Markets & Prices Writer · 📍 Maharashtra · 6+ years experience
Kumar Gupta is a markets journalist covering prices and financial trends across Maharashtra for IndiaRealTime. His reporting focuses on gold, fuel and currency pricing, with a particular emphasis on how market movements affect consumers and businesses.
A September 14 gazette notification makes UPI and RuPay payments up to Rs 2,000 legally free of charges, while NPCI's steering committee works out what happens above that line. Here's what actually changed, and the transaction limits still in force underneath it.
NSE has set its own IPO price band at Rs 1,700-1,785 a share, opening September 17. Here is the GMP, key dates, lot size and why the listing took a decade.
Brent crude is back above $100 a barrel, but pump prices in India haven't moved. Here's what's actually happening beneath the surface, and why the states show a bigger gap than crude does.
Mandi prices in India are market prices reported from agricultural markets where farmers, traders and buyers transact in commodities. These prices can vary by mandi, commodity, quality, variety, arrivals and local demand. Government platforms such as Agmarknet publish daily price and arrival information from agricultural markets across India, while e-NAM provides an electronic marketplace and […]
Quick Answer The gold price you see at an Indian jewellery shop is not simply the London gold price converted into rupees. It is the result of several layers of pricing. A simplified chain looks like this: Global gold market → LBMA Gold Price / international spot market → USD/INR exchange rate → Indian bullion […]
Quick Answer Petrol and diesel prices in India are determined under a dynamic pricing system where Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) revise retail prices based on factors such as international crude oil prices, refinery costs, freight, dealer commissions, taxes, and the exchange rate between the Indian Rupee and the US Dollar. Retail prices are generally revised […]