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A world where we can cook up AI videos in seconds from the apps on our phones might seem remote from the physical realities of warfare in the seaways of the Persian Gulf. In fact, they're closely intertwined.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the waiver is intended to ensure oil continues flowing into global markets amid the ongoing Iran war.

India's economy grew 7.8 per cent in October-December from the same period a year earlier, after posting 8.4 per cent growth in the previous quarter, the Centre said on Friday.

An estimated 40 per cent of the global workforce entry-level jobs in particular will be impacted by Artificial Intelligence, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warned NDTV Friday, comparing the era-defining technological shift as a sunami.

Artificial Intelligence will end up creating more jobs and help the economy, Jay Puri, the Executive Vice President of US-based NVIDIA technology giant said Wednesday at NDTV's Ind.ai Summit.

Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Friday said the economy is in a better place than the sweet spot it was in two months back, which was described by him as the goldilocks period.

While reviewing Nirmala Sitharaman's 2026 Union Budget, Congress MP P Chidambaram on Sunday sidestepped a question on the 'India is a dead economy' remark by Donald Trump in July last year that was later echoed by Rahul Gandhi.

A married real estate mogul is accused of offering a female subordinate more than $3 million drawn from his company's stock as part of an indecent proposal to lure her away from her husband, according to a lawsuit.

A prominent real estate developer, the Confident Group has a significant presence across several southern Indian states, most notably Kerala and Karnataka.

A new GDP series, with base year shifted to 2022-23, will inform the second advance estimate due February 27, though economists expect limited impact on growth rates.

Taking aim at the Centre and Narendra Modi over what he termed a dead economy, Leader of the Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi alleged tariffs are hurting textile exporters, but the Prime Minister has not even spoken about the issue.

The global economy is expected to stay fairly strong in 2026, but there are challenges ahead, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).

India is the key growth engine for the world, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday, noting that the country's third-quarter growth came out stronger than expected.

India is strengthening its relationship with Europe and both sides can bring more stability into the international economy and global politics, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday.

Venezuela's caretaker President Delcy Rodriguez appointed a former central bank director to her cabinet's top economic post on Tuesday, a position she herself had held until the toppling of leftist leader Nicolas Maduro.

Widening demonstrations sparked by Iran's ailing economy spread Thursday into the Islamic Republic's rural provinces, with at least seven people being killed in the first fatalities reported among security forces and protesters, authorities said.

Protesters and security forces clashed in western Iran on Thursday, with three people reported killed, the first deaths since the cost-of-living demonstrations broke out.

One man was killed in Iran on Wednesday night, state television said, the first death reported after days of demonstrations over high inflation that mark the most significant unrest since nationwide protests three years ago.

India's GDP per capita was $2,694 in 2024, according to the latest World Bank figures, 12 times smaller than Japan's $32,487 and 20 times smaller than Germany's $56,103.

India has surpassed Japan to become the world's fourth-largest economy with a size of USD 4.18 trillion, and is poised to overtake Germany to become the third-largest by 2030, the government has said.

President Donald Trump's approval rating slipped in recent days to nearly its lowest level of his current term as voters from his Republican Party soured on his handling of the economy, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The anti-graft protests in September that forced Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign caused more than $586 million in losses to Nepal's $42 billion economy, a government statement said on Friday.

A two-day Telangana Rising Global Summit was inaugurated Monday by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, laying out a transformative economic roadmap to make the state a $3 trillion economy by 2047.

India could attract USD 4.1 trillion in cumulative green investments and create 48 million full-time equivalent jobs by 2047, according to an independent study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water.

India'seconomy likely grew 7.3% in the JulySeptember quarter, according to a Reuters poll of economists, underpinned by strong rural and government expenditure even as private capital spending remained subdued.

New York City is looking up to a eally tough time under mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, warned real estate billionaire Barry Sternlicht, who said he is considering moving his team out of the Big Apple.

India's real estate sector is at the cusp of a monumental and transformative journey and is projected to grow multifold levels-from nearly $0.3 trillion today to a staggering $5-10 trillion market by 2047, according to a Colliers-CII report.