Pakistan gets IMF loan of $1 billion as India abstains from votingThe IMF approved Pakistan's economic reform program, releasing $1 billion immediately. India abstained from voting, citing concerns but avo...
10 May, 2025, 07.44 PM IST
Brazil holds historic election with Lula against BolsonaroThe race pits incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro against his political nemesis, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. There are nine ...
03 Oct, 2022, 12.31 PM IST
President Emmanuel Macron rejects Prime Minister's resignation ahead of talks on France deadlockMacron was due to host far-right leader Marine Le Pen and other political party chiefs for rare talks at the Elysee as he seeks solutions t...
21 Jun, 2022, 02.18 PM IST
French President Emmanuel Macron loses parliament majority in stunning setbackThe result from Sunday's second round poll threw French politics into turmoil, raising the prospect of a paralysed legislature or messy coa...
20 Jun, 2022, 07.37 AM IST
ET Awards 2021: RBI rate hike no surprise, though timing may be, says FM Nirmala SitharamanSpeaking at the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence 2021, Sitharaman said the RBI rate hike was a surprise only because it came ...
09 May, 2022, 09.11 AM IST
Police teargas Paris protestors after Macron re-electedMacron defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a runoff vote earlier on Sunday by winning a second five-year term and preventing what wo...
25 Apr, 2022, 11.43 AM IST
France's Macron beats Le Pen to win second termMacron was set to win 57.6-58.2 percent of the vote compared with Le Pen on 41.8-42.4 percent, according to projections by polling firms fo...
25 Apr, 2022, 11.24 AM IST
View: India's dilemma on Russia & the political theatre of Ro KhannaTalk about moving away from Russian weapons, Khanna could read about Indian arms purchases from the US over the last decade. They come to a...
16 Mar, 2022, 11.43 PM IST
View: Do the math and it is clear time is running out on 18,000 Indian students in UkraineThe few flights that have left under the Government of India's Operation Ganga (at the rate of around two a day) have brought back about 70...
28 Feb, 2022, 10.04 PM IST
Sebi urges mutual funds to create liquidity buffer for debt schemesAnalysts said any SLR requirement could impact returns on debt mutual fund schemes.
28 Feb, 2020, 08.15 AM IST
SEBI exhorts mutual fund industry to build an adequate 'liquidity buffer' for debt schemesSebi said the ongoing credit crisis that resulted in returns of various debt mutual fund schemes taking sharp hits has brought to surface t...
27 Feb, 2020, 08.30 PM IST
MFs should widen customer base, bring down abstention rate: G MahalingamMahalingam said that the unique customers we have garnered are still a small number and there is a need to look beyond big cities
27 Feb, 2020, 06.13 PM IST
How Manmohan Singh played a key role in consensus between BJP-Congress over GST bills in Rajya Sabha"Yesterday the former Prime Minister (Singh) advised me not the move the amendment because it will be disturb the fine consensus that has b...
06 Apr, 2017, 11.10 PM IST
Wheels of Rajya Sabha turning in favour of government on GST billThe proposed legislation can still be obstructed by Congress, which is insisting on the 18% rate being written into the Constitutional amen...
21 Jun, 2016, 10.31 AM IST
GST bill inches towards 2/3rd backing in Rajya SabhaCongress is fairly isolated, it has the numerical strength to disrupt the House, preventing passage of the legislation, a vote is required ...
08 Jun, 2016, 09.52 AM IST
Why PM Narendra Modi was unhappy with former foreign secretary Sujatha SinghProblems cropped up when the BRICS summit declaration put in a paragraph critical of Israel, a country Modi has declared as a priority part...
30 Jan, 2015, 10.21 AM IST
- Weaknesses of eurozone economies the real problem of euro
The real problem with the euro is the weaknesses of the eurozone economies, the political will to implement required policies and increasin...
15 Jun, 2010, 01.33 AM IST