In India, Amazon currently offers some groceries via a service named Pantry. It has also tied up with local vendors in four cities for Amazon Now, which promises two-hour deliveries.

Asserting that the Indian economy turned in a resilient performance in 2017-18, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel has said the country's growth is expected to accelerate next fiscal.

The International Monetary Fund has said it wants continued momentum in India's growth and structural reforms despite the election period.

It appears the govt may be softening its stand on how it would like to sell Air India; According to the IMF, global debt, public and private alike, hit a record $164 trillion in 2016 - almost 225 per cent of the world's economy and an Uber-BCG report has concluded that Indian cities are 149 per cent more congested than other Asian cities. BusinessToday.In Editor Rajeev Dubey explains this and more on The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

It's not just the common man in India who is fuming over rising petrol prices. US President Donald Trump is also feeling the pinch of rising crude prices. Trump lashed out at the oil exporting group OPEC for keeping the oil prices 'artificially high'.

SBI Research had said on Thursday that the cash shortfall was nearly Rs 70,000 crore in the system. This comes even as government and the RBI claimed that there was no shortage of currency.

The Committee on Doubling Farmers Income (DFI) has called for an overhaul of the registration process for crop inputs like pesticides to ensure speedy availability of patented and off-patent agri-inputs in the country.

The government oversight panel, headed by the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), had approved the Rs 40,000 crore investment plan for developing three sets of discoveries in the KG D6 block in February.

Investor sentiment was optimistic ahead of quarterly earnings of some key companies, including TCS. Overseas, Asian stocks rose, building on gains a day earlier, even as oil prices climbed to three-and-a-half year highs. Tata Steel (3.17%), YES Bank (2.83%) and Bharti Airtel (2.64%) were the top Sensex gainers.

India had the second highest debt, after Brazil, in the Emerging Market and Middle-Income Economies category. But the figure is projected to steadily go down here on, from 68.9 per cent this year to 61.4 per cent by 2023.

Exactly a month from now when Toyota launches its maiden mid-size car Yaris in the Indian market, it would be its first new car launch in seven years. The last one to hit the roads was the Etios in 2010.