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The FDA recovered three sale invoices and five purchase bills and sent two drug samples to a government analyst for laboratory testing.

For many old auto suppliers, EVs raise an existential question: Will their product still be required? Here, the debate is different

A Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) flat in Sector 63 fetched Rs 1.92 crore nearly Rs 63 lakh above its reserve price of Rs 1.29 crore in an auction held on Tuesday. The bid, however, failed to translate into a wider response, with only two of the 14 freehold res

Stock broker Rajesh Khanna, 60, had recently come into money after selling a flat for Rs 80 lakh. Everyone in his family knew about the deal, including his niece, Simran Taneja

India's engineering sector has emerged as one of the country's strongest export drivers. Government initiatives such as Make in India, increased infrastructure investments, and a growing emphasis on domestic manufacturing have significantly strengthened India'

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Japan s Nikkei slipped 0.2% on Tuesday as investors rotated out of heavyweight technology and AI-linked stocks amid rising government bond yields and elevated oil prices. The broader Topix gained 0.5%, with auto and utility stocks supporting the market, highli

The Indian economy grew at a robust 7.8 per cent in the first quarter of the ongoing financial year, despite the adverse fallout from the West Asia conflict. Growth surpassed expectations of most analysts, including the central bank, which, in the last Monetar

Singapore, Global energy majors and investors took note of the multi-billion-dollar opportunities in India's oil and gas and the reforms underpinning them at an India energy showcase held in Singapore on Monday. The programme was presided over by Neeraj Mittal

India has received $72.8 billion in dollar inflows through FCNR(B) deposits, external commercial borrowings and overseas foreign currency borrowings under the RBI s special swap facility as of August 21. US bond yield: Will it become a new pain point?

India's ambitious renewable energy plans aim for an addition of forty-five to fifty gigawatts each year, supported by a significant number of projects pending power purchase agreements. The surge in electricity demand has greatly enhanced thermal plant usage r

The School of Business Studies at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) organised a research seminar exploring modern approaches to understanding how customers perceive and evaluate services. The session focused on the theme, Reconsidering the Cocreation of Val

Bengaluru: The ADB and the Karnataka government on Friday signed an agreement under which the multilateral agency will provide Rs 1,750 crore assistance for developing 500 government schools across the state as KPS.The agreement was signed at Vidhana Soudha in

New foreign investment rules are yielding positive results for India's economy. Twenty-nine investment proposals totaling over Rs 4,895 crore have been reported

August marked a subtle rise in India's private sector activity, propelled by a rebound in services growth that countered the slowest factory expansion in five years. New orders showed a quicker pace but continued to be underwhelming against historical averages

India s buffalo meat exports are booming, hitting a record $5.1 billion in 2025-26 and set to cross $6 billion in the current fiscal year. Credit goes to the industry that has built a market in countries from Southeast and West Asia to Africa and, more recentl

India's infrastructure output grew 5.4% year-on-year in July 2026. This growth moderated from the revised 6% expansion recorded in June

AWS, on Thursday, August 20, announced that OpenAI s flagship AI models GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna are now available on Amazon Bedrock in India with in-country inferencing. Since OpenAI model inference on Amazon Bedrock is processed on AWS infrastructure, organisa

Streets along a 2-km stretch in Sector 99A have remained without functioning streetlights for nearly two months, with residents raising safety concerns and alleging that repeated complaints to the Municipal Corporation of Manesar (MCM) have yielded no action

Holding that charging a customer for a carry bag without prior disclosure amounts to an unfair trade practice, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Chandigarh, has directed Sector 35-C retailer, to refund 12 charged for a paper bag, besides pay

Stress level: 10 out of 10. A first-year MA English student at Chandigarh s MCM DAV College describes the simple act of stepping outside her campus gates on a weekday afternoon

In a significant move that shall ease traffic bottlenecks on the IFFCO Chowk-Southern Peripheral Road (SPR) corridor, one of the arterial links connecting the heart of Gurgaon to the rapidly expanding southern development zones, a Rs 41.86-crore upgradation pr

Germany's property sector demonstrated a positive trajectory in June, marked by a nearly fourteen percent rise in apartment building permits. The tally reached twenty-one thousand six hundred units, showcasing a robust recovery compared to last year's statisti

