The HSBC Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 51.3 in April from March's 52.1
The survey showed firms' confidence regarding future business grew at the slowest pace in a year last month.
Former India badminton coach Vimal Kumar on Tuesday blamed the withdrawals by Asian nations for the postponement of the Thomas and Uber Cup Final, calling it a "big setback" for the sport.
Foreign brokerage HSBC said emergence of pleasing data and the likelihood of RBI holding its key rate on April 1, should not lead to believing that the rate tightening cycle is over.
Jaitley said, "I welcome this investigation. I think it is a healthy step that these kind of exposes are being made. I have been repeatedly saying that the world is now going to increasingly become more transparent, countries are cooperating with each other and slowly all this information is going to come out as a result of various global initiatives which have been launched."
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The Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Wednesday said it might freeze the world rankings for a while as it works on a "fair solution" to the Olympic qualification process after the coronavirus pandemic forced a postponement of the Tokyo Games to 2021. There have been growing calls to freeze the world rankings after cancellations and postponements wrecked the sport's calendar. Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal, B Sai Praneeth, Parupalli Kashyap and H S Prannoy have been leading the way in expressing concerns.
The report comes on the heels of surprisingly poor export data that showed exports slumping by six per cent in February.
The country is biding time to assess the mood of the next Indian government.
Economists caution that the underlying cause could be an alarming drop in demand -- something that's not good for economic growth.
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According to the report, 1,195 Indians, nearly double the old list of 628 shared by the French government with India, figure in the HSBC list with a total balance of Rs 25,420 crore.
ED and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence have detected a significant increase in the outflow of Indian money, specifically into four countries --Thailand, Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong.
In its third quarter review of monetary policy, the RBI in January raised the key repo rate by 0.25 per cent to 8 per cent in a bid to curb inflation.
India country funds saw an outflow of $700 million
India's booming outsourcing sector has been hit by a fraud again.
The improvement, coupled with the positive findings of Monday's survey on Indian manufacturing, augurs well for Asia's third-largest economy, which grew at a higher-than-expected 4.8 per cent annual rate in the three months through September.
Factory growth picked up in May.
HSBC Electronic Data Processing India Private Limited is recruiting Customer Service Executives.
The Indian Met Department has predicted a below normal monsoon.
Some of Modi's biggest reforms have met with fierce political opposition.
RBI recently hiked LRS limit to $125,000 or Rs 7500,000 as on Aug 19 with $/rupee rate of 60
Although the country's manufacturing growth rate fell to its lowest in over four years last month, the export orders picked up and both input and output inflation eased, as per a monthly Purchasing Manager survey conducted by HSBC India and financial information provider Markit.
The bank remains on high alert to intervene if markets freeze.
This is the lowest amount of funds held by Indians in the Swiss banks ever since the Alpine nation began making the data public in 1997.
The 30- Share BSE Sensex ended 19924 up 22 points or 0.11 per cent, while the broader 50-share NSE Nifty closed down by 2 points or 0.01 pct at 5907.
Broader markets outperformed the benchmark indices marginally; BSE Small-cap ended 0.5% higher while mid-caps were up 0.2%.
Industrial output fell 3.2 per cent in November.
IIM-A saw 36 per cent jump in maximum domestic salary in 2018 placements this year.
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Although the survey pointed to the softness in demand leveling off, a complete recovery is still some way off.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said Switzerland has agreed to share information on Indians having illicit money in Swiss banks on independent evidence provided in each case to the Alpine nation.
Weakness seen in software shares, auto stocks gain on good sales growth.
It indicates that the economy has remained frail at the start of the new fiscal year.
India has pipped China to drive the volume growth of smartphones in the world on the back of falling prices of high-end devices.
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