Indian Business

Ahead of Budget 2026, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said simplifying India’s customs framework will be the government’s next major reform focus, signalling a comprehensive clean-up aimed at making compliance easier and more transparent.Speaking at the HT Leadership Summit, Sitharaman said customs reforms would follow the rationalisation efforts already undertaken in income tax and…

Realty firm Smartworld Developers will invest around Rs 2,000 crore to build its first project in Noida, as part of the company’s plan to expand beyond the Gurugram property market. Smartworld Developers has announced its entry into Noida, which is an important micro-market in the Delhi-NCR. The company has acquired a 6-acre land parcel in…

Trade negotiations between India and the United States are set to move forward as the two nations will be holding three days of talks in New Delhi, sources told PTI. The talks are scheduled from December 10 to 12 as both countries aim to finalise the opening tranche of the pact. “The three-day talks will…

MUMBAI: RBI deputy governor Poonam Gupta has responded to recent IMF comments questioning the quality of India’s growth data and classifying the rupee’s exchange rate regime as a “crawling peg” within a managed float system.On the concern regarding data quality, Gupta said that the IMF’s critique is more procedural than substantive. “The point that they’re…

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) slashed the repo rate by a quarter point to 5.25% on Friday, at a time when the economy is growing strongly and inflation remains exceptionally low. SBI, in its latest report hailed the decision hailed as “exceptional” and said that the central bank had played its role in ensuring…

SpaceX might soon reach a $800 billion valuation as the rocket maker has began a new secondary share sale, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal. In case it manages to reach the figure, SpaceX will rush ahead of OpenAI to become the most valuable private company in the US. The new valuation…

BENGALURU: It’s something of a Francisco D’Souza redux. After stepping down as Cognizant CEO, D’Souza co-founded Recognize. Now, Bain Capital, in partnership with Recognize, has closed a multi-billion-dollar deal to acquire HealthEdge, the US-based healthcare software provider. During D’Souza’s tenure, Cognizant carved out a strong franchise in healthcare, with the former CEO playing a pivotal…

Elon Musk on Saturday slammed the European Union’s $140 million fine on his social media platform X, calling the penalty “crazy” and “insane” in a post on the site. Taking to the site, he said, “The EU imposed this crazy fine not just on @X, but also on me personally, which is even more insane!”“Therefore,…

MUMBAI: Most tech-driven financial services platforms faced outages during Friday’s high-intensity late session due to tech-glitch at Cloudflare, one of the companies that runs the internet globally. Traders in India faced issues with trade execution and cancellations on a day when the RBI policy and weekend considerations led to higher trading intensity than most other…

Kolkata: 106-year-old Kesoram Industries, once the flagship of the B K Birla group, is being acquired by Frontier Warehousing, a city-based storage and logistics solutions company. The total value of the acquisition, as per stock exchange filings, would be close to Rs 100 crore.Frontier-owner Gautam Agarwal, told TOI he is drawing up plans for Kesoram,…