Category: Events

India’s captain Suryakumar Yadav (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) India’s opening night of the T20 World Cup had both chaos and class, and two standout numbers from the match told the story better than anything else. Saurabh Netravalkar finished with figures of 0 for 65, the most expensive spell ever recorded in T20 World Cup history. It...

Netherlands’ captain Scott Edwards, right, congratulates Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah Afridi after Pakistan won their T20 World Cup cricket match against Netherlands in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. (AP) The Netherlands were left distraught after a heartbreaking defeat against Pakistan in their T20 World Cup opener, with right-arm pacer Paul van Meekeren saying the...

MUMBAI: Zero-duty access for diamonds and coloured gemstones to the US under the interim trade agreement framework will benefit the gems and jewellery sector, which was termed by industry leaders as a “critical inflection point” after bruising year for exports.The move could help reverse the sharp decline in shipments to India’s largest market, where cut...

Representative image NEW DELHI: Keen for a bigger pie of the world’s fastest growing aviation market, the biggest sectoral original equipment manufacturers’ legal teams are poring over the fine print of the landmark Indo-US trade deal.A zero-duty access to components exported from India to the US will give India parity with other aerospace supply chains...

(AP photo) NEW DELHI: Duty concessions to American whiskey and wine are unlikely to have any major impact on Indian companies. To begin with, it will come with a minimum import price which was the case with Australian, European and the UK trade deals. Besides, the volumes are very low, reports Sidhartha. For instance, with...

NEW DELHI: Until a couple of months ago, a trade deal with the US did not seem to be on the horizon. India refused to back Donald Trump’s claim of having brokered the pause of Operation Sindoor and the Trump administration persisted with its crude fulminations against India’s tariffs. US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick seemed...

NEW DELHI: India’s commitment to import $500 billion of goods from the US over five years depends not just on the ability of Indian companies to place orders but also on how quickly American suppliers can cater to the demand.Last year, India imported goods worth $45.5 billion from the US; during the first nine months...

India retained protection on corn and soybean, both GM crops in US, but agreed to import dried distillers’ grains and red sorghum for animal feed, tree nuts, fresh and processed fruits, soybean oil. Farm organisations say DDG comes from GM corn and questioned allowing import of soybean oil. RSS-linked BKS too sought a clarification. Farm...

NEW DELHI: India has managed to protect its ground on dairy and farm products by retaining protection on the import of corn and soyabean, both genetically modified (GM) crops in the US, but agreed to eliminate or reduce tariffs on a wide range of American food and agricultural products, including dried distillers’ grains (DDGs) and...

Jairam Ramesh NEW DELHI: Dubbing the India-US trade deal interim framework as a “surrender”, Congress on Saturday said commerce minister Piyush Goyal’s statement on agri imports was “too clever by half” as the joint statement mentions a list of products which India would eliminate or reduce tariffs upon, including “additional products”.Congress MP Jairam Ramesh noted...