Digital payments go strong in November

Festival demand, the start of the wedding season as well as pent up demand have boosted digital payments

Will Superstar Rajinikanth join politics ?

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Today’s weather: Deep depression may become cyclone later ...

First landfall over Sri Lanka by tomorrow evening

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Technical Analysis Nifty Call: Buy on declines with stop-loss at 13,040

Nifty 50 December Futures (13,102) The domestic benchmark indices -- Sensex and Nifty 50, began the session marginally on a positive note taking ...

Technical Analysis Daily Rupee call: INR rallies past 74; likely to be bullish

The rupee (INR) last week ended marginally higher at 74.04 versus its preceding week’s close of 74.14 against the dollar (USD). Nevertheless, it ...

Commodities Power trading heats up at IEX

Electricity volumes traded at the exchange rose 25% in CY’20; average price fell 18%

India Interior Craft grows more shoots at the grassroots

Women artisans start their own producer companies to shape lifestyle products

India Interior Life blooms for Odisha farmers with waterbody rejuvenation

Santosh Barik and his family — his wife, parents and two sisters — have been farm labourers in his village in Jalangi, in Balasore district, for as ...

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Companies and stocks to watch: December 1, 2020

Asian shares open higher following Covid-19 vaccine prospect

Day Trading Guide for December 1, 2020

Greaves Cotton (₹84): Buy

Uttam Value Steels delisting leaves investors in lurch

MCX-Lead sees fresh breakout

Oil prices edge down ahead of OPEC+ meet

North Indian tea prices drop; reflects in Kochi auctions as well

Agri exports jump driven mainly by rice, maize

Steel demand to fall 12% this year: Report

Forex reserves rise to $575.29 b

Rupee trading with a positive bias

Rupee rises 9 paise to 73.82 against US dollar

Rupee advances above 74

Rupee rises 10 paise to 73.91 against US dollar

Silver Rates: November 27, 2020

Gold Rates: November 27, 2020

Silver rates: November 26, 2020

Gold rates: November 26, 2020

Gold sees a free fall; consumers happy as price rules below ₹45,000/10g

Opinion

The many elements of China challenge

India must look to countering China on many fronts especially if it wants to achieve self-reliance

Editorial

Problem of plenty

Recent macro data has brought in a gusher of foreign flows, but liquidity is also at play

Slate

All you want to know about capital account convertibility

The RBI Governor recently said that India will continue to approach capital account convertibility as a ...

C P Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh

The alarming rise in education costs in New India

An official survey shows that education spending has gone up sharply in India, forming a huge financial burden ...

Rasheeda Bhagat

Capital reaping the whirlwind

If farmers are protesting so steadfastly against the new farm laws, perhaps the Centre must listen to them

Opinion

The crucial crutch of digital payments

Thanks to the Centre’s efforts, digital payments have zoomed and proved vital during the pandemic

BL Ink

Make way, Dhoni; Captain Gopinath has landed

* Touted as a biopic, Soorarai Pottru opened to rave reviews on Amazon Prime Video on November 12. Accolades ...

I think we should give up on ‘cleaning’ Indian cricket: Ramachandra Guha

* Club cricket is extremely competitive. The people who play it are very passionate and they strain every ...

Life’s like that

* The author describes the 15 stories in Each of Us Killers as tales “woven at the intersection of labor and ...

Meat of the matter

****There are common threads that run through most middle-class Bengali families, whether from Bengal or ...

Mystery riders

My new life as a Gallery Gal has been greatly enhanced by the FLEX Shuttle that conveys me to and from the ...

Colaba chronicles

Every time I leaf through my battered copy of Following the Equator, two words pop into my head. If ...

Quiz on car racing

On this day in 1895, the first American automobile race took place between Chicago and Evanston. This quiz is ...

economy

Manufacturing PMI slips to three-month low of 56.3 in ...

Growth remains strong, despite losing traction: IHS Markit

Telangana reports 502 new Covid-19 cases

894 patients recovered from the infection

India lagging on targets set in 1st RE-Invest

The third edition of RE-Invest concluded on November 28, but India’s installed renewable energy capacity is ...

Pre-packaged insolvency regime: India is studying best ...

India may settle for a pre-packaged insolvency regime which is NCLT-facilitated and not entirely outside of the ...

Goodricke Group keen to buy more tea estates in Assam

Today’s Weather: Pre-cyclone watch for South Tamil Nadu, South Kerala

NK Proteins to launch Tirupati Rice Bran oil in January

Will the recent surge in prices impact cotton exports?

Sugarcane crushing season in full swing in Maharashtra

Neither farmers nor govt ready to blink

IDBI Bank redeems $350-million worth senior notes

Notes issued under the bank’s $5-billion Medium-Term Note programme

Reliance Capital defaults on interest payment of term loans

Reliance Capital has defaulted on interest payments of term loans amounting to ₹624.61 crore. In a regulatory ...

ECLGS 2.0 will be sufficient to ease liquidity pressures: ...

The Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) 2.0 will be sufficient to help companies, including those ...

DHFL: Higher offer as per bid documents, says Adani group

Other applicants trying to ‘derail’ bidding process

Indian Bank in pact with SIDBI for asset restructuring ...

