India bond selloff picks pace on massive borrowing plan, shares up on spending thrust
India's benchmark bond yield surged on a selloff that picked pace on Tuesday as the government announced increased borrowings in its 2022-23 federal budget, while...
Factbox: India’s big spending budget aims to sustain recovery
India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday unveiled a federal budget, which laid out plans to ramp up government spending to boost growth despite concerns...
India’s factory growth slowed to 4-mth low in Jan; inflation fears hit confidence
Growth in India's factory activity slowed to a four-month low in January as COVID-19 curbs hurt new orders and output, while high price pressures weighed...
India’s privatisation target cut fuels doubts over LIC IPO size
The Indian government's sharply scaled-back plans to sell state-run companies have raised uncertainty among analysts around the size and scale of the proposed initial public...
India’s budget aims to boost spending to support growth
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday unveiled the budget for fiscal 2022/23 that aims to boost growth amid continued disruption from COVID-19 and rising...
India goes on a spending spree to boost growth, stokes concern over fiscal deficit
India's government will step up spending to 39.45 trillion rupees ($529.7 billion) in the coming fiscal year to build public infrastructure and drive economic growth,...
UK factory output rises at fastest rate in six months -PMI
British manufacturing output grew at the fastest pace in six months in January as global supply chain pressures began to ease and factories largely shrugged...
Plastics clampdown is key to climate change fight, EU environment chief says
Progressive reduction of fossil fuel-based plastics is crucial to tackling climate change, the EU's top environmental official said, ahead of a United Nations meeting to...
Tesco says 1,600 jobs at risk from store changes
Tesco (TSCO.L), Britain's biggest retailer, said on Tuesday 1,600 roles were at risk of redundancy due to operational changes at stores, including the removal of night...
Many countries yet to see peak in Omicron wave, should ease curbs slowly -WHO
Many countries have not reached their peak in cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus and measures imposed to curb its spread...