Economy

The Budget allocated Rs 19,306 crore for Health, Medical & Family Welfare Department. The Panchayati Raj & Rural Development Department, held by Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan gets nearly Rs 23,000 crore.

Many Chinese companies who previously found their names in the list have sued Washington over their inclusion.

The Food Ministry said that the decision was taken after a comprehensive assessment of the current availability and price scenario, reaffirming the government's commitment to protecting farmers' interests.

Major IT stocks like Nvidia, Apple, and Alphabet fell in the early minutes of trade.

Treasury yields fell and stock futures edged higher, while traders boosted bets for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates three times this year.

India needs coking coal to boost its steel production and the US is a major supplier of this commodity, said Goyal.

In the previous reporting week, the kitty had jumped by $14.361 billion to an all-time high of $723.774 billion.

The government has opened a formal feedback process for the 8th Pay Commission through an online questionnaire.

Central government employees in Levels 1-5 are expected to receive substantial arrears under the 8th Pay Commission.

A new Consumer Price Index has been launched in India with 2024 as the baseline, cutting back on food weight and highlighting services, housing, and digital sectors.

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dropped for the first time in six sessions with losses in Japan, while South Korean stocks edged a little higher.

With artificial intelligence and machine learning increasingly being deployed in risk assessment and cargo screening, the new system aims to reduce physical inspections and human intervention, enabling faster, data-driven decision-making.

The RBI has proposed to standardise crop seasons in terms of duration to bring uniformity in loan sanction and repayment schedules. Short-duration crops have been defined with a 12-month cycle, while long-duration crops have been pegged at 18 months.

The US was India's third-largest LNG supplier last year — behind Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — accounting for 12% of total imports of 25 million tons, according to Kpler data.

FM Sitharaman has countered opposition charges of expenditure curtailment in several welfare schemes and said there is no denial or stoppage of funds to states on any schemes.

The National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Thursday released the new Consumer Price Index (CPI) with Base 2024=100.

Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh told members in the upper house that the nuclear capacity of the country is set to triple to nearly 22,380 MW by 2031-32 and to 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2047.

If an Indian company procures yarn forward and cotton forward from the US, manufactures garments, and re-exports to the US, those garments will also receive duty-free access in America, just like Bangladeshi firms/

In a first for the new CPI series, India's retail inflation data rose to 2.75% in January 2026. The base year for the CPI has been moved to 2024 from 2012 earlier and the basket expanded from 299 to 358 items.

The new CPI series will ensure that inflation measurement accurately reflects the average household's current consumption patterns, he said.