Thiruvananthapuram, The Government of Keralam will lease 18.16 acres of land to Cochin Shipyard in Kochi for a ship block building project involving an investment of around Rs 5,000 crore, Chief Minister V D Satheesan said on Tuesday. Today, in the Cabinet mee

Refusing to quash a case of forgery and cheating against a senior constable in Patiala though the parties arrived at a mutual compromise, the Punjab and Haryana High Court observed that since the accused is a public servant who allegedly forged a job appointme

Residents and locals in Sector 67 are calling for the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) to take action against people illegally dumping plastic and food waste in the green belt in Ramgarh, alleging that the issue has persisted for nearly a year. The site

A Gurgaon court on Monday granted regular bail to Pankaj Yadav, the third accused arrested in connection with a case of alleged fabrication of forensic reports concerning a purported objectionable video of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. Mann had claimed

The global textiles and apparel industry faced a difficult period between 2021 and 2025, hit by weak discretion ary spending, volatile raw material prices, supply chain disrup tions, high freight costs, and sluggish demand in key export markets. The environmen

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government will soon set up a high-powered committee to chart the banking sector's role in building a "Viksit Bharat", with the panel set to draw on ideas and research emerging from two days of intensive discussions

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday emphasised the need for Aatmanirbharta in defence and called for India to emerge as a global supplier of next-generation defence technologies. There is no alternative to being self-reliant in defence

KBC 18: India s journey into the private space age took centre stage on Kaun Banega Crorepati 18 on Friday, August 14, as Skyroot Aerospace co-founders Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka joined Amitabh Bachchan for the Independence Day special episode

Two groups of women clashed over a dispute about feeding stray dogs in their society in Sector 67 on Thursday night, police said on Friday. Police said both parties submitted cross-complaints at Sector 65 police station, and an investigation has been launched

In July, mutual funds increased their allocation to the IT sector to 6.6 per cent, marking a positive shift after an extended period of minimal investment from fund managers. Analysts believe this surge is mainly driven by valuation factors, highlighting a cau

Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday launched a four-part debt offering that could raise between $4 billion and $5 billion, according to a source and terms reviewed by Reuters, as the chipmaker seeks funding flexibility amid a broader wave of tech-sector fundrai

Amid concerns over the possibility of states losing revenue from taxes, cess and other levies on mineral extraction following the passage of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, Union Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursd

Jio Financial Services Ltd (JFSL) of the Reliance Industries group and Bank of America Corporation (BofA) have signed a definitive agreement under which BofA will acquire up to a 49.9% stake as a joint venture partner in JFSL s wholly-owned NBFC lending subsid

The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) will spend over 8.60 crore to develop, upgrade and maintain green areas along seven key sector-dividing roads in the city, with three tenders already floated, officials said. Contractors awarded the work w

Mid-tier digital engineering services provider Coforge on Tuesday announced the launch of a new business unit focused on the private equity (PE) sector.Powered by Coforge Nuuron, its AI operating system and enterprise autonomy platform, Coforge s PE business u

As the new BJP government in West Bengal prepares to draft a new industrial policy for the state, the contentious issue of land acquisition, which triggered Singur and Nandigram agitations, was the focal point of discussion at a marathon meeting between leadin

The telecom operator Vodafone Idea is in the process of raising capital from a mix of public sector and private lenders, showcasing significant advancement in its funding strategy. They have successfully closed the initial tranche amounting to Rs 6,400 crore

Delhi is set to overhaul the way bed-and-breakfast establishments operate in the city, with the government moving to scrap the nearly two-decade-old law governing them and replace it with a new policy framework. The move comes months after a fire at a B&B in M

ET Intelligence Group: A double-digit increase in revenue but lower profitability due to input cost pressure were the key highlights of the June 2026 quarter across sectors. Consumer focussed sectors including automobiles and consumer goods reported strong top

The central government is planning to conduct a National Child Survey, with the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) having begun discussions with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD). According to the 42nd report of the S

There is no government policy that restricts that airport operators from holding substantial equity in airlines or operating them, but there are some restrictions in specific agreements pertaining to some airports operated by private sector airport operators u

The government s fund to spur research and development in deep-tech sectors like AI, space and quantum technology is commendable. Private sector R&D spending has been paltry and the country risks falling behind in the tech race without stable, patient, long-te