Indian Bank has entered into an agreement with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) to use the ...

Union Bank aims to increase CASA to 40% by FY23

Union Bank of India (UBI) plansto increase the proportion of low-cost current account and savings account ...

Today's Poll

Will Reliance be able to complete the Future Group deal?

Dealing with invasion of locusts

Even as we battle Covid-19, we can’t afford to ignore this latest problem that was reported recently in Rajasthan

Uttam Value Steels delisting leaves investors in lurch

Uttam Value Steels will be delisted from both the exchanges from Tuesday

DHFL FD holders may get a quarter of their funds repaid

Fixed deposit holders of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL) could get back about a quarter ...

Union Bank aims to increase CASA to 40% by FY23

Union Bank of India (UBI) plansto increase the proportion of low-cost current account and savings ...

Asymptomatic Covid-19 patients have higher viral loads than symptomatic patients: Study

‘A significant decrease in viral load was observed with increasing disease severity’

The Future of Faster & Reliable Construction Is Here

As India surges to a smarter time and age, there is a growing need for newer, more innovative and ...

Former Pfizer Chief Scientist claims Covid-19 pandemic effectively over, no need for any vaccine

Says vaccination is unnecessary on healthy people who arent at risk from the disease

As RBI continues to buy dollars, rupee falls even as most Asian currencies rise

Loses 3.59% against dollar despite surge in FPI/FDI flows

Weather: IMD issues depression watch over Bay, again

South Tamil Nadu, Kerala to receive heavy rainfall

Multimedia

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Security start-up Helia raises $3 million

The platform enhances physical security within enterprises by autonomously reviewing security camera footage in ...

Glenmark Pharma gets tentative nod from USFDA for cancer ...

Drug major Glenmark Pharma on Tuesday said it has received tentative approval from the US health regulator for ...

Bajaj sells more two-wheelers in overseas markets than at ...

Exports 196,797 units compared to domestic sales of 188,196 units

LG Chem to double China battery capacity to meet Tesla ...

Co will invest $500 million over the next year to raise annual production capacity of 21,700 cylindrical ...

Maruti reports decline in November sales

Auto major sold 1,35,775 units during the month compared with 1,39,133 units in the same month last year

Toyota reports 2% y-o-y growth in November sales

Sells 8,508 units during the month

Samsung may discontinue high-end Galaxy Note smartphones, ...

Samsung first launched the Note in 2011 which helped it overtake Apple

BSNL employees’ union seeks Telecom Minister’s intervention

‘Delay in re-issuance of 2G spectrum is seriously affecting the operator’s GSM and 3G services’

5G subscriptions would be over 350 million by 2026: Ericsson ...

India would have more than 350 million 5G subscriptions by 2026, with the first connection expected to be ...

Post Covid, RailTel speeds on new track; taps scope in ...

RailTel, a ₹1,166-crore PSU incorporated in 2000 as a pure-play broadband service provider along railway ...

CerraCap Ventures, Exfinity Venture Partners join hands for ...

California-based CerraCap Ventures and Bengaluru-based Exfinity Venture Partners have entered into a global ...

CERT-In, Kasperksy in strategic pact to improve mutual ...

Cybersecurity firm to assist Indian cybersecurity agency in cyber incident management, critical information ...

Near-term outlook turns bleak for gold

The futures contract expiring in February has breached the crucial support of ₹50,000

Index Outlook: Do bulls face any immediate threat?

However, there seems to be no immediate threat to the bull trend

Greaves Cotton (₹84): Buy

The stock of Greaves Cotton gained 9.8 per cent accompanied by above average volume on Friday, surpassing a key ...

Day Trading Guide for December 1, 2020

₹1440 • HDFC Bank S1S2R1R2COMMENT 1427141014501465 Initiate fresh long positions with a stiff stop-loss if ...

Cocoa prices surge amid supply risks

Rate rose to $2,753 a tonne on Nov 24 from around $2,250 a tonne early in the month

Big Story | All you need to know about filing I-T return

The last date for tax filing is just a month away. Here’s a guide to save the stress and the last minute rush

Children are having a bigger say in family purchases

Marketers must note that youngsters are influencing buying decisions on high-value purchases too

Can India become a $5-trillion economy by 2025?

In this video, Radhika Merwin, Associate Editor with BL, explains why this may be a distant dream

What is RCEP and why did India stay out of it?

The agreement is important to India because of the sheer size of the proposed bloc

CAT exam: Admission criteria in IIMs

T.I.M.E. Centre Director Arvind Mantry explains the entire process in this video

CAT and the importance of mock examinations

Taking mock examinations every day is not ideal, says T.I.M.E. Centre Director Arvind Mantry

CAT in three weeks, what should be the focus

Do not panic, practice is the answer to everything, says T.I.M.E. Centre Director Arvind Mantry

Decoding the Union Budget 2020: Facebook Live discussion

Podcast

Podcast | Quick look 34: PM Modi on farming reforms; IMD issues depression watch over Bay, again

Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Sunday that the farming reforms have opened doors of new opportunities for peasants and bestowed on them new ...