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Moneylife Digital Team 12 August 2025
India’s export-oriented sectors, particularly diamond polishing, shrimp, home textiles and carpets, face sharp earnings blow after the US announced steep tariffs on imports from India, according to an assessment by CRISIL Ratings.   An additional 25% tariff, effective from 27th August, as a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 August 2025
The Lok Sabha on Monday pushed through two major financial reform bills and key sports legislation during a stormy Monsoon session marked by loud opposition protests over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.   The Income-Tax Bill, 2025, and the Taxation Laws (Amendment)...

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KBS Sidhu 08 August 2025
Cheap Russian Oil, Yet Petrol Pumps Stay Costly India’s Russian oil imports tell a striking story in numbers. Over the past two years, India has been importing crude oil at discounts ranging from 25% to 50%, amounting to US$5–USUS$30 per barrel below global prices. Yet petrol prices remain...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 August 2025
India has strongly condemned the US decision to impose an additional 25% tariff on Indian imports, calling the move 'unfair, unjustified and unreasonable'. The sharp response came after US president Donald Trump issued an executive order that doubles the total tariff on most Indian goods to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 August 2025
As expected, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its third monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting for FY25-26, decided to keep the repo rate, the central bank's rate for short-term loans to banks, by 50bps (basis points) unchanged at 5.5%. Consequently, the standing deposit facility (SDF) rate...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 August 2025
In a rare and sharply worded rebuttal, the Indian government has forcefully rejected US president Donald Trump’s threat to 'substantially' raise tariffs on Indian goods over its continued import of Russian oil, calling the criticism 'unjustified and unreasonable' and exposing what it described...

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KBS Sidhu 01 August 2025
The 25% jolt: Can Indo-US trade weather Trump’s new tariff storm?   President Donald Trump on 30 July 2025 declared that every good entering the United States from India will face a 25% ‘reciprocal’ tariff, plus an unspecified penalty, from 1 August 2025. In a Truth Social post, he wrote in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 July 2025
US president Donald Trump has announced a sweeping new trade measure imposing a 25% tariff on Indian imports starting 1 August 2025, escalating tensions between the two countries over long-standing trade issues. In a post on his social media platform, TruthSocial, the president accused India of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 July 2025
India’s financial environment deteriorated sharply in June 2025, as reflected in CRISIL Ratings’ financial conditions index (FCI), which slipped to -0.5 from a neutral 0.0 in May. This negative value signals that financial conditions were not only tighter than the previous month but also fell...

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First, it was shadow banning of exports of rare earths which panicked Indian electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers. Now comes a Chinese halt on specialised fertilisers. A German tunnel-boring machine bound for India is reportedly stuck in China, awaiting export clearance. What next? India, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2025
India’s industrial production growth dipped to a 10-month low of 1.2% in May 2025, signalling a subdued start to the fiscal year, despite robust investment-linked activity. According to the quick estimates released by the Union ministry of statistics, the index of industrial production (IIP) in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 June 2025
India's financial system remains resilient and well-capitalised, even as global uncertainties continue to loom large, according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s Financial Stability Report (FSR) released in June 2025. The report underlines that the country's scheduled commercial banks (SCBs)...

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Sanjeev Nayyar 30 June 2025
The Indian Premier League (IPL) symbolises mega popularity and big money for all stakeholders namely BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India), franchise companies, IPL players, media houses, etc. In the last decade it has caught the national imagination as few other games have. The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 June 2025
The Russian energy conglomerate PJSC Rosneft Oil Company has initiated preliminary discussions with India's Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) regarding the potential divestment of its significant stake in Nayara Energy. The Russian energy giant originally acquired the asset through its US$12.9bn...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 June 2025
A dramatic family feud has erupted within one of India's most influential media dynasties, threatening to tear apart the multi-billion rupee Sun TV Network empire. The dispute centres on two brothers whose partnership once symbolised the perfect blend of political acumen and business prowess,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 June 2025
India’s economy remains robust, despite global economic headwinds triggered by mounting geopolitical tensions and trade policy uncertainties, according to the June 2025 edition of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s monthly bulletin.   The bulletin features the bi-monthly monetary policy...

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On 6th June, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) surprised the markets, slicing the repo rate by 50bps (basis points) to 5.5% and cutting the cash reserve ratio by 100bps, phased over four 25-point tranches from September to November. The move, expected to inject Rs2.5 lakh crore into the system,...

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India has just overtaken Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, with nominal gross domestic product (GDP) clocking in at US$4.19trn (trillion). Yet, behind this headline triumph lies a serious contradiction. Nearly 65% of India’s population still relies on agriculture and allied...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 June 2025
Union finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman, while chairing the 29th Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) meeting in Mumbai on 10 June 2025, urged regulators and departments to accelerate the process of returning unclaimed financial assets to their rightful owners through...

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Rajiv Bajaj, chairman of Bajaj Auto, sounded the alarm last week: if China were to restrict exports of rare earths—crucial for the magnets in electric vehicles (EVs)—India’s nascent EV industry could grind to a halt. His anxiety is not unwarranted. As geopolitical tensions rise and trade wars...

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