The unemployment rate for those aged 15 and above increased marginally to 5.2 per cent in September, according to a government survey released on Wednesday. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh The unemployment rate (UR) was 5.1 per cent in August, 5.2 per
‘We are seeing a lot of people with helmets visiting our showrooms’ This illustration was generated using ChatGPT and is intended solely for representational purposes. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The share of
Wholesale price inflation (WPI) softened to 0.13 per cent in September on easing in prices of food articles and manufactured items, government data showed on Tuesday. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters WPI-based inflation was 0.52 per cent in August and 1.91 per
HCLTech reported flat net income of Rs 4,235 crore in the second quarter of 2025-26 (Q2FY26) compared to last year, even as its revenue was up 10.7 per cent to Rs 31,492 crore helped by financial services and technology business
Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower on Tuesday amid weak trends in Asian and European markets and fresh foreign fund outflows. Photograph: Hemanshi Kamani/Reuters Reversing its early gains, the 30-share BSE Sensex declined 297.07 points or 0.36 per
Google will invest $15 billion over the next five years in setting up an AI hub in India, which will include the country’s largest data centre in partnership with Adani Group. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters The AI hub at Visakhapatnam in
2025 has seen a sharp rise in lawsuits targeting IT services and consulting companies, which now increasingly offer proprietary digital platforms and cloud services. Kindly note the image has been published only for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind courtesy Bethany Drouin/Pixabay
Retirement fund body EPFO has extended the deadline for filing EPF return or ECR (electronic challan-cum-return) by one week for the wage month of September till October 22, 2025. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff The employers are mandated to file the ECR
Retail inflation slipped to 1.54 per cent in September from 2.07 per cent in the preceding month mainly due to subdued prices of food items, including vegetables and pulses, according to government data released on Monday. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters The
With average returns of 18 per cent over the past year, listed real estate investment trusts (Reits) have clearly outperformed both the Nifty Realty index and the Sensex. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff Over the same period, Nifty Realty fell 15.5 per
