
Banana leaf prices have skyrocketed across Tamil Nadu after gale-force winds and heavy rain flattened hundreds of acres of plantations, triggering an acute shortage ahead of the Karthigai Deepam festival. ...

Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea jumped 23 per cent in November from a year earlier, buoyed by strong demand for Tesla and German models, industry data showed on Wednesday. ...

Northeast, touted as India’s cultural and natural powerhouse, is positioned to emerge as one of India’s most compelling tourism frontiers, according to Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. ...

The Indian rupee fell sharply on Wednesday, slipping past the crucial 90-per-dollar level for the first time ever. ...

Gold prices on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) jumped on Wednesday, supported by gains in the global bullion market and the sharp fall in the Indian rupee, which touched a record low against the US dollar. ...

India’s services PMI Business Activity Index rose from 58.9 in October to 59.8 in November, driven by robust new business intakes that fuelled output growth, according to the HSBC India Services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey by S&P Global released on Wednesday. ...

India must urgently build sovereign AI capabilities or risk becoming dependent on foreign technology firms that are using Indian data to strengthen their own models, former CEO of Niti Ayog Amitabh Kant has said. ...

The data protection regulator here said on Wednesday that e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. did not properly notify its customers of its recent major data breach, demanding a corrected notification of a personal information "leak" from an "exposure" of such data. ...

India and the UAE are taking major steps to make travel smoother and strengthen legal cooperation, marking a new phase in their fast-growing strategic partnership. ...

India's present solar capacity stands at 129 gigawatt (GW), while the non-fossil electricity capacity has crossed 259 GW, accounting...