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02.02 / 07:57

UPS Waves Election Opinion Research Universities testing AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. POLLSTERS HAVE been burning through their nine lives. First, as caller ID spread, people stopped answering their phone calls.

02.02 / 07:57

markets Digital economy film Universities rights Universal Music India returns to Bollywood, eyes bigger slice of storytelling pie

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Universal Music India has made a comeback to Bollywood after recent acquisitions and partnerships, while retaining its focus on non-film music.

02.02 / 07:57

UPS Target Software Research Gartner performer Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It is becoming ever more common for bosses to talk up their artificial-intelligence efforts while wielding the axe. Last month Enrique Lores, chief executive of hP, said that the computer manufacturer would cut around 5,000 jobs within three years as it embeds “AI in everything we do".

02.02 / 06:53

COST Digital Platform trends social recommendations Online protocol: If you’re not a bot, submit your proof-of-personhood to establish it

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Here we are in the third decade of the 21st century, and the internet has an identity crisis. For years, we worried about anonymity, privacy and whether our passwords were strong enough.

02.02 / 06:53

MET security War country Editorial Saudi media takes an anti-Israel turn

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Saudi Arabia’s state-backed media has been taking an increasingly anti-Israel tone, a further indication of the diminishing prospects for diplomatic normalization between the two Middle East powers. In one example, a January editorial in the daily Al Riyadh criticized Israel for disregarding international law and state sovereignty.

02.02 / 06:53

markets IPO CEO Platform Strategy BRND.ME unfazed by quick commerce's private-label push as it charts India return

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BRND.ME, a roll-up commerce company, expects to complete its reverse flip (change of headquarters) from Singapore to India by March, clearing a key regulatory hurdle as it prepares to tap Indian public markets with an IPO. Despite the rise of private labels from quick-commerce giants such as Swiggy Instamart and Zepto, CEO Ananth Narayanan remains confident.

02.02 / 06:03

UPS Analysis poverty track Features Word cloud: How Budget speeches have changed over the past 10 years

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered her ninth consecutive Union Budget speech on Sunday, at a time when global geo-economic upheavals weigh on India. While each Budget speech reflects the economic context of its moment, its emphasis and vocabulary also shift over time.

02.02 / 06:03

markets Manufacturing Mobile Experts inclusion Updates Maruti Suzuki closes in on EV PLI scheme, giving scale boost to India’s clean mobility push

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd has been directly added to the list of companies eligible for incentives under the government’s ₹25,000 crore production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for electric vehicles—a move that could boost EV adoption and support India’s clean mobility push. According to officials and experts, the inclusion is significant given Maruti’s roughly 40% share of India’s passenger vehicle market.

02.02 / 04:15

UPS Target Analysis economy Enterprise trends track The only Budget analysis you'll need: The government's tight fiscal math, explained in 8 charts

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If 2025 was about putting money in the hands of the common people through large-scale and much-celebrated cuts in both direct and indirect taxes, the new year appears to be about its after-effects—on the government’s fiscal math, not so much on consumption-led growth wheels. Several figures point towards a lack of optimism in the economy.

02.02 / 02:29

UPS Citi President War country The violence in Iran could lead to civil war

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “A PRINCE OUGHT to inspire fear," wrote Niccolo Machiavelli, but “he must endeavour only to avoid hatred", lest it prove his undoing. By that measure Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is failing.

02.02 / 02:29

Manufacturing Trade Mint Quick Edit | Trade relief: The budget signals the end of an inspector raj at Indian ports

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Amid an unravelling of global trade, the Union budget has proposed some welcome steps to ease the pain. As one-off relief for eligible export-oriented manufacturers in special economic zones, for example, it proposes a pathway to let them sell some of their output within India at a concessional duty rate.

02.02 / 02:29

markets UPS FIVE economy President show country An investor’s guide to the boom (and bust) in gold and silver

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. What if, and bear with me here, the wild gyrations in gold and silver prices are actually telling us something? There are three plausible messages from the rise in gold prices. I’m not convinced that any of them provide a full explanation for what’s going on.

02.02 / 02:29

Target MET Manufacturing Enterprise Healthcare trends Budget 2026 decoded: Where the money goes, where the risks remain

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Despite tighter fiscal headroom, the government has largely stayed the course on public spending, leaning on targeted interventions rather than across-the-board expansion. The Budget prioritises capital expenditure, manufacturing, healthcare and MSMEs, while pushing a larger share of investment responsibility to states and betting on reforms and asset sales to support growth.

02.02 / 02:29

COST UPS Target economy Trade testing India’s budget doubles down on a tried and tested formula—with debt reduction as a distant target

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India kept calm and carried on this fiscal year, with a GST spur for retail offtake, an urgency for foreign trade deals and a few tariff tweaks for factory-cost relief making up the bulk of our response to trade adversity. That spirit prevails in India’s budget for 2026-27 too.

02.02 / 00:47

markets SUN Healthcare trends Trade electronic recommendations Stocks to buy: Raja Venkatraman recommends top picks for 2 February

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian stock market witnessed a sharp fall in intraday trade on Sunday, after the finance minister presented her ninth consecutive budget. The Sensex closed 1,546.84 points lower at 80,722.94, while the Nifty shed 495.20 points to settle at 24,825.45, reflecting a decline of nearly 2%.

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markets COST Provident Sustainability trends Trade recommendations Stock recommendations for 2 February from MarketSmith India

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market update: In a historic special Sunday session coinciding with the Union Budget 2026, Indian equity markets witnessed a volatile sell-off amid a hike in the securities transaction tax (STT) on derivatives, which dampened sentiment.

02.02 / 00:47

markets COST UPS security Sustainability Trade shock The prospect of better returns will overshadow the budget’s securities transaction tax hike

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The government’s goal of a Viksit Bharat by 2047 requires India to sustain high growth over a long period of time. Union Budget 2026-27 operates within a framework that India has articulated for itself: of bringing down the government’s debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio on a sustainable basis.

02.02 / 00:47

markets COST Strategy economy Trade shock How China emerged stronger than ever amid US tariffs—and what India can learn from it

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Few questions are as revealing today as how the world’s two largest economies—the US and China—differ in their economic approaches. In Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (2025), Dan Wang offers a useful lens.

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markets economy Remark Enterprise wellness show International Ajit Ranade: By betting on capabilities, the budget takes a long view on India’s growth

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The macroeconomic numbers for India’s economy would be the envy of others. Quarterly growth has been showing steady upward momentum and inflation is ruling at remarkably low levels.

01.02 / 14:23

markets Provident Manufacturing security Enterprise Trade electronic Budget 2026: Manufacturing gets a big push amid global headwinds

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Union Budget 2026-27 continued to push the pedal on localization in the Indian manufacturing sector, announcing a slew of measures across electronic goods, pharma, textiles, capital goods and other sectors to boost India's production and export competitiveness. The focus on self-reliance was reflected in finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech.

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Provident Digital Manufacturing economy Sustainability Food shock Sachchidanand Shukla: A well-formulated budget that pays India’s future due consideration

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The stakes couldn’t be higher for Union Budget 2026-27. Global shocks and domestic frailties demanded a stroke of fiscal artistry—prudence on the fiscal path fused with audacious growth bets and prioritization of the medium term over the short term.