Anant Raj posts 54 pc increase in net profit to Rs 110.32 cr for Dec quarter
New Delhi: Realty firm Anant Raj Ltd has posted a 54 per cent increase in its consolidated net profit to Rs 110.32 crore for the quarter ended December. Its net profit stood at Rs 71.83 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 543.97 crore in the third quarter of this fiscal year, […]
India’s manufacturing growth hits six-month high in Jan on sharp upturn in new export orders
New Delhi: India’s manufacturing sector growth started the year 2025 on a strong footing and touched a six-month high in January, fuelled by the steepest upturn in exports in nearly 14 years, a monthly survey said on Monday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose from December’s one-year low of 56.4 […]
Aarti Industries Reports 17% Sequential QoQ Growth in EBIDTA, Driven by Strong Volume Performance
MUMBAI, India: Aarti Industries Limited (AIL), one of the leading global speciality chemicals companies, today announced its consolidated financial results for the third quarter of FY25. The company’s audited results were approved by the Board of Directors in a meeting held earlier today. On a consolidated basis, for the quarter, the income from operations stood […]
Rs 20K cr for research, AI, geospatial initiatives to drive R&D, but India needs more: Industry
New Delhi: The Rs 20,000-crore allocation to drive research, the expansion of AI and geospatial initiatives and further push to Atal Tinkering Labs are some of the significant steps taken in the Union Budget 2025-26 to strengthen the country’s research & development (R&D) ecosystem, but the country needs more, industry players said. Union Finance Minister […]
Bajaj Auto’s January sales rise 7 pc
Mumbai: Bajaj Auto on Monday reported a 7 per cent growth year-on-year in its total sales, including exports, to 381,040 units in January. The Pune-based automobile firm had recorded a total sales of 356,010 vehicles in January 2024, according to a Bajaj Auto Ltd statement. Total domestic sales, including commercial vehicles, declined 9 per cent […]
Kashmiri Pandits meet Kiren Rijiju, demand minority status, reopening of Sharda Peeth
New Delhi: All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS), led by its president Ravinder Pandita, met with Kiren Rijiju, the Minister of Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs, in New Delhi today. According to a press release, during the meeting, AIKS presented a memorandum seeking the declaration of Kashmiri Pandits as a minority community and the establishment of […]
Elon Musk says President Donald Trump ‘agreed’ USAID should be shut down
Washington: The US Agency for International Development is on the cusp of being shuttered, according the Trump administration’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk – who has been wrestling for control of the agency in recent days. Early Monday, Musk held a live session on X Spaces, previously known as Twitter Spaces, and said […]
Kejriwal targets Election Commission, accuses it of “surrendering to BJP” after alleged attack on party workers
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Monday claimed that the Election Commission has surrendered before the BJP. Addressing a press conference, Kejriwal reiterated his allegations against the Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar that he “wants a job post-retirement” and accused him of “destroying the country” for mere post. He further […]
15 killed in car bomb explosion in northern Syria
Damascus: At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded Monday when a car bomb exploded in the outskirts of a northern Syrian city, local civil defence and a war monitor reported. The car on the outskirts of the city of Manbij detonated next to a vehicle carrying agricultural workers, killing 14 women and one […]
SC dismisses plea alleging misuse of women-centric laws
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging certain provisions of the Dowry Prohibition Act and alleging misuse of women-centric laws. “You can go and raise all these grounds in Parliament,” a bench of Justices B R Gavai and K Vinod Chandran told the counsel appearing for the petitioner. The petitioner’s counsel […]
