Since September 1, petrol prices have gone up by about Rs 3.58 per litre in Mumbai, while diesel rates have increased by Rs 3.57 per litre; the petrol and diesel both have shown a similar trend all across India.

A litre of petrol is being sold for Rs 84.49 in Chennai, while it is Rs 83.14 in Kolkata. Diesel is being sold at Rs 77.49 in Chennai and Rs 75.36 in Kolkata.

The key takeaway - the pickup in growth, without demand-pull inflationary pressure in the economy, supports our thesis that reforms have lifted India's potential growth, and activity ahead is likely to remain non-inflationary, writes Abhishek Gupta.

The Indian economy is expected to grow by around 7.5 per cent in 2018 and 2019 as it is largely resilient to external pressures like those from higher oil prices, Moody's Investors Service said today.

Agritech companies are revamping the farm-to-fork supply chain. The big gainers are farmers.

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said the capacity to slash the GST rates on more items would go up as Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenues and the compliance rate increases and the economy formalises.

At 1:00 pm, the Sensex was trading 128 points higher at 38,015 level. Meanwhile, the Nifty was trading 18 points higher at 11,468 level. It hit all-time high of 11,495 level in early trade. While the Sensex has gained 11.67% since the beginning of this year, Nifty rose 9% during the same period this year.

Whatever be the source of tax - whether an MNC, a local homegrown company or an individual, the pivot for any successful tax compliance and collection is ensuring a sound set of data and an insight into the taxpayers' journey.

While the Sensex closed 221 points higher at 37,887, the Nifty gained 60 points to close at the 11,450 level. Market heavyweight Reliance Industries added 35 points to close at 1217.

Mark Li, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said in a report on Sunday technology giant Apple was one of the impacted customers but a swift recovery in the fourth quarter should keep the impact minimal.

The Sensex plunged 356 points to close at a one-week low of 37,165.16, while the NSE Nifty dropped 101.50 points to finish below the 10,300-mark.

Apple Inc sales led by the pricey iPhone X pushed quarterly results far beyond Wall Street targets on Tuesday, with subscriptions from App Store, Apple Music and iCloud services bolstering business.

US President Donald Trump, who ahead of Friday's release of the gross domestic product report had promoted the notion that second-quarter growth would be robust, declared victory.

 Facebook Inc's shares lost as much as a quarter of their value on Wednesday after executives said that profit margins would plummet for several years due to the costs of improving privacy safeguards and slowing usage in the biggest advertising markets.

Top IITs, IIMs students bag up to 137% higher salary packages than other institutions this year: ReportTop IITs and IIMs bagged 137% and 121% higher salary packages, respectively, compared to other institutions, says the Campus Hiring Report 2018 released by assessment and skill-measurement company Mettl. The survey was conducted across 114 engineering and 80 management institutes during the recently concluded campus placement season across different regions. In a region-wise anal...

IMF said that the emerging market and developing economies have experienced \"powerful crosswinds\" in recent months, courtesy factors like higher yields in the United States, dollar appreciation, escalating trade tensions, geopolitical conflict, and rising oil prices.

Changes in visa rules to have serious adverse consequences on US economy: Nasscom  Indian IT body Nasscom has said the recent work visa-related changes announced by the US will have \"potentially serious adverse consequences\" on the American economy as it will make it more difficult for companies to employ skilled foreign nationals to fill critical skills gaps in the US. One of the changes, which come into effect on September 11, allows US Citizenship and Immigration Service...

Indian economy had slowed down last year due to transitory shocks like demonetisation and the chaotic implementation of the national goods and services tax (GST), but has since bounced back.

The top five countries in terms of smart speaker installed base in 2017 includes the US at 73 per cent, the UK at 10 per cent, Germany at 8 per cent, China at 3 per cent and Canada at 2 per cent.

Growth in China's manufacturing sector slowed in June after a better-than-expected performance in May, official data showed, as escalating trade tensions with the United States fuel concerns about a slowdown in the world's second-biggest economy.