BENGALURU: Headcount is passé, outcomes are the new currency. India’s top five IT services firms witnessed net workforce contraction in FY26, reversing the modest hiring recovery a year earlier, as demand uncertainty, delayed decision-making and AI-led efficiency gains weighed on headcount.The traditional fresherheavy pyramid is being reshaped. A people-plus-AI model is upending its foundation, putting…
RBI cancels Paytm Payments Bank licence; to approach High Court MUMBAI: RBI on Friday cancelled the banking licence of Paytm Payments Bank with immediate effect, prohibiting it from carrying out any banking business and setting in motion the process for winding up, even as the entity had already been reduced to a runoff institution after…
O2C Division Hit Hard By Rising Costs, Supply Chain Disruptions MUMBAI: Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, posted a 9% fall in quarterly profit on Friday, as surging crude prices driven by the West Asia conflict weighed on its core oil-to-chemicals (O2C) division.Consolidated net profit fell to Rs 20,589 crore in the…
United States treasury secretary Scott Bessent on Friday said that America is not planning to renew a waiver allowing the purchase of Russian oil currently at sea.While talking to news agency Associated Press, Bessent also added that another waiver for Iranian oil at sea is “totally off the table.”“Not the Iranians. We have the blockade,…
The United States has imposed fresh sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and around 40 shipping companies and tankers linked to Iranian oil transport, escalating its campaign to choke Tehran’s key revenue stream.The move, announced on Friday, targets what Washington describes as an extensive “shadow network” used to move Iranian crude to global markets.It…
NEW DELHI: At least one in four smartphones manufactured in India is now produced by domestic contract manufacturers, signalling a quiet but significant shift in the country’s electronics ecosystem.The rise has been led by Dixon Technologies and Bhagwati Products, with Dixon emerging as the country’s largest device maker, overtaking Samsung Electronics in overall production volumes…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: A new doctrine is quietly reshaping America’s technology-industrial complex, recasting Silicon Valley from a playground of consumer apps into an arsenal of strategic hardware. Dubbed “patriotic tech,” the movement argues that technology firms have a moral and national duty to align with the state – particularly in its intensifying rivalry with…
Wall Street traded mostly in green on Friday, lifted by strong results from Intel and growing hopes of possible talks between the United States and Iran over the weekend. Around 8:35 pm IST, Nasdaq was up 1% or 248 points to 24,686. S&P 500 was up 29 points or 0.41% to trade at 7,137. Dow…
If a weaker monsoon impacts the output of crops, then higher food prices will feed quickly into inflation, a risk that is too real to be ignored. (AI image) India, backed by its strong domestic growth story, is the world’s fastest growing major economy. Which is not to say it is without its vulnerabilities. The…
The Reserve Bank of India cancelled the banking licence of Paytm Payments Bank Limited, on Friday, ceasing its operations as a bank, effective from April 24. “The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the banking licence issued to Paytm Payments Bank Limited under Section 22(4) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (‘BR Act’) effective…
Rupee fell almost 5% in 2025, and has continued to weaken since then, even touching a new record low this year. However, the currency is falling not only in terms of comparision against the greenback but also against other currencies.Rupee has dropped to its weakest level in more than a decade, as compared to its…
This image is used for representation purpose only (AI-generated) Amid Iran’s move to control traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical maritime chokepoint has become a litmus test for how far states can go in monetising global trade routes.Indonesia’s recent attempt — floated in late April 2026 by its finance minister…
