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  • Govt to invoke emergency law to force imported coal-based utilities to operate: Report Jan 30, 2023 02:43 PM IST

    Govt to invoke emergency law to force imported coal-based utilities to operate: Report

    Power ministry officials will work with those involved in debt restructuring of financially stressed idle plants to make them functional, the sources said.

  • Developed world hasn't acted on $100 billion/year climate finance pledge, multilateral financial bodies need to be transformed: Amitabh Kant Jan 30, 2023 02:24 PM IST

    Developed world hasn't acted on $100 billion/year climate finance pledge, multilateral financial bodies need to be transformed: Amitabh Kant

    The former bureaucrat said multilateral financial institutions are not equipped to do the same, and there is a need to transform them.

  • Edible oil makers get additional 6 months to remove packing temperature details Jan 30, 2023 01:46 PM IST

    Edible oil makers get additional 6 months to remove packing temperature details

    The legal metrology officers across the states have been directed to create awareness among the manufacturers, packers and importers of edible oils to pack the commodity without mentioning temperature and advise them to ensure that the quantity declared on the package is correct.

  • HSBC expects Budget 2023 to choose macro stability over growth Jan 30, 2023 01:13 PM IST

    HSBC expects Budget 2023 to choose macro stability over growth

    High inflation and widening trade deficit that posed macroeconomic stability challenges last year will lessen in severity, but growth will taper off too, Bhandari said in an interview Monday with Bloomberg Television’s Rishaad Salamat. “It’s hard for the two to co-exist.”

  • India’s Budget to test PM Modi’s fiscal resolve ahead of 2024 vote Jan 30, 2023 12:25 PM IST

    India’s Budget to test PM Modi’s fiscal resolve ahead of 2024 vote

    Shrinking the deficit which hit a record 9.2% of gross domestic product during the first year of the pandemic is necessary for Asia’s third-largest economy to improve its credit rating currently at the lowest investment grade.

  • Budget 2023 Trivia: 15 interesting things to know about the Union Budget Jan 30, 2023 12:18 PM IST

    Budget 2023 Trivia: 15 interesting things to know about the Union Budget

    Which budget had the highest allocation for agriculture so far – and when was the 'bahi khata' introduced? While we count down to the Union Budget 2023, watch this video to get to know some interesting titbits about recent budgets!

  • Asia thermal coal prices slip as China, India buy less Jan 30, 2023 11:24 AM IST

    Asia thermal coal prices slip as China, India buy less

    Prices of the main traded grades for coal used in power plants dropped to their lowest in months last week, and to the weakest in a year in the case of one of the major Australian varieties.

  • India asks utilities to not retire coal-fired power plants till 2030 Jan 30, 2023 09:55 AM IST

    India asks utilities to not retire coal-fired power plants till 2030

    The energy-hungry nation said last May it plans to reduce power generation from least 81 coal-fired plants over the next four years, but the proposal did not involve shutting down any of its 179 coal power plants. India has not set a formal timeline for phasing down coal use.

  • Crisis-hit Pakistan imported over 2,000 luxury cars: Report Jan 30, 2023 08:23 AM IST

    Crisis-hit Pakistan imported over 2,000 luxury cars: Report

    Pakistan is grappling with a foreign exchange crisis and is looking at an urgent bailout package from IMF.

  • Fuel prices on January 30: Check petrol, diesel rates in Delhi, Mumbai and other cities Jan 30, 2023 08:05 AM IST

    Fuel prices on January 30: Check petrol, diesel rates in Delhi, Mumbai and other cities

    Petrol and diesel are priced at Rs 102.63 per litre and Rs 94.24 per litre respectively in Chennai, and at Rs 106.03 a litre and Rs 92.76 a litre in Kolkata, respectively.

  • RBI to hike repo rate by 25 basis points in February, ending tightening cycle: Poll Jan 30, 2023 07:53 AM IST

    RBI to hike repo rate by 25 basis points in February, ending tightening cycle: Poll

    Those forecasts were unchanged from a poll last month, with predictions for a slowdown in GDP growth to 6.0% in the 2023/24 fiscal year from an expected 6.7% in the current one also barely changed.

  • Bond yields may rise, rupee upside capped, with all eyes on budget Jan 30, 2023 07:13 AM IST

    Bond yields may rise, rupee upside capped, with all eyes on budget

    The government is expected to announce a record gross borrowing of 16 trillion rupees ($196.28 billion) for 2023-24 when it presents the federal budget on Feb. 1, according to a Reuters poll of economists.

  • India's low coal stocks threaten electricity supply Jan 30, 2023 06:39 AM IST

    India's low coal stocks threaten electricity supply

    Fuel stocks are only slightly higher than this time last year, when inadequate coal supplies coupled with higher than normal temperatures in March and April contributed to widespread blackouts.

  • Indian sugar mills to close early as rain hits cane supply: Govt official Jan 30, 2023 06:06 AM IST

    Indian sugar mills to close early as rain hits cane supply: Govt official

    The western state of Maharashtra, which accounts for more than a third of the country's sugar output, could produce 12.8 million tonnes of sugar in the 2022/23 marketing year that began on Oct. 1, down from an earlier forecast of 13.8 million tonnes, Maharashtra's sugar commissioner Shekhar Gaikwad said.

  • In-Depth | What pushed Pakistan to the brink of economic collapse & why it concerns India Jan 29, 2023 08:36 PM IST

    In-Depth | What pushed Pakistan to the brink of economic collapse & why it concerns India

    With inflation soaring to nearly 25 percent, and its interest rate at a 24-year-high of 17 percent, Pakistan appears to be crumbling.

  • Budget 2023 Expectations Highlights: Experts say mental health insurance, affordable healthcare should be considered by FM Sitharaman Jan 29, 2023 08:10 AM IST

    Budget 2023 Expectations Highlights: Experts say mental health insurance, affordable healthcare should be considered by FM Sitharaman

    Budget 2023 Expectations Highlights: We must focus on reconstruction & rehabilitation. Many youths are unemployed, we must create self-employment opportunities, revive closed units and give them technological help and slight handholding, says Navin M Raheja, chairman & MD, Raheja Developers on 2023 Budget expectations.

  • US-China trade war: Biden administration may block investments to high-tech Chinese sectors: Report Jan 28, 2023 01:42 PM IST

    US-China trade war: Biden administration may block investments to high-tech Chinese sectors: Report

    The Biden administration had earlier blocked sale of semiconductor technology to China, a step aimed at crippling Beijing’s access to the critical tech which is needed for everything from supercomputing to guiding weapons

  • Moneycontrol Pro Weekender: A Budget for a Brave New World  Jan 28, 2023 10:48 AM IST

    Moneycontrol Pro Weekender: A Budget for a Brave New World 

    India is on the frontline of the geopolitical conflict -- We need a budget to reflect that fact

  • Budget 2023 Expectations Highlights: Here are the common man's expectations from the Union Budget 2023-24 Jan 28, 2023 07:59 AM IST

    Budget 2023 Expectations Highlights: Here are the common man's expectations from the Union Budget 2023-24

    Budget 2023 Expectations Highlights: The common man is worried about inflation because of a looming global economic slowdown and a potential resurgence of Covid-19. Layoffs and slowdown in US and Europe is keeping the mood of the nation cautiously optimistic. People expect a rise in the basic exemption limit in income tax.

  • Business in the Week Ahead (January 30-February 3, 2023) Jan 27, 2023 07:07 PM IST

    Business in the Week Ahead (January 30-February 3, 2023)

    The Budget presentation is just a few days away. As the permutations and combinations hit a frenetic pace, what should you look for when the finance minister stands to read out the document? Not just that, a clutch of interest rate policy decisions across geographies will keep the week humming

  • Royalty payments to group companies needs stronger regulation to balance shareholder interests Jan 27, 2023 05:59 PM IST

    Royalty payments to group companies needs stronger regulation to balance shareholder interests

    Royalties are necessary but the present regulatory regime rely heavily on independent directors who aren’t sufficiently empowered to protect outside shareholders

  • Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | Equity traders get the rough end of the stick Jan 27, 2023 04:57 PM IST

    Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | Equity traders get the rough end of the stick

    In today’s edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: Should investors worry about turnover ratio, can banks pull up Nifty, problems posed by ‘time theft’ and ‘quiet quitting’, school learning outcome disappoints, and more

  • Budget 2023-24 must target 5.5% fiscal deficit: former MPC member Mridul Saggar Jan 27, 2023 04:53 PM IST

    Budget 2023-24 must target 5.5% fiscal deficit: former MPC member Mridul Saggar

    Saggar, who was a member of the Reserve Bank of India's rate-setting panel through much of the coronavirus pandemic, says the government must downsize itself even as it continues its focus on capital expenditure

  • BofA’s Jayesh Mehta sees lower yields but no rate cuts in 2023 Jan 27, 2023 03:01 PM IST

    BofA’s Jayesh Mehta sees lower yields but no rate cuts in 2023

    “In the last quarter, the swaps market is pricing a cut in India, which I find very hard to believe,” said Jayesh Mehta, India country treasurer at the US bank said in an interview last week. “Our domestic demand is good, backed up by equally good local growth.”

  • Govt plans to classify clean economic activities, tech to attract more funds: Report Jan 27, 2023 02:37 PM IST

    Govt plans to classify clean economic activities, tech to attract more funds: Report

    The renewable energy ministry and the finance ministry are working on the draft policy. Neither ministry responded to queries from Reuters.