal Reserve officials. Spot gold was up 0.5% at $2,479.75 per ounce, as of 0158 GMT, after hitting a record peak of $2,481.09 earlier in the session. U.S. gold futures gained 0.6% to $2,482.00.

dollar, prompting more warnings from Japanese officials after last week's suspected intervention. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said at an event on Monday that recent inflation data bolstered policymakers' confidence that price pressures are on a sustainable path lower.

For years now, the Union budget has focused on making India a developed nation—viksit Bharat. However, it's time to add yet another angle to this exercise: a concerted effort to help build a class of viksit investors. To achieve this, the budget needs to adopt a carrot-and-stick approach.

₹73,498 crore for FY24-25 for the department of school education and literacy. The allocation for higher education for FY24-25 was kept at ₹47,619.77 crore.

Study after study has shown how women seem to be always at risk financially – and according to new research by the Alliance for Lifetime Income, it’s no different for women entering their peak retirement years.

Tijuana in North Mexico had discovered a tunnel that was being used to smuggle drugs into the US. The investigating authorities have come across a unique challenge. They are unable to proceed with the investigation without being able to arrange sufficient quantity of Oxygen tanks. The tunnel is believed to be so long that it needs sufficient quantities of oxygen to enter and sustain one’s self inside it. Mexico has emerged as a safe haven for the shipment and sale of drugs. Many of these tunnels extend into the US and the forces in these bordering states are actively contributing towards preventing smuggling of drugs.

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Gold prices rose on Tuesday as comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell bolstered the case for a September rate cut, while investors awaited more U.S. economic data for further monetary policy cues. Spot gold gained 0.8% to $2,440.29 per ounce by 1207 GMT. The bullion hovers only slightly below the record high of $2,449.89 hit on May 20.