From toys, footwear and furniture to insulated flasks, smart meters, and air coolers - the Central government over the last decade has mandated higher standards for production and imports of such items.
Sample this: Till 2014, there were 14 Quality Control Orders (QCOs) covering 106 products.
By the latest count, there are 156 QCOs on 672 products.
The merger and acquisition (M&As) transactions have picked up pace in the March quarter of 2024 with 455 deals amounting to $25.6 billion deal value announced.
This is a 24 per cent rise in deal volume as compared to Q4CY23, according to PwC India report.
This signals a shift from the declining trend observed in 2023, as per PwC India s report Deals at a glance.
The principal commissioner has been made responsible for developing and approving any intelligence, conducting search, and completing investigations and relevant subsequent actions, including at the lower field formations, points out T N C Rajagopalan.
Mutual funds (MFs) scooped up smallcap shares across sectors such as healthcare, banking and financial services in March 2024 amid a near 4.5 per cent fall in key smallcap indices.
Aster DM Healthcare, NLC India, and Aavas Financiers topped the list of most-bought stocks in the Rs 10,000-40,000 crore market capitalisation (mcap) bracket, according to a study by Nuvama Alternative & Quantitative Research.
Aster and Aavas had corrected by 13 per cent and 10 per cent in March, respectively, while NLC India ended the month with a 2.5 per cent gain.
Most members of the Reserve Bank of India s monetary policy committee (MPC) decided to stick to the course on bringing retail inflation to the target of 4 per cent while voting for maintaining status quo in the April review, except external member Jayanth Varma who voted for a 25 bps cut in the repo rate. I believe that the extant monetary policy setting is well positioned, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said in the minutes of the policy review, which came out on Friday. Monetary policy transmission is continuing and inflation expectations of households are also getting further anchored.