According to Siddhartha Sanyal, Chief Economist, Bandhan Bank, the news of reduction of US tariff on India is a major positive, especially soon after the trade deal with the EU. “The end of the stalemate and the direction of the development is more important in this case than the quantum of the change in tariff

A day after presenting her ninth Budget, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke at length on a range of topics with TOI’s Sidhartha and Surojit Gupta . While she is confident the domestic situation is under control, she feels her biggest challenge ‘will be external’

While PM Narendra Modi, in a post on X, which followed US President Donald Trump’s announcement on Truth Social, said he had a wonderful conversation with “dear friend” Trump and thanked him on behalf of 1.4 billion people for the reduced tariff of 18% on Indian goods, he did not mention the trade deal at

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