August 2026

Indian Bank has identified 725 branches as Gold Shoppe branches with dedicated staff and enhanced customer service facilities. The bank has added 982 empanelled appraisers in the past six months, taking the total to 3,538. CHENNAI/MUMBAI: Banks are strengthening branch-level gold loan capabilities by adding appraisers, investing in testing equipment and digitising processing as demand…

Hezly Rivera has shown that she is no longer the young newcomer who surprised everyone at the Paris Olympics. The 18-year-old Olympic gold medallist won her second straight US women’s gymnastics title after overcoming a fall on the uneven bars earlier in the competition. Rivera finished with a two-day total of 111.950 points, more than…

CCEA is a high-level committee headed by PM Modi. The government is considering a proposal to raise the threshold for foreign direct investment proposals requiring approval from the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) to Rs 15,000 crore from Rs 5,000 crore at present to further improve the country’s investment climate, according to sources. CCEA…

Citing an example, it said a typical firm operating in India currently navigates an archaic and disconnected web of regulations consisting of 1,536 distinct Acts, which collectively impose 69,233 separate compliance requirements and mandate 6,618 independent statutory filings across the three tiers of govt. NEW DELHI: Stakeholders have informed a parliamentary committee that despite multi-phased…

In his message to shareholders in the company’s annual report for 2025-26, the veteran industry leader also requested all political parties to support reforms and programmes NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki India chairman RC Bhargava has urged the Centre and state govts to proceed faster on the road of reforms and increase efforts to make doing…

FPIs had withdrawn Rs 49,340 crore in June, Rs 32,963 crore in May, Rs 60,847 crore in April and a massive Rs 1.2 lakh crore in March. Prior to this selling streak, they had invested Rs 22,615 crore in Feb, according to CDSL data. NEW DELHI: Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) sustained their buying momentum in…