COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will host the fifth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit from Monday to Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

Islamabad: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were travelling without a male guardian, two Afghan airline officials said. The officials said dozens of...

New Delhi: UAE is set to allow easier access for Indian nurses, engineering and accountancy professionals as well as the IT and IT-enabled services as part of the comprehensive economic partnership agreement, which is to be implemented over...

A Gurgaon-based couple became India's first husband and wife to build their respective startups into enterprises with at least $1-billion valuation, also known as unicorns. Oxyzo Financial Services, a digital lending startup co-founded by Ruchi...

Led by a strong push by Apple and Samsung to harness benefits and commitments under the government’s production-linked incentive scheme, exports of smartphones are set to cross the $5 billion mark in 2021-22, the record number coming in as companies...

Global rating agency Fitch and the United Nations have slashed India’s projected economic growth for 2022. While the UN has downgraded the growth by over 2% to 4. 6%, Fitch slashed forecast to 8.5% for the fiscal 2022-23 from its earlier projection...

Gujarat has emerged as the top state in the NITI Aayog’s 2021 Export Preparedness Index for the second time in a row followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka. All three states have performed consistently across pillars, thus consolidating solid...

RBI’s foreign exchange reserves dipped for the second week as the central bank sold dollars to manage the volatility in the forex market arising out of the war in Ukraine. According to data released by the RBI, forex reserves fell by $2.6 billion...