Category: Business

MUMBAI: ICICI Bank reported a year-on-year decline of 4.02% in net profit to Rs 11,317.9 crore for the quarter ended Dec 31, 2025, weighed down by a sharp rise in provisions, even as core operating performance remained steady. Profit also fell 8.42% sequentially from Rs 12,358.9 crore in the previous quarter.Announcing the results, the bank’s […]

MUMBAI: HDFC Bank reported an 11.46% year-on-year increase in net profit to Rs 18,653.75 crore in Q3 FY26 from Rs 16,735.50 crore a year earlier, on the back of treasury profits with loan growth and stable asset quality supporting earnings, even as operating costs rose sharply.On a sequential basis, profit was largely flat, inching up […]

PM Modi flagged-off Vande Bharat sleeper train (PTI image) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India is now manufacturing more railway coaches than the United States and Europe, highlighting the country’s growing self-reliance. He made the remarks while flagging off India’s first Vande Bharat sleeper train from Malda in West Bengal.Addressing a public gathering […]

MUMBAI: RBL Bank reported a net profit of Rs 214 crore in Q3 FY26, up 555% from Rs 33 crore a year earlier when earnings were subdued to provisions. The net profit was 20% higher than Rs 179 crore in the previous quarter.Profit in the December quarter would have been higher but for the one-off […]

Representative image (AI-generated) The ministry of labour and employment is considering making the four Labour Codes effective from April 1 to align their rollout with companies’ financial year. The move is aimed at easing the impact of higher provident fund and gratuity costs arising from changes in salary structures under the new framework.According to officials […]

Representative image (AI-generated) State-run Indian Oil Corp and Rosneft-backed Nayara Energy have increased their purchases of Russian crude in January. This comes even as India’s overall imports from Russia have declined under US sanctions.Reliance Industries, India’s largest buyer over the past year, along with several other refiners, has not received any supplies this month. This […]

US President Donald Trump purchased around $100 million in municipal and corporate bonds between mid-November and late December, his latest financial disclosures showed. The investments included up to $2 million in Netflix and Warner Bros Discovery bonds bought shortly after the companies announced their merger.The disclosures, posted Thursday and Friday, showed that most of Trump’s […]

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would like to keep his top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, at the White House rather than potentially nominate him to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. “I actually want to keep you where you are, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said at […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday celebrated the expected signing of the free trade agreement between the EU and four South American countries the following day at a ceremony that Lula will not attend. This is the first major trade agreement for Mercosur, which […]

NEW DELHI: Ambassador of Italy to India, Antonio Bartoli, emphasised the “reliable” partnership between Rome and New Delhi and said it will be further enhanced by the conclusion of the European Union-Indian Free Trade Agreement. Speaking with ANI, Antonio Bartoli said Europe provides many advantages in the current era of “geopolitical turmoil.”“In an era of […]