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India is working to dramatically expand its domestic shipbuilding capabilities, with plans to establish eight such clusters along its expansive coastline. While five of these facilities will be built from the ground up, the rest three will involve expansion of existing facilities. The government has finalized the locations with pre-secured land parcels and necessary clearances,…

Besides official marketing by studios and producers, the platform also hosts movie reviews, fan activity and audience reactions by movie buffs, digital creators and influencers who are slowly building communities with like-minded entertainment enthusiasts. However, industry experts point out that, unlike other platforms that prioritise algorithms or follower counts, every post and comment on Reddit…

This divergence is largely attributed to untimely rains and a milder summer, hurting demand for seasonal categories. On Friday, homegrown consumer goods company Dabur India said that the Indian FMCG sector saw a sequential recovery in demand in the June quarter, with an uptick in volume growth particularly in urban markets. Dabur‘s home and personal…

Bank Holiday next week, July 6-13, 2025: Banks across India will be closed next week for Saturday and Sunday weekly offs. Overall, there are a total of seven listed bank holidays in July this year. Besides this, all banks in India, public and private, have the second and fourth Saturdays as a holiday and all…

The department of telecommunications (DoT) and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) are sparring over the allocation of a portion of the key 700 MHz spectrum to the Indian Railways. The spectrum band is crucial for Indian Railways to deploy safety and security applications as a part of its indigenous radio-based train collision avoidance…

New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): The Indian soft drink industry is expected to return to a growth rate of over 10 per cent next year, which is impacted in the current year due to weather disruptions, said a report by Systematix Institutional Equities. The Carbonated Soft Drinks (CSD) industry is expected to deliver strong…

“I have not grown rice since 2003,” he says, eyes scanning his orchard. “We have faced back-to-back droughts. The rains do not come like they used to. Year after year, we waited, but the rainfall became scarce, and the canals that once nourished our fields ran dry. The limited irrigation we had was not enough…

Bank Holiday Today: Banks across India will remain open on Saturday, June 5, except for Jammu and Kashmir, as per the RBI bank holiday calendar. Banks across Jammu and Kashmir will remain closed today due to Guru Hargobind Ji’s Birthday, the sixth of the ten Sikh Gurus. When do banks typically close? There are bank…

Mumbai: Deposit growth at banks picked up pace in the first quarter of the current financial year, even as credit growth continued to be sluggish, initial business updates show. Of the lenders that have declared their initial Q1 updates so far, on-year deposit growth matched or outpaced loan growth for most private banks and Punjab…

The report comes amid the road transport and highways ministry (MoRTH) decision to implement the rules from 1 April next year. However, tractor manufacturers, under the aegis of the Tractor and Mechanization Association (TMA), are lobbying to postpone the new rules.  They argue that TREM V-compliant tractors will become prohibitively expensive for small and marginal…