Sensex decline on fag-end selling; financial stocks drag

Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty pared intra-day gains to close lower on Thursday due to last-hour selling in financial and metal shares. Photograph: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters The 30-share......

Services activity jumps to over 3-year high in March

The survey noted that despite solid upturns in new business and output, the trend in employment remained subdued. Private sector activity in the country registered a significant uptrend and surged......

Services sector at a 3-month low, rate cut hopes brighten

Service providers' confidence with regard to the 12-month outlook for business activity remained positive. Image: Although new orders at services firms continued to rise in February, the rate of......

Services sector activity falls from 21-month peak in August

Business confidence remained positive in August and was driven by upbeat forecasts of sales, an expected improvement in demand and promotional activities India's services sector activity fell in......