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India adds 1.26 million credit cards in July as spending rises; HDFC, SBI lead the wayhealthy demand Industry card additions rise 11.5% over June; Card spends hold above ₹2 lakh-crore mark; Transaction volumes surge but the v...
Who let the bots out? AI’s coding chaosAs more companies rely on AI to write software, developers are increasingly finding themselves maintaining code that no human fully underst...
India may face China’s problem before it reaches the Dragon's wealthIndia’s total fertility rate has fallen to 1.9, below replacement level, even as the working-age population remains dominant. The country m...
Strong Returns! IPO market heats up with 25% average listing gains in two monthsIndia’s IPO market has staged a strong comeback in July-August, with 18 of 22 listings delivering positive debut-day returns. Average listi...
India’s gig economy is leaving its women behind, study findsWomen remain underrepresented in India’s rapidly expanding gig economy despite near-equal access to basic bank accounts. An ILO-NCAER study...
NFO Insight: Invesco India Pharma and Healthcare Fund opens for subscription. Right time to invest in pharma funds?Invesco India has unveiled an innovative pharma and healthcare fund tailored for investors seeking opportunities in India's burgeoning heal...
Wave of mass market credit cards erodes foreign majors’ baseStandard Chartered and DBS Bank India recorded the sharpest contractions. The former's card base fell 28% to 581,000, a fall of 227,000 car...
ETMarkets Smart Talk | Bonds aren’t boring: Where Devang Shah sees the best fixed-income opportunitiesAt the same time, the RBI remains watchful of risks from geopolitics, crude oil prices and global monetary policy developments.
Indian equity markets rally nearly 1% as dollar retreats and US bond yields coolThe Indian stock market rebounded on Thursday, marking the end of a downward trend. Major indices Nifty and Sensex enjoyed notable gains, s...
July core growth down to 5.4% as iron ore, power lose steamIndia’s core sector growth slowed to 5.4% in July from 6% in June, with weaker iron ore, steel and electricity output and contractions in f...
In 2009, researchers acquired a laboratory colony of Aedes aegypti in Delhi and kept it without insecticide pressure. 17 years later, 10 micrograms killed 97.91% of females, yet survivors rapidly activated detoxification enzymesA Delhi study reveals mosquitoes surviving common insecticide treatments. This survival gap suggests a potential early warning of developin...
Retail inflation may cross 6 per cent in Oct-Nov before easing in Q4 FY27: ReportRetail inflation in India may briefly surpass 6 percent in late 2024. This rise is expected before easing to approximately 5 percent by ear...
Widening waistline: India's big, fat obesity hotspots may not be just the biggest cities anymoreIndia sees a significant rise in overweight and obese populations recently. Rural areas show a particularly sharp increase in these health ...
Policy blueprint proposes entrepreneurship mission to create 10 lakh enterprises, upto 50 lakh jobsIt also proposed a flagship role for the Ministry of Education, recommending that entrepreneurship courses culminate in students attempting...
Flight attendants and pilots have highest risk of dying from radiation-linked cancers, study saysNew research indicates flight attendants and pilots face elevated cancer death risks. These aircrews experience higher odds of dying from r...
India's economic growth to slow to 6.8% in FY27 amid West Asia crisis, El Nino impact: Ind-RaIndia Ratings and Research has raised its FY27 GDP growth forecast to 6.8% from 6.7%, but expects growth to slow from 7.6% in FY26 amid inf...
FCNR(B) swap cost unlikely to have driven RBI’s early closure: SBI Research reportSBI Research said the cost of the RBI’s FCNR(B) swap facility is unlikely to have driven its early closure, estimating cumulative hedging c...