Economics

A Qatar military helicopter crashed in the regional territorial waters of Qatar following a reported technical malfunction during routine duty. The crash was...

A Parliamentary Standing Committee has raised concern over the Food Corporation of India's (FCI) consistently low and declining share in the direct procureme...

LNG supply disruptions linked to the ongoing Iran-Israel war have caused urea output at affected fertilizer plants to drop by approximately 50%. Energy consu...

The prolonged Iran-Israel war has introduced compound macroeconomic risks for India spanning energy prices, remittances, and trade logistics. Rising energy c...

Reports indicate that India's LPG supplies face serious disruption risk from conflict near the Strait of Hormuz, with the sector more vulnerable than crude o...

The Central Government modified the Mutual Credit Guarantee Scheme for MSMEs (MCGS-MSME), originally launched in January 2025, to expand coverage and improve...

Israel struck Iranian facilities linked to the South Pars gas field — the first time Israel has targeted Iranian natural gas infrastructure — in a strike coo...

The US Treasury issued a 30-day sanctions waiver beginning March 21, 2026, allowing the sale of Iranian oil currently aboard tankers at sea US Treasury Secre...

Three weeks into the West Asia war (US-Israel strikes on Iran, beginning February 28, 2026), energy analysts and policymakers are arguing that the mounting e...

The Finance Ministry announced changes to the Mutual Credit Guarantee Scheme for MSMEs (MCGS-MSME), making the existing 5% upfront contribution refundable, t...

India achieved the milestone of one billion tonnes (BT) of coal production on March 20, 2026 — the second consecutive year it has hit this landmark, reinforc...

India's Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal is set to attend the WTO's 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from March 26–29, 2026. A GTRI (Gl...

SBI Research cautioned that escalating geopolitical tensions in West Asia could create ripple effects across global energy markets, trade flows, and financia...

Three weeks into the West Asia war (US-Israel strikes on Iran, beginning February 28, 2026), all of India's immediate neighbours — Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal...

The US Treasury Department on March 20, 2026 issued a 30-day sanctions waiver permitting the sale of approximately 140 million barrels of Iranian crude oil a...

Union Power Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced at the Bharat Electricity Summit 2026 in New Delhi that India will begin formal trading in its domestic ca...

Escalating conflict in West Asia has triggered cascading disruptions for Surat's twin industrial pillars — the diamond cutting and polishing sector and the m...

The United Nations designated March 21 as International Day of Forests, with the 2026 theme selected as "Forests and Economies" by the UN Forum on Forests (U...

The Government of India approved an additional 20% allocation of commercial LPG to states and Union Territories, taking total allocation to 50% — signalling ...

SBI Research released a report warning that the ongoing Middle East conflict could trigger a fresh wave of global inflation if disruptions to supply chains a...