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WEF economists expect global economic conditions to weaken in 2026 over mounting debt, geopolitics Around 53 per cent of World Economic Forum chief economists who were surveyed expect global economic conditions to weaken in the year ahead, down from 72 per cent in September 2025, even as they acknowledge the relative resilience of the global…
MUMBAI: In a renewed push to contain fraud and improve customer safeguards, RBI has asked banks to clear the growing backlog in KYC updates and warned against the routine rejection of applications. Lapses in KYC, the central bank said, weaken defences against fraud and exclusion, particularly in rural and semi-urban areas. Alongside fraud, RBI has…
While most of the country is facing poor air quality, North India, and the capital New Delhi in particular, is battling a grim pollution crisis, with the AQI relentlessly touching dangerous levels. While we all know that long-term exposure to pollution can severely damage our lungs, there is emerging research to now prove that it…
India’s central bank will allow the rupee to weaken as the country’s external position comes under strain from slowing dollar inflows, widening trade pressures and heavy foreign selling in domestic markets, according to sources cited by news agency Reuters. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which had been actively supporting the currency until last month…
India’s engineering goods exports fell a steep 16.71 per cent year-on-year in October 2025 to $9.37 billion, primarily due to a sharp drop in shipments to the US and a high base effect, the Engineering Export Promotion Council of India (EEPC) said on Saturday.Exports to key markets recorded widespread declines, with the Asean region seeing…
The Indian Rupee could gradually weaken and move towards the psychological level of 90 per US dollar by March 2026, according to a report by Union Bank of India. The bank said the currency’s trajectory will continue to be shaped by both fundamental and technical factors, with the broader depreciation trend likely to persist over…
You might be doing everything right, popping your tablets, eating “healthy,” cutting down on salt, and yet your BP monitor tells a different story. Here’s a secret most people overlook: sometimes, it’s not your medicine that’s failing you. It’s your diet.Some everyday foods, even the “good” ones, can quietly interfere with how your blood pressure…
NEW DELHI/PATNA: BJP Friday accused Congress neta Rahul Gandhi of “systematically and deliberately trying to weaken democracy in the country” through his “vote chori (vote theft)” allegations against EC. “Rahul is trying to create anarchy,” senior BJP member Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters in Patna.Referring to Gandhi’s post on X Thursday, Prasad said, “He wrote…
