A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday.
'The growth drivers are mostly invisible, but the growth is undeniable at least for now,' notes Debashis Basu.
The readings, for the month of October, are based on Composite Leading Indicator that are designed to anticipate turning points in economic activity relative to trend.
'We have seen a host of businesses across sectors generate economic value and wealth for investors.'
The world's lowest ranked soccer team, Bhutan, will take on Sri Lanka next month, while sleeping giants India face Nepal in the first qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup.
India registered over 10,000 cases for the eighth day in a row.
According to a new study, China, India, Indonesia, USA, Russia have the largest number of smokers.
The launch of premium devices from OnePlus and Samsung in the second half of Apple's reporting period added to Apple's woes.
'What is the problem in getting the UK to extradite our citizens?' asks Aakar Patel.
The turning point in his career was undoubtedly Nepal where he was sent as ambassador and acted with a cool head.
A lot rides on this new vehicle for Renault, the seventh largest player in domestic passenger vehicle market, as its brand new SUV takes on Maruti Suzuki Brezza, Hyundai Creta and Ford EcoSport.
According to a new report published by Switzerland-based BIS, which is also referred as 'bank for central banks', the US Federal Reserve's announcement of a possible phasing out of easy money regime has resulted in 'abrupt and sizeable' equity market losses in both advanced and emerging markets.
'... as has been happening in the last three weeks, then the foreign exchange reserves will not be comfortable to ensure that the rupee does not fall drastically.'
This is Modi's first bilateral visit to Myanmar.
The number of recoveries continued to surge with 2,13,830 patients cured so far, while there were 1,68,269 active cases, according to the updated official figures at 8 am.
According to the Credit Suisse Global Wealth report, India has 1,800 ultra high net worth individuals -- 11th largest group globally, while the United States tops the chart with 62,800 UHNW adults (equivalent to 49 per cent of the global total).
India registered over 10,000 cases for the tenth day in a row.
Borrowing from BRICS bank will help India avoid other kinds of politics emanating from the West. Overall, the BRICS institutions will necessarily adopt alternative ways of doing things based on their own cultural and socio economic needs, says M K Venu.
The HSBC Emerging Markets Index, a monthly indicator derived from the PMI surveys, inched up to 50.4 in April, from 50.3 in March, signalling only a marginal increase in output across global emerging markets in April.
India's growth is "firming up" while most of the major economies, including China and the US, are seeing stable momentum.
Ahead of next month's annual Indo-Russia summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev who said India is a "close and valued" partner for his country.
Experts said concerns over the Union Budget, too, had weighed on the market performance.
A new global survey reveals that we are worried and the things that keep us up at night the most are -- corruption, violence and unemployment.
India's numbers have shown a reasonable amount of improvement.
The rupee's strength against its competitor could come to haunt exporters.
Until 2014, Discovery's channels were distributed as part of a joint venture with Multi Screen Media.
It took 110 days for the COVID-19 cases in the country to reach one lakh and just 59 days more to go past the nine-lakh mark.
Indian football saw a big jump in the FIFA rankings on Thursday, rising 24 places to go up to 147 spot.
The central bank's currency management will be critical over the next few months. A weaker rupee could help to revive exports. But, the currency must fall slowly and in controlled fashion, says Devangshu Datta.
Funds parked by Indian individuals and firms in Swiss banks, including through India-based branches and other financial institutions, jumped to a 14-year-high of 3.83 billion Swiss francs (over Rs 30,500 crore) in 2021 on a sharp surge in holdings via securities and similar instruments while customer deposits rose as well, annual data from Switzerland's central bank showed on Thursday.
The survey also noted that the silver lining continues to be that majority of Indians (65 per cent) feel that the country is heading in the right direction.
The prime minister is all set to break his record of spending most days in the country without travelling abroad.
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh said India is poised to take advantage of globalisation and engage in trade to finance its imports through exports.
'In India foreign policy is generally handled by the prime minister.' 'One can clearly see the Vajpayee stamp on all this.' 'Only a person with poetic imagination can weave such a complex web,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
It took 64 days for COVID-19 cases in India to touch the (May 19) one lakh-mark from 100 cases, and another fortnight to cross two lakh cases on June 3. It took 10 days for the tally to touch the three lakh-mark and another eight days for the cases to climb to four lakh.
Recording over 20,000 coronavirus infections for the third consecutive day, India is set to overtake Russia's tally. According to the Johns Hopkins University, which has been compiling COVID-19 data from all over the world, India is behind Russia with 399 cases.
Indian economy's growth is expected to be "below trend" even as neighbouring China and most of the developed nations are expected to see better prospects, according to Paris-based think tank OECD.
United States, Russia and China oppose talks to reform the powerful United Nations body
India is threatening to block the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s trade facilitation agreement (TFA) reached at Bali last year unless its agricultural policies are permanently excluded from multilateral scrutiny.
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