Union Budget 2021 Highlights: Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that the government had only marginally raised health funding, which when adjusted to inflation becomes nil

Solar power developers fear that this could derail the government's ambitious target of having 175GW renewables by 2022, requiring an investment flow of Rs 1.75 lakh crore

Shingo Miyamoto, Economic Minister, Embassy of Japan said the support is part of Japan's efforts to help Indian economy overcome the COVID-19 shock

With government encouragement, Indian oil and gas companies are turning to investing in green energy such as renewables, biofuels and hydrogen to reduce the country's carbon footprint

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has written to the Finance Ministry for levying basic custom duty (BCD) of 15-20% on solar modules, solar cells and solar inverters

China's imports from India have gone up 6.7 per cent since January this year to $11.09 billion. As a result, total trade with India has registered a slightly lower 18.6 per cent drop since the beginning of 2020

Economic measures against China - where they work, where they dont

India's power sector has faced cyberattacks, a majority of which reportedly originated from China, Singapore, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries

Centre to ensure Chinese goods do not enter India via other countries like Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia

While China has missed on infrastructure investment opportunities in India it has enjoyed a fairly advantageous position sectors like solar power and pharmaceutical

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Companies set to announce their earnings are Mahanagar Gas, Voltamp Transformers, Shriram Transport Finance, Jindal Stainless (Hisar), Dhanuka Agritech, Century Textiles & Industries and Bansal Roofing Products among others.

India's solar capacity addition is slowing as viability of projects and host of other issues trouble developers

As India tightens FDI norms, Chinese firms and investments may face regulatory and consumer backlash. The friction between Asian giants could be the beginning of an adversarial chapter in trade

Car companies are making ventilators, sugar mills and liquor producers are bottling hand sanitisers, apparel makers are diversifying into masks and protective clothing, drug and drone makers are witnessing a surge in demand. The war against Covid-19 is already a Rs 12,000 crore economy

The Budget aims at boosting consumption and private investment to pull the economy forward

Budget 2020: In today's speech, the FM broke her own record and delivered the longest Union Budget speech, which was 159 minutes long

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting her second consecutive Union Budget in Parliament today

The Indian solar PV and cell manufacturing industry has about 100 companies and these include module makers like Waaree Energy, Tata Solar, MoserBaer, Indo Solar and Vikram Solar

Both solar and wind tariffs have fallen steeply in recent years, but excessive emphasis on lowering tariffs is now threatening India's renewable energy success